This document outlines the agenda for an event on EU funded mobility programmes that promote innovation through people. The event will discuss programmes like Erasmus+ and COSME that allow entrepreneurs, researchers, and technical experts to gain international experience. Speakers will cover getting funding for proposals, case studies of companies that benefited from these programmes, and how the Enterprise Europe Network can help connect businesses to opportunities. Mobility programmes have helped create a shared European identity for younger generations who see benefits like easy travel and a common currency within the EU.

1. Innovation through People
EU funded mobility programmes

2. Programme
08:30 Registration & refreshments
09:00 Chair Andy Millar, Enterprise Europe Network Northern Ireland, Setting the Scene and Overview
09:30 Colin Blackburn, InternEurope, Erasmus+ The Company Perspective
10:00 Hugh Ross, Canyon Europe, Case Study
10:30 Networking Coffee Break
11:00 Audrey McKeown, EU Funding Specialist and Erasmus+ Assessor, Shaping your Proposal
11:30 Marion Jammet, Enterprise Europe Network Ireland, COSME Erasmus Young Entrepreneur
12:00 Jennifer Brennan, Irish Universities Association, Marie Skłodowska Curie
12:30 Karen Moses, The British Council, IAESTE Programme
13:00 Chair, Andy Millar Question Time
13:15 Networking Lunch

3. Innovation & People & Mobility
• Importance of:
 people in innovation – entrepreneurs and
experts
 International dimension, & EU Mobility
• € 4 schemes £

4. People in innovation
entrepreneurs
researchers
technical experts
entrepreneurs
market contacts

5. Famous Innovators

6. Famous Entrepreneurs

7. Entrepreneurial Activity
Source:Global Entrepreneurship Research Association, Annual Report 2013 London Business School

8. EU Mobility
Programmes

9. EU Free Movement of Labour

10. Mobility
CHRISTINE LAGARDE (IMF) on BBC TV:
You know where … where I see the strongest connection is
when I talk to my children - they are you know in their
mid-twenties - they feel very much French, but they feel
Europeans. Many of their friends are going on those
Erasmus programmes, moving from one country to
the other without border checking points for Europeans,
using the same currency when they are within the
Eurozone, and that’s … we regard that as a given, as a
… you know it’s granted. Well when I look at the
seventieth anniversary of D-Day, it wasn’t granted in
those days and I think we should highly value the
journey that our grandparents, parents have taken for
us, and be a bit inventive about how we build the future.

11. How EEN
can help

12. Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• Innovation is a process which involves
experts (PEOPLE) and entrepreneurs
(PEOPLE) who turn innovation into
profit (commercialisation) or stimulate
further innovation

13. Contact: EEN at Invest NI
Presentations and feedback forms will be emailed
andrew.millar@investni.com
Tel 02890 6698824