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The CSIC presents in Brussels his proposal for the Horizon 2020
04/09/2012
4 September 2012
The president of the Upper Council of Scientific Investigations ( CSIC), Emilio Lora- Tamayo, has delivered in Brussels a document with the position of the organism on determinate appearances of Horizon 2020, the Program Mark of Investigation and Innovation for the period 2014-2020. The document is being analysed and debated at present in the European Council, the European Commission and the European Parliament. Beside Lora-Tamayo has assisted the vice-president of Scientific Investigation and Technician of the CSIC, Antonio Figueras, and the delegate of the CSIC in Brussels, Jorge Velasco.
The managers of the CSIC gathered in July in Brussels with the general director of Investigation and Innovation of the European Commission, Robert-Jan Smits, and with the director of Investigation and Innovation of the Commission, Clara of the Tower.
“We have given to know the position of the CSIC in determinate appearances of Horizon 2020 of big importance for the participation of our institution, arguing particularly the articulation between investigation and innovation contemplated in the proposal of the Commission”, affirmed the president of the CSIC after gathering also with the europarlamentaria and manager of the report of the European Parliament on the Horizon 2020, Teresa Laughed.
This visit inscribes inside the institutional contacts that the CSIC and the European Union keep from does time. This approach translated in 2011 in the celebration, in the central campus of the CSIC in Madrid, of the days ‘Towards to research and Innovation Union: main challenges', in which they analysed the big lines of investigation of interest prioritario for Europe en el futuro. In this congress the European Commission presented, for the first time in Europe, his Common Strategic Frame in the field of the investigation and the innovation.
“The budget requested by the Commission for the Horizon 2020 is almost of 90.000 million euros, what represents an increase of 70% regarding the current Program Mark 2007-2013. From here the importance that the voice of the CSIC hear in the debate so that they take into account, in the measure of the possible, the scientific interests of our institution”, added Lora-Tamayo.
Besides, the managers of the CSIC kept a meeting with the director and managers of the European Research Council (ERC). The CSIC is the Spanish institution with more projects ERC conceded. The projects ERC are extremely competitive (select roughly 10% of the applications) and are conceded to individual scientists taking into account his international leadership and his capacity of innovation. The CSIC is realising a big institutional effort with the end to increase the tax of success in the distinct European announcements so much of the valid program mark of investigation as of the announcements of the ERC.
