SMEs relative Actions

1. SMEs relative Actions Overview of financing opportunities for SMEs Valerio Abbadessa - ENEA Workshop – IGLO Bruxelles 08.02.2010

2. Research-Acquiring SMEs Research-Performing SMEs Up-stream research Type of research: networking, fundamental, pre-competitive… Top-down research

3. Closer to applications Role of partnership Bottom up Bottom up Bottom up Bottom up Top down Top down Bottom up To develop infrastructures, new knowledge / technologies To solve societal (technological) problem 7PQ IDEAS (European Res. Council) Networking, (COST, NATO, LIFE+, ESF... ) 7 PQ including Capacities / CIP ……. 7 PQ (PEOPLE) EUREKA(Eurostars..), ERANET (Cornet, Eurotrans-Bio…) JTIs/ PPPs Closer time to market KNOWLEDGE MARKET Size of cooperation / EU level University driven / Institute driven –industry guided / Industry driven & executed Long term Medium term Short term ROLE OF STRATEGIC ALLIANCES / INFRASTRUCTURE / CONVERGING TECHNOLOGY

4. Top Down Top Down vs Bottom-up Cooperation Collaborative Research Health IDEAS Frontier research European Research Council Bottom-Up Food, Agriculture, Fisheries and Biotechnology PEOPLE Human potential Initial Training Life-long training ICT Industry-Academia International Dimension Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials & Production Specific Actions CAPACITIES Research capacities Research Infrastructures Energy Research for the benefit of SMEs Regions of Knowledge Environment (including climate change) Research Potential Science in society Trasport (including aeronautics) Support to the coherent development of research policies Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities International Cooperation JRC (non-nuclear) Space Security

5. CIP: Competitiveness and Innovation Programme http://ec.europa.eu/cip/index_en.htm To support innovation activities (including eco-innovation), provides better access to finance and delivers business support services in Europe Entrepreneurship& Innovation (EIP) ~2,170 M€(incl € 430 eco-innovation) ICT PolicySupport Programme (ICT PSP) ~730 M€ Intelligent EnergyEurope (IEE) ~730 M€ Budget: about 3,6 billion Euro (2007-2013)

6. Coordination of national research programmes • Type of activities: • Exchange of information and best practices • Preparation and implementation of common activities • Financing of transnational collaborative RTD • All sectors Types of actions: ERA-NET, ERA-NET Plus schemes Participation of the EC to national research programmes together with MS (Art. 169 ) Strengthening with otherintergovernmentalinitiatives (EUREKA)

7. CORNET II CollectiveResearch Networking Brings together national/regional programmes supporting collective research Target group: Research acquiring SMEAssociations, Federations…. 21 partners from 15 countries Budget: 2.000.000 EUR Duration: 24 months About 2 calls per year Next call deadline: 31 March 2010 Participants to the 9th Call: Austria, Belgium (Flanders and Wallonia), Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Slovenia, Spain (Valencia), The Netherlands, Turkey (Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Poland, Portugal) Country Partner http://www.cornet-era.net

8. EraSME² Brings together national/regional programmes Target group:Individual research-acquiring SMEs which need to cooperate with Research Organisations 17 partners from 16 countries Budget: 2.000.000 EUR Duration: 24 months Small projects: 2 SMEs from 2 different participating countries/regions and 1 RTD performer Large projects: 4 SMEs from 2 different participating countries/regions and 2 RTD performers About 2 calls per year Next call (7th) will open soon with deadline: 31 March 2010 http://www.era-sme.net/public/About_erasme

9. EUROTRANS-BIO European network of Transnational collaborative RTD for SME’s projects in the field of BIOTECHNOLOGY http://www.eurotransbio.net/ • Fostering transnational private-public consortia for the benefit of SMEs • Target group: Research performing SME • Partners from 12 EU Countries and Regions • Consortium composition: 2 SMEs (often bilateral: 2 countries/regions) + sometime 1 RTD performer • Duration: 24 months + • Average project cost: 1.7 Mio EUR • Last call (5th) closed 1 February 2010 • Participants to the 5th Call: Austria, Basque Country (Spain), Flanders (Belgium), Finland, France, Germany, Italy, and The Netherlands. Wallonia (Belgium), Hungary, Catalonia (Spain) and the Madrid Region

10. EUREKA Which Technologies? Which markets? http://www.eurekanetwork.org/ 38 members

11. EUROSTARS www.eurostars-eureka.eu/ 38 membri 32 members • Joint R&D programme, market-oriented research • Target group: R&D performing SMEs • 32 countries • Budget: 2.000.000 EUR • Consortium composition: 2 SMEs from different Eurostars members • Max duration: 36 months (R2M within 2Ys) • Average project cost: 1.5 Mio EUR • No participant or country can have a share higher than 75% in the total project costs • About 2 calls per year • Next call deadline: 25 February 2010

12. Joint Technology Initiatives Long-term PPPs Public-Private Partnerships Green cars Energy efficient building Factories of the future

13. JTIs In the specific programme “Cooperation”

14. PPP: Public-Private Partnerships Total budget : 2010-2013 3,2 billion EUR *budget from ICT could be increased

15. Research-Performing SMEs Up-stream research Type of esearch: networking, fundamental, pre-competitive… Top-down research