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Municipality-owned Organisation
84 Municipalities
Serving the economic development ofthe Liège Province
in a nutshell,,,
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Ever-evolving product & service portfolio
Economic / Business / Specialized Parks
Company Premises / Buildings
Help to Municipalities
Support to Companies
Land Planning
cross border cluster stimulationGCS
TTC Network
+ Techno Vouchers
What’s in a name ?
GCS (Grensoverschrijdende Cluster Stimulering)is an INTERREG project aimed at co-financing cross-border innovation projects shared by min. 2 SME in the EMR
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EU&
Regions
INTERREG IVa
EMR-based innovation
projectsGCS
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cross border cluster stimulationGCS
EMR-based innovation
projects
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What’s in a name (continued)
A GCS innovation project is…
Liège-based innovating
SME Foreign(EMR-based)
innovating SME
OtherEMR-based partner(s)
Providers to the Consortium
(3 +) 18 monthsproject duration
100k to 250k €co-financing by
GCS
cross border cluster stimulationGCS
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• LIOF, lead partner(NL- based in Maastricht)
• AGIT(DE- Aachen)
• BOM(NL-Eindhoven)
• IC Limburg(BE-Hasselt)
• IC Vlaams Brabant(BE-Leuven)
• IHK(BE-Eupen-Malmedy-St.Vith)
• SPI, your project “coach”(BE-Liège)
Where? With whom?
partner 01
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cross border cluster stimulationGCSInnovation?
Right incentive to innovation @ the right time
Research ?– Industrial Research > 50 % co-financing– Experimental Development (i.e. prototyping incl.) > 40 % co-financing
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cross border cluster stimulationGCSWhich SME?
• Project partners = EU-compliant SME (self-declared)
• Large accounts and universities?
• Sectors (rough and open definition!)– Life Sciences– High-Tech (incl. ICT and Logistics)– Advanced Materials– Sustainable Energy
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cross border cluster stimulationGCSHow much?
• Total subsidies = 4.7 Mo €• Between 100k and 250k € / project
(i.e. from 12 up to 48 projects supported)• 2 calls for projects
• 1.5 Mo € from May 15, 2012• 3.2 Mo € from January 01, 2013
• Refunding on a 3-month basis(by GCS Lead Partner to Project Lead Partner)
• (Internal and external) personnel costs are eligibleas well as materials, related investments, travel costs (cfr. INTERREG guidelines)…
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cross border cluster stimulationGCSWho does what?
Project Lead GCS Coach= SPI
GCS Lead Partner
Interreg
ID innovating SME XID innovation project XCoaching SME submission X XMatching with cross-border SME
X with GCS partners
Pre-validating submission X X XSubmitting X XAssessing and validating projects
ExpertCommittee
X
Notifying results XLeading project and refunding X X
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cross border cluster stimulationGCSAssessing?
• Expert Committee (16 experts) will rank fundable projects according to…– Technological and scientific value 10%– Innovation level 20%– Market potential 40%– Euregional cooperation 15%
i.e. 2 regions = 5%; 3 = 10%; more = 15%
– Consortium contribution 15%i.e. ratio subsidy:consortium : ratio 1:1 = 0%; ratio 2:3 = 5%; ratio 3:7 = 10%; ratio 1:4 = 15%
cross border cluster stimulationGCSTiming?
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Call 02from
Jan 01, 2013
Assessment from
March 31, 2013
Project Duration= 18 months
Fast and easy Application Eligible costs (3-monthly)
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cross border cluster stimulationGCSNo-Nonsense Application Form
• Project ID (name, ID of Consortium partners)• Budget• Description (4-6 pages)
– Relevance/ problem-driven nature of project– Composition of the partnership, synergies,
technological & platform transfer– Innovative features of the project– Project planning and deliverables– Economic impact of project, 3-years business case
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cross border cluster stimulationGCS
1stCall Profiles : your turn to play… !
Number of Applications
Planned budgets Requested grant
Many projects include more than one theme !
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cross border cluster stimulationGCS
Now, can you answer this… ?
GCS is an INTERREG project. What’s in a name?
GCS is stimulating clusters. Where? With whom?
GCS is promoting innovation. What kind?
GCS is addressing SME. Which ones?
GCS is co-financing cross-border partnerships. How much?
GCS is accompanying SME from EMR. Whodunnit?
GCS is assessing innovation projects. How?
GCS was starting tomorrow. What’s the planning?
GCS no-nonsense application form. How much red tape?
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cross border cluster stimulationGCS
More info tomorrow?Get in touch with…
Patrick THONART+32 474 25 25 [email protected]
www.spi.be/fr/services/projet-gcs www.gcs-innovation.eu
Any question ?Feel free to ask now…
Thanks for your attention
