Overview of EU Funding Opportunities

1. Overview of EU Funding Opportunities International Seminar 2012 University of Pardubice , 16&17 February 2012 Carolina Fernandes Innovation & Funding Manager GLE Group

2. EU Funding for R+T+D+I • Background • Why Research at EU level • EU Support Panorama

3. Background Presenter GLE Consulting Experts in : Contract management and out-sourcing; Funding solutions; Research and evaluation; Training and organisational development. EEN London FP7 Experts • BSc Engineering Sciences • MSc Industrial Engineering • Post-grad Business Development & Technology Management • Extensive experience with FP7 • R&D Funding Advisor • EC FP7 Groups

4. Why research at EU level • Pooling and leveraging resources • Pooling of resources • “Critical mass” • Inter-disciplinarity • Rising costs of R&D • “Big” science • Leverage effect on private investment • Expertise beyond national level • Improved commercial opportunities • Development of pan-European and world standards

5. Why research at EU level • Fostering human capacity and excellence in S&T • International mobility and training of researchers • Improved S&T capabilities • EU-wide competition for research grants • Better integration of European R&D • Create scientific base for pan-European policy challenges • Coordination of national programmes and policies • Efficient dissemination of research results

6. R&D – European weaknesses

7. Research: filling the gap(total expenditure on R&D as % of GDP, 2004) (EU-25 extrapolation based on R&D intensity targets put forward by Member States in their respective National Reform Programmes)

8. Nurturing the knowledge triangle S&T contributes to the Lisbon objectives: economic growth, employment creation, environmental protection, social challenges: fight poverty, improve human health and quality of life (GSM, remote working, safe roads, etc.)

9. EU Funding • The EC awards money in the form of grants in order to implement projects or activities in relation to European Union policies • Level of complexity of EU innovation programmme governance: high

11. Panorama: EU support • Support services: • European Regional Development Fund mainstream (ERDF) • Europe Innova (Cluster Alliance & Cluster Observatory) • Enterprise Europe Network • Financial tools: • JEREMIE • CIP financial instruments (Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme) • European Progress Micro-finance facility (GIF & SMEG) • Risk Sharing Finance Facility (RSFF

12. Panorama: EU support • Exchange of practices: • INTERREG • Regions of Knowledge (RoK) (FP7) • ERA-Net (European Research Area Network) (FP7) • OMC-Net (Open Method of Coordination) • RDT demonstration: • Research for SMEs (FP7) • ICT-FET (Future and emerging technologies) (FP7) • Cooperation (FP7)

13. Panorama: EU support • RDT demonstration (cont.) • ERA-Net (European Research Area Network) (FP7) • European Technology Platform (ETP) • Joint Technology Initiative (JTI) (FP7) • Joint Programming • Eurostars • COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) • IDEA European Research Council (ERC) (FP7) • KIC European Institute of Technology (EIT)

14. Panorama: EU support • Capacity building including infrastructures: • European Regional Development Fund mainstream (ERDF) • REGPOT (Regional Potential) • Research infrastructures • INTERREG • Intelligent Energy Europe • Pro Inno Europe

15. Support services: ERDF • European Regional Development Fund: • reducing economic disparities within and between MS by supporting economic regeneration and safeguarding jobs. • Funding is targeted to meet three overarching objectives: • Convergence • Regional Competitiveness • European Territorial Co-operation

16. Support services: ERDF • Target: Convergence • modernising / diversifying economic structures; • creating sustainable jobs; • stimulating economic growth; • attention to areas with specific characteristics: urban, remote, mountainous, sparsely populated and the outmost regions  

17. Support services: ERDF • Target: Regional Competitiveness • innovation and knowledge economy (research & technological development, innovation & entrepreneurship, financial engineering); • environment and risk prevention (cleaning up polluted areas, energy efficiency, clean urban public transport, risk prevention plans); • access to transport and telecommunications.

18. Support services: ERDF • Target: European Territorial Cooperation • cross-border economic and social and environmental activities; • transnational cooperation (including bilateral cooperation between maritime regions); • interregional cooperation (including networking and exchange of experiences between regional and local authorities)

19. Support services: Europe INNOVA • The European Cluster Alliance • fosters cluster cooperation at policy level by bringing together national and regional authorities and innovation agencies active in the field of clusters. It aims to jointly design better cluster policies and to raise the excellence of cluster programmes • European Cluster Observatory • provides statistical analysis and mapping of clusters across Europe and it facilitates the partnering of cluster organisations and cluster firms by acting as a fully-fledged information service.

20. Support services: EEN (CIP) • Enterprise Europe Network • a focal point network consisting of 600 organizations - where about 4000 professionals are working in over 40 countries worldwide. • Enterprise Europe Network Staff assist small business in sourcing new business & technology partners in Europe and advise them on accessing EU Funding.

21. Financial tools: JEREMIE • Joint European Resources for Micro to Medium Enterprises • offers EU MS, through their national or regional Managing Authorities, the opportunity to use part of their EU Structural Funds to finance SMEs by means of equity, loans or guarantees, through a revolving Holding Fund acting as an umbrella fund.

22. Financial tools: CIP • Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme • To improve the competitiveness of European companies facing the challenges of globalization. The programme is mainly aimed at SMEs, which will receive support for innovation activities, better access to finance and business support services.

23. Financial tools: CIP • The programme wants to encourage the usage of: • ICT • Renewable energies • and to promote energy efficiency • Consists of three programmes: • Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme (EIP) • ICT Policy support Programme (ICT PSP) • Intelligent Energy Europe (IEE)

24. Financial tools: CIP • EIP Financial Instruments • The high growth and innovative SME (GIF) • equity investment for SMEs through funds that have signed an agreement with the EIF (not CZ) • Guarantees: The SME guarantee facility (SMEG) • loan guarantees to encourage banks to make more debt finance available to SMEs, including microcredit, by reducing the banks' exposure to risk. • Entities signed with EIF

25. Financial tools: CIP • EIP (support to innovation) • EEN • Eco-Innovation • To reducing our environmental impact and making better use of resources., through developing products, techniques, services and processes that reduce CO2 emissions, use resources efficiently, promote recycling. • Strands: Materials recycling and recycling processes; Sustainable building products; Food and drink sector; Water efficiency, treatment and distribution; Greening business.

26. Financial tools: CIP • Intelligent Energy Europe Programme (IEE) • € 730 million of funds to help deliver on the ambitious climate change and energy targets that the EU has set • Examples of projects funded include: • Training on new construction techniques that can lead to 50 percent or more energy savings compared with traditional buildings; • Improving the effectiveness of support schemes for electricity generation from renewable energy sources across Europe; • Helping Europe's cities to develop more energy-efficient and cleaner transport

27. Exchange of practices: INTERREG • INTERREG • designed to stimulate cooperation between member states of the European Union on different levels. • main targets:to diminish the influence of national borders in favor of equal economic, social and cultural development of the whole territory of the European Union

28. Exchange of practices: INTERREG • INTERREG • Made up of 3 Strands: • Strand A: cross-border cooperation • cooperation between adjacent regions • Strand B: transnational cooperation • involving national, regional and local authorities • Strand C: interregional cooperation • aims to improve the effectiveness of regional development policies and instruments

29. Exchange of practices: RoK (FP7) • Regions of Knowledge • Aims to strengthen the research potential of European regions, in particular by encouraging and supporting the development, across Europe, of regional ‘research-driven clusters’, associating universities, research centres, enterprises and regional authorities • Part of FP7

30. Exchange of practices: ERA-Nets (FP7) • ERA-Net (European Research Area Network) • to develop and strengthen the coordination of national and regional research programmes through specific actions • Part of FP7- Cooperation

31. RDT Demonstrations: R4SMEs (FP7) • Research for the benefit of SMEs • Programme to help SMEs outsource research, increase their research efforts, extend their networks, better exploit research results and acquire technological know how • Part of FP7-Capacities

32. RDT Demonstrations: ICT-FET (FP7) • ICT Future & Emerging Technologies • incubator and pathfinder for new ideas and themes for long-term research in the area of ICTs. Its mission is to promote high risk research, offset by potential breakthrough with high technological or societal impact. • Part of FP7-Cooperation-ICT

33. RDT Demonstrations: Cooperation (FP7) • Cooperation Programme • supports all types of research activities carried out by different research bodies in trans-national cooperation and aims to gain or consolidate leadership in key scientific and technology areas. • Health, KBBE, ICT, NMP, Energy, Env, Transport, SSH, Space, Security • Part of FP7

34. RDT Demonstrations: ETPs • European technology platforms (ETPs) • were set up as industry-led stakeholder forums with the aim of defining medium to long-term research and technological objectives and developing roadmaps to achieve them • Individual ETPs: Energy, ICT, Bio-based economy, Production and processes and Transport

35. RDT Demonstrations: JTIs (FP7) • Joint Technology Initiatives (JTIs) • arose primarily from the work of ETPs • Industry participation through JTI JU (joint undertakings) • supports co-operative research across Europe in fields of key importance for industrial research, where there are clearly identified common technological and economic objectives

36. RDT Demonstrations: JTIs (FP7) • Individual JTIs • Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) • Embedded Computing Systems (ARTEMIS) • Aeronautics and Air Transport (Clean Sky) • Nanoelectronics Technologies 2020 (ENIAC) • Fuel Cells and Hydrogen (FCH)

37. RDT Demonstrations: Eurostars (EUREKA) • Eurostars • Managed by EUREKA (32 member countries, CZ √ • Purpose: to provide funding for market-oriented researchand development specifically with the active participation of R&D-performing SMEs • Min 2 member countries, one must be R&D SME • RTDs usually participate • Calls ≈ twice/year

38. RDT Demonstrations: COST • COST: intergovernmental framework for European Cooperation in Science and Technology, allowing the coordination of nationally-funded research on a European level • Complements EU FPs, increases thee mobility of researchers • 9 key domains: Biomedicine and Molecular Biosciences; Food and Agriculture, Forests, their Products and Services; Materials, Physics and Nanosciences; Chemistry and Molecular Sciences and Technologies; Earth System Science and Environmental Management; ICT, Transport and Urban Development; Individuals, Societies, Cultures and Health

39. RDT Demonstrations: Ideas (FP7) • IDEA European Research Council (ERC) (FP7) • ERC Grant Schemes: Funding top research leaders for Europe • 2 bottom-up grants: • ERC Starting Grants: to provide support to the independent careers of outstanding researchers. They are either located in or moving to the EU and associated countries, and are at the stage of establishing their first research team or programme, whatever their nationality. • ERC Advanced Grants: to support excellent frontier research projects by leading established researchers across the EU member states and associated countries, whatever their nationality.

40. RDT Demonstrations: KIC (EIT) • Knowledge and Innovation Communities: KIC • Grant provided by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) • KIK: composed of networks of existing businesses, research institutes and education institutions or universities which work together around innovation projects and assist or fund individual innovators and entrepreneurs, all over Europe.

41. RDT Demonstrations: KIC (EIT) • Knowledge and Innovation Communities: KIC • First three KICs (2009): • InnoEnergy (Sustainable Energy), ClimateKIC (Climate Change), ICT Labs (Information and Communication Technologies) • established in co-location centres (i.e. places where they can physically work together) in France, Germany, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Hungary, Belgium and Poland.

42. Capacity building including infrastructures • European Regional Development Fund mainstream (ERDF) • REGPOT (Regional Potential) • Research infrastructures • INTERREG • Intelligent Energy Europe • Pro Inno Europe

43. Cooperation summary