OW2con'22

Horizon Europe, the new funding programme for research and innovation
2022-06-09 , OW2con main virtual room

Horizon Europe is an ambitious EU research & innovation framework programme for 2021-2027 with a budget of €95.5 billion. The programme facilitates collaboration and strengthens the impact of research and innovation in developing, supporting and implementing EU policies while tackling global challenges. It supports creating and better dispersing of excellent knowledge and technologies. Pillar II is dedicated to 'Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness. It is established through clusters of research and innovation activities, to maximise integration, and synergies across the thematic areas, while securing high and sustainable levels of impact for the Union on resources expended.
How to benefit from this huge European funding resource for R&D? Better understand the Horizon Europe program mechanisms and guidelines.
In addition, to help you with a future Horizon Europe call, the digital national contact points (NCP) team is introduced.

Isabelle de Sutter (F) is a Senior Adviser working as national contact points (NCP) within Digital and Space at the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation. (MESRI)
Isabelle is NCP lead for the largest European Research and Innovation Programme Horizon Europe Cluster 4 Digital and Space.
She has degrees in European Marketing Sciences, Master in Business Administration (MBA)
Since 2009, She has worked at SYSTEMATIC Paris-Region as the head of European Affairs helping companies, academia and research institutes to apply for funding/grants in European calls for tenders/proposals. She has led the implementation and development of the European strategy for the French deep tech cluster SYSTEMATIC.
Isabelle has been “Intuitu personæ” involved in two French national contact points (NCP) under the European frame programme Horizon 2020 programme: Secure Societies and ICT. Before that, Isabelle spent over 20 years of experience working in business development and as a freelance European consultant. She has demonstrated skills in project management, providing support to SMEs and start-ups in their international development. https://www.linkedin.com/in/isabelled/

Pr. Smail Niar, Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France (UPHF) CNRS and MESRI, France, received his PhD in computer Engineering from the University of Lille (France) in 1990. Since then, he has been professor at UPHF where he is director of the computer science department at the “Laboratory of Automation, Mechanical and Computer Engineering”, a joint research unit between CNRS and UPHF. He is member of the European Network of Excellence Hipeac, EuroMicro society and IEEE senior. His research interests are AI/ML-based embedded systems and edge computing.
Since 2021, and in parallel with his research activities, he is NCP for Horizon Europe Calls in Cluster 4 -Digital at the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, France (MESRI).