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

Laura.koponennen@spinverse.com

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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