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Opportunities to Work With Industry in Horizon 2020
Dr Ailidh WoodcockEuropean Advisor, UK Research Office
[email protected] February 2017
University of Sheffield
Agenda
Start End Session10:00 10:10 Introduction from John Derrick10:10 11:20 Overview of UKRO, Introduction to Horizon 2020, Brexit and
Future Programming for H2020/FP911:20 11:30 Break11:30 12:10 Building Consortia and Networks 12:10 12:50 Lunch12:50 13:30 Expectations around impact in H202013:30 14:20 How to Involve Industry Partners in Proposals 14:20 14:30 Break14:30 16:00 Surgery Sessions 16:00 - END
• UK Research Office • Engaging with Industry – research projects
– Actions– FET (Pillar One)– Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies (Pillar Two)
• ICT• NMPB
– Societal Challenges (Pillar Three)– Joint Technology Initiatives
• Engaging with Industry – secondments– Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
• Engaging with Industry – subcontracting– SME Instrument
Agenda
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Horizon 2020 Research funding opportunities to work with industry
Horizon 2020 structure
Excellent Science
European Research Council (ERC)
Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Research Infrastructures
Industrial Leadership
Leadership in Enabling and
Industrial Technologies (LEIT) - ICT, NMBP, Space
Access to Risk Finance
Innovation in SMEs
Societal Challenges
Health and Wellbeing
Food security
Transport
Energy
Climate action
Societies
Security
Widening Participation; Science with and for Society, Mainstreaming of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) and ICT, Fast Track to Innovation
European Institute of Innovation and
Technology (EIT)EURATOM Joint Research Centre
(JRC)
Engaging with IndustryResearch Project
Research & Innovation Actions/Innovation Actions
‘Traditional’ multi-national, multi-partner collaborative projects. (min. 3 beneficiaries in 3 different MS/AC)
Coordination and Support Actions
‘Traditional’ multi-national, multi-partner support actions
SME Instrument SMEs only – research can be subcontracted to HEIsFast track to innovation instrument
Pilot in 2015. No more than 5 partners, bottom-up, collaborative
ERA-NET CofundResearch programmes run by network of national funders in specific field part funded by EU from Horizon 2020. Issue research calls on their own funding regimes
Prizes All or nothing specific competitive calls – content varies
PCP: Pre-contractual procurement
Public sector buys R&D to steer development of solutions to its needs
PPI: Public procurement of innovative solutions
Public sector acts as launching customer / early adopter / first buyer for innovative products and services
Types of Action
plus ERC frontier research actionsand training and mobility actions
Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
FET “shall support collaborative research in order to extend Europe's capacity for advanced and paradigm-changing innovation. It shall foster scientific collaboration across disciplines on radically new, high-risk ideas and accelerate development of the most promising emerging areas of science and technology as well as the Union-wide structuring of the corresponding scientific communities.”
(Regulation establishing Horizon 2020)
What is FET?
What is FET?
FET OpenExploring novel ideas
• Early ideas• Collaborative research
projects• Bottom-up: non-
prescriptive with regard to the nature or purpose of the envisaged technologies
FET ProactiveDeveloping topics &
communities
• Exploration and incubation
• Topical clusters of research projects
• Specific areas defined in the Work Programme
• Also: separate call to implement part of the European HPC strategy
FET FlagshipsAddressing grand
challenges
• Large-scale partnering initiatives
• Common research agendas
• Two Flagships launched: Graphene and the Human Brain Project
• Quantum Flagship in preparation
Open, light and agile Roadmap based research
• Research and Innovation Actions:– Non-prescriptive with regard to nature or purpose of technologies– Characteristics: long-term vision, break-through scientific and
technological target, novelty, foundational, high-risk, interdisciplinary (‘FET gatekeepers’)
– Expected Impact:• Initiating or consolidating a baseline of feasibility or a radically new
line of technology and its future uses by establishing the essential proofs-of-principle and their supporting scientific underpinnings
• Strengthening European thought-leadership on visionary, new and emerging technologies, beyond academic excellence
• Take-up of new research and innovation practices for making leading-edge science and technology research more open, collaborative, creative and closer to society
What is funded (Work Programme 2016/17)? – FET Open
• Coordination and Support Actions:– FET Communication– FET Exchange– FET Conference– FET Innovation Greenhouse– FET Futures– FET Exchange
• FET Innovation Launchpad (new for 2016-2017):– topic aimed at supporting further innovation-related work arising from
FET-funded projects and to support next steps towards turning them into a genuine social or economic innovation
What is funded (Work Programme 2016/17)? – FET Open
• Addresses promising directions for research on future technologies in order to build up a European critical mass of knowledge and excellence around them
• Pre-defined areas:– Future technologies for societal change: being human in a technological
world; new science for a globalised world– Biotech for better life: Intra- and inter-cell bio-technologies; bio-
electronic medicines and therapies; cognitive neuro-technologies– Disruptive information technologies: new computing paradigms and
their technologies; quantum engineering; hybrid opto-electro-mechanical devices at the nano-scale
– New technologies for energy and functional materials: ecosystem engineering; complex bottom-up construction
• Separate call dedicated to High-Performance Computing (HPC)
What is funded (Work Programme 2016/17)? – FET Proactive
• Science-driven, large-scale, multidisciplinary research initiatives, aiming to achieve transformational impacts with substantial benefits for European competitiveness and for society
• Two Flagships formed under FP7:– Graphene: to take the material graphene and related layered materials
from academic laboratories to society– Human Brain Project: to accelerate our understanding of the human
brain, make advances in defining and diagnosing brain disorders, and develop new brain-like technologies
• Work Programme provides continued support to Flagships and related initiatives
What is funded (Work Programme 2016/17)? – FET Flagships
Call 2016 Deadline 2017 Deadline Budget
FETOPEN 1 11 May 2016 17 January 201727 September 2017
€84 m (2016)€110.5 m (2017)+ €57.50 m (2018)
FETOPEN 2 11 May 2016 €3 m (2016)
FETOPEN 3 17 January 2017 €1.5 m (2017)
FETOPEN 4 29 September 2016 27 September 2017 €1.2 m (2016)€1.8 m (2017)
FETPROACT 1 12 April 2016 €80 m (2016)
FETPROACT 2 24 January 2017 €5 m (2017)
FETPROACT 3 12 April 2016 €10 m (2016)
FETHPC 1 27 September 2016 €41 m (2016)
FETHPC 2 26 September 2017 €40 m (2017)
FETHPC 3 26 September 2017 €4 m (2017)
FETFLAG 1 01 March 2016 €9 m (2016)
FET call information (indicative)
Call identifier Call closure date
No. of proposals submitted
No. of retained proposals
Success rate % (of eligible proposals)
FETPROACT-2014 01/04/2014 184 11 6.25
FETFLAG-2014 10/06/2014 5 3 75
FETOPEN-2014-2015-RIA
30/09/2014 643 24 3.76
FETOPEN-2014-2015-RIA
31/03/2015 670 11 1.66
FETOPEN-2014-2015-RIA
30/09/2015 805 11 1.38
FETOPEN-2014-CSA
30/09/2014 32 4 12.90
FETOPEN-2015-CSA
31/03/2015 21 3 16.67
FETOPEN-2015-CSA
30/09/2015 17 2 16.67
FETHPC-2014 25/11/2014 86 21 25.93
FET results 2014 - 2015
• FET in Horizon 2020: http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/h2020-section/future-and-emerging-technologies
• Strategic Research Agenda of ETP4HPC: http://www.etp4hpc.eu/strategy/strategic-research-agenda/
• Graphene Flagship: http://graphene-flagship.eu/
• Human Brain Project: https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/
More information
Horizon 2020 Pillar 2: Industrial Leadership
Industrial Leadership - Rationale
• Aim: to speed up development of technologies and innovations that will underpin tomorrow's businesses and help innovative European SMEs to grow into world-leading companies
• Promotes activities in which businesses set the agenda
• Provides major investment in key industrial technologies
• Maximise growth potential of European companies by providing adequate financing levels
• Help growth of innovative SMEs
Access to Risk Finance
Innovation in SMEs
Leadership in Enabling and Industrial
Technologies (LEIT)- ICT, KETs, Space
Leadership in Enabling and Industrial
Technologies (LEIT)
Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies (LEIT) - Introduction• Key Enabling Technologies (KETs), ICT
and Space as areas of key industrial competence determining Europe’s global competitiveness
• Emphasis on areas of research and innovation with a strong industrial dimension and where mastering new technological opportunities will enable and drive innovation
• Some features:– Involvement of Public-Private
Partnerships– Cross-cutting KETs– Contributions to solving Societal
Challenges and to Focus Areas
Access to Risk Finance
Innovation in SMEs
Leadership in Enabling and Industrial
Technologies (LEIT)- ICT, KETs, Space
• Funding opportunities for ICT span the entirety of Horizon 2020, including activities in all three pillars on Excellent Science, Industrial Leadership and the Societal Challenges*
• However, bulk of ICT activity concentrated in the Industrial Leadership Pillar, under Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies
*Note in particular ICT contributions to topics in the Work Programme parts on NMBP, SC2 (Sustainable Food Security), SC7 (Digital Security), and the cross-cutting areas (Internet of Things, Industry 2020 in the Circular Economy –Factories of the Future)
What is ICT in LEIT?
What is ICT in LEIT?
A new generation of components and
systems
Advanced Computing and Cloud Computing
Future Internet
ContentRobotics and Autonomous
Systems
ICT KETs:Micro- and
nanoelectronicsPhotonics
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Support
Responsibility and Creativity
International Cooperation
Activities
Joint Calls with Japan, Brazil, South
Korea
Other actions, including prizes
5GPPP
Big DataPPP
SPARCPPP
PhotonicsPPP
• A new generation of components and systems– Reinforcing EU stronghold positions in electronics, microsystems and
embedded systems– Broad range of system level integration from miniaturised smart
components and large area organic electronics to cyber-physical systems and systems of systems
• Advanced Computing and Cloud Computing– Design, programming and implementation of advanced low power and
customised computing as well as Cloud Computing infrastructures and services
• Future Internet– Focus on: networks (see 5G PPP industry roadmap), software
technologies, experimentation in large-scale or real-life environments, innovation (e.g. web entrepreneurship)
What is funded (Work Programme 2016/17)?
5GPPP
• Content– To foster advances along three ecosystems: data value chain (big data),
content value chain (creative, social media and convergence industries), knowledge value chain (advanced knowledge and learning technologies
• Robotics and Autonomous Systems– Technical capabilities targeted: systems development, interaction,
mechatronics and perception/navigation/cognition– Systems abilities targeted: configurability, adaptability, interaction
capability, dependability, motion capability, manipulation and grasping, perception, decisional autonomy and cognitive ability
• ICT Key Enabling Technologies– Photonics– Micro- and nanoelectronic technologies
What is funded (Work Programme 2016/17)?
Big DataPPP
SPARCPPP
PhotonicsPPP
Call 2016 Deadline 2017 Deadline Budget
ICT 37, 38, 39 19/01/2016 €2.8 m (2016)
ICT 1, 2, 3, 6, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 29, 34, 35, 36
12/04/2016 €460.7 m (2016)
ICT 4, 7, 8, 9, 19 08/11/2016 €230.5 m (2017)
ICT 5, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, 23, 25, 27, 28, 30, 31, 32, 33, 39
25/04/2017 €374 m (2017)
EUJ 1, 2, 3 19/01/2016 €7 m (2016)
EUB 1, 2 14/03/2017 €7 m (2017)
EUK 1, 2, 3 19/01/2016 €6 m (2016)
Call information (indicative)
Call identifier Call closure date
No. of proposals submitted
No. of retained
proposals
Success rate % (of eligible
proposals)EUJ-2014 10/04/2014 26 4 20.00
ICT-2014-1 23/04/2014 1646 207 12.81
ICT-2014-2 25/11/2014 83 18 22.50
ICT-2015 2015/04/14 1301 159 12.40
ECSEL-2015-1-RIA-two-stage
12/05/2015;08/09/2015
62 8 15.69
ECSEL-2015-2-IA-two-stage
12/05/2015;08/09/2015
16 5 45.45
EUB-2015 21/04/2015 42 5 13.8
ICT results 2014 & 2015
• ICT in Horizon 2020:http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/information-communication-technologies-horizon-2020
• Information on the Digital Single Market priority: ec.europa.eu/priorities/digital-single-market/
• Communication on the data-driven economy: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/communication-data-driven-economy
• Public Private Partnerships in the context of Horizon 2020:http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/area/partnerships-industry-and-member-states
More information
Nanotechnology, Advanced Materials,
Biotechnology & Advanced
Manufacturing & Processing
Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials Biotechnology & Advanced Manufacturing & Processing (NMBP)• Strong focus on industrial participation and growth of EU economy
and manufacturing base• Quantifiable impact crucial• Split between two Work Programme parts:
• Part 5.ii ‘Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Biotechnology and Advanced Manufacturing and Processes’
• Part 17 ‘Cross-cutting Activities (Focus Areas)’• Includes three public-private partnerships:
• Factories of the Future (FoF)• Energy-Efficient Buildings (EeB)• Sustainable Process Industries (SPIRE)
• New cross-cutting focus area: ‘Industry 2020 in the Circular Economy’• Calls relating to Nano & Adv. Materials for Health & Energy
NMBP: 5.ii NMPB Work ProgrammeCall 1: Energy-Efficient Buildings
• Eight topics – four in 2016, four in 2017
Call 2: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Biotechnology and Production
• Adv. Materials & Nanotech for High-Added value Products & Process Industries (3 topics 2016, 4 topics 2017)
• Green Vehicles (one topic)
• Adv. Materials & Nanotech for Healthcare (3 topics in 2016, 5 topics in 2017)
• Adv. Materials & Nanotech for Energy Applications (2 topics in 2016, 2 topics in 2017)
• Eco Design & New Sustainable Business Models (1 topic 2016, 1 topic 2017)
• Biotechnology (4 topics in 2016, 4 topics in 2017)
• Modelling for devt. of Nanotech & Adv. Materials (2 topics 2016, 1 topic 2017) • Science-based Risk Assessment & Management of NMB (2 topics 2016, 2 topics
2017) • Innovative & Responsible Government of New & Converging KETs (5 topics 2016, 3
topics 2017)
NMBP: 17 ‘Cross-cutting Activities (Focus Areas)
Call 1: Industry 2020 in the Circular Economy
• Pilots (5 topics) • NMPB funding
• Factories of the Future (10 topics) • NMPB funding
• Sustainable Process Industries (12 topics) • NMPB funding
• ICT for Factories of the Future (3 topics) • No NMPB funding
• Circular Economy (5 topics) • No NMPB funding
Call 2: Internet of Things (3 topics) • No NMPB funding
Call 3: Smart & Sustainable Cities (4 topics) • No NMPB funding
Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials Biotechnology & Advanced Manufacturing & Processing (NMBP)Funding instruments:
• RIA = 35 topics• IA = 23 topics• CSA = 18 topics• ERA-NET = 3 topics
TRL levels: • 21 topics have none• Majority (29) between 4-6• Limited number (15) between 5-7
SME Instrument topic: 2 x topics Pilots call: developing products for market in 5-7 years; building industrial value chains; reducing development risk; high TRL
NMBP: Budget (€)2016 2017
Energy-efficient Buildings 49m 54m
Factories of the Future 77m 85m
Sustainable Process Industries 74m 80m
Biotechnology 32m 48m
Pilots 32m 48m
NMP 141.26m 185.09m
CSA 11.7m 5.2m
ERA-NET 30m -
Green Vehicles 16m -
Cross-Cutting Health - 10m
Other Actions 3.7m 6.47m
TOTAL 466.74m 521.76m
988.5m
Call identifier
Call closure
date
Proposals submitted
Retainedat Stage 1
Retainedfor
funding
Stage 2 Success Rate %*
OverallSuccess Rate %*
EeB-2014 20/03/14 94 n/a 13 n/a 13.8
FoF-2014 20/03/14 243 n/a 29 n/a 11.9
SPIRE-2014 20/03/14 72 n/a 11 n/a 15.3
NMP-CSA-2014
06/05/14 234 n/a 10 n/a 4.3
NMP-PILOTS-2014
06/05/14 98 n/a 10 n/a 10.2
NMP-2014-two-stage
06/05/1407/10/14
326 60 17 28.33 5.21
NMP-GV-2014
07/10/14 23 n/a 2 n/a 8.7
LEIT-BIO-2014 12/03/1429/07/14
97 26 5 19.23 5.15
SILC-II-2014 02/09/14 11 n/a 2 n/a 18.1
NMBP results 2014 (*success rate = out of eligible proposals)
Call identifier
Call closure
date
Proposals submitted
Retainedat Stage 1
Retainedfor
funding
Stage 2 Success Rate %*
OverallSuccess Rate %*
EeB-2015 04/02/15 121 n/a 11 n/a 9.24
FoF-2015 04/02/15 346 n/a 27 n/a 7.87
SPIRE-2015 04/02/15 84 n/a 13 n/a 15.85
NMP-CSA-2015
26/03/15 16 n/a 4 n/a 26.67
NMP-ERA-NET-2015
26/03/15 2 n/a 1 n/a 50
NMP-PILOTS-2015
26/03/15 203 n/a 12 n/a 6.09
NMP-2015-two-stage
26/03/1508/09/15
104 88 19 21.51 4.07
NMP-GV-2015
07/10/14 46 n/a 4 n/a 9.52
LEIT-BIO-2015 26/03/1508/09/15
104 22 3 13.64 3.3
NMBP results 2015 (*success rate = out of eligible proposals)
NMBP: Policy context• Commission web pages on Industrial Policy ec.europa.eu/growth/industry• PPP Factories of the Future
http://ec.europa.eu/research/industrial_technologies/factories-of-the-future_en.html
• PPP Energy-Efficient Buildings http://ec.europa.eu/research/industrial_technologies/energy-efficient-buildings_en.html
• PPP Sustainable Process Industry http://ec.europa.eu/research/industrial_technologies/sustainable-process-industry_en.html
• Communication: ‘Towards a Circular Economy: A zero waste programme for Europe’ http://cor.europa.eu/en/activities/stakeholders/Documents/COM(2014)%20398%20final.pdf
• Communication: ‘European Industrial Renaissance’http://ec.europa.eu/growth/industry/policy/renaissance/index_en.htm
Societal Challenges in Horizon 2020
Food Security
(SC2)
Transport (SC4)
Health (SC1)
Societies (SC6)
Security (SC7)
Climate Action (SC5)
Energy (SC3)
Societal Challenges Rationale“Horizon 2020 reflects the policy priorities of the Europe 2020 strategy and addresses major concerns shared by citizens in Europe and elsewhere”
• Bringing together resources and knowledge across different fields, technologies and disciplines.
• Covering activities from research to market with a new focus on innovation-related activities, such as piloting, demonstration, test-beds, and support for public procurement and market uptake.
Excellent Science
European Research Council (ERC)
Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Research Infrastructures
Industrial Leadership
Leadership in Enabling and
Industrial Technologies (LEIT) - ICT, NMBP, Space
Access to Risk Finance
Innovation in SMEs
Societal Challenges
Health and Wellbeing
Food security
Transport
Energy
Climate action
Societies
Security
Health (SC1)
Climate Action (SC5)
Food Security
(SC2)
Societies (SC6)
Energy (SC3)
Security (SC7)
Transport (SC4)
Societal Challenges: Configuration• The Societal Challenges each have a separate section of the Horizon 2020 work
programme, containing background information about the challenge, as well as listing the calls and topics in that area during 2016 - 2017.
• Many of the Societal Challenges overlap, meaning that there may be topics relevant to you in numerous work programmes. Earth Observation-relevant topics, for example, can be found in both Climate Action (SC5) and Food Security (SC2) as well as in the LEIT area of Horizon 2020.
Cross-cutting activities (Focus Areas)
• New part of Work Programme for 2016-2017
• Contains three calls :• Industry in the Circular Economy - sustainably boosting economic
growth in Europe and renewing Europe’s industrial capacities in a world of finite resources (NMBP, ICT, Climate).
• Internet of Things – fostering the take up of IoT in Europe and enabling the emergence of IoT ecosystems supported by open technologies and platforms (Food, Health, ICT)
• Smart and Sustainable Cities – providing solutions to increase the overall energy & resource efficiency of cities and to mitigate & adapt to climate change (Climate, Energy)
Joint Technology Initiatives (JTIs)
What are JTIs?
• JTIs are partnerships between the Commission and the private sector (industry) in the form of public-private partnerships.
• Article 25 of the H2020 Regulation states that: “‘Horizon 2020 may be implemented through public-private partnerships where all the partners concerned commit to supporting the development and implementation of pre-competitive research and of innovation activities of strategic importance to the Union's competitiveness and industrial leadership or to addressing specific societal challenges.’
Why JTIs?
• To define common ambitious research objectives in line with Europe 2020 objectives and industry needs
• To solve problems together with industry
• To combine research and innovation elements
• To leverage private investment in R&I
• To strengthen European industrial leadership
JTIs in FP7
• Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI)• Clean Sky• Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR)• Fuel Cells and Hydrogen (FCH)• Embedded Computing Systems (ARTEMIS)• Nanoelectronics (ENIAC)
Joint Technology Initiatives
JTIs in H2020
• Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI2)• Clean Sky 2 • Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR)• Fuel Cells and Hydrogen 2 (FCH2)• Bio-based Industries (new)• Electronic Components and Systems for
European Leadership (ECSEL)• Shift2Rail (new)
7 Joint Technology Initiatives
Joint Technology Initiatives
• Implemented through Joint Undertakings with public and private membership! New legal entity is created in the process with the Commission and industry partners (+MS) being the founding members.
• Operate in fields of major European public and industrial interest, with large scale and long term goals, which no country or organisation would be able to achieve on its own.
• Lengthy process to set them up (takes years for JUs to become operational)
• Funded from the Horizon 2020 budget, but…
• unlike cPPP, JTIs launch their own calls, which are not included in the WPs.
Joint Technology Initiatives
• Led by industry, but open to new partners from universities and research institutes.
• Calls launched and managed by the Joint Undertaking.
• Same reimbursement rates as in rest of Horizon 2020 apply (although derogations are possible).
Engaging with IndustrySecondments
Operates in a ‘bottom-up’ basis
For any research and innovation ideas (basic research; market take-up)
Mobility (cross-border and cross-sector) is a key requirement
Enhance skills of people behind research and innovation
Strong participation across sectors
Dissemination and public engagement - public outreach
Gender balance – equal opportunities in the research content
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions“.. Ensure excellent and innovative research training as well as attractive career and knowledge-exchange opportunities through cross-border and cross-sector mobility of researchers to best prepare them to face current and future societal challenges.”
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
• For Early Stage Researchers
Innovative Training Networks (ITN)
• For Experienced Researchers
Individual Fellowships (IF)
• Exchange visits (secondments) of staff
Research and Support Staff Exchange (RISE)
• For regional, national, international doctoral or fellowship programmes
Co-funding of programmes (COFUND)
Engaging with IndustrySubcontracting
• “Horizon 2020 actively supports SMEs by providing both direct financial support, and indirect support to increase their innovation capacity. 'Innovation in SMEs' aims at creating a bridge between the core of the framework programme -support to research, development and innovation projects - and the creation of a favourable ecosystem for SME innovation and growth.”
Innovation in SMEs
• Call – SME Instrument and dedicated support actions– see next slide
• Call – ‘For a better innovation support in SMEs’– part of a broader action to develop the ecosystem of innovation support
to SMEs in Europe
• Other actions– e.g. European Social Innovation Competition
What is funded in (Work Programme 2016/17)?
Phase 1• Feasibility study to verify the technological/practical, as well as economic viability of an
innovation idea/concept• Lump sum of €50,000
Phase 2
• Innovation projects that address a specific challenge and demonstrate high potential in terms of company competitiveness and growth underpinned by a strategic business plan
• SMEs may subcontract work and knowledge that is essential for their innovation project• Funding rate: 70% (exceptionally 100% for projects with strong research component)
Phase 3• Support to commercialisation promotes the wider implementation of innovative solutions • Facilitating access to public and private risk capital• No direct funding
SME Instrument
Call 2016 Deadline 2017 Deadline Budget
SME Phase 1 24 February 201603 May 201607 September 201609 November 2016
15 February 201703 May 201706 September 201708 November 2017
€353.40 m (2016)€437.51 m (2017)
Up to 10 % of the annual budget will be used for phase 1 funding and at least 87% of the annual budget for phase 2 funding. See Work Programme for further details.
SME Phase 2 03 February 201614 April 201615 June 201613 October 2016
18 January 201706 April 201701 June 201718 October 2017
H2020-INNOSUP-2016- 2017
Various Various €28.20 m (2016)€25.90 m (2017)
Other actions See Work Programme for details
See Work Programme for details
€13.64 m (2016)€14.29 m (2017)
Innovation in SMEs call information (indicative)
Call identifier Call closure date
No. of proposals submitted
No. of retained
proposals
Success rate % (of eligible
proposals)SMEINST-1-2015 18/03/2015 1569 149 9.68
SMEINST-2-2015 18/03/2015 613 37 6.20
SMEINST-1-2015 17/06/2015 2029 128 6.34
SMEINST-2-2015 17/06/2015 962 44 4.65
SMEINST-1-2015 17/09/2015 1872 122 6.56
SMEINST-2-2015 17/09/2015 960 33 3.49
SMEINST-1-2015 25/11/2015 2055 175 8.60
SMEINST-2-2015 25/11/2015 1090 30 2.81
SME Instrument results 2015
• Innovation in SME in Horizon 2020: https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/h2020-section/innovation-smes
• EASME SME Instrument website: http://ec.europa.eu/easme/en/horizons-2020-sme-instrument
• Map of SME Instrument beneficiaries: https://ec.europa.eu/easme/sme-instrument-beneficiaries
Further information
Thank you for your attention
Dr Ailidh WoodcockEuropean Advisor Email: [email protected]: +32 2 286 90 56