Fast Track to
Innovation Pilot
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Fast Track to Innovation Pilot
3 Call deadlines: 28th April/1st Sept/1st Dec 2015
Type of Action: Innovation Action (70%)
Budget: 1-3 million
H2020 Pillar: FTI pilot must relate to any field
under ‘Societal challenges’ or ‘LEIT’ pillar.
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Fast Track to Innovation Pilot
Only bottom up measure in H2020 promoting
close-to-market innovation activities
– Aims to reduce the time from idea to market
– Increase industry participation and first time
industry applicants
– Nurture trans-disciplinary and cross-sector
approaches
– Must be business driven and demonstrate
potential for quick deployment and market uptake
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Eligibility Criteria
1. Max. of 5 and min. of 3 legal entities can
participate in a project. All legal entities must
be established in EU Member States or
Associated Countries.
2. Proposals must include a business plan
3. If proposal involves technological innovation
the TRL level must be at least 6
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Eligibility Criteria
4. At least one of the following conditions must
be met:
– Either at least 60% of overall budget must be
allocated from industry or
– The minimum number of industry participants
must be 2 in a consortium of 3 or 3 in a
consortium of 5 partners
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Evaluation Criteria
Proposals must achieve the threshold for each
of the three criterion of Impact, Excellence and
Implementation
The prioritorisation of evaluation is based in the
following order;
1.
2.
3.
4.
Impact (threshold 4)
Involvement of SME’s
First-time industry participants
Gender balance
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Contact Details
For further information please contact the SSPC
funding team:
• Abigail Pattenden abigail.pattenden@ul.ie
• Aisling Arthur aisling.arthur@ul.ie
• Orla Kelly orla.kelly@ul.ie
Irish NCP for Fast Track Innovation Pilot
sean.burke@enterprise-ireland.com
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