Update on UK Government Horizon 2020 Underwrite Guarantee
Following the recent notice for British applicants on the European Commission’s Participant Portal, the UK Government has updated their Q&A document with some clarifications (UKRO FAQ document).
“UK applicants still have the same rights and obligations as all other EU member states until the UK leaves the EU. The Commission statement simply refers to the existing terms and conditions of the EU research and innovation framework programme agreements. Termination of projects is not automatic or obligatory. Art. 50.3 of the MGA, which pre-dates the UK’s decision to leave the EU, contains a number of possible circumstances under which the Commission would have grounds to directly terminate a project or the participation of a beneficiary. These include the beneficiary being declared bankrupt, the research no longer being relevant and other circumstances, which call into question the decision to award the grant. Even if UK partners cannot continue to receive funding from the EC because the UK has become a third country, the UK Government has guaranteed funding for successful bids submitted by UK participants before departure, including those that are successful afterwards. Third country participation is routine in Horizon 2020 [...].”
European Forum for Electronic Components and Systems - EFECS 2017
EFECS is the international forum with a focus on ‘Our Digital Future’ along the Electronic Components and Systems value chain in Europe. The organisers of this event, AENEAS, ARTEMIS-IA, EPoSS, ECSEL Joint Undertaking and the European Commission joined forces to bring all stakeholders together on 5-7 December 2017 in Brussels and focus on this years’ theme: ‘Our Digital Future’. Registration & More
The 3rd International Conference on Computing Technology and Information Management - ICCTIM2017
The ICCTIM conference will take place in Thessaloniki, Greece on December 8-10, 2017. It’s a 3 day event, with presentations delivered by researchers from the international community, including presentations from keynote speakers and state-of-the-art lectures covering a wide range of topics: Information & data management, E-Technology, Image Processing, Distributed and parallel applications, Real-Time systems among others. More
Explore Horizon 2020 participation statistics in a new interactive dashboard
The Horizon 2020 Dashboard on the Participant Portal has been recently launched. This novel view on Horizon 2020 implementation data provides powerful analytical functions, with new opportunities for programme reporting, impact analysis, preparing feedback to policy making and decision making on future priorities. These views are accessible directly via the Participant Portal home page and via the new portal page Projects & Results
