Funding opportunity for ACQUEAU projects in Finland Presented by Tuomas Lethinen ACQUEAU Workshop on Industrial Waste Water Treatment 12 March 2015

1. Funding opportunity for
ACQUEAU projects
Tuomas Lehtinen
Acqueau Workshop 12.3.2015
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2. Focus areas of Tekes’ strategy
Market access
New business
ecosystems
Wellbeing and health
Digitalisation
Natural resources and
resource efficiency
Intangibility and
value creation
Tekes as an active and visible playmaker in selected fields
Bioeconomy
Digitalisation
renewing
business and
industry
Cleantech
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3. Natural resources and
sustainable economy
Arctic Seas
2013–2017
BEAM – Business with Impact
2015– 2019
Green Growth –
Towards a Sustainable Future
2011–2015
Green Mining
2011–2016
Groove – Growth from
Renewables 2010–2014
Tekes programmes
Vitality of People
BioIT – 2012–2014
Bits of Health 2014–2018
Innovations in Social
and Healthcare services
2008–2015
Learning Solutions
2011–2015
Skene – Games Refueled
2012–2015
Intelligent environments
5thGear 2014–2019
EVE – Electric Vehicle
Systems 2011–2015
Feelings – Intangible Value
Creation and Experienced
Value 2012–2018
Innovative Cities
2014– 2020
Industrial Internet –
Business Revolution
2014–2019
Witty City 2013–2017
Smart Procurement
2013–2016
Built Environment
2009–2014
Trial – Environment for
Cognitive Radio and Systems
Working life
Liideri – Business,
Productivity and Joy at Work
2012–2018
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4. Tekes research calls 2015
Collaborative research with enterprises
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5. Funding for innovation poject on water sector in
Finland
 ”Natural resources and resource efficiency” is one of the focus
areas of Tekes strategy
 Funding is available for challencing innovation projects
 for growth-seeking SMEs
 for international cooperation
• via individual projects and joint projects
• via Tekes programmes (Calls like ”Sustainable Growth” campaign D.L.
28.4.2015)
• via Strategic Centres for Science, Technology and Innovation
 Tekes is actively promoting international opportunities like
Horizon 2020 and EUREKA & Eurostars to Finnish companies
and universities

6. EUREKA ACQUEAU - Project type ”Joint
projects”
• The motivation of joint projects arise from companies' research and
business renewal needs.
• A joint project includes companies' own R&D projects and a parallel public
research project conducted by research organizations.
− In joint projects, companies' total costs must be at least 50% of the total
joint project volume, if company partners are SMEs (min. 3 company
partners needed)
− In joint projects, companies' total costs must be at least 70% of the total
joint project volume if company partners are large corporations
− In addition to each partner’s own project plans, a shared general level
description about the aims, tasks and results of the joint project must be
included
− strong national consortium (value chain) needed from Tekes side!
− In joint projects the applications can be submitted to Tekes at any time
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7. Tekes funding is either a grant or a loan
We cover a part of the project expenses. In order to receive Tekes funding, a
company must have the prerequisites for arranging its own financing share.
Grants
are paid every six months in phase with
realised expenses
• To SMEs, usually 35% or 50% (max.65%*)
• To large enterprises, 25%- 40% (max.50%*)
• To research organisations ,60% (max. 70%*)
*if international project (Eureka, Eurostar..)
Loans
are risk loan without collaterals; a part
of the loan can be paid in advance
• To SMEs, usually 50% or 70%
• To large enterprises, 25-35%
(piloting and demonstrations)
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8. Thank you!
Q&A
Tuomas.Lehtinen@tekes.fi
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