HORIZON 2020 - Varesefocus · exploitation and wide dissemination of the project results. Market Driven Innovation: performed during or following a research project, provides market

CONNECTING AMBITIONS


HORIZON 2020 SME INSTRUMENTS


WHO WE ARE

• Facts:

CIAOTECH, since May 2008, member of PNO Group B.V.

Present in 12 European Countries

3 Offices in Italy: Roma, Milano, Pescara

Supports SMEs, large enterprises, universities and other organisations in Technology Transfer actions and Research projects, also through the optimal usage of European and National Grants

CIAOTECH is specifically focused on R&D projects. The company is mostly composed by Engineers specialized in consultancy services on research and innovation management

PNO GROUP, THE EU LEADING CONSULTANCY FIRM IN GRANTS AND INNOVATION


OUR INNOVATION MANAGEMENT SERVICES

Innovation Place: on line service supporting organisations to achieve their strategic R&D objectives through the matching and managing of R&D projects, organisations, and grants, in searching on PNO EU and National Grant Database, being able to enter in R&D projects seeking partners, and proposing project ideas to search for partners.

Technology Intelligence: comprehensive analysis of technology state-of-the-art and trends, knowledge of who’s doing what, the most relevant stakeholders for specific research interest, benchmark with competitors’ research activities.

Market and Technology trend

Innovation concept project definition

Innovation project funding

Project R&D activities

Exploitation of innovation project results

The Innovation Path CIAOTECH Innovation Management Services

Systematic Innovation: support in defining technology innovation concepts for your products/processes, based on the application of advanced methodologies such as TRIZ and QFD, finding technologies/competences to implement the innovation, and identifying public funding opportunities that can co-finance the product/process innovation costs.

Grants Consulting: complete support in the request and management of local, national and EU grants for Research and Innovation

Research Booster: comprises a set of activities aimed at ensuring that research project reaches and exceeds the expected impacts, address the end users’ needs, and supports the correct exploitation and wide dissemination of the project results.

Market Driven Innovation: performed during or following a research project, provides market and functional analysis based on end-users’ needs, and specific exploitation actions and roadmaps.

Open Innovation Opportunities


Il Paradosso Europeo: eccellente nella ricerca – scarso nella valorizzazione – La “Valley of Death”


Horizon2020: a 3 PILLARS APPROACH

Total Budget ~ 79.000 Ml €

24,3Mld€ 17Mld€

29,5Mld€


KEY INFORMATION FROM TRAINING DAY

• SME-I is a one shot grant application, with low success rate (10%-15%) and only for SMEs

• SME-I is strongly market oriented; EC is expecting Business oriented project, NOT research projects (TRL 6 minimum)

• The Capability to implement the business plan will be a key point in evaluations

• The SME-I should be Bottom-up, but for next 2 years it will be based on topics.

• Phase 1 activities are a perfect match for Ciaotech/PNO offering


SME INSTRUMENTS

• The SME instrument will cover all fields of science, technology and innovation in a bottom-up approach within a given societal challenge or enabling industrial technology so as to leave sufficient room for all kinds of promising ideas, notably cross-sector and inter-disciplinary projects, to be funded.

• SME Instrument is an integral part of Horizon 2020

and has 7% of the overall budget

HORIZON 2020 – SME INSTRUMENT


SME INSTRUMENTS HORIZON 2020 – SME INSTRUMENT

Strategic Position


FOCUS SME INSTRUMENT HORIZON 2020 – SME INSTRUMENT


FOCUS SME INSTRUMENT HORIZON 2020 – SME INSTRUMENT

10

PHASE 1: Concept and feasibility assessment

Input: Idea/Concept in

"Business Plan I" (~ 10 pages)

Main Activities:

Feasibility of concept Risk assessment

IP regime Partner search Design study

Pilot application

Output: elaborated "Business plan II"

Lump sum: around

50.000 €

~ 6 months

PHASE 2: R&D, demonstration,

market replication

Input:

"Business plan II" +

"Description of activities under Phase2" (~ 30 pp.)

Main Activities:

Development Prototyping Testing Piloting

Miniaturisation Scaling-up

Market replication

Output: investor-ready "Business plan III"

Output based payments: 0,5 to 2,5 M€ EU funding

~ 12 to 24 months

No direct funding

PHASE 3: Commercialisation

Input: "Business plan III"

+

Opportunities:

'Quality label' for successful Phase 1 & 2

Easier access to private finance

Support via networking, training, coaching,

information, addressing i.a. IP management, knowledge

sharing, dissemination

SME window in the EU financial facilities (debt

facility and equity facility)

10-15% succ. rate 30-40% succ. rate


MAIN FEATURES

• All types of innovative SMEs (for profit) showing a strong ambition to develop, grow and internationalise can participate

• One application (Phase 1 & Phase 2) at the time

• No obligation for applicants to sequentially cover all 3 phases;

• Bottom-up approach in broad H2020 topics

• 70% funding (exceptionally 100%)



PHASE 1 (proof of concept)

• The proposal should contain an initial business plan • Main activities:

– Risk assessment, Market study, User involvement, Intellectual property management, Innovation strategy development, Partner search

• Minimum TRL: – TRL 6 – technology demonstrated in relevant environment, – TRL 7 - Demonstration projects – TRL 8 - upscaling projects – TRL 9 - market replication and introduction

• Pages limit 10 • Project duration 6 months • Lump sum €50000 ( = total eligible cost (direct and indirect) is €

71.249 with co-financing rate of 70%) • Only for SMEs, EC suggests only 1 SME per project • Output elaborated business plan



PHASE 1 (proof of concept)

• This action includes: – deliverables submission – report submission

• 1 reporting period (month 1 to the end) • no periodic report • final report (within 60 days the end of reporting period ) including

– ‘final technical report’ containing a summary with: » an overview of the results; » the conclusions on the action; » the answers to the ‘questionnaire’

– ‘final financial report’ containing an » ‘individual financial statement’ , which includes the request for payment

of the balance

– two payments: • pre-payment at the beginning (within 30 days) – about 70% (TBC) • payment of the balance at the end – 30% (TBC)

• Subcontracting is possible and encouraged



PHASE 2 (development & demonstration)

• The proposal should contain an elaborated business plan with – commercialization plan (initial stage)

• credible path to the market, demonstration of the capacity to go from the demonstration to the production phase

– specification of the outcome of the project – criteria of success

• Main activities – demonstration, testing, prototyping, piloting, scaling up, design, market replication, IP

protection and commercial exploitation, but may also include some research

• Minimum TRL same as in PHASE 1 • Pages limit 30 • Project duration 12-24 months • EU contribution €0.5-2.5mln • Indirect costs are paid as a flat rate and fixed at 25% • Only for SMEs. From 1 to 3/4 SMEs consortium • Output investor-ready business plan



PHASE 3 (go-to-market)

• Proposal should contain an investor- ready business plan • The commercialization phase will be supported indirectly through

simplified access to debt and equity financial instruments as well as various other measures, for example on IPR protection

o Debt finance

Loan finance, i.e. risk-sharing loans to companies and for innovative projects introducing new technologies

Guarantees to financial intermediaries (commercial and development banks) that provide loans to research- and innovation-driven SMEs and small mid-caps

o Equity finance

Equity, i.e. venture capital for newly created companies exploiting R&D results

No direct funding



MENTORING & COACHING

• Beneficiary of the SME instrument will be offered for free in addition to the grant with:

– Coaching and mentoring support

• up to 3 coaching days (PHASE 1)

• up to 12 coaching days (PHASE 2)

– Enterprise European Network services



VOLUMES & FUNDING

• Total budget ~2,8 B€ over 2014-2020

– PHASE 1

• ~ 5200 projects – 50k€

– PHASE 2

• ~ 1700 projects – 1.5M€ (average)

– PHASE 3


10%

88%

2%

PHASE 1

PHASE 2

PHASE 3

TOTAL BUDGET


TOPICS

Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies Budget

Mln€

Phase 1

Budget

Mln€

Phase 2

Years

Nanotechnologies, Advanced materials, Biotechnology, Advanced manufacturing and processing

NMP 25 Accelerating the industrial uptake of nanotechnologies,

advanced materials or advanced manufacturing and processing

technologies by SME’s

5,5 45,6 2014-2015

BIOTEC

5a

SME boosting biotechnology-based industrial processes driving

competitiveness and sustainability

0,8 6,2 2014-2015

Information- and Communication Technologies

ICT 37 Open disruptive Innovation Scheme: Support to a large set of

early stage high risk innovative SMEs in ICT

10 90 2014-2015

Space

SME –

SPACE-1

SME Instrument 2 17,25

2014-2015

HORIZON 2020 – SME INSTRUMENT – Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies


TOPICS

• HORIZON 2020 – SME INSTRUMENT - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES

Societal challenges Budget

Mln€

Phase 1

Budget

Mln€

Phase 2

Years

Health, demographic change and wellbeing

PHC 12 Clinical validation of biomarkers and/or diagnostic medical devices 11 111 2014-2015

Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research, the

bioeconomy

SFS 8 Resource-efficient eco-innovative food production and processing 3 26 2014-2015

BG 12 Supporting SMEs effort for the development – deployment and

market replication of innovative solutions for blue growth

1 8 2014-2015

Secure, Clean and Efficient Energy

SIE 1 Stimulating the innovative potential of SMEs for a low carbon and

efficient energy system

3 26 2014-2015

Smart, Green and Integrated Transport

IT.1 Small business innovation research for Transport 9 74,8 2014-2015

Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials

SC5-20 Boosting the potential of small businesses for eco-innovation and

a sustainable supply of raw materials

4 36

Secure Societies

DRS 17 Protection of Urban soft targets and urban critical infrastructures 1,8 14,4 2014-2015

HORIZON 2020 – SME INSTRUMENT – Societal Challenges


TIMETABLE

Submission to this first call open March 1st

Draft cut off dates (Subject to confirmation):

More information: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/index.html


PHASE 1 PHASE 2 PHASE 1 PHASE 2

2014 2015

18-03-2015 18-03-2015

18-06-2014 17-06-2015 17-06-2015

24-09-2014 9-10-2014 17-09-2015 17-09-2015

17-12-2014 17-12-2014 16-12-2015 16-12-2015

http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/index.html




TIMELINE PHASE 1 -> PHASE 2

Application Phase 1

Evaluation Proposal Phase 1

Phase 1 SME innovation Actions

Preparation Proposal Phase 2

Evaluation Proposal Phase 2

Negotiation Phase 2

2.5 MLN €


• Evaluation criteria: – Excellence (weight 1)

– Impact (weight 1.5)

– Quality and efficiency of the implementation (weight 1)

Evaluating SME instruments activities HORIZON 2020- SME INSTRUMENTS

There has to be a market

Easy to use/produce for the customer

and the firm

Technical solution possible and better than existing ones

Excellence in innovation

Commercialisation potential and economic impact

Company's potential to achieve the envisaged results


CIAOTECH OFFER – FAST FREE HIGHWAY TO INNOVATION

Ciaotech Offer gives Clients the possibility to obtain up to 2,5 mln € for developing their Innovation projects/Business without any initial economic risk

What you Risk

What you get

€ ZERO

Obtain up to 2,5Mln € while paying Ciaotech’s work only after receiving

the pre-financing from EC

IN CASE OF SUCCESS

BUSINESS PLAN and REPORTING

2.5 MLN +

€

IN CASE OF UNSUCCESS

Risk and lose nothing economically and still get our support for resubmission


HOW TO START

To gain more information on SME Instrument and Ciaotech PROCESS, please contact a Ciaotech Consultant to the following email addresses:

Marco Romeo [email protected] Roberto Russo: [email protected] Valentina Cinti: [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]



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HORIZON 2020 - Varesefocus · exploitation and wide dissemination of the project results. Market Driven Innovation: performed during or following a research project, provides market