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Suggested citation:
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This group is dedicate to European research, development and innovation; open innovation; and to building an active network of professionals who have an interested in Horizon 2020 the EU's Framework Programme for Research and Innovation.
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The scheme, administered by TCI Pathway Ltd with backing of Pera Technology, is part of the EU Horizon 2020 initiative which has committed €82 billion to furthering research and innovation in SMEs over the next 5 years.
The fund will enable individual businesses able to claim up to €3 million for new product development.
The new funding scheme is more than twice the size of the previous SME support pot and aims to see 1,000s of new products developed in Europe before 2020.
Manufacturing and engineering firms are the most likely to benefit from this new source of financial support for innovation and historically, UK businesses have been among the most successful in accessing the new product development funding – second only to Spanish firms and significantly outperforming SMEs in the EU’s two largest economies, Germany and France.
Furthermore, this new funding scheme has been developed to improve ease of access for SMEs. Unlike previous budgets, Horizon 2020 does not require SME businesses to join larger consortiums, the application process has been made simpler and the European Commission will be obliged to provide a response to funding applications within six months of submission.
In order to be applicable for the larger research and development fund businesses must demonstrate market demand and there is a feasibility study grant of €50,000 lump sum available to business for this purpose.
This level of funding is very unique and been made available to small and medium sized business for new product development purposes. The UK is in an enviable position to benefit from this EU grant opportunity fund, having overtaken the two largest economies in Europe in terms of bidding success. There is no doubt that the larger amount of funding and fewer restrictions associated with Horizon 2020 will see more businesses than ever before applying.
SMEs have been identified by the European Commission and national governments within the EU as the source of future economic growth. There are 20 million SME businesses in the EU and 4.8 million in the UK.
Please contact Principal of TCI Pathway Ltd - Safaraz Ali on 0121 7070550 or by mobile: 07974650751
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Case study written by Darragh Murphy.
Suggested citation:
Murphy, D. (2010). Case Studies in Design Policies & Programmes. TULI. SEE Library
Originally uploaded at http://www.seeplatform.eu/images/file/Case%20Study%20pdfs/TULI%20-%20SEE%20Case%20Study.pdf
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The webcast recording is now available: https://youtu.be/Uqq452lk90c
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Fast track to innovation pilot - 22 july 2014
1. EN
HORIZON 2020
WORK PROGRAMME 2014-2015
18. Fast Track to Innovation Pilot
This part is new to the Work Programme 2014-2015 and relates to the Fast Track to
Innovation action which is introduced into this work programme for the first time.
(European Commission Decision C(2014)4995 of 22 July 2014)
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Table of contents
Introduction............................................................................................................................... 3
Call — Fast Track to Innovation Pilot................................................................................... 4
FTIPilot-1-2015: Fast Track to Innovation Pilot............................................................................. 4
Budget........................................................................................................................................ 9
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Introduction
The main source of growth in Europe is the capacity to create new knowledge and to
transform new ideas into commercially attractive products, processes and services. The
European Union is determined to revitalise its economy, and this means finding better ways to
bring technological breakthroughs and service innovations quickly to the market. Scientific
and technological advances must be turned into marketable products, services and processes
faster and more fully so that Europe can face and profit from global competition.
Against this background, the Fast Track to Innovation (FTI) pilot is testing a new approach to
give the development of innovations the last push needed before their introduction to the
market. It is the only fully bottom-up measure in Horizon 2020 promoting close-to-market
innovation activities and open to all types of participants.
The FTI pilot aims to reduce the time from idea to market and to increase the participation in
Horizon 2020 of industry, SMEs and first-time industry applicants. It should stimulate private
sector investment, promote research and innovation with a focus on value creation, and
accelerate the development of innovative products, processes and services.
A particular aim of the FTI pilot is to nurture trans-disciplinary and cross-sector approaches.
All kinds of innovation actors can work together to develop sustainable innovations
addressing societal needs or areas under 'Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies'
and, at the same time, create viable business opportunities. That is why FTI projects must be
business-driven and clearly demonstrate a realistic potential for quick deployment and market
take-up of innovations.
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Call — Fast Track to Innovation Pilot
H2020-FTIPilot-2015
Proposals are invited against the following topic:
FTIPilot-1-2015: Fast Track to Innovation Pilot
Specific challenge: Innovation is fostered when new ideas can emerge and easily translate
into socio-economic value. Working together, partners with complementary backgrounds,
knowledge and skills, and in new and established value-chains, can turn these ideas into
sustainable innovative products, processes and services that both address societal challenges
and/or are highly competitive in global markets. FTI aims to accelerate this commercialisation
process by providing extended funding opportunities through an open and agile scheme
nurturing bottom-up ideas from innovative constituencies across Europe.
Scope: The FTI pilot supports projects undertaking innovation from the demonstration stage
through to market uptake, including stages such as piloting, test-beds, systems validation in
real world/working conditions, validation of business models, pre-normative research, and
standard-setting. It targets relatively mature new technologies, concepts, processes and
business models that need a last development step to reach the market and achieve wider
deployment. To this end, if a proposal involves technological innovation, the consortium must
declare that the technology or the technologies concerned are at least at Technology
Readiness Level (TRL)1
6. Projects can be interdisciplinary.
Proposals must relate to any field under the specific objective "Leadership in enabling and
industrial technologies" and/or to any of the specific objectives under the priority "Societal
challenges"2
.
Proposals should specify the intended outcome of the project and describe its key
performance indicators/success criteria.
Proposals must also include a business plan clearly describing the market potential (potential
users/customers and benefits for them; targeted European/global markets, etc.), the business
opportunities for participants, measures to enhance the probability of eventual commercial
take-up. and a credible commercialisation strategy that identifies next steps and specifies
other actors to be involved. Particular attention should be paid to IP protection and ownership
and to the possibility of commercial exploitation ('freedom to operate').
The expected impact should be clearly described in both qualitative and quantitative terms.
Factors such as time sensitivity and the international competitive situation should be
considered in the light of the technology/innovation fields and industry sectors concerned.
1
For a definition of TRL, see Part G of the General Annexes.
2
For proposals which fall under the "Secure Societies" societal challenge, an additional specific procedure
may apply (see Participant Portal – H2020 Grant Manuals – Horizontal issues – Security Issues).
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Possible impacts on sustainability or climate change, in particular, or on other cross-cutting
objectives of Horizon 20203
, should also be highlighted.
Consortia must involve participants from industry. Universities, research and technology
organisations and further innovation actors may also participate. Actors that can play a key
role in the commercialisation process are encouraged to take part, such as cluster
organisations, end-users, industrial associations, incubators, investors, or the public sector.
First-time industry applicants4
and SMEs are particularly welcome.
Expected impact:
Fast development, commercial take-up and/or wide deployment of sustainable
innovative solutions (products, processes, services, business models etc.) in enabling
and industrial technologies and/or for tackling societal challenges.
Time to initial market take-up no later than 3 years after the beginning of the FTI
project. In very well-justified cases linked to the specific characteristics of a particular
innovation field or industry sector, the time to initial market take-up could be longer.
Enhanced competitiveness and growth of business partners in the consortium,
measured in terms of turnover and job creation.
Increased industry participation, including SMEs, and more industry first-time
applicants to Horizon 2020.
Leveraging more private investment into research and/or innovation.
Where appropriate, addressing transnational value-chains and/or EU-wide or global
markets.
Type of action: Innovation actions
The conditions related to this topic are provided at the end of this call and in the General
Annexes.
3
Please see Article 14 of the Horizon 2020 Regulation:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/legal_basis/fp/h2020-eu-establact_en.pdf
4
In the context of the FTI pilot, a "first-time industry applicant" means a legal entity that is a private, for-profit
organisation that has obtained a PIC (Participant Indentification Code) for the first time, meaning that such
legal entity is for the first time registered in the Beneficiary Register during the preparation of the proposal.
See step 4 of http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/funding/
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CONDITIONS FOR THIS CALL
Opening date5
: 6 January 2015
Deadline(s)6
:
FTIPilot-1-2015 29/04/2015 01/09/2015 01/12/2015
Indicative budget7
:
2014
EUR million
2015
EUR million
FTIPilot-1-2015 - 100.00 Single Stage
The budget available will be
divided equally between each cut-
off date.
Eligibility and admissibility conditions: The conditions are described in parts B and C of the
General Annexes to the work programme, with the following exceptions:
FTIPilot-1-2015 A maximum of 5 legal entities can participate in a project. At least one of
the following minimum conditions shall be met:
either
o at least 60% of the overall budget of the proposal must be allocated to
consortium partner(s) from industry8
or
o 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.
The maximum EU contribution per project is EUR 3 million9
.
Proposals shall relate to any field under the specific objective 'Leadership
in enabling and industrial technologies' and/or to any of the specific
objectives under the priority 'Societal challenges'.
A proposal shall include a business plan.
5
The Director-General responsible for the call may publish it up to one month prior to or after the envisaged
date of opening.
6
The Director-General responsible may delay this deadline by up to two months.
7
The budget amounts for 2015 are subject to the availability of the appropriations provided for in the draft
budget for 2015 after the adoption of the budget for 2015 by the budgetary authority or if the budget is not
adopted as provided for in the system of provisional twelfths.
8
Private for-profit organisation.
9
The indicative EU contribution per project is expected to be between EUR 1 million and EUR 2 million.
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Only applications involving entities all of whom are established in the EU
Member States or countries associated to Horizon 2020 are eligible.
Evaluation criteria, scoring and threshold: The criteria, scoring and threshold are described in
part H of the General Annexes to the work programme, with the following exceptions:
FTIPilot-1-2015 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.
The full evaluation procedure is described in the relevant guide11
published on the Participant
Portal.
- Indicative timetable for evaluation and grant agreement:
Information on the outcome of the
evaluation
Indicative date for the signing of
grant agreements
FTIPilot-1-2015 Three months after the
corresponding cut-off date set out
Three months from the date of
informing applicants.
10
For example, when the individual views of the evaluators are highly divergent.
11
See: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/grants_manual/pse/h2020-guide-pse_en.pdf
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above
Consortium agreements: In line with the Rules for Participation, participants in Innovation
Actions are required to conclude a consortium agreement prior to grant agreement.
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Budget
Calls 2014 Budget
EUR million12
2015 Budget13
EUR million
Call H2020-FTIPilot-2015 _ 100.00
Of which
17.85 from 09.040201,
10.10 from 08.020201,
3.40 from 02.040201,
14.70 from 08.020301,
2.60 from 09.040301,
5.04 from 08.020302,
3.86 from 05.090301,
6.85 from 08.020303,
6.85 from 32.040301,
10.26 from 08.020304,
4.39 from 06.030301,
5.66 from 08.020305,
1.49 from 02.040301,
2.25 from 08.020306,
0.80 from 09.040302,
2.92 from 02.040302 and
0.98 from 09.040303.
Estimated total budget _ 100.00
12
The budget figures given in this table are rounded to two decimal places.
13
The budget amounts for 2015 are subject to the availability of the appropriations provided for in the draft
budget for 2015 after the adoption of the budget for 2015 by the budgetary authority or if the budget is not
adopted as provided for in the system of provisional twelfths.