SMEs relative Actions

Overview of financing opportunities for SMEs

Valerio Abbadessa - ENEA

Workshop – IGLOBruxelles 08.02.2010

Research-Performing SMEs

Research-Acquiring SMEs

Up-stream research

Top-down research

Type of research: networking,

fundamental, pre-competitive…

Long term Medium term Short term

…….7PQ IDEAS (EuropeanRes. Council)

To develop infrastructures, new knowledge / technologies

To solve societal (technological)

problem

Networking, (COST, NATO, LIFE+, ESF... )

7 PQ (PEOPLE)

Bottom up

JTIs/ PPPs

7 PQ including Capacities / CIP

EUREKA(Eurostars..),

ERANET (Cornet, Eurotrans-Bio…)

KNOWLEDGE

Bottom up

Bottom up

Top down

Bottom up

Top down

Bottom up

MARKET

Closer to applications

Role of partnership

University driven / Institute driven –industry guided / Industry driven & executed

ROLE OF STRATEGIC ALLIANCES / INFRASTRUCTURE / CONVERGING TECHNOLOGY

Closer time to market

Size of cooperation / EU level

Top Down vs Bottom-up

CooperationCollaborative Research

Health

Food, Agriculture, Fisheries and Biotechnology

ICT

Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies,

Materials & Production

Energy

Environment (including climate change)

Trasport (including aeronautics)

Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities

Space

IDEASFrontier research

PEOPLEHuman potential

CAPACITIESResearch capacities

JRC (non-nuclear)

European Research Council

Initial Training

Life-long training

Industry-Academia

International Dimension

Specific Actions

Research Infrastructures

Research for the benefit of SMEs

Regions of Knowledge

Research Potential

Science in society

Support to the coherent development of research policies

International Cooperation

Security

Top Down

Bottom-Up

http://ec.europa.eu/cip/index_en.htm

To support innovation activities (including eco-innovation), provides better access to finance and delivers business support services in Europe

Entrepreneurship& Innovation

(EIP)

~2,170 M€(incl € 430 eco-

innovation)

ICT PolicySupport

Programme (ICT PSP)

~730 M€

Intelligent Energy

Europe (IEE)

~730 M€

Budget: about 3,6 billion Euro (2007-2013)

CIP: Competitiveness and Innovation Programme

Types of actions:

1. ERA-NET, ERA-NET Plus schemes

2. Participation of the EC to national research programmes together with MS (Art. 169 )

3. Strengthening with other intergovernmental initiatives (EUREKA)

Coordination of national research programmes

Type of activities:

- Exchange of information and best practices

- Preparation and implementation of common activities

- Financing of transnational collaborative RTD

• All sectors

CORNET II CollectiveResearch Networking

• Brings together national/regional programmes supporting collective research

• Target group: Research acquiring SME Associations, Federations….

• 21 partners from 15 countries• Budget: 2.000.000 EUR• Duration: 24 months

About 2 calls per yearNext call deadline: 31 March 2010

Participants to the 9th Call: Austria, Belgium (Flanders and Wallonia), Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Slovenia, Spain (Valencia), The Netherlands, Turkey(Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Poland, Portugal)

http://www.cornet-era.net

Country

Partner

EraSME²

• Brings together national/regional programmes

• Target group: Individual research-acquiring SMEs which need to cooperate with Research Organisations

• 17 partners from 16 countries• Budget: 2.000.000 EUR• Duration: 24 months• Small projects: 2 SMEs from 2 different

participating countries/regions and 1 RTD performer

• Large projects: 4 SMEs from 2 different participating countries/regions and 2 RTD performers

About 2 calls per yearNext call (7th) will open soon with deadline: 31 March 2010

http://www.era-sme.net/public/About_erasme

EUROTRANS-BIO

http://www.eurotransbio.net/

European network of Transnational collaborative RTD for SME’s projects in the field of BIOTECHNOLOGY

• Fostering transnational private-public consortia for the benefit of SMEs

• Target group: Research performing SME

• Partners from 12 EU Countries and Regions

• Consortium composition: 2 SMEs (often bilateral: 2 countries/regions) + sometime 1 RTD performer

• Duration: 24 months +• Average project cost: 1.7 Mio EUR

Last call (5th) closed 1 February 2010Participants to the 5th Call: Austria, Basque Country (Spain), Flanders (Belgium), Finland, France, Germany, Italy, and The Netherlands. Wallonia (Belgium), Hungary, Catalonia (Spain) and the Madrid Region

38 membershttp://www.eurekanetwork.org/

EUREKA

Which Technologies?

Which markets?

38 membriwww.eurostars-eureka.eu/

32 members

EUROSTARS

• Joint R&D programme, market-oriented research

• Target group: R&D performing SMEs

• 32 countries

• Budget: 2.000.000 EUR

• Consortium composition: 2 SMEs from different Eurostars members

• Max duration: 36 months (R2M within 2Ys)

• Average project cost: 1.5 Mio EUR

• No participant or country can have a share higher than 75% in the total project costs

About 2 calls per year

Next call deadline: 25 February 2010

Joint Technology Initiatives

Long-term PPPs

Public-Private Partnerships

1. Green cars2. Energy efficient building3. Factories of the future

JTIsIn the specific programme

“Cooperation”5 JTIs adopted: [Commission proposal / adoption by Council]

EC cont. (€)

Ant. total (€)

Industrial founding members

“Innovative Medicines Initiative” (IMI) [15.05.2007 / 20.12.2007]

1 bn >2 bn via a Federation

“Aeronautics and Air Transport” (Clean Sky) [13.06.2007 / 20.12.2007]

800 mio 1,6 bn as companies

“Embedded Computing Systems” (ARTEMIS) [15.05.2007 / 20.12.2007]

420 mio 2,7 bn with participating States

“Nanoelectronics Technologies 2020” (ENIAC) [22.06.2007 / 20.12.2007]

450 mio 3,0 bn with participating States

“Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Initiative” (FCH) [09.10.2007 / 30.05.2008]

470 mio >940 mio with RO

Total budget : 2010-2013

(M€) EU Green Car (Led by Transport)

Energy efficient Buildings (Led by

NMP)

The Factories of the future (Led

by NMP)

2010 65 60 80

2011 85 85 130

2012 115 140 160

2013 115 215 230

Total Public budget 500 (120 from ICT)* 500* 600*

Total Private budget 500 500 600

Grand total 1000 1000 1200

*budget from ICT could be increased 3,2 billion EUR

PPP: Public-Private Partnerships

Research-Performing SMEs

Up-stream research

Top-down research

Type of esearch: networking,

fundamental, pre-competitive…