why should sme’s participate in fp 7

8th SEEITA – 7th SEE ICT Forum Meeting & 7th MASIT Open Days Conference14-15 October 2010, Ohrid www.seeita.org

Why should SME’s participate in FP 7

Violeta Atanasovska

FP 7 National Coordinator

Ministry of Education and Science


WHY FP 7 ?

• EU’s largest programme for research and development

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• 50.521 bi-mil.

• Duration: 2007 - 2013


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Structure

• Cooperation – 32.413€

• Ideas – 7.510€

• People – 4.750€

• Capacities 4.097€

Фонд за развој на човечки ресурси


SME’s in Cooperation

• Participation across all thematic areas

• 15 % of total budget dedicated to SMEs -4.850 bi-million€

• Major themes identified within the European Technology Platforms (ETPs)


Ideas

Public Sector

Private Sector

Sole Criterion – ‘‘EXCELLENCE”


People’s Programme – Marie Curie Actions

• Increase mobility between public and private sector (training, joint research and staff secondments)

Academia

Partnerships

&

pathways

Industry


SME’s in Capacities

• Research for the Benefit of SME’s

• Research for SME associationsSupport to development of technological solutions of challenges common

for a great number of SMEs (e.g. adjustments to norms/standards, market challenges etc.)

- IPR to be owned by the SME associations

- Project budget 1.5 – 4 M€

- EU grant up to 75 %

- Duration 2 – 3 years

- Participants 5 – 20 (at least 3 SME associations from three countries + at least 2 RTD performers + at least 2 SMEs)


• The "Regions of Knowledge" initiative responds to a need to increase the overall capacity of regional players to foster science and technology-basedeconomic development, by better integrating research to their regional innovation strategies

• Within the framework of the Lisbon and EU2020 strategies for a performing knowledge-based economy

• To help reach the Barcelona objectives

Regions of knowledge - Policy context


Two global objectives for all European regions:

Produce research strategies that contribute

to regional economic development

Through the development of regional ‘research-driven clusters’

Associated countries are also eligible

Regions of Knowledgeobjectives

Strengthen their capacity For investing in RTD

and carryingout research activities


Research

Entity

Business

entity

(e.g. SME)

RegionalResearch–

Driven Cluster

Regional Authority

Other Actors

(e.g. TTOs, consultants)

What is a Regional Research-Driven Cluster?


Regional economic growth and competitiveness through the definition of strategies integrating research

Response to the needs of regional businesscommunities

Involvement of local authorities in setting up Joint Action Plans

Mobilisation of local, national and community funds (including SF) to implement defined regional action plans

Increase in and more effective investment in R&D Inclusion of more regions into the European

Research Area via cross-border co-operation andmutual learning

Expected general impact


One call, REGIONS-2011, targeting the transnational cooperation of

regional research driven clusters

- for a total of 18,66 M €

Participants

Consortia of at least 3 regional research-driven clusters from 3

different Member States or Associated countries

• Possible representation by one member - under conditions

• Compulsory description of the full clusters and their triple helix

structure

Coordinator : either a regional authority or a fully fledged RDC (with legal

entity)

Regions of knowledge

2011 Call for proposals


Funding scheme overview

Funding scheme: CSA –CA (coordinating action)

Duration: up to 36 months

– the JAP being finalized during the first half of the project

Community contribution: up to 3 M €

Financing rate: up to 100 % of eligible costs


• Boosting the competitiveness of transport related economy

• Support innovative capacity of European transport related

industries and business

• Promote sustainable transport in an integrated technology-led

and user friendly way

• Examples: greening of transport, development of intermodal

regional transport, urban mobility, safety or security

We favour innovative and cross-disciplinary approaches !

Regions of knowledge

WP 2011 thematic priorities


Why should SME’s participate in FP 7

• Consider FP7 funding as additional money• Commercial risks are reduced• Increased turnover and profitability• Enhanced productivity and market share• International cooperation – establishing new contacts and partnerships

(research business with foreign institutions and firms) – future economical benefits

• Access to new markets• Contribution to a marketable technology-benefiting from it, exploitation

of the results (more patents)• Long term perspectives –innovative approach of the SMEs participating in

FPs will be stronger• Successful FP participation can lead to stronger competitiveness


Statistics

• RM participates in all thematic priorities

• Particular success in ICT – 7 mainlist proposals + 5 contracted projects


Thank you for your attention

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