Using the European EUREKA platform to boost projects and network for the benefit of SME’s
Lars Pleth Nielsen, Centre Manager, PhD, HD(O)
Tribology Centre, Danish Technological Institute
Email: LPN@dti.dk, Mob: +45 7220 1585
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 General introduction to EUREKA
 Introduction to Umbrellas
 Little on EUROSTARs program
 More on the E!-SURF EUREKA umbrella
 Perspective it a bit….
 What's in it for me?
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Surface engineering for sustainable production and products
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Umbrellas are thematic networks within the EUREKA framework which focus on a specific technology area or business sector. The main goal of an umbrella is to facilitate the generation of EUREKA projects
 No direct funding
 No ‘automatic’ projects
 You have to work
 Write proposals
 The umbrella network facilitates partnering and finding funding opportunities
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E!-
Surf: Surface Technology
> EUREKA TOURISM: IT Technologies for Tourism
> ProFACTORY+ : Production Technologies
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EuroAgri FoodChain
: Agriculture, Food and
Feed, Bio-Economy
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EUREKABUILD2
: Construction Technology

> Established in 1985
> An initiative of French
President Mitterand and
German Chancellor Kohl
> 18 countries and the
European Union
• 40 members:
• EU 27, European Commission
• 12 other European countries
• 2 NIP-countries (National interest points – on the way in)
• Financed using two main sources:
- National research and innovation funds
- Investment by industry in R&D

Estonia Austria Hungary Russian Federation
Finland Belgium Iceland San Marino
France Bulgaria
Croatia
Ireland
Israel
Serbia
Slovakia Former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia Cyprus Italy Slovenia
Germany Czech Republic Latvia Spain
Greece Denmark Lithuania Sweden
Luxembourg
Malta
Monaco
The Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine
United Kingdom
ASSOCIATED COUNTRIES
South Korea, Canada
NIP
Albania
Bosnia-Herzegovina

The EUREKA project consortium decides:
> The way a project comes together – partner/ideas
> The end result – success criteria's
> Key-points:
> Extremely close to the market
> Generate business
> Link customers, partners and funding
Bridging between national and EU-funding

1 M €
Public
Funds
2.83 M€
Achieved
Additional
Turnover
(at the end of the project)
9.35 M€
Expected
Additional
Turnover
(3 years after project)
1.53 M €
Private
Funds
50 Jobs created
>
Sales: + 28 %
>
Employment: + 21 %
Source: Data retrieved through EUREKA (from questionnaires sent to former project participants)

Funding
> Eurostars
> FP7
> Nice
> …
> …

The Eurostars Programme is the first European funding and support programme to be specifically dedicated to R&D performing SMEs.
A joint programme after Art. 185 of the Treaty, running from 2007-2013
Combining:
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National R&D programmes from 33 participating countries
(300+ million Euro already committed)
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Seventh Framework Programme (+/-100 million Euro committed)
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EUREKA
- 25 years of experience in coordination of national R&D programmes

Introduction of Clusters
Introduction of Eurostars

(data: 2000-2011)

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 Primary goal = technology transfer and implemention via the generation of industrial
RTD projects, through:
 industry demand - technology offer matchmaking
 monitoring and assistance in research funding opp.
 info through website & e-bulletins, incl. technology watch, legislation issues, ..
 partnering and networking
 training tailored to industry demands
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 WP1 Industry demand – technology offer matchmaking
 WP2 Monitoring and assistance in funding opportunities
 WP3 Website, e-bulletins and promotion materials
 WP4 Partnering & networking
 WP5 Training tailored to industry demands
 WP6 Management
Milestones - performance indicators (PI):
 # (submitted/granted) projects
 # active partners
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PI
target y1 target y2 target mid-term target y3 target y4 target y5
# submitted projects
# granted projects
# active partners
14/10
(2010+11)
29/ 20
2+3/5
(3 negot.)
26/20
9/ 10
27/ 30
30
15
40
40
20
50
60
35
70
80
50
90
Partners : 27 partners from 11 countries
Chair : Shared by Tekniker (ES) & Danish Technological Institute (DK)
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WP1 matchmaking /2012
 Matchmaking events scheduled 2012 linked to existing events 2012
 EurAsia World of Industry part I (incl. SE), Istanbul, TR, 2-5 Feb 2012
 Scandinavian initiative NanoConnect, 27-28 March & academia-industry collaboration
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Hannover trade fair 2012, Hannover, DE, 23-27 April 2012 i-SUP2012 SE FP7 session (VITO), Bruges, BE, 6-10 May 2012
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LUBMAT 2012 FP7 session (Tekniker), Bilbao, ES, 6-8 June 2012
PSE 2012 FP7 session , Garmisch-Partenkirchen, DE, 10-14 Sep 2012 nCATS 2 nd half of the year: open company day
EMO conference 2013 (Cecimo), Hannover, DE, 16-21 Sep 2013
TurKey Enabling Technologies event, Istanbul, 25 May 2012
Industrial Technologies 2012, June 19-21, Aarhus
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WP5 training / 2011-2012
 Industrial course – February 2012, Southampton
 Summer school, Portugal
 Teaching in surface technology
 2011 Denmark
 2012 Denmark
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 To in increase our network
 To get new connections
 To use our competences
 To use our tool box
 To make projects
 To open new possibilities
 To facilitate growth
 To make a difference
 EUROSTARs
 NMT-ERANET
 Nice
 NMP
 FP7
 Research for SME’s
Gearing of national funding
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 NOT for :
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Direct funding of projects
Funding of trips
Conversation group
 BUT for :
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Organised networking of active partners in surface engineering
 facilitating the setting-up of projects
 facilitating the finding of active partners
EUREKA is a strong brand, much appreciated by industry and governments/funding agencies because of technology transfer
EUREKA & EUROSTARs mechanisms for setting-up projects
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 Seek support from your national project co-ordinator
(NPC)
 Complete sections of EUREKA application forms
 Demonstrate commitment in very simple Collaboration
Agreement
→ www.eurekasurf.eu
 More info ? Contact: info@eurekasurf.eu
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Lars Pleth Nielsen – DTI: Lars.Pleth.Nielsen@Teknologisk.dk
Jan Meneve – VITO: jan.meneve@vito.be
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Amaya Igartua – Tekniker: aigartua@tekniker.es
0ther E!-SURF partners – please refer to website
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