Horizon 2020 Fast Track to Innovation - Catherine Pouret
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This document provides information on the Fast Track to Innovation (FTI) Pilot, a measure under Horizon 2020 that provides funding for close-to-market innovation. The FTI Pilot has a bottom-up approach, is open to all types of participants, aims to reduce time from idea to market, and increases industry participation. It has permanent open calls with funding reviews every 6 months. Projects can receive up to 3 million euros and must include mandatory industry involvement. Evaluation focuses on impact and excellence, and funds innovation actions to help move technologies from demonstration to market launch within 3 years.
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Horizon 2020 Fast Track to Innovation - Catherine Pouret
- 1. Horizon 2020 for SMEs A recipe for success Cathy POURET - Unit A2 - SME Instrument Belfast – 20/01/2015
- 3. EASME History • One of the 6 Executive Agencies of the EU (REA / ERCEA / TEN-T EA / EACEA / EAHC) • Established in December 2003 as the Intelligent Energy Executive Agency (IEEA) • 2007-2013: EACI with Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) and Marco Polo • 01/01/2014: EACI became EASME
- 5. • Part of Horizon 2020 • COSME (Competitiveness of Enterprises and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises) • LIFE (environment and climate actions) • EMFF (European Maritime and Fisheries Fund) • Legacy of IEE (Intelligent Energy Europe) • Legacy of Eco-innovation EASME Programmes 2014-2020
- 6. Fast Track to Innovation (FTI) Pilot
- 7. • Strong challenge-based approach, allowing industry applicants* to have considerable freedom to come up with innovative solutions • Emphasis on innovation, with continuing support for R&D • Less prescriptive topics, strong emphasis on expected impact • A strategic approach, with two-year work programmes (that take into account industry concerns and changing business needs) • Focus areas bring together different technologies, along entire innovation chain • Dedicated support through various specific instruments: SME (instrument), FTI Pilot, InnovFin… Industry-friendly Features
- 8. Three Priorities of Horizon 2020 Excellent Science (ES) Industrial Leadership (IL) Societal Challenges (SC) Fast Track To Innovation (FTI)
- 9. The FTI pilot is the only fully-bottom-up measure in Horizon 2020 promoting close-to-the-market innovation activities that is open to all types of participants FTI Pilot - What is it?
- 10. Reduce time from idea to market - - last push Increase participation of industry, first-time applicants, SMEs Stimulate private sector investment in R&I FTI Pilot - What is the idea? research demo TRL6 innovation TRL9 fast track funding range € 1-3 million market launch
- 11. • Follows bottom-up logic (within SC and LEITs) • One common call, permanently open, 3 cut-offs per year • Time-to-grant 6 months • Funds innovation actions (70%), grant up to €3 mn FTI Pilot – Key Features
- 12. • Allows consortia of min. 3, max. 5 members — mandatory industry involvement • Impact criterion has higher weighting in evaluations • Budget: €200 mn for 2015/2016 (100 + 100) — ca. 100 projects with average EU contribution of €2 mn • Future of pilot (beyond 2016) only decided after full evaluation FTI Pilot – Key Features
- 13. Mandatory industry involvement can consist in the following: • … either at least 60% of the overall budget of the proposal must be allocated to consortium partner(s) from industry • … or the minimum number of industry participants must be 2 in a consortium of 3 or 4 partners, and 3 in a consortium of 5 partners Proposals shall include a business plan (market development strategy) SMEs and first-time industry applicants particularly welcome FTI Pilot – Industry Involvement
- 14. • Topic = Fast Track to Innovation Pilot (bottom-up!) • Call opening: 6/1/2015 • Planned cut-off dates (or "ranking" dates) > funding decision FTI Pilot – Planning and Implementation
- 15. • Remote evaluation • At least 4 evaluators per proposal • Balancing knowledge of industry/technology, market, finance and sectors (topics) • Not more than one evaluator from the applicant's country • No consensus meeting • Short standardised feedback • No negotiation (only duration and starting date) FTI Pilot – Evaluation process
- 16. Individual evaluation of proposals upon arrival, with particular attention for the following: • 'Impact' is evaluated first and 4 out of 5 is a must ( ~ fast development & market take-up/ wide deployment no more than 3 years after the beginning of the FTI project, business development, growth and job creation…) • 'Excellence' is evaluated second; FTI proposals pursuing technological innovation are expected to have a readiness level of 6 out of 9 (technology demonstrated in relevant environment) • Overall score not below 12 out of 15 FTI Pilot – Evaluation criteria
- 17. • Participant Portal: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/t opics/9096-ftipilot-1-2015.html • Work Programme: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/wp/2014_2015/main/h20 20-wp1415-fast-track_en.pdf FTI Pilot – Useful Information
- 18. QUESTIONS? For more information http://ec.europa.eu/easme/sme/ EASME-FTI-Helpdesk@ec.europa.eu Cathy POURET catherine.pouret@ec.europa.eu
Editor's Notes
- Staff: before 2007: 50 2013: 160 2014: 300 2020: 500
- maximum EU contribution per project is 3 Mill! Budget available will be divided equally between each cut off date
- Consortia must involve participants from Industry: Universities, research and technology organisations and further innovation actors may also participate. Actors that can play a role in the commercialisation process are encouraged to take part : Clusters, end users, industrial associations incubators investors or the public sector!!! First Time industry applicants and smeS are particularely welcomed!
- Proposals will be evaluated individually when they arrive. They will be ranked after the respective cut-off dates. The criterion 'Impact' will be evaluated first, followed by 'Excellence' and 'Implementation'. If the proposal fails to achieve the threshold for a criterion, the evaluation of the proposal will stop. The threshold for the criterion 'Impact' will be 4. The overall threshold, meaning the sum of the three individual scores, will be 12. The final consensus score of a proposal will be the average of the individual scores of the individual evaluators. The consensus report will comprise the individual reports or key extracts from them. Where appropriate10, a panel review will be organised remotely. Evaluation procedure: The procedure for setting a priority order for proposals with the same score is given in part H of the General Annexes, with the following exception: FTIPilot-1-2015 For proposals with the same score, any further prioritisation will be based on the following factors applied in the following order: value of 'Impact' criterion; size of budget allocated to SMEs; number of first-time industry applicants; number of industry participants; gender balance among the personnel named in the proposal as primarily responsible for carrying out the research and/or innovation activities.