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EU programme
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Horizon 2020
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Horizon 2020 is the biggest EU
Research and Innovation programme ever with nearly €80 billion of funding
available over 7 years (2014 to 2020) – in addition to the private investment
that this money will attract. It promises more breakthroughs, discoveries and
world-firsts by taking great ideas from the lab to the market.
Horizon 2020 is the financial
instrument implementing the Innovation Union, a Europe 2020 flagship
initiative aimed at securing Europe's global competitiveness.
Seen as a means to drive economic
growth and create jobs, Horizon 2020 has the political backing of Europe’s
leaders and the Members of the European Parliament. They agreed that research
is an investment in our future and so put it at the heart of the EU’s
blueprint for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth and jobs.
By coupling research and innovation,
Horizon 2020 is helping to achieve this with its emphasis on excellent
science, industrial leadership and tackling societal challenges. The goal is
to ensure Europe produces world-class science, removes barriers to innovation
and makes it easier for the public and private sectors to work together in
delivering innovation.
Horizon 2020 is open to everyone,
with a simple structure that reduces red tape and time so participants can
focus on what is really important. This approach makes sure new projects get
off the ground quickly – and achieve results faster.
The EU Framework Programme for
Research and Innovation will be complemented by further measures to complete
and further develop the European Research Area. These measures will aim at
breaking down barriers to create a genuine single market for knowledge,
research and innovation
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Horizon 2020 stimulates SME
participation across the whole programme, yet with a particular focus on
close-to-market support.
Horizon 2020: a new dynamic for SMEs
If research and development
activities are not translated into innovation, i.e. value creation from
novelty, SMEs cannot take profit from those activities. Great ideas need to
be picked up by users, customers and the market, before they can really
transform society.
Overall, it is expected that 20% of
the total combined budget for all Societal Challenges and the specific
objective Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies (LEITs) will go
to SMEs. This means that over EUR 8 billion in EU support for Research and
Innovation activities will find its way directly to SMEs, most of them part
of consortiums participating in EU collaborative Research and Innovation
projects.
SME instrument
In direct support, a dedicated
SME-exclusive instrument will encourage for-profit companies to put forward
their most innovative ideas with an EU dimension that can't find financing on
the market because of their high-risk character. The SME instrument targets
highly innovative SMEs showing a strong ambition to develop, grow and
internationalise, regardless of whether they are high-tech and
research-driven or non-research conducting, social or service companies.
The SME instrument will address the
financing gap in developing high-potential, but high-risk innovative ideas of
small companies and bringing them closer to the market. This has been a
widely recognised EU-wide market failure which relates to the market's
difficult relationship with uncertainty and estimating the potential value of
new technologies, new products, new resources, new firms or new
entrepreneurial capabilities.
With a budget of close to € 3 billion
over the period 2014-2020, the SME instrument is taking innovation in SMEs to
the next level, by granting tailored support to SMEs that have
ground-breaking ideas with a high market potential. It is expected that over 7500
companies will have received innovation support through the instrument when
Horizon 2020 draws to a close; in 2014-2015, the EU invested over EUR 0.5
billion of Horizon 2020 budget to support innovation-driven SMEs under the
SME instrument call, including through the funding of 278 larger development
and demonstration projects (under phase 2), which will help to turn the
Europe2020 strategy into a reality.
More on SMEs in Horizon2020
On top of this direct support to
SMEs, the Horizon 2020 specific objective Innovation in SMEs will boost the
innovation capacity of SMEs, including through the Eurostars Joint Programme
which will continue to promote transnational collaboration of R&D
performing SMEs.
Last but not least, about one third
of the Access to Risk Finance budget under Horizon 2020 – which represents
more than € 900 million – will flow to SMEs and small midcaps. This support
consists of:
A debt facility providing loans,
guarantees and other forms of debt finance to entities of all forms and
sizes, notably research and innovation-driven SMEs: InnovFin SME Guarantee.
An equity facility providing finance
for mainly early-stage investments, with a particular focus on early-stage
SMEs with the potential to carry out innovation and grow rapidly: InnovFin
SME Venture Capital.
Their aim is to support the
achievement of the R&I objectives of all sectors and policy areas crucial
for tackling societal challenges, enhancing innovation and fostering
sustainable growth. They are implemented via the European Investment Bank and
the European Investment Fund and/or other financial institutions of
comparable stature.
Search for funding opportunities
related to SMEs in the Participant Portal.
H2020 finanaced projects in Serbia
are lsted below
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People (deciding) who gets the money
in Serbia ?
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Monday, June 5, 2017
HORIZON 2020
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