Horizon 2020

1. Horizon 2020 Opportunities for SMEs European CommissionEnterprise and Industry

3. Verso Horizon 2020 3

4. European Union has set five ambitious objectives - on employment, innovation, education, social inclusion and climate/energy - to be reached by 2020 Flagship Initiative for competitiveness and innovation Strategic Framework on RTD & innovation (2014- 2020)

5. Industrial Technologies Societal Challenges Excellent Science H2020 Structure • European Research Council • Frontier research by the best individual teams • Future and Emerging Technologies • Collaborative research to open new fields of innovation • Marie Skłodowska Curie actions • Opportunities for training and career development • Research infrastructures (including e-infrastructure) • Ensuring access to world-class facilities • Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies • ICT, nanotechnologies, materials, biotechnology, manufacturing, space • Access to risk finance • Leveraging private finance and venture capital for research and innovation • Innovation in SMEs • Fostering all forms of innovation in all types of SMEs • Health, demographic change and wellbeing • Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine and maritime research & the bioeconomy • Secure, clean and efficient energy • Smart, green and integrated transport • Climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials • Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies • Security society European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation Science with and for society Joint Research Center (JRC) 5

6. Key Features • One single programme(FP7+CIP+EIT) • Value chain from research to market • Innovation • Focus on societal challenges • Simplified access for Companies, Academia in all Memeìber States • Synergies with Structural Funds 6

7. Budget proposed 7

8. from FP1 to Horizon 2020 Framework Programmes H2020 4- 5 yeasars Prigrammes 7 years programmes

9. 9 [1] APRE Estimates

10. BUDGET – Activity split Industrial Leadership Excellent Science Societal challenges

11. Industrial Technologies Societal Challenges Excellent Science Horizon 2020 Structure • European Research Council • Frontier research by the best individual teams • Future and Emerging Technologies • Collaborative research to open new fields of innovation • Marie Skłodowska Curie actions • Opportunities for training and career development • Research infrastructures (including e-infrastructure) • Ensuring access to world-class facilities • Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies • ICT, nanotechnologies, materials, biotechnology, manufacturing, space • Access to risk finance • Leveraging private finance and venture capital for research and innovation • Innovation in SMEs • Fostering all forms of innovation in all types of SMEs TOP - DOWN BOTTOM UP TOP - DOWN • Health, demographic change and wellbeing • Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine and maritime research & the bioeconomy • Secure, clean and efficient energy • Smart, green and integrated transport • Climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials • Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies • Security society BOTTOM UP (SME) BOTTOM UP (SME) TOP - DOWN European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation Science with and for society Joint Research Center (JRC)

12. Type of Projects 12

13. INNOVATION 13

14. Which Innovation in Horizon 2020? • Horizon 2020 supports ALL forms of Innovation: • - from R&D; • from other activities, included integrated sysytems of combination of different technologies; new business models etc. • pre-commercial applications, e.g. 'social innovation' 14

15. Horizon 2020 : benefit for SMEs • All forms of R&D + innovation (exploitation & commercialisation • SME participation in collaborative R&D or innovation projects • SME instrument (budget from all societal challenges as well as from the LEITs) • Innovation in start-ups, spin-offs and young companies (Eurostars and other measures) • Access to risk finance (debt and equity facility) • Exchange and mobility of researchers involving SMEs (Marie Curie actions) • Links for access to procurements… • support to MARKET DEMAND • Leverage effects with other programmes

16. SME definition "SME" stands for small and medium-sized enterprises – as defined in EU law: EU recommendation 2003/361 . The main factors determining whether a company is an SME are: • Company category Employees Turnover or Balance sheet total Medium-sized < 250 ≤ € 50 m ≤ € 43 m Small < 50 ≤ € 10 m ≤ € 10 m Micro < 10 ≤ € 2 m ≤ € 2 m • Definition: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/sme/facts-figures-analysis/sme-definition/index_en.htm

17. Horizon 2020 : SME Instrument

18. SME Instrument 3 phases Fase 1: concept/feasibility study Fase 2: R&D, demonstration, market replication Fase 3: Commercialisation No direct funding Input: "Business plan III" + Opportunities: 'Quality label' for successful Phase 1 & 2 Easier access to private finance Support via networking, training, coaching, information, addressing i.a. IP management, knowledge sharing, dissemination SME window in the EU financial facilities (debt facility and equity facility) Input: "Business plan II" + "Description of activities under Phase2" (~ 30 pp.) Main Activities: Development Prototyping Testing Piloting Miniaturisation Scaling-up Market replication Output: investor-ready "Business plan III" Input: Idea/Concept in "Business Plan I" (~ 10 pages) Main Activities: Feasibility of concept Risk assessment IP regime Partner search Design study Pilot application Output: elaborated "Business plan II" Lump sum: around 50.000 € ~ 6 months Output based payments: 1 to 2,5 M€ EU funding ~ 12 to 24 months

19. Contact www.alps-europa.eu Nicoletta Marchiandi Innovation Department manager ALPS ENTERPRISE EUROPE NETWORK Torino Chamber of Commerce via San Francesco da Paola 24 10123 Torino Italy ph. 011 571 6320 fax 011 571 6324 n.marchiandi@to.camcom.it