SMES IN HORIZON 2020 October 18 2013
PONGRATZ CONSULTING
Agenda • SMEs and Horizon 2020 – Information Day – October 18
• Madou Auditorium (Madou Tower) • Madouplein 1, Place Madou – Brussels, Belgium
• • 9:00 – 9:30 Arrival of participants – Welcome Coffee.
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• 9:30 – 10:10 Welcome / Introduction – Horizon 2020: what’s in it for SMEs? Clara de la Torre, Director of Directorate C, Research and Innovation, DG RTD • 10:10 – 11:50 The SME Instrument under Horizon 2020 Bernd Reichert, Head of Unit, and Igor Jelinski, Policy Officer, Unit C.4 SME, DG RTD
• 11:50 – 12:30 SME Participation in Collaborative Projects: the Case of Industrial Technologies Doris Schröcker, Head of Unit, Unit G.1 Industrial Technologies, Horizontal Aspects, DG RTD
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• • 12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break.
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• 14:00 – 14:30 SME participation via the Horizon 2020 Participant Portal: a preview Peter Haertwich, Deputy Head of Unit, Unit M.2 Business Processes and Simplification, DG RTD
• 14:30 – 14:55 Access to Risk Finance for SMEs under Horizon 2020 Ignacio Puente Gonzalez, Policy Officer, Unit C.3 Financial Engineering, DG RTD • 14:55 – 15:15 Participation through Marie Sklodovska-‐Curie Actions: how to raise SME potential through EU researcher mobility Carmela Di Santo, Unit
C.3 Training and mobility of researchers; Marie Curie, DG EAC
• 15:15 – 15:45 Coffee break • 15:45 – 16:10 The Eurostars Joint Programme / 2014-‐2020 Magda de Carli, Deputy Head of Unit, Unit C.4 SME, DG RTD
• 16:10 – 16:30 Enhancing Innovation Capacity of SMEs under Horizon 2020 / Cluster animated projects for new industrial value chains Patrick De Smedt, Deputy Head of Unit, Unit D.2 SME Access to Markets, DG ENTR / Carsten Schierenbeck, Policy Officer, Unit D.5 SMEs: Clusters & Emerging Industries, DG ENTR
• 16:30 – 17:00 Final Q&A
General Comments • No deadlines for the different schemes available yet • SME Instrument: Competition will be hard • More information about the 3 stages was provided and what the different steps will aim to provide • Information about the proposal evaluation was provided • EEN presented the plans to provide coaching • Coaching will be in place for the first proposals • The role of other partners was discussed • Possibilities for SME in other priorities was presented • Access to Risk Finance, Marie Curie etc
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