why should sme’s participate in fp 7
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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, 2010TRANSCRIPT
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Why should SME’s participate in FP 7
Violeta Atanasovska
FP 7 National Coordinator
Ministry of Education and Science
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WHY FP 7 ?
• EU’s largest programme for research and development
•
• 50.521 bi-mil.
• Duration: 2007 - 2013
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Structure
• Cooperation – 32.413€
• Ideas – 7.510€
• People – 4.750€
• Capacities 4.097€
Фонд за развој на човечки ресурси
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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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Ideas
Public Sector
Private Sector
Sole Criterion – ‘‘EXCELLENCE”
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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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SME’s in Capacities
• Research for the Benefit of SME’s
• Research for SME associationsSupport 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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• The "Regions of Knowledge" initiative responds to a need to increase the overall capacity of regional players to foster science and technology-basedeconomic 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
Regions of knowledge - Policy context
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Two global objectives for all European regions:
Produce research strategies that contribute
to regional economic development
Through the development of regional ‘research-driven clusters’
Associated countries are also eligible
Regions of Knowledgeobjectives
Strengthen their capacity For investing in RTD
and carryingout research activities
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Research
Entity
Business
entity
(e.g. SME)
RegionalResearch–
Driven Cluster
Regional Authority
Other Actors
(e.g. TTOs, consultants)
What is a Regional Research-Driven Cluster?
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Regional economic growth and competitiveness through the definition of strategies integrating research
Response to the needs of regional businesscommunities
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 andmutual learning
Expected general impact
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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)
Regions of knowledge
2011 Call for proposals
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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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• 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 !
Regions of knowledge
WP 2011 thematic priorities
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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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Statistics
• RM participates in all thematic priorities
• Particular success in ICT – 7 mainlist proposals + 5 contracted projects
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Thank you for your attention