Horizon 2020

EIC pilot programmes 2019-2020

Hasan Burak TIFTIK

Horizon 2020 SME Instrument

National Contact Point

Istanbul03 May 2019

Contents

• Horizon 2020 in General

• EIC Instruments

– Pathfinder

• FET Open

• FET Proactive

– Accelerator

– Fast Track to Innovation

– EIC Prizes

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EU Framework Programmes – Horizon 2020

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2014-2020 Horizon 2020

M a i n O b j e c t i v e s

Enhance economic competitiveness

through global cooperation

Transform the accumulation of

knowledge and experience into

economic value

Generating new businesses and

employment

Taking science and technology into

market by utilizing the sources

efficiently

Producing solutions for societal,

economical and technological

challenges

Developing new economical relations

and accessing to new markets

Accessing to latest technology

produced and used in other countries

2002-2006(5 years)

19,1 Billion €

FP 6

2007-2013(7 years)

53,2 Billion €

FP 7

2014-2020(7 years)

80 Billion €

Horizon 2020

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Industrial

leadership

• Information and

Communication Tech.

• Nanotechnology

• Biyotechnology

• Space Technologies

• SME Instrument

17 B €

Excellent

Science

• European Research

Council (ERC)

• Marie-Curie

• Research

Infrastructure

• Future and Emerging

Technologies (FET)

25 B €

Societal

Challeghes

• Health

• Food, Agr.

• Transport

• Environment

• Social Sciences

• Security

30 B €

80 Billion € Budget (2014-2020)

• Energy

Visionary idea for developing radical and innovative

technologies

Radically new, highly risky ideas commercially viable and with a potential to scale up

FET OPEN + FET Proactive

Future and Emerging Technologies(grant-only)

SME Instrument Phase 2 / Fast Track to Innovation (FTI)

(grant-only)

€ 2,100 million 2,900 projects

€ 845 million Approx.250 projects

EIC Horizon Prizes + Support actions €50 million

PATHFINDER Pilot

Coaching, mentoring and business acceleration services

ACCELERATOR Pilot

Blended finance(grant + equity)

OR

EIC Instruments

€3 billion finance for bottom-up ideas

EIC Instruments - TRL Levels

The Pathfinder Pilot

Research and Innovation Actions

– Foundations for radically new future technologies,

high-risk & high-impact interdisciplinary research:- Radical vision

- Breakthrough technological target

- Ambitious interdisciplinary research

– Bottom-up and continuously open

– 15-page proposal, up to €3 million (indicative),

consortium of minimum 3 partners from 3 EU /

associated countries

EIC Pathfinder - FET Open

EIC Pathfinder - FET Open

Research and Innovation Actions

Emerging paradigms and communities

– Stimulate the emergence of a new technological paradigm

– Selected emerging paradigms- Human-Centric AI

- Implantable autonomous devices and materials

- Breakthrough zero-emissions energy generation for full decarbonisation

- Future technologies for social experience

- Measuring the unmeasurable –– Sub-nanoscale science for Nanometrology

- Digital twins for the life-sciences

– Up to €4-5 million, across up to 4 years

– 30-page proposal, Minimum 3 partners from 3 EU / AC

2019€52M

2020€50M

EIC Pathfinder - FET Proactive

Environmental Intelligence

– Stimulate the emergence in Europe around the

emerging paradigm of environmental intelligence

– Two complementary sub-topics:- new techniques for creating and using dynamic models of environmental evolution

- radically novel approaches to resilient, reliable and environmentally responsible in-situ

monitoring

– Projects up to €4 million, up to 4 years

– 30-pages proposal, Minimum 3 partners from 3 EU / AC

2020€18M

EIC Pathfinder - FET Proactive

Innovation Launchpad

– Turning results from FET-funded projects

into genuine societal or economic

innovations

– Up to €0.1 million over 18 months

– Sole applicant or as part of a consortium

– Market analysis, business case, technology

assessment, IPRs…

EIC Pathfinder - FET Open

Transition to Innovation Activities

– Turn promising results into breakthrough and

disruptive innovations

– At the end of a typical FET-Open or FET

Proactive project (i.e., starting from early-stage

technologies)

– Targeted technologies: Micro- and Nano-technologies,

Artificial Intelligence and advanced robotics, Technologies for the life

sciences, health and treatment, Energy technologies, Interaction

technologies

– 24 months, €1-2 million

EIC Pathfinder - FET Open-Proactive

– FET Open

- 18 September 2019

- 13 May 2020

– FET Proactive Emerging paradigms and

communities

- 3 Sep 2019

- 22 Apr 2020

– FET Proactive Environmental Intelligence

- 22 Apr 2020

EIC Pathfinder - Next cut-offs

– For FET Open and Proactive Projects:

- Three award criteria:

– 60% 'excellence‘

– 20% 'impact’

– 20% 'quality and efficiency of implementation‘

• Time-to-inform: 5 months

• Time-to-grant 8 months

EIC Pathfinder – Evaluation Criteria

17.5 million €

EIC Accelerator Pilot

Fact: Lack of finance for breakthrough & disruptive innovators –

Start-ups, SMEs, Entrepreneurs

Solution: EC will also invest, move from grants to equity

investments (blended finance)

Currently SME Instrument

SMEI Phase 1

SMEI Phase 2

• Lump-sum 50.000 €

• TRL 6

• 20.000 € prepayment

• Cut off: 7 May 2019

5 Sept. 2019

• 500.000 – 2.5 M €

• TRL 6

• Budget: %70 (direct cost) + %25 (indirect cost)

• Prepayment: %50 of the total budget

Phase 1 grant support will

disappear after 5th September

cut-off !

– Individual SMEs with high-risk, high-growth potential

aimed at creating new markets and at technology

demonstration (TRL 6) level.

– Substantial funding for the last stages of development

- Product/Service development, trials, prototyping, validation,

demonstration an testing in real-world conditions, market conditions

– Bottom-up: all sectors, products, services, new business

models

– Grant

- €0.5 - 2.5 million (funding rate 70% of total cost of project)

– With equity option (blended finance)

- Plus up to €17.5 million

Accelerator – Built on SME Instrument

– A new development to get more engagement with private sector and

better returns for the EC

– Applicants that do not Express such consent will not be considered

for a blended finance.

– Applicants at System/Subsystem Development (TRL 7-8) may have

grant + blended finance option

– Applicants at System test, launch and operations (TRL 9) may only

have the equity option

– EC will have a ‘Special Purpose Vehicle’ (SPV) to make investments

where private sector consider risks too great

– Applicants agree to consider blended finance if evaluators conclude

that project qualifies – if no agreement, no grant and project will be

rejected

– Any income to EC from equity investment will be put back into

programme to fund further projects

Accelerator – Blended Finance Option

TRL Distribution among Instruments

Grants (TRL 6)

Blended Financing (TRL 7-8)

Private sector/EC equity

(TRL 9 Above)

FET Open – FET Proactive

Submission of Proposals

Remote Evaluation

Ranking of Proposals

Interview

Grant Agreement

Due Diligence

Equity Investment

Blended finance only

In case of blended finance option

In case of blended finance option

Accelerator – Step By Step

Due Diligence: Investigation taken before entering into an agreement or contract, Review of

product, market, customers, Assessment of accounts; debts, turnover, profits, assets,

Management team, Patents, Ownership etc. gives confidence that investments will be safe and

expectations will be realised. Investment part will be subject to due diligence by SPV team

– if this fails, no grant

– Accelerator grant-only

- 5 June 2019

– Accelerator blended finance and grant only

- 09 October 2019

- 08 January 2020

- 18 March 2020

- 19 May 2020

- 07 October 2020

Accelerator – Next Cut-Offs

– Fast go-to-market of an industry-driven,

innovative concept to grow and scale-up

– TRL 6

– Grant-only, Bottom-up

– Consortia of 3-5 from 3 EU / AC — *mandatory

industry involvement*, Up to €3 million

– Next cut-offs- 23 May 2019,

- 22 October 2019

- 19 February 2020,

- 09 June 2020,

- 27 October 2020

FTI – Fast Track to Innovation

– For SMEs EIC clients (Pathfinder and

Accelerator)

– Coaching: up to 12 days available (Phase 1 – 3

days)

– Mentoring for individual founders, CEOs and

leaders

– EIC Networking events, such as Corporate

Days (companies meet large corporations as

potential investors)

EIC – Business Acceleration Services

Address difficult societal or technological challenges through game-changing innovation

Accelerate the development of effective solutions and promote market uptake

Apply out-of-the-box, innovative thinking

Open participation across sectors and disciplines –innovators, start-ups and scale-ups, entrepreneurs, etc

EIC Horizon Prizes – Principles

SIX CHALLENGE-DRIVEN PRIZES VALUE DEADLINE

AFFORDABLE HIGH-TECH FOR HUMANITARIAN AID €5 million 2020

BLOCKCHAINS FOR SOCIAL GOOD €5 million 2019

INNOVATIVE BATTERIES FOR EVEHICLES* €10 million 2020

FUEL FROM THE SUN: ARTIFICIAL PHOTOSYNTHESIS €5 million 2021

EARLY WARNING FOR EPIDEMICS €5 million 2020

LOW-COST SPACE LAUNCH* €10 million 2020

*Open to legal entities from Member States and Associated Countries only

EIC Horizon Prizes - 2019-2021

Thank You

for your Attention

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