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YMIR Achievements Overview of Activities, Year 2 Presenter: John Molony Organisation: TESEO Sprl YMIR Project Review Meeting Brussels, 13 March 2012. YMIR Consortium 5 partners: EUN, Belgium INA, Greece MENTORTEC, Portugal TESEO (Project Coordinator), Belgium UNINOVA, Spain.
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YMIR Achievements Overview of Activities, Year 2 Presenter: John Molony Organisation: TESEO Sprl YMIR Project Review Meeting Brussels, 13 March 2012
YMIR Consortium • 5 partners: • EUN, Belgium • INA, Greece • MENTORTEC, Portugal • TESEO (Project Coordinator), Belgium • UNINOVA, Spain
Overall Objective • Assistance to facilitate access to finance by ICT SMEs • Bridge gap between innovative SMEs and investors • Help SMEs exploit ICT research innovation potential via: • Services to enable SMEs to benefit from investment • Primary focus on EU FP6 and FP7 SME participants • Cooperate with ACCESS ICT & ICT VentureGate projects
Targeted Results • Identify and profile 250 SMEs from FP6/FP7 lists • Establish a business community of 100 SMEs • Find 60 SMEs with innovative ideas • 20 SMEs with business plans • Present 10 innovative projects to investors per event
Consultancy and Assistance Services • Online assistance in preparing to seek finance (webinar preparing for Venture Academies) • 4 Venture Academies • 4 Investment Forum events