EUREKA EUROSTARS 2 EUROCAROTEN Infoday 1 28 th March 2019 Davide Delaiti – Eurostars Programme Management Officer 2019 EUREKA Association
instruments Network Eurostars projects projects Cluster projects Globalstars projects > 45 countries 2019 EUREKA Association
01 02 03 04 05 Joint programme Dedicated Market-oriented Bottom-up International between EUREKA to R&D- cooperation and EU performing SMEs 3 2019 EUREKA Association
Countries Austria Germany The Netherlands Greece Bulgaria Norway 36 countries Belgium Poland Hungary Canada Iceland Portugal Croatia Ireland Romania Cyprus Israel Slovak Republic Switzerland 4 Slovenia Czech Republic Italy Turkey South Africa United Kingdom Denmark Latvia Estonia Lithuania South Korea Finland Luxembourg Spain France Malta Sweden 2019 EUREKA Association
25% EU contribution € 1.15 + = billion 75% Eurostars Eurostars total public countries budget 2014–2020 5 contribution 2019 EUREKA Association
€ 618M 41 29% estimated countries success public involved rate funding number of applications number of approved projects 3,104 899 6 number of applicants number of participants 9,845 2,865 total costs of applications total costs of applications funded € 4,4 billion € 1.3 billion 2019 EUREKA Association
SME is always Research institute the project leader 70% 14% 10% R&D-performing SMEs and SMEs 6% 7 University Large company 2019 EUREKA Association
50 % 76 % 83 % 40 % of the work of participants of SMEs have of SMEs workforce 8 done by are R&D less than 50 is dedicated to SMEs performing SMEs employees R&D activities 2019 EUREKA Association
PROCESS PRODUCT SERVICE 9 Market introduction is foreseen within 2 years after project completion 2019 EUREKA Association
01 02 03 04 average duration average project cost 10 2019 EUREKA Association
Electronics, IT and Telecoms Technology 31% Biological Sciences / Technologies Technological 29% Areas Industrial Manufacturing, Material and Transport 12% Energy Technology 7% 11 Technology for Protecting Man and the Environment 6% 2019 EUREKA Association
Medical / Health Related 33% Industrial Products / Manufacturing 13% Market Areas Computer Related 9% Energy 8% 12 Services 8% 2019 EUREKA Association
13 You need access to You have a Access skills Requires Share risks someone else’s solution for you don’t have collaboration science/technology someone else across the value chain 2019 EUREKA Association
Application Evaluation 14 Monitoring 2019 EUREKA Association
SUBMIT 5 4 Upload Complete the ANNEXES APPLICATION FORM 3 Check your eligibility! 2 REGISTRATION My Eurostars 15 CONTACT 1 your NPC Read relevant guidelines! PROJECT IDEA 2019 EUREKA Association
Evaluation Step one Completeness check Step two Eligibility check
Financial viability Expert check evaluation Step four Panel evaluation + ranking Step five Ethics review
Secured funding PRIVATE PUBLIC Funding synchronization and approval START
Project leader is an R&D- At least 2 participants performing SME from a • Autonomous entities Eurostars country • Legal entities from at least 2 Eurostars countries eligibility SMEs are in the driving seat Project duration is max. 3 years International balance Market introduction within 2 years 19 2019 EUREKA Association
Quality and • Quality of the consortium efficiency of the • Added value through co-operation • Realistic and clearly defined implementation: project management & planning basic assessment • Reasonable cost structure • Degree of innovation Excellence: • New applied knowledge innovation and R&D • Level of technical challenge • Technological achievability & risk 20 • Market size • Market access and risk Impact: • Competitive advantage market & evaluation criteria • Clear and realistic commercialisation commercialisation plans • Time to market
ON LEVEL Database of 3 experts 3 evaluation Application experts criteria assessment SIMULTANEOUSLY ON LEVEL 21 National Applications Financial Public funding funding bodies financial viability viability (NFB) check assessment 2019 EUREKA Association
Expert application Ranking list assessment Rank Project Criteria Criteria Criteria Total Criteria Treshold 1 2 3 1 9252 1 MAX 200 2 9856 2 MAX 200 Application form … … 3 MAX 200 185 8954 178 90 135 403 MAX 600 NFBs 186 9899 120 122 121 363 Financial viability assessment 22 187 9134 121 95 127 343 … … • Only projects rated above the quality thresholds are recommended for funding • The funding of projects is following the ranking list until national budget exhaustion • The funding of partners is based on the national funding rules 2019 EUREKA Association
R&D SME SME PROJECT 23 University Large company 2019 EUREKA Association
Ethics review Consideration for Each project Verifies the respect all Eurostars application must: of ethical principles projects on the and legislation Identify and describe any potential ethical issues ranking list Detail how they plan to address them Non-EU countries Human embryos & foetuses Environment, health & safety Human beings Dual use Human cells or tissues Misuse and security Personal data Animals 2019 EUREKA Association
Ethics clearance Conditional clearance The project proposal does not raise The ethics report will list 'ethics ethics issues or the ethics issues requirements' which become have been properly addressed contractual obligations. They may include: • supplying further information/ documents VERY LIKELY LESS LIKELY • adjusting methodology so as to comply with ethical principles and relevant legislation • an ethics check No ethics clearance • appointing an independent ethics 25 advisor or ethics board (possibly When a project proposal shows with a task to report on major ethical flaws, it will not be compliance with ethics given ethics clearance, meaning requirements) that the proposal may not eligible for funding and will be rejected 2019 EUREKA Association
Week 14 Week 19 Cut-off date FINANCIAL VIABILITY = 7 weeks = FINALISATION OPENING OF CALL OF FUNDING AGREEMENT ELIGIBILITY EXPERT IEP Communication CHECK EVALUATION EVALUATION of funding results 1 1 1 = 3 weeks \ = 4 weeks \ = 4 weeks \ = 5 weeks \ = week \ = week \ = week \ Communication of evalution results 26 Endorsement of HLG IEP ranking meeting 2019 EUREKA Association
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Build up a « win-win » cooperation Allow time for necessary Show complementarities and Demonstrate each party’s preparation (partner search, added value of trans-national management, scientific and project proposal, consortium partnership during and after the technical skills as well as its agreement … ) project available financial resources for the project In austerity, tax payers Demonstrate clearly money is a scarce why the projects resource should be financed Demonstrate the fact that you Define success indicators for Highlight the risks and the strategic have good financial health and technological performance as well character of the project in terms of have considered all of your as the commercial and financial expected commercial and financial options. targets to achieve impact If you are too risky, you might not Is it value for money? be able to access support. 2019 EUREKA Association
Point out the innovative nature of the proposal submitted Who are you? Describe the benefits of this Define a methodical approach Present new industrial partnership, the added value that each in line with partnership, budget applications and their impact organisation brings? and time limit set for the on the industry sector and Focus on the project methodology completion of the project and relevant markets (objectives, means, results) the marketing of its results Appropriate and realistic cost breakdown Analyse the risks. How will you mitigate against them? Don’t forget your market Don’t allow yourself to (it sounds strange, but be surprised by people do) anything Product plans, exploitation plans, commercialisation strategy. Promote the key elements the Do your homework Analysis and comparison with state of the evaluators are looking for and ask art. an objective party to read it Speak to your National Project Barriers to market entry? Competitive Coordinator (NPC) advantages? Proof read it – this is the cheapest Realistic market share? Will you actually way of making it better. make ROI? Or how to protect it – Good IPR analysis/ 2019 EUREKA Association strategies are rare
Cut-Off 12 September 2019 Cut-Off 1 to Cut-Off 11 Cut-Off 10 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 19 20 21 18 30 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 2 3 4 5 1 322 Applications 371 Applications 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 899 Approved projects 2019 EUREKA Association
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