Trinity Research and Innovation Event “Vision2020: Engaging with SMEs“
a Horizon2020 event
DORIS ALEXANDER
Research Development Office Manager
4th June 2015
AUDREY CROSBIE
Industry Liaison Manager
Agenda
This event aims to better understand how SME/Academic collaboration can be facilitated and
supported within the framework of Horizon 2020.
11.00am
Welcome, Prof Vinny Cahill, Dean of Research, Trinity College
11.05am
Introduction & Trinity College supports
Ms Doris Alexander, Research Development Manager, Trinity College
Ms Audrey Crosbie, Industry Liaison Manager, Trinity College
11.15am
Vision 2020, The Horizon Network, linking Research performing organisations with SMEs
Dr Abdul Rahim, Director Vision 2020
12.00pm
SMEs in Horizon 2020 and EI supports, Fast Track to Innovation Programme
Ms Jill Leonard, Enterprise Ireland
12.30pm
SME case studies
- Mr Gerard Kiely – Mentor Pitch Ltd. SME Instrument Phase I success
- Dr Adriele Prina Mello – Radisens Ltd. SME Instrument Phase II success
- Ms Vivienne Williams – Cellix Ltd, Research & Innovation Action under ICT success
12.45pm
Q/A followed by networking lunch.
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Challenge and
Opportunity
The achievement of
scientific, technological
and societal impacts
based on excellent
research and innovation
projects – new
technologies and
distruptive innovations
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Structure of Horizon 2020
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Engaging with Horizon 2020
Why is SME involvement important?
• 99% of all European business are small and medium sized enterprises
(SMEs)
• 85% of net new jobs in the EU between 2002 and 2010 were created
by SMEs
• SMEs are quick to adapt to and exploit new market opportunities
• Taking innovative ideas to the market
AIM: 20% of the total budget for Pillar 2 and Pillar 3 will go to SMEs.
SMES help to increase the economic impact of project results by a
company-centric and market-driven approach.
Benefit for SMEs: aim of strengthening the innovation capacity of SMEs
and creating value on the market and/or into society.
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What H2020 can do for you – as an SME
Horizon 2020 provides SMEs an opportunity to participate in
multidisciplinary, trans-European research projects/monobeneficiary
projects including specific purposes SME programmes.
SMEs should consider participation in H2020 on the basis of:
– Funding to help develop new technologies/standards/services – with
real commercial potential;
– Helping to create value from invention/Bridges the gap between
research and the market;
– Opportunity to work with leading European and global academics and
industries; and
– Develop more of an international reputation.
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What H2020 can do for you – as an
academic researcher
Horizon 2020 provides Trinity academics an opportunity to participate in
multidisciplinary, trans-European research projects/monobeneficiary
projects.
Trinity researchers should consider participation in H2020 on the basis of:
– Funding for research including PhDs and postdocs
– Opportunity to work with leading European and global academics and
industries including SMEs;
– Enhanced reputation and research profile - > career progression;
– Stipulation from national funding bodies that active engagement with
non-exchequer funding sources is now an evaluation criteria for national
funding
– Publication in higher impact journals and increased citations;
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TCD and SMEs – The Dream Team!
A mutually beneficial partnership
Horizon 2020 is challenging – College has ambitious targets and a long
history of engagement with the Framework Programme
Trinity has excellent researchers
Year 1 of Horizon 2020 – grants worth €18.8m to the College have been
secured
A well rounded consortium is required to cover the value chain
Trinity College is a member of the EIT Raw Materials and EIT Health –
knowledge transfer and entrepreneurial training collaborations
Very active support System in the College
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Support for the TCD researcher – H2020 Team
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Trinity’s Office of Corporate Partnership
and Knowledge Transfer
• Acts as an open door for industry to access world-class talent
and infrastructure
• Offers a professional service to industry partners with the
expertise to develop, protect and exploit innovative
technologies and ideas
• Is the Knowledge-Transfer hub at Trinity
• Can help you to access and leverage funding opportunities
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Trinity Researchers
Industry
Contact: Doris.Alexander@tcd.ie
or Research.office@tcd.ie
Contact: Audrey.Crosbie@tcd.ie
or Chris.kealy@tcd.ie
Background Information
Additional Slides with background information
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Europe 2020 – Five Targets for Improvement
Europe 2020 is the European Union’s ten-year jobs and growth strategy. It was
launched in 2010 to create the conditions for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth.
• Employment
• Education
• Research and Innovation
• Social Inclusion and Poverty Reduction
• Climate / Energy
Implemented by 7 flagships
The Flagship Initiative implementing the target area ‘Research
and Innovation’ is the ‘Innovation Union’
Horizon 2020 is the financial instrument aiming to fund those
initiatives which support the ‘Innovation Union’ priorities.
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Europe 2020 does and will affect the lives
of Citizens
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Innovation Union - priorities
Horizon 2020 sits in this space
• A focus of R&I on societal challenges;
• The reinforced mobility of researchers/ professionals
• A strengthened communication, knowledge transfer and the
improved use of research results;
• Open access to publications as general principle of R&I
activities
• The promotion of social innovation
• The integration of different perspectives in R&I activities,
e.g. Social sciences and humanities, gender perspectives,
consumer demands, policy makers, citizens
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What is the goal of Horizon2020?
A means to drive economic growth and create jobs
Research is an investment in our future and so put it at the heart of the
EU’s blueprint for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth and jobs.
To couple research and innovation, through excellent science,
industrial leadership and tackling societal challenges.
The goal is to ensure Europe produces world-class science, removes
barriers to innovation and makes it easier for the public and private
sectors to work together in delivering innovation.
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Publication Rankings
In terms of the impact of its publications, Trinity College Dublin
ranks in the top 1% in the world in 16 key areas:
Field
No. of TCD Papers
(Thomson Reuters-Defined)
No. of Citations to TCD
papers
TCD Impact
(Citations per paper)

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY & GENETICS
340
16,062
47.24

IMMUNOLOGY
214
8,300
38.79

MICROBIOLOGY
232
5,259
22.67
•
NEUROSCIENCE & BEHAVIOR
411
8,588
20.90
•
BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY
396
8,047
20.32
•
CHEMISTRY
724
13,094
18.09
•
MATERIALS SCIENCE
330
5,056
15.32

CLINICAL MEDICINE
2,092
30,035
14.36
•
AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES
98
1,345
14.01

PLANT & ANIMAL SCIENCE
260
3,170
12.19

PHARMACOLOGY & TOXICOLOGY
198
2,246
11.34

PHYSICS
1,047
11,066
10.57

PSYCHIATRY/PSYCHOLOGY
263
2,655
10.10

SOCIAL SCIENCES, GENERAL
521
2,471
4.74

ENGINEERING
411
1,876
4.56

ENVIRONMENT/ECOLOGY
185
1,978
10.69
Source: Thomson Reuters Essential Science Indicators
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