Research and Innovation

Fast Track

to Innovation

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Dr Bernd Reichert

Unit "Horizon 2020: Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises" European Agency for SMEs

(EASME)

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

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

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.

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.

Horizon 2020

Horizon 2020

Deadlines:

29/04/2015 01/09/2015 01/12/2015

Similar expected for 2016

Thank you very much for your attention