• I'm doing research http://h-rd.org
• I'm learning a lot about Horizon 2020
• Free Software can get more out of Horizon 2020

So:

• I'm writing a book about getting funded in Horizon: http://horizonbook.eu
• Sharing knowledge and giving back to the Free Software community

1. What is Horizon 2020
2. How does it work
3. What can you expect

This is an informal Horizon 2020 overview with generalizations, specialized for Free Software projects and stakeholders.

Horizon 2020 is the main EU project for science and technology.

From 2014 until 2020.

Goals:

• stay globally competitive
• find solutions to societal problems

Based on:

• research proposed by community, filtered by politics
• euro 70 billion funding
• EU wide networking
• Intellectual Property (IP) protection and spreading

EU language lingo:

• Health, demographic change and wellbeing
• Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine and maritime research, and the bioeconomy
• Secure, clean and efficient energy
• Smart, green and integrated transport
• Climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials

• Europe in a changing world-inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
• Secure societies-protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens

And also: SME Instrument

Free Software Scenarios

• Use Free Software in a project
  • INTEGREEN, vehicular traffic monitoring, Web2Py
• Make Free Software in a project
  • Interactive Knowledge Stack (IKS) is an open source community, semantic web, euro 6.58m from EU
  • Active, enabling the knowledge powered enterprise, Semantic MediaWiki extensions

Applying is a big administrative hassle and only possible for multiyear stable groups and networks:

• Universities
• Companies
• (Local) government
• Foundations

i.e. you must be legal entity, not just a person or group of people

1. Where does Free Software fit
2. Networking
3. Finding partners (and trusting them)
4. Making a proposal work
5. Administration

Actually doing the work is surprisingly not the most difficult part.

There is no specific area for (Free) Software. Funding is based on problems to be solved, likely areas are:

• ICT
• Security
• Data analysis / science
• Spreading knowledge / dissemination
• Specialties: gene networks, bioinformatics, mathematical programming, geophysical research

• Start with you email contacts
• Who is using your software
• EU Partner search is mostly a waste of resources

• Only partner with organizations and people you trust
• Partners are mostly interested in solving a problem, not in using Free Software
• Position your project as state-of-the-art

ex. Semantic MediaWiki, practical semantic web application, used as a component in several EU projects.

• Partner with experienced organizations
• Make yourself irreplaceable
• Follow proposal rules to the letter

Only ~20% (??) of proposals get funded, but there are many sub-standard proposals.

• Intellectual Property rules must be agreed on beforehand
• You need an official accountant
• Time keeping for everybody, formally and for all working time, not just project time
• Write reports (deliverables in EU-speak)

• CC-BY or CC-0 licenses (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/) recommended by EU
• Policy on research publication and data repositories (Open Research Data Pilot)
• No policy on methods, i.e. software used to produce research results

+ Partner network

+ Finance (40 - 100% of project cost)

+ Exposure / publicity for your Free Software project

- Lots of administrative hassle

http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/

http://horizonbook.eu

contact me at http://horizonbook.eu or http://h-rd.org

• But how can I start now?
• I need partners?
• Can you help me with …?