Fast Track
to
Innovation
Dr Bernd Reichert
Unit "Horizon 2020: Small and
Medium-Sized Enterprises"
European Agency for SMEs
(EASME)
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Research and
Innovation
Horizon 2020
Objectives:
• Increase the participation of industry, SMEs and
first time applicants in Horizon 2020
• Stimulate private sector investment in research and
innovation
• Promote research and innovation with a focus on
value creation and accelerate the development of
technologies into innovative products, processes
and services
Means:
Full-scale pilot running in 2015 and 2016
In-depth assessment as part of interim evaluation 2017
Horizon 2020
• Proposals relating to any technology field under LEITs
and Societal Challenges (bottom-up driven logic)
• Open to any legal entity - consortia of 3 to 5
participants
• About 100 grants will be given
• Permanently open call with three cut-off-dates per
year
• Impact criterion given a higher weighting in
evaluations
• Time-to-grant: 6 months
Horizon 2020
• Funding of innovation actions (close-to-market)
• For proposal involving technological innovation, the
consortium must declare that the technologies are at
least at TRL 6.
• Proposals shall include a business plan describing the
business opportunities of participants and a credible
commercialisation strategy.
• Particular attention should be paid to IP protection and
ownership, and the possibility of commercial
exploitation ('freedom to operate').
• Initial market take-up no later than 3 years after
submission.
Horizon 2020
• at least 60% of the overall budget of the proposal
must be allocated to consortium partner(s) from
industry, or
• the minimum number of industry participants must be
2 in a consortium of 3 or 4 partners, and 3 in a
consortium of 5 partners.
• The maximum EU contribution per project is EUR 3
million.
• The indicative EU contribution per project is expected
to be between EUR 1 million and EUR 2 million.
Horizon 2020
Deadlines:
29/04/2015
01/09/2015
01/12/2015
Similar expected for 2016
Thank you very much for
your attention