SME Instrument @finodexproject #publicfunding #myFIWAREstory

Albert Alonso aalonso@zabala.es

13/04/2016

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Support highly innovative SMEs with a clear

commercial ambition and a potential for high growth

and internationalisation

SMEs on

their own or

consortia

Broad

topics:

nearly

bottom-up

4 cut-off

dates per

year

SME Instrument

3 DIFFERENT PHASES

SME Instrument. Phase 1 3

Funding 50.000€

Proposal 10 pages (a draft of your business plan)

Score +13/15

Lenght 6 months

Activities covered:

risk assessment, market study, user involvement,

Intellectual Property (IP) management, innovation

strategy development, partner search, feasibility of

concept (this is the basis for the Phase 2 proposal).

SME Instrument. Phase 2 4

Funding 70% [€0.5M - €2M]

Proposal 30 pages (an

extended business plan)

Score +12/15

Lenght 1-2 years

Activities covered

demonstration, testing, prototyping, piloting, scaling-up,

miniaturisation, design, market replication

SME Instrument. Phase 3 5

No direct funding!

Activities covered

Indirect support measures and services as well as access

to the financial facilities. Building a community of

successful European SMEs and easing investment by VC

and big companies.

SME Instrument. What’s the best topic? 6

Besides the topic as such, check the

success rate and choose wisely.

SME Instrument. Proposal Style 7

Use graphics, tables, figures and make the

text easy-to-read

SME Instrument. Who decides? 8

- Profile of SME Instrument evaluators-

This is the kind of people you need to

convince! Make it as a pitch-deck not as a

technical description.

SME Instrument. Time dedication 9

1 Month: Phase 1 (last week for refining)

2 Months: Phase 2 (2 last weeks for

refining)

SME Instrument. Resubmission 10

Proposals get funded after several

resubmissions. Don’t give up!

SME Instrument. Dates 11

Phase 1

Phase 2

24-02-2016

03-05-2016

07-09-2016

09-11-2016

15-02-2017

03-05-2017

06-09-2017

08-11-2017

03-02-2016

14-04-2016

15-06-2016

13-10-2016

18-01-2017

06-04-2017

01-06-2017

18-10-2017

SME Instrument: Success Stories 12

Also from the FIWARE Accelerate Programme

2 out of the 3 best projects in FINODEX call 1

succeded in SME phase 1 instrument too.

SME Instrument. Final advise 13

Page 1 is not a copy

paste. Provoke emotions

in the reader! It’s a pitch.

It’s not about luck. It’s about

writing a convincing proposal out

of a good project.

Evaluate your chances. Check

the statistics, topics, etc.

Thanks!

info@finodex-project.eu

www.finodex-project.eu

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This project is co-funded by the European Union