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Line to take
Horizon Europe
• The most important debate currently is the Multi-Annual Financial Framework
(2021-2027), of which Horizon Europe is an element. The Commission has
proposed € 100 billion for this programme.
• The European Parliament has called for an increase of the Horizon Europe
budget to € 120 billion and the level of budget is vital for having significant
impact.
• The R&I investments at the European level main objectives is to deliver the
science needed for, innovative cross-sectoral solutions helping to deliver on our
European priorities.
• The “Green Deal” and “Europe fit for the Digital Age” are major priorities of the
new College to which Horizon Europe will make an essential contribution. A
decreased budget for Horizon Europe would not allow Europe to take the global
lead on the major challenges of our times and become the world’s first climate-
neutral continent.
• A decreased budget would also mean delaying vital ecological and societal
transitions in Europe, for instance in the areas of climate change, digital,
industrial transformations, health, oceans, and climate-neutral and smart cities.
• Moreover, since research and innovation are also at the core of the productivity
and competitiveness of our economy, a Horizon Europe budget decrease by for
example 10 billion EUR, would result in a GDP loss of 110 billion EUR over 25
years and an estimated job loss of 100000 by 2040.
Future Partnerships
• European Partnerships are key in preparing the transition towards a greener,
socially relevant and digitally enabled economy and will directly support the
priorities of the new Commission (the Green Deal, a Europe fit for digital age,
an economy that works for people).
• Safe and automated road transport for instance is very relevant to achieve the
European Green Deal, as it would contribute to reducing the carbon footprint of
the transport sector and to attain zero-pollution. In addition, it would contribute
to safe, accessible and affordable transport objectives. Finally, it would allow to
ensuring the continued modernisation of key transport systems, with a strong
focus on digital innovation, as well as open up to new market opportunities.
• This partnership would have strong links with other proposed partnerships, e.g.
‘Smart Networks and Services’ and ‘EuroHPC’ will be crucial in developing the
digital infrastructure (5G corridors, quantum computing) needed for Europe to
be world leader for fully autonomous safe mobility; ‘Artificial Intelligence, big
data and robotics’ aims to support further development and application of AI.
• I expect that the Commission will adopt its proposals for institutionalised
European Partnerships based on Article 185 and Article 187 before the summer
2020.
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Partnership on safe and automated road transport
• The development of automated driving technologies and systems have made
tremendous progress but there are still major R&I challenges to overcome
before we can see these vehicles on our roads.
• We see challenges at several levels: human, technical, societal, economic and
regulatory (e.g. development of vehicle technologies, its interaction with
surrounding environment, connectivity and data sharing, real world-testing but
also public and policy makers' awareness and acceptance, development of
skills and insurance models).
• The European partnership must pool all the resources and bring all actors
together to address these challenges. The development of automated vehicles
also needs innovation and roll-out in other segments (for connectivity, digital
maps, sensor development, Artificial Intelligence, etc.). We also need public
authorities in order to run the tests in our cities and public transport operators to
integrate the shared mobility services in the public transport system.
• Another key problem is that public and private sector R&I actions and their
subsequent implementation are not necessarily aligned. There is a multitude of
R&I programmes and projects at European, national and regional levels, but
very often all the different programmes and tests are not well coordinated.
• The European partnership should address those automated mobility systems
and services that can bring gains in terms of safety and efficiency of the overall
transport system.
• Therefore, the development of shared, automated mobility services should be a
priority of the European partnership.
• They can provide seamless door-to-door mobility of people and freight delivery
services, which can lead to healthier, more accessible, greener and more
sustainable cities, as long as they are integrated in an effective public transport
system.
Ethical issues related to connected and automated driving
• With regard to ethics, the Commission has set up earlier this year a dedicated
EU group of ethical experts to address specific ethical issues and concerns
related to automated mobility, which are essential for securing public
acceptance and trust in these vehicles.
• This expert group will provide guidance on how ethical considerations should be
taken into account, when developing and deploying connected and automated
driving systems and services in Europe. The guidance report can be expected
by summer next year and it will address recommendations in the following
areas:
o safety, dilemma and risk assessment,
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o responsibility and liability around the design and use of automated
vehicles,
o Privacy, data collection, profiling, security, data access/sharing,
ownership
Artificial Intelligence
• Artificial Intelligence is a "Key Enabling Technology" of industrial and
societal relevance. In fact, AI will result in solutions to societal
challenges, leading to innovations that will improve our lives, our work,
our ways of communication, our education, and our health. Concrete
examples are the advancement of deep learning in medical diagnosis,
self-driving cars and drones, robots in deep sea and space exploration.
• The challenges in AI include foundational research improving hardware
(chips for AI, but also mechatronics and advanced sensing and actuation
for safer, faster, more precise, and more energy efficient robots),
algorithms, achieving explainable AI (transparent decision making),
adaptive learning, and improving smart, collaborative, safe and efficient
robots and autonomous systems.
• Applied research is also needed to advance and demonstrate
technological progress, meeting the requirements of applications and
sectors’ needs.
• Common AI platforms sharing tools and resources in AI, and reinforced
collaboration among researchers are expected to combat fragmentation
and foster progress more efficiently, thus strengthening Europe’s
position.
• Horizon Europe will provide R&I investments will all these areas in
synergy with other programmes of the MFF (Digital Europe Programme,
Connecting Europe Facility, Structural Funds, etc.).
• It is encouraging that companies like Bosch are investing in Artificial
Intelligence. This will boost the competitiveness of the European
Industry.
• Furthermore, the concept of human-centric approach to AI developed in
the Commission Communication “Artificial Intelligence for Europe”
(COM(2018) 237, 25.04.2018) will lead an to an ethics by design AI that
will defend the European citizens’ fundamental rights. This will be a
requirement to all projects developing and/or deploying AI in Horizon
Europe.
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Defensive points
What is the state of play concerning Horizon Europe?
Budget, synergies and international cooperation remain the three main areas of
Horizon Europe open for negotiations with the Parliament and the Council. Further
negotiations on Horizon Europe depend on the results of the MFF agreement: the
Commission has proposed the MFF based on 1,11 % of the EU GDP, the Parliament
based on 1,3% of the EU GDP, the Finnish Presidency has proposed a range from
1,03% to 1,08 %.
Currently the Council is negotiating its position on the recitals and synergies (Annex
IV), expected to be adopted as PGA on 29 November 2019.
The Council has the intention to change the legal base of the Specific Programme, by
removing Art. 173 and leaving only Art. 182 TFEU as legal basis. This implies that the
Specific Programme will be handled as a consultation file and not under ordinary
legislative procedure. At the exchange of views foreseen by the Inter-Institutional
Agreement on Better Law-making, the three institutions agreed that the appropriate
legal basis for the Specific Programme would be adapted in light of the significant
changes made in the Specific Programme compared to the original Commission
proposal.
Does the participation of MS in the funding, proposed in some of the future
partnerships, have the potential to negatively influence the future projects
definition, chances for funding, geographical balance and administrative
requirements?
The Commission supports a future implementation that relies on a single set of rules
for national and Union contributions, with central implementation and management.
This is not currently supported by Member States. We hope that MSs could change
their position, so that the new partnerships will be much more efficient. We count on
the support of the private partners on this at national level.
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Background notes
CVs
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guidelines as well as preparing policy and investment recommendations. At the same
time, the European AI Alliance, an open multi-stakeholder platform with over 3,500
members, was set up to engage interested parties broadly in discussions about AI and
to provide broader input for the work of the AI High-Level Expert Group.
The High-Level Expert Group on AI published its Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI
in April 2019.
On 26 June 2019 the High-Level Expert Group on AI published policy and investment
recommendations for AI development and uptake in Europe. The Commission is in the
process of analysing the recommendations.
To ensure a coordinated approach, the Commission is working closely with the
Member States. Together they drew up a Coordinated Plan on AI, published in
December 2018, which identifies priority areas of action and investment. The plan will
be updated regularly.
The Commission has opened a call for proposals for networking AI excellence centres
in Europe, with the deadline for submissions on 13 November 2019.
On 19 November 2019 the Commission published a call for proposals to further
develop an Artificial-Intelligence-on-demand platform. The action to be funded will
enhance the AI-on-demand-platform that is currently being built. The goal of the AI-on-
demand platform is to mobilise the whole European AI ecosystem in order to make
available and provide access to AI resources for all EU users.
For the period 2021-27, the new multi-annual budget for the EU includes very
substantial proposals for boosting investment in AI via Horizon Europe and the new
Digital Europe programme.
Horizon Europe will be the EU’s flagship programme to support research and
innovation. Out of a total of nearly €100 bn for 2021-2027, the Commission proposes to
invest €15 bn in "Digital and Industry", which includes AI as a key activity.
The new Digital Europe programme aims to invest in large-scale digital capacity and
infrastructure-building in the EU, helping its citizens, companies and regions to thrive in
today's hyper-connected world and ensuring the EU remains competitive.
Out of the total amount of €9.2 billion provided via Digital Europe, €2.5 billion should be
for AI. The funding will target in particular testing and experimentation facilities, and the
data platforms crucial to the development of AI. Digital Europe also provides for €700
million in support of developing advanced digital skills, including in relation to machine
learning, and €1.3 billion euros in support of deployment projects, including for SMEs to
engage in digital transformation, notably in areas like AI.
The President-elect of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has put AI at
the top of her political agenda:
1. She has proposed putting forward legislation for a coordinated European approach
on the human and ethical implications of Artificial Intelligence.
2. She intends to prioritise the investments in AI, both through the Multiannual
Financial Framework and through the increased use of public-private partnerships.
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Partnership candidates that could be of possible interest to Robert Bosch
GmbH:
• Mobility and Safety for Automated Road Transport: To provide a long-term
framework for planning research and pre-deployment programmes for
driverless vehicles across the EU and nationally. This is in line with the May
2018 Communication ‘On the road to automated mobility: an EU strategy for
mobility of the future’. Through the initiative, all relevant research and
innovation activities can be streamlined, creating opportunities for integrated
mobility solutions. This is a new partnership, without predecessor. Candidate
for Article 187, but stakeholders have expressed strong preference for a co-
programmed partnership, which is perceived more flexible for a completely new
partnership to adjust direction and/or partner composition over time.
• Towards zero-emission road transport (2ZERO): Accelerating the
transformation of the road transport system into zero-emission mobility through
world-class European R&I and industrial system, with a competitive new
generation of light weight, energy efficient and affordable vehicles and support
measures to facilitate their rapid deployment. Successor of contractual Public-
Private Partnership (cPPP) on Green vehicle initiative. Candidate for co-
programmed. During the Member State consultation, it was proposed to assess
the possibility to merge this candidate with ‘Mobility and Safety for Automated
Road Transport’.
• AI, data and robotics’: The partnership on AI will help structuring the European
AI community, develop a strategic research agenda and federate efforts around
a topic that holds great potential to benefit our society and economy. Successor
of two cPPP: on Big Data and on Robotics. Candidate for co-programmed.
• Key Digital Technologies: To enhance the research, innovation and business
value creation of European electronics value chains in key strategic market
segments in a sustainable manner to achieve technological sovereignty and
ultimately make European business and citizens best equipped for the digital
age. Successor of Electronic Components and Systems for European
Leadership (ECSEL) Joint Undertaking. Candidate for Article 187. Major
change in scope is the aim to widen European electronics value chains at
hardware level to silicon photonics and embedded software.
• Smart Network and Services: Enabling the infrastructure basis in terms of key
technologies and deployment for Next-Generation Internet services used by
citizens and for "smart" services required by vertical sectors such as transport,
energy, manufacturing, health and media. Successor of 5G cPPP. Candidate
for Article 187.
European Partnership on Safe and Automated Road Transport
Objectives and scope
The overall objective of the European Partnership on Safe and Automated Road
Transport is to provide a clear long-term framework for the strategic planning of
research and pre-deployment programmes for connected, cooperative and automated
mobility (CCAM) making sure that investments at local, regional and national level,
both of public and private nature, are complementing each other more effectively. The
European Partnership is looking for the best way to align EU R&I efforts in the field of
CCAM to:
1. Improve safety and security of road transport;
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2. Meet societal and market needs, including the inclusiveness and accessibility of
mobility and more efficient traffic flows;
3. Reduce negative impacts, including congestion, air quality, energy consumption
and climate change; and
4. Increase the effectiveness of R&I and accelerate market take-up of innovative
solutions, contributing to maintaining and extending industrial leadership.
The European Partnership addresses for the next decade all development paths of
CCAM (including automated passenger vehicles and trucks and shared automated
vehicles) that are relevant from a public policy perspective, a road operator, a user /
consumer perspective and from an industry perspective. The aim is to support the
development and deployment of innovative (shared) mobility and logistics systems and
services using fully connected and highly automated vehicles for passengers and
freight.
The focus is on road transport, but it takes into consideration relevant interfaces with
other modes (for instance railway crossings, but also transfers and integration with
public transport) in order to make sure that safety is ensured, that efficiency and the
optimal use of available infrastructure are improved and that new multimodal services
can be developed for the benefits of users and society as a whole.
Policy context: Connected, cooperative and automated mobility (CCAM)
The Commission has outlined its strategy regarding connected, cooperative and
automated mobility (CCAM) as part of its third mobility package and identified it as a
European strategic value chain. It has also developed a roadmap on connected and
automated transport in the context of the Strategic Transport Research and Innovation
Agenda, to steer and coordinate R&I activities and policies in Europe. In this context,
the Commission is considering a European partnership to provide a clear long-term
framework for the strategic planning of research and pre-deployment programmes
building on the roadmap on connected and automated transport. For 2014-2020, a total
budget of around €300 million from Horizon 2020 has been allocated to support the
introduction of automated driving systems for road transport. Horizon 2020 included
actions in the area of ICT infrastructure to attain advanced levels of road vehicle
automation, safe human-machine interfaces, road infrastructure to facilitate automated
transport and aspects of driver and road user behaviour. This research area has not
yet been covered by a Horizon 2020 partnership.
Given the complexity and the scale of the challenge, a European partnership could
provide the clear long-term framework needed for strategic planning of research and
pre-deployment programmes for CCAM.
Necessity for a European Partnership
CCAM is a complex ecosystem in which the vehicles the physical and digital
infrastructure, technologies and human beings (traffic controllers, drivers, passengers,
(motor) cyclists, pedestrians) will need to interact.
A system level approach is vital, given the need to preserve and enhance
interoperability across the EU network, and to ensure a critical mass of demand to
allow industrialisation of innovation.
Meanwhile, EU support and calls for proposals for CCAM have so far been looking
mainly at specific technical solutions, their integration in specific use cases, and their
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impacts on the users. More recently, several large-scale pilots have been launched to
test the robustness and reliability of automated driving technologies, systems and
functions and to assess socio-economic impacts.
However, a lot of Research and Innovation challenges need to be addressed in an
integrated way, to achieve a systematic breakthrough in line with EU policy objectives.
These include, among others technologies at vehicle and infrastructure level and for
data communication and processing, personal data protection, cyber-security, ethics,
social acceptance, as well as impacts on labour and skills, road safety targets,
emissions, land use, CCAM system validation and global competitiveness. In addition,
a large number of actors (local and regional authorities, road operators, service
providers, vehicle manufacturers and suppliers, IT providers etc.) need to be involved
in the development, large-scale testing and validation of solutions to address technical
and non-technical challenges. Coordination at EU level is needed in order to develop
harmonised solutions and to avoid fragmentation, duplication, inconsistencies and
gaps. Hence, the EU needs a strong European R&I partnership in which all actors will
pursue common objectives and clear deliverables in an aligned and coordinated
manner.
Current status of preparation of the European Partnership
The preparations for the first wave of institutionalised European partnerships under
Horizon Europe (including on safe and automated road transport) are currently
ongoing, with impact assessments foreseen to be submitted to the board in
January/February 2020.
These impact assessment studies will make a preliminary assessment of the different
policy options of the European Partnerships. For the European Partnership on Safe
and Automated Road Transport, the following policy options will be analysed in the
impact assessment: baseline scenario, co-programmed European partnership and
institutionalised European partnership.
The Commission (DG MOVE/DG RTD) works on developing a strategic R&I agenda,
within the scope of the newly established CCAM platform (particularly in working group
1), together with Member States and all relevant stakeholders. A first outline of such an
agenda could be presented during the CCAM platform plenary in December 2019,
while a first stable draft could potentially be presented in spring/summer 2020.
The completion of, and agreement on, the agenda is also essential to determine the
concrete participation of stakeholders in a future partnership, and the associated
commitments in terms of their contribution, which is another precondition for any form
of European partnership. This is particularly important for stakeholder types that have
not (or only to a limited extent) been partners in previous research projects (e.g. road
operators/authorities & cities), and might have more limited resources and dedicated
capabilities, but which nonetheless have a key role to play in the further development
of CCAM.
Contact(s):
(DG RTD), tel.:
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List of subsidiaries and their participations
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FP7
H2020
Participant Legal Name
Nb.
EC
Nb.
EC
Particip
Contrib
Particip
Contrib
ations
ution
ations
ution
(M
(M
euro)
euro)
BOSCH ENGINEERING GMBH
1
0
4
1.61
BOSCH LAWN AND GARDEN LIMITED
1
0.08
BOSCH REXROTH AG
2
0.32
3
0.71
BOSCH REXROTH BV*
3
0.26
Bosch Rexroth Ltd
1
0.49
1
0.04
Bosch Security Systems B.V.
1
0.16
BOSCH SENSORTEC GMBH
1
0.04
BOSCH SOFTWARE INNOVATIONS GMBH
1
0.51
4
2.04
BOSCH SOLAR THIN FILM GMBH
1
0.48
BOSCH TERMOTECNOLOGIA SA
1
0.22
BOSCH THERMOTECHNIK GMBH
2
2.88
4
1.73
BOSCH THERMOTECHNOLOGY LTD
1
0
PROSYST SOFTWARE GmbH
2
1.03
ROBERT BOSCH AFTERMARKET SOLUTIONS GMBH
1
0.25
ROBERT BOSCH AG
1
0.45
ROBERT BOSCH AG
1
0.26
ROBERT BOSCH AUTOMOTIVE STEERING GMBH
1
0.04
ROBERT BOSCH BATTERY SYSTEM GMBH
2
0.11
ROBERT BOSCH CAR MULTIMEDIA GMBH
1
0.44
2
0.31
ROBERT BOSCH ESPANA FABRICA CASTELLET SA
2
0.74
ROBERT BOSCH ESPANA FABRICA MADRID SA
ROBERT BOSCH ESPANA SLU
1
0.05
ROBERT BOSCH GESELLSCHAFT FUR MEDIZINISCHE
7
2.66
4
5.33
FORSCHUNG MBH
ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
57
22.87
75
46.78
ROBERT BOSCH HEALTHCARE GMBH
1
0.22
ROBERT BOSCH STIFTUNG GMBH
1
0
80
32.33
111
60.77
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RTD CIC B6
cut-off date 25-11-2019