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Research and Innovation

Fast Track to Innovation. Dr Bernd Reichert. Unit "Horizon 2020: Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises" European Agency for SMEs (EASME). Research and Innovation. Horizon 2020. Objectives: Increase the participation of industry, SMEs and first time applicants in Horizon 2020

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Research and Innovation

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  1. Fast Track to Innovation Dr Bernd Reichert Unit "Horizon 2020: Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises" European Agency for SMEs (EASME) Research and Innovation

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Horizon 2020 Deadlines: 29/04/2015 01/09/2015 01/12/2015 Similar expected for 2016

  7. Thank you very much for your attention

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