Presentation held by Ms. Violeta Atanasovska- Ministry of education and science as a part of the WINS ICT Call7 Session at the 8th SEEITA and 7th MASIT Open Days Conference, 14th-15th October, 2010

1. Why should SME’s participate in
FP 7
Violeta Atanasovska
FP 7 National Coordinator
Ministry of Education and Science
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2. WHY FP 7 ?
• EU’s largest programme for research and
development
•
• 50.521 bi-mil.
• Duration: 2007 - 2013
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3. Structure
• Cooperation – 32.413€
• Ideas – 7.510€
• People – 4.750€
• Capacities 4.097€
Фонд за развој на човечки ресурси
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4. SME’s in Cooperation
• Participation across all thematic areas
• 15 % of total budget dedicated to SMEs -
4.850 bi-million€
• Major themes identified within the European
Technology Platforms (ETPs)
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5. Ideas
Public Sector
Private Sector
Sole Criterion – ‘‘EXCELLENCE”
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6. People’s Programme – Marie Curie
Actions
• Increase mobility between public and private sector (training, joint
research and staff secondments)
Academia
Partnerships
&
pathways
Industry
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7. SME’s in Capacities
• Research for the Benefit of SME’s
• Research for SME associations
Support to development of technological solutions of challenges common
for a great number of SMEs (e.g. adjustments to norms/standards, market
challenges etc.)
- IPR to be owned by the SME associations
- Project budget 1.5 – 4 M€
- EU grant up to 75 %
- Duration 2 – 3 years
- Participants 5 – 20 (at least 3 SME associations from three countries + at
least 2 RTD performers + at least 2 SMEs)
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8. Regions of knowledge - Policy context
• The "Regions of Knowledge" initiative responds to a
need to increase the overall capacity of regional
players to foster science and technology-based
economic development, by better integrating
research to their regional innovation strategies
• Within the framework of the Lisbon and EU2020
strategies for a performing knowledge-based
economy
• To help reach the Barcelona objectives
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9. Regions of Knowledge
objectives
Two global objectives for all European regions:
Strengthen their capacity Produce research strategies
For investing in RTD that contribute
and carrying to regional economic
out research activities development
Through the development of regional ‘research-driven
clusters’
Associated countries are also eligible
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10. What is a Regional
Research-Driven Cluster?
Regional
Research Authority
Entity
Regional
Research–
Driven Cluster
Business Other Actors
entity
(e.g. TTOs,
(e.g. SME) consultants)
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11. Expected general impact
 Regional economic growth and competitiveness
through the definition of strategies integrating research
 Response to the needs of regional business
communities
 Involvement of local authorities in setting up Joint
Action Plans
 Mobilisation of local, national and community
funds (including SF) to implement defined regional
action plans
 Increase in and more effective investment in R&D
 Inclusion of more regions into the European
Research Area via cross-border co-operation and
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12. Regions of knowledge
2011 Call for proposals
One call, REGIONS-2011, targeting the transnational cooperation of
regional research driven clusters
- for a total of 18,66 M €
Participants
Consortia of at least 3 regional research-driven clusters from 3
different Member States or Associated countries
• Possible representation by one member - under conditions
• Compulsory description of the full clusters and their triple helix
structure
Coordinator : either a regional authority or a fully fledged RDC (with legal
entity)
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13. Funding scheme overview
Funding scheme: CSA –CA (coordinating action)
Duration: up to 36 months
– the JAP being finalized during the first half of the
project
Community contribution: up to 3 M €
Financing rate: up to 100 % of eligible costs
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14. Regions of knowledge
WP 2011 thematic priorities
• Boosting the competitiveness of transport related economy
• Support innovative capacity of European transport related
industries and business
• Promote sustainable transport in an integrated technology-led
and user friendly way
• Examples: greening of transport, development of intermodal
regional transport, urban mobility, safety or security
We favour innovative and cross-disciplinary approaches !
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15. Why should SME’s participate in FP 7
• Consider FP7 funding as additional money
• Commercial risks are reduced
• Increased turnover and profitability
• Enhanced productivity and market share
• International cooperation – establishing new contacts and partnerships
(research business with foreign institutions and firms) – future economical
benefits
• Access to new markets
• Contribution to a marketable technology-benefiting from it, exploitation
of the results (more patents)
• Long term perspectives –innovative approach of the SMEs participating in
FPs will be stronger
• Successful FP participation can lead to stronger competitiveness
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16. Statistics
• RM participates in all thematic priorities
• Particular success in ICT – 7 mainlist proposals
+ 5 contracted projects
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17. Thank you for your attention
Violeta.Atanasovska@mon.gov.mk
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