the European Innovation Council in Horizon2020
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a short presentation of the European innovation council in the last three years of the Horizon 2020 European framework programme for research and innovation funding.
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- 1. Bottom-up opportunities in Horizon2020 2018 → 2020 The European Innovation Council (EIC) Emile Dupont SME & Innovation Euresearch Head Office emile.dupont@euresearch.ch
- 2. European Innovation Council The full workprogramme is here: http://ec.europa.eu/re search/participants/da ta/ref/h2020/wp/201 8-2020/main/h2020- wp1820-eic_en.pdf 10.2017 – Edupont – the EIC2
- 3. 10.2017 – Edupont – the EIC3 FET - open Fast-track to innovation (FTI) SME Instrument (SMEI) Eurostars Early stage research Market entry Single partner Large consortia Agenda
- 4. 10.2017 – Edupont – the EIC4 FET - open Fast-track to innovation (FTI) SME Instrument (SMEI) Eurostars Early stage research Market entry Single partner Large consortia Agenda
- 5. 10.2017 – Edupont – the EIC5 SME Instrument (SMEI)
- 6. Coaching and business support 10.2017 – Edupont – the EIC6 Phase 1 •€50 000 •For concept and feasibility study Phase 2 •€0.5 - €2.5 million •For demostration, market replication, R&D and product development Phase 3 •No funding and only accessible by winners of phases 1 or 2 •Coaching, networking and access to investors SME Instrument (SMEI)
- 7. 10.2017 – Edupont – the EIC7 For innovative, high- flying small or medium sized business, startups with global dimension. High-risk, high- potential SMEs. Consortia not needed. Innovation ideas that target new markets. Non-incremental innovations. Scale-up projects. Innovations that meet user and customer needs & tackle societal, technological and business challenges in a sustainable way. SME Instrument (SMEI) who what how details Full-cycle business innovation support. Three phases, including a coaching and mentoring service. Phase 1: feasibility study. Phase 2: from concept to market. Phase 3: commercialisation.
- 8. 10.2017 – Edupont – the EIC8 For innovative, high- flying small or medium sized business, startups with global dimension. High-risk, high- potential SMEs. Consortia not needed. Innovation ideas that target new markets. Non-incremental innovations. Scale-up projects. Innovations that meet user and customer needs & tackle societal, technological and business challenges in a sustainable way. SME Instrument (SMEI) who what how details Full-cycle business innovation support. Three phases, including a coaching and mentoring service. Phase 1: feasibility study. Phase 2: from concept to market. Phase 3: commercialisation.
- 9. 9 10.2017 – Edupont – the EIC SME Instrument (SMEI) details Phase 1 Feasibility Study ‘to help you get a grip on the R&D, technical feasibility and commercial potential of a ground-breaking, innovative idea & develop it into a credible business plan for scaling up’ Activities can include, for example: • Risk assessment • Market research • User involvement • Analysis of regulatory constraints • IP management • Feasibility assessment Funding: lump sum of 50k€ plus up to 3 days of business coaching. Final goal is to formulate a solid, high-potential innovation project with European or global growth- oriented strategy. The proposal should be based on an inital business plan, and the outcome is a more elaborated one. Projects last ~6 months.
- 10. 10 10.2017 – Edupont – the EIC SME Instrument (SMEI) Even more details Phase 1 Budget in € millions 2018 2019 2020 Overall indicative 479.74 552.26 600.99 Phase 1, divided equally between cut-off dates 10% 10% 10% The proposal max length is 10 pages. Evaluation is performed by 4 experts – see next slide.
- 11. 11 10.2017 – Edupont – the EIC SME Instrument (SMEI) Even more details Phase 1 Evaluation procedure: an example
- 12. 12 10.2017 – Edupont – the EIC
- 13. 13 10.2017 – Edupont – the EIC SME Instrument (SMEI) details Phase 2 From concept to market ‘to develop your business concept (TRL6) into a market-ready product, service or process aligned with your company’s growth strategy’ Activities can include, for example: • Trials • Prototyping • Validation • Demonstration//testing in real world • Market replication Funding: 70% eligible costs, 500k€ to 2.5M€ (exceptions exist), plus up to 12 days of coaching Final goal is to have a commercial product ready for market intro. Projects include activities on IP protection to ensure possibility of commercial exploitation. The proposal is based on a detailed business plan (e.g. result from ph1) and you must specify outcomes and expected impacts. Projects last ~12 to 24 months.
- 14. 14 10.2017 – Edupont – the EIC SME Instrument (SMEI) Even more details Phase 2 Budget in € millions 2018 2019 2020 Overall indicative 479.74 552.26 600.99 Phase 2, divided equally between cut-off dates 87% 87% 87% The proposal max length is 30 pages. Evaluation is performed by 4 experts – see next slide.
- 15. 15 10.2017 – Edupont – the EIC SME Instrument (SMEI) Even more details Phase 2 Evaluation procedure: step 1
- 16. 16 10.2017 – Edupont – the EIC SME Instrument (SMEI) Even more details Phase 2 Evaluation procedure: step 2 Proposals that pass all quality thresholds in step 1 will be considered for step 2. Starting w/ highest scoring & descending, above quality threshold proposals are passed to step 2 until 2x available budget reached or all above quality proposals. (actual threshold to access step 2 is therefore dynamic) All of the above applicants are invited for an interview in Brussels. No representation by third parties. Interview conducted by evaluators w/ mixture of tech, industry sector, business & finance expertise. Interview to clarify aspects of the proposal evaluated in step 1. Outcome is a mark, either ‘A’ or ‘B’. Only ‘A’ marked proposals are then proposed for funding.
- 17. 17 10.2017 – Edupont – the EIC SME Instrument (SMEI) details CommercialisationPhase 3 NO application / evaluation Automatical ‘enrollment’ for winners of SMEI phase 1 and 2, and winners of the FET open or Fast Track to Innovation projects. Offers additional EU support via a range of services offered on the EIC community platform. Support can take the form of trainings, links to investors, partnering and networking with other EIC clients and larger firms and services to reach international markets, e.g. via participation in overseas trade fair. Not necessarily subsequent to Phases 1 and 2.
- 18. 18 10.2017 – Edupont – the EIC SME Instrument (SMEI) Mentoring scheme Open for SMEs benefitting from grant funding from the SMEI, FTI or FET- open. Mentoring to individual founders, CEOs and leaders. Aimed at developing leadership skills. One-to-one meetings with an experienced entrepreneur: CEOs of firms that moved past the startup stage, on a pro-bono basis, matched via the EIC Community platform and during EIC events and other suitable occasions. Will be introduced during 2018.
- 19. 19 10.2017 – Edupont – the EIC SME Instrument (SMEI) A look in the past SME Instrument impact survey – some random (but interesting!) facts Source https://ec.europa.eu/easme/sites/easme-site/files/accelerating_innovation_in_europe_horizon_2020_smei_impact_report.pdf
- 20. 20 10.2017 – Edupont – the EIC SME Instrument (SMEI) A look in the past SME Instrument impact survey – some random (but interesting!) facts Source https://ec.europa.eu/easme/sites/easme-site/files/accelerating_innovation_in_europe_horizon_2020_smei_impact_report.pdf
- 21. 10.2017 – Edupont – the EIC21 FET - open Fast-track to innovation (FTI) SME Instrument (SMEI) Eurostars Early stage research Market entry Single partner Large consortia Agenda
- 22. 10.2017 – Edupont – the EIC22 FET - open Fast-track to innovation (FTI) SME Instrument (SMEI) Eurostars Early stage research Market entry Single partner Large consortia Agenda
- 23. 23 10.2017 – Edupont – the EIC Fast-track to innovation (FTI)
- 24. 24 10.2017 – Edupont – the EIC Fast-track to innovation (FTI) FTI provides substantial funding to • test • demonstrate • validate your innovation with users, before full commercial roll-out.
- 25. 25 10.2017 – Edupont – the EIC Fast-track to innovation (FTI) Participation of industry is mandatory. Consortia can include universities, research and technology organisation, actors with a role in commercialisation (clusters, end-users, incubators...) Interdisciplinary projects, nurturing ideas from consortia of innovators of all types and sizes. Translation of new ideas into socio-economic value, shaping new markets, turning into world-beating products, processes & services tackling societal challenges.who what how details Innovation action: 70% funding (for-profit), 100% (non-profit) of eligible costs. 3M€ max contribution (average was 2.1M€) 36 months maximum projects (average was 12-24) <5% success rate (333 average proposals per call, 15/16 winners)
- 26. 26 10.2017 – Edupont – the EIC Fast-track to innovation (FTI) Participation of industry is mandatory. Consortia can include universities, research and technology organisation, actors with a role in commercialisation (clusters, end-users, incubators...) Interdisciplinary projects, nurturing ideas from consortia of innovators of all types and sizes. Translation of new ideas into socio-economic value, shaping new markets, turning into world-beating products, processes & services tackling societal challenges.who what how details Innovation action: 70% funding (for-profit), 100% (non-profit) of eligible costs. 3M€ max contribution (average was 2.1M€) 36 months maximum projects (average was 12-24) <5% success rate (333 average proposals per call, 15/16 winners)
- 27. 27 10.2017 – Edupont – the EIC Fast-track to innovation (FTI) details • At least 60% participation from industry • Projects bringing TRL6 to TRL8 • Time to initial market take-up should be no more than 3 years from the start of the FTI • Pay attention to IP protection and ownership (especially important in consortia) • Impact in terms of competitiveness and growth of the business partners is especially important (turnover and jobs creation) • Including startups with ground-breaking ideas that could create new markets is encouraged Cutoff dates:
- 28. 28 10.2017 – Edupont – the EIC Fast-track to innovation (FTI) details Cutoff dates: i.e. Approximately 30 to 35 projects for the whole Europe per year.
- 29. 10.2017 – Edupont – the EIC29 FET - open Fast-track to innovation (FTI) SME Instrument (SMEI) Eurostars Early stage research Market entry Single partner Large consortia Agenda
- 30. 10.2017 – Edupont – the EIC30 FET - open Fast-track to innovation (FTI) SME Instrument (SMEI) Eurostars Early stage research Market entry Single partner Large consortia Agenda
- 31. 31 10.2017 – Edupont – the EIC FET - open Interdisciplinary consortia that do not shy away from exploring connections between remote disciplines to open-up new and game changing tech directions. Early exploration of future technologies. Bold exploratory enging that shatters frontiers of current thinking. Support for early-stage science&technology research for radically new future tech, by challenging current paradigms.who what how details Research and innovation action: 100% funding of eligible costs. 3M€ max contribution 36 months projects
- 32. 32 10.2017 – Edupont – the EIC FET - open Radical vision: Research to advance on the roadmap of a well- established technological paradigm, even if high- risk, will not be funded. Breakthrough technological target: Blue-sky exploratory research without a clear technological objective will not be funded. Ambitious interdisciplinary research: Projects with only low-risk incremental research will not be funded. What will not be funded
- 33. 33 10.2017 – Edupont – the EIC FET - open details More impact on excellence (60% weight) than on impact and on implementation quality & efficiency (both 20%) Evaluation max 5 months after final submission date, grant agreements max 8 months after submission Also related: FET Innovation Launchpad To turn results from FET-funded projects into genuine societal or economic innovations Short actions (less than 18 months) 100k€ budget Also for individual participants, but only after previous participation to FET actions (also in the previous horizon2020 period)
- 34. 10.2017 – Edupont – the EIC34 FET - open Fast-track to innovation (FTI) SME Instrument (SMEI) Eurostars Early stage research Market entry Single partner Large consortia Agenda
- 35. 10.2017 – Edupont – the EIC35 FET - open Fast-track to innovation (FTI) SME Instrument (SMEI) Eurostars Early stage research Market entry Single partner Large consortia Agenda
- 36. 36 10.2017 – Edupont – the EIC EIC horizon prizes aim to boost breakthrough innovation across sectors. They set an ambitious goal by 2021 latest, without saying how it should be reached or by whom. Open to innovators, academics, startups, entrepreneurs, businesses... More details by the end of the year. Goal budget Deadline Innovative batteries for eVehicles 10 M€ 4Q 2020 Fuel from the Sun: artificial Photosynthesis 5 M€ 1Q 2021 Early warning for epidemics 5 M€ 3Q 2020 Blockchains for social good 5 M€ 2Q 2019 Low-cost space launch 10 M€ 4Q 2020 Affordable High-Tech for humanitarian aid 5 M€ 1Q 2020
- 37. Summary 10.2017 – Edupont – the EIC37
- 38. 38 10.2017 – Edupont – the EIC Questions?
- 39. Open data 10.2017 – Edupont – the EIC39
- 40. Innovation prizes – expected results 10.2017 – Edupont – the EIC40 Goal Expected results Innovative batteries for eVehicles A prototype battery with fast repowering and long distance range, high recyclability, and long life cycle Fuel from the Sun: artificial Photosynthesis A number of innovative devices and systems demonstrating the used of sunlight to produce a fuel ready to be used Early warning for epidemics A reliable, cost effective and scalable early warning system prototype to forecast and monitor vector-bourne diseases, which should encompass innovative tech solutions integrating big data from different sources in Earth observation domain Blockchains for social good Pioneering decentralised solutions to global and/or local sustainability challenges, generating positive social change by making novel solutions available, ... Low-cost space launch European low cost access to space infrastructure and services solution, dedicated to light satellites Affordable High-Tech for humanitarian aid More cost-effective, more sustainable and higher-quality innovative solutions, leading to optimised use of humanitarian funding and an enhanced response to urgent needs in humanitarian aid settings
- 41. Evaluation criteria Impact Substantial demand, market size, target users or customers, market conditions and growth-rate, potential to scale-up, alignment of proposal with overall sme strategy and commercial strategy, eu and global dimension. Excellence High-risk/high-potential ideas, better and or significantly different. Current stage of development and steps planned to take this inno to market; very good understanding of both risks and opportunities related to successful market introduction. Quality of the implementation Technical and business experience of the team, including management capacity;availability of the resources required; realistic timeframe and comprehensive description of implementation. 10.2017 – Edupont – the EIC41
- 42. More ressources The EIC official webportal: https://ec.europa.eu/research/eic/index.cfm The EIC wizard: answer to a couple of questions, find the best option for you https://ec.europa.eu/research/eic/index.cfm?pg=funding 10.2017 – Edupont – the EIC42
Editor's Notes
- Thank you Charlotte for a very interesting and necessary policy and historical introduction to the EIC. Now from my side I would like to go more into details of the instruments that the council offers and how can we take advantage of them.
- Last Friday the commission approved and published the last versions of most of the WP for the last 3 years of horizon2020. The EIC has a specific and separate programme and you find it by following the link above. It’s a big document, but the commission also prepared an online guide to the EIC, that guides you through the programme by just answering to a couple of questions about you and your project idea.
- Basically we can identify four funding opportunities in the EIC. These are, starting from left, the Future and Emerging Technologies Open scheme (FET-open), the Fast Track to Innovation pilot (FTI), the SMEInstrument SMEI and the new innovation prizes.In this scheme you see already that these opportunities are complementary; some of them are aimed more at bigger consortia, and at more fundamental, early stage research, while others are mainly monobeneficiary opportunities for projects very close to the market.
- The SME instrument is without a doubt the most well known and the most used opportunity in the EIC. The SME I for the next three years is still considered by the EC as the EU champions league of innovation, however it presents a series of new characteristics and features that are worth being re-introduced in detail.
- The instrument is still structured in three phases. They represent more or less an innovation product life cycle, starting from an idea feasibility study to the marketing and commercialisation; but in any case they must not be considered as necessarily subsequential. Phase 2 can indeed be accessed without passing by phase 1, and phase 3 «instruments» can be used during phase 1 as well as during phase 2 as well as at the end of a project, following necessity.
- In general, the SMEI funds projects based on innovation ideasa that open new markets. Specifically, the ideas the commission looks for are disruptive, non-incremental innovations. At the same time, the possible impact in terms of market dimensions, growth, and specifically the project’s impact on the future of the SME, in terms of jobs creation and possibility of a scaling up, is very important in the evaluation. However, for the next three years this programme is completely bottom-up, i.e. There are no topics identified and anyone could come up with a topic idea that would be eligible. The SMEI is designed to serve very innovative small and medium sized companies, startups with global dimensiosn or ambitions. The SMEI funds specifically, as basically all instruments in the Innovation Council, high-risk, high-potential projects and ideas. Once again, the Instrument is open to individual companies, which means you do not need a consortium (but you can have one, as well as subcontracting). The SMEI offers full-cycle business support via funding, either with lump sums or cost covering. As we’ve seen before, this means that the project can be funded from the first idea & business plan up to commercialisation. We have also seen the differences in the 3 phases; all of them include the possibility of receiving coaching days and a mentoring service. Let’s go into details in the next slides, starting from the top and with phase 1.
- Phase 1 of the SME I is really a feasibility study. Basically, you have a disruptive, high-potential idea, this programme helps you get a grip on the feasibility of bringing this innovation of yours closer to the market. Activities can include research on the potential market, on customers, on the management of IP, on regulatory aspects. The project is usually based on a very rough biz plan and the output will be a well refined, elaborated biz plan. The average length of a phase 1 is 6 months and these projects are funded by the EIC with a lump sum of 50k euros, plus up to three days of business coaching, that could touch different areas of your project or your company in general, for instance coaching on customer identification, including customer segments, but also for example on pure financial aspects, or on organizational aspects within your company. Remember that in the final product, the final business plan coming out of these phase 1 projects, the European and global dimension of the project is extremely important.
- Here some more details on the phase 1 projects. There will be four cut-off dates in every one of the next three years. The budget allocated will increase every year, and all cut-off dates in the same year will have the same budget. The proposal is quite short; max length is strictly enforced at 10 pages. Evaluation is performed by 4 experts; being a bottom-up programme, the commission will ask you some keywords at submission time to identify possible areas to allocated evaluators to your project. The evaluation is discussed more in details on the next slide.
- This slide shows the two criteria that your project must respect to be ranked. Evaluation is performed, as you can see, along three main axes, impact, excellence and implementation, each one with a different weight. The first criterion is that the median over the four evaluators must be 4 or above for each one of the lines. In the example, the proposal iwll not be rankeed because the implementation median result is below 4. Then the weight takes place, and the sum of the weighted medians gives the final score of the proposal. The second criterion is that this final sum must be above 13. Projects that satisfy both criteria will be either funded, by highest score down until funds are available, or will receive the commission Seal of Excellence, that basically proves that your project is of a very high quality, but unfortunately at least for Switzerland and at least for the moment, does not automatically open access to other funding possibilities. These criteria, and the interest among this SME instrument, make it a very difficult and ambitious funding opportunity. When the SMEI was still not bottom up and divided into topics, the average European success rate was 8% for phase 1. HOWEVER...
- These criteria, and the interest among this SME instrument, make it a very difficult and ambitious funding opportunity. When the SMEI was still not bottom up and divided into topics, the average European success rate was 8% for phase 1. HOWEVER... Switzerland results show that with a good strategy the success rate is not so bad and one could have reasonable chances of winning a SMEI project. By the way, Austria, Ireland, Iceland also have pretty high and comapralbe success rate
- Let’s now dive into the details of phase 2 projects. These projects help you bring your concept, your elaborated business plan, to the market, whether you are working on a product, service, process or a mix of the three. Activities covered by phase 2 projects include typical test activities performed at or after prototyping phase (having a prototype, if you are working with products this means TRL6, is one of the requirements of phase 2 projects), up to market replication. Ideally, proposals are based on a detailed business plan such as one produced as result of a phase 1 project, and projects in this phase last around 12 to 24 months. Costs in these 24 months are covered at a 70% rate as typical to innovation projects in the framework programme, and typical projects are funded from half a mil up to 2.5 mil (with possible exceptions, I would think for example at the health domain where costs can be higher). Up to 12 days of business coaching are included in the project. In this case as well, as in phase 1, coaching is facilitated via the Enterprise Europe Network; when you win your project, you will be assigned a key account management from the enterprise europe network, that will follow your phase 1 or two project, help you choose a coach among the accreditated business coaches list of the Eu commission, and will accompany your company through the length of your project. Back to phase 2: it’s important to understand that final goal is market introduction.
- Here are more details on the budget for phase 2 calls. And as for phase 1, we will have 4 deadlines or cutoff dates peryear, but be attentive to the fact that the dates themselves are different. Having a more focused look at the budget, we can estimate for instance that in 2020 we will have 200 (min) to 800 projects funded (2.5M to 0.5M), that is around 150-200 projects funded per cutoff date.
- Now for the evaluation, this is another big change with respect to the current SMEI process. The step 1 of evaluation of phase 2 proposals is exactly the same as for phase 1 proposals. We also have the two criteria and proposals will not be ranked if not responding to the two.
- However phase 2 evaluation adds a second step with individual interviews for proposals that passed the criteria at the step 1. Starting with the highest scores, proposals will be invited to interviews in Brussels until reached twice the available budget (or until the end of criteria responding proposals out of step 1). The interview will clarify aspects of the proposal evaluated in step 1 and the outcome will only be a mark either A or B. B-marked proposals will not be proposed for funding.
- Now up to phase 3, which is a very different animal. Phase 3 is not accessible via application or proposal, it is on the contrary automatically accessed when winning a SMEI project, or a FTI or FET project. Phase 3 does not include financial help (funding), but the access to a platform of individual tailored support including trainings, access to investors, priority invitation to overseas fairs and help to access foreign markets.
- Another interesting aspect of the new SMEI is the mentoring that will be offered to all companies winning phase 1 or phase 2 projects. This is basically the availability of one-to-one meetings with experienced entrepreneurs or CEOs that can help smaller companies or startups at different lifecycle steps of their company and on their personal leadership skills.
- It is intereting at this point to have a look at the past 3 years of the SMEI. The instrument under its current form (no bottom up funding) was introduced in fact in 2014 in Europe, and at beginning of 2017 in Switzerland. The agency that manages the instrument in Brussels compiled a survey on the impact of the projects in these first years of life and these are some interesting findings.