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The 15min you should know about Eu-funding, Laura Koponen, Tekes, Pyrolyysipäivä 12.11.2014
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The 15min you should know about Eu-
funding
Dr. Laura Koponen
Tekes Green Growth Program coordination
team
12.11.2014
Green Growth: Panostusta pk-yritysten
kansainvälistymiseen H2020-
puiteohjelman avulla
12.11.2014 Laura Koponen,
Kari Herlevi
Sparrausta hankeidean kehittämiseen ja valmistelun käynnistämiseen on annetaan puhelimessa
Puhelinkeskustelun aikana.
1. Sparraamalla selvitetään idea ja sen
rahoituskelpoisuus
2. Valitaan sopiva rahoitusinstrumentti
3. Sovitaan seuraavat toimenpiteet, kuten
hakemuspohjien ja ohjeiden
toimittaminen
03-2013 DM
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Accessing Open Innovation
Networks through EU R&I
projects
Why EU funding
What is your fair share of funding and
innovations? Times are challenging – will your long term
projects survive without external funding?
What is your next big invention?
Can you afford not to innovate?
Opportunity to try radical and disruptive innovations
Possibility to work with the best partners EU-project is a way to true partnerships.
It is a way to give funding to your suppliers, partners and important
customers.
Your competitors are alredy doing R&D with EU funding
Open innovation is for real:
your competitors and peers are already there lobbying and
innovating with the best partners
The funding rates are 70% or 100% (and additional 25%
overhead on top of these)
Focus on supporting companies,
pilot lines & manufacturing
facilities
H2020 objectives
and scope
H2020 – less administration
• H2020 bureaucracy has become more lean
• Typical project cost level ~10% of the grant
value
• Best results achieved with active coordination
partners
More industry-oriented
support in H2020
• Access to new markets
• Access to high-quality capabilities and
knowledge in Europe
• Shared (investment) risks for game-changing
innovations
• Possibility to get high visibility and brand
credibility
The EU funding scheme has
changed addressing your
innovation needs
T&K Markkina
Volyymi
Valmistelu - Tekes KKS (Kv. Kasvun Suunnittelu, 50 000 e) - ELY kehittämisavustus
Tekes NIY
1 yritys
Avustus Laina
Tekesin innovaatioprojektit 1 yritys tai konsortiot
Tekesin rahoitusinstrumentit & EU
Executive Summary
1. Normal H2020 calls – Mininum three partners, Money from Brussels, Funding percent 70 or
100% + 25% overhead.
– Typical project size: 2-10Me; 5-8partners
– Possibility to build big project with many partners.
– Deadline in specified. Next in a half a years time.
– Specified topics:
2. New SME instrument 1. One partner. Money from Brussels. Three stages.
2. Deadlines every three months
3. A bit specified topic – which are broad.
3. Eurostars – Dedicated to SMEs, Money from Tekes, Minimun 2 partners. No
specified topics.
– Tekes funding rules
Technology Readiness Level & Rahoitustaso
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Basic
principles
observed
Concept
Formulized
Proof of
Concept
Validation
in lab
Technical
validation in
relevant
environment
Demonstration
in relevant
environment
Demo in
operational
environment
System
complete
and
operational
Commer-
cial
Sama rahoitusprosentti kaikille projektin osallistujille (pk,
suuri, yo…
Reasearch Market
.
70 %
SME instrument TLR 6 100 %
Kansallisen ja H2020-rahoituksen erot: • Yrityksille korkeampi rahoitus-%
• Ennakkomaksut
• Markkinaläheisemmät toimet mahdollisia
H2020 in a nutshell
How to build an EU project?
Project proposal
Partners and their
ideas
Call text
Your goals and
ideas
How to sell your
proposal to the
evaluators?
How to build the
consortium, find an
able coordinator and
arrange professional
project management?
What is the
project’s impact on
European level and
sustainability after
the project ends?
Potential calls
• SPIRE-05-2015: New adaptable catalytic reactor methodologies for Process Intensification
– Deadline 4.2.2015
• SPIRE-06-2015: Energy and resource management systems for improved efficiency in the process industries
– Deadline 4.2.2015
• WATER-1b-2015: Bridging the gap: from innovative water solutions to market replication – Deadline first stage 21.4.2015, second stage 8.9.2015
• WATER-2b-2015: Integrated approaches to food security, low-carbon energy, sustainable water management and climate change mitigation – Deadline first stage 21.4.2015, second stage 8.9.2015
• LCE-12-2015: Demonstrating advanced biofuel technologies – Deadline 5.5.2015
• LCE-14-2015: Market uptake of existing and emerging sustainable bioenergy – Deadline 5.5.2015
How to know if your idea is eligble?
• Or give me a call
The key steps to make a good EU proposal
1. Think about what you do and what you want to achieve
2. Select a project idea and call
3. Write a one-pager
– Do an internal peer-review on it
4. Contact potential partners as early as possible
– Have joint discussion & update the project idea
5. Make sure you understand IPR-issues
6. Design project structure
– Work packages, responsibilities, person month allocations, management structures
7. Prepare budget
– Check the rules of the call!
8. Allocate proposal preparation work between partners
9. Write the three sections, keeping in mind the evaluation criteria
– Scientific and Technological Excellence; Implementation; Impact
10. Review for content, eligibility rules, formats and known good practises – Consider yourself being the evaluator: Is the text understandable and easy to read?
11. Submit proposal
– At least one week before deadline
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The new SME instrument
Background
• Are you a highly innovative, ambitious and
passionate small- or medium-sized business with
global ambitions? Are you looking for excellent
business resources and mentorship - and
substantial funding wouldn’t hurt either?
• As part of the Horizon 2020 programme, the European
Commission is hand-picking potentially disruptive
businesses to invest and support as part of the SME
Instrument. Your business could receive up to €2.5
million in funding, and world-class business support
and mentorship.
Phase 1: Concept and feasibility assessment
Phase 2: R&D, demonstration,
market replication
Application: Idea/Concept:
"Business Plan 1" (~ 10 pages) 10% budget
Activities:
Feasibility of concept Risk assessment
IP regime Partner search Design study
Pilot application etc.
Output: elaborated "Business plan 2"
Application: "Business plan 2" plus
description of activities under Phase
2 (~ 30 pages) 88% budget
Activities: Development,
prototyping, testing, piloting,
miniaturisation, scaling-up, market
replication.
Output: "investor-ready Business plan 3"
Lump sum: 50.000 €
~ 6 months
No direct funding
Phase 3: Commercialisation
0,5-2,5 (5) M€ EC funding – 70% of costs eligible
~ 12 to 24 months
Promote instrument as quality label for
successful projects
Facilitate access to private finance
Support via networking , training, information,
addressing i.a. IP management,
knowledge sharing, dissemination
SME window in the EU financial facilities (debt
facility and equity facility)
Possible connection to PCP and PPI
5-10% success 30-50% success
Phase 3 = 2% budget
IDEA business coaching throughout the project MARKET
Topics – your project idea has to fit under one of
these – more info on bolded ones follows
Identifier Topic
BG-12-2014 Supporting SMEs efforts for the development - deployment and market replication of innovative
solutions for blue growth
BIOTEC-5a-2014 SME boosting biotechnology-based industrial processes driving competitiveness and
sustainability
DRS-17-2014 Critical infrastructure protection topic 7: SME instrument topic: “Protection of Urban soft targets
and urban critical infrastructures”
ICT-37-2014 Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
IT-1-2014 Small business innovation research for Transport
NMP-25-2014 Accelerating the uptake of nanotechnologies, advanced materials or advanced manufacturing
and processing technologies by SMEs
PHC-12-2014 Clinical validation of biomarkers and/or diagnostic medical devices
SC5-20-2014 Boosting the potential of small businesses for eco-innovation and a sustainable supply
of raw materials
SFS-08-2014 Resource-efficient eco-innovative food production and processing
SIE-01-2014 Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for a low carbon energy system
Space-SME-2014-2 SME Instrument
Cash flow for Phase 1
• The total eligible cost for a Phase 1 project if fixed at €71 249. With the co-
financing rate of 70%, the amount of the grant is established at €50 000.
• For Phase 1, there will be an advance payment of 40% of the lump sum of €50
000. However, the guarantee fund will retain 5% of the total amount of the grant.
• The final payment 65% will be paid within 90 days after delivering the final report
Advance
payment
Final
payment Project length 6 months
You can apply for the funding four times a year
– next cut off dates are
Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 1 Phase 2
The calls for
proposals are
continuously
open but
there are
several cut-off
dates per
year:
18/06/2014
24/09/2014
17/12/2014
09/10/2014
17/12/2014
18/03/2015
17/06/2015
17/09/2015
16/12/2015
18/03/2015
17/06/2015
17/09/2015
16/12/2015
• Funding percentage is 70% + 25% for overheads
• The project is cash flow positive in the beginning as part of the grant is paid in the beginning of the project
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