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Newsletter #10, July 2011
Horizon 2020 – The Framework Programme for Research and Innovation
Horizon 2020 is the new name for the future EU-funding Programme for Research and Innovation. The name was invented during the competition organized by the EC. It is said that the name is an important symbol of a new departure and a new adventure. "Horizon 2020" will be the new, integrated funding system that will cover all research and innovation funding currently provided through the Framework Programme for Research and Technical Development, the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). It will enter into force on 1st January 2014.
More info:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/csfri/index_en.cfm?pg=younameit
SME WEEK 2011
This year The European SME Week will take place from 03-09 October 2011. The initiative is coordinated by European Commission and its aim is to promote entrepreneurship across Europe in line with the Small Business Act for Europe. The national events, in the frame of SME Week, will be organized in 37 participating countries. The registration of events is now open and will last till 30 of November 2011.
More info:
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/initiatives/sme-week/about/index_en.htm
Mr or Ms SME - Small business gets an advocate in each EU Member State
Newly appointed Ms or Mr SME will advocate for the interests of Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs). Chiefly they will check the correct application of the EU law on SMEs and ensure that policies at national, regional and local level are enterprise friendly. European Commission Vice President Antonio Tajani inaugurated a new network of Member States' SME Envoys at the SBA conference “Mobilizing SMEs for the Future of Europe” in Budapest. As SMEs are affected by policies originating in different government departments ranging from tax to financial and from regulatory to education, the SME envoys should help small businesses to concentrate on their core business to strive and create jobs.
More info:
http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/tajani/
Ecoinnovation – pilot & market replication projects – call open
The 4th call for pilot and market replication projects under the Competiveness and Innovation Framework Programme 2007-2013 (CIP) has been opened on 28th of April 2011. One can submit a project till the 8th of September 2011. The winning proposals will receive grants covering up to 50% of the eligible project costs. The money can be used to fund actions including equipment and infrastructure as well as materials, processes, techniques and methods linked with the innovative action.
In this call, projects submitted in the area of the following 5 priorities, will be financed: materials recycling, sustainable buildings products, food and drink, water and greening business/smart purchasing.
More info:
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/eco-innovation/managing-projects/index_en.htm
Calculator for SME owner/manager flat rate
This tool will help SME owners and natural persons without a salary, participating in FP7 project, with the calculation of their applicable daily rates.
This interim tool (XLS file) is now available at Cordis Website, in the webpage "Find a document" (http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/find-doc_en.html) under the section "Guidance documents". The direct link is (ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/docs/cordis-sme-owners-rates_en.zip).
Green Paper and analysis of public consultations
The Green Book together with the responses will form the basis of proposal of the EC for the new framework programme, which will be published by the end of this year.
Überblick über den letzten Call 2010 der KMU-Maßnahmen
The call of the last workprogramme research for the Benefit of SME with the deadline of 8.12.2010 consisted of three parts::
• Research for SME (FP7-SME-2011-BSG), budget 110 Mio. EUR
• Research for SME associations (FP7-SME-2011-BSG), budget 79 Mio. EUR
• Demonstration activities projects (FP7-SME-2011-CP), Budget 15 Mio. EUR
The two first parts were implemented as all other calls before in the FP7.
The new programme part „demonstration activities“ were new. The introduction of this programme part is based on several reasons. Not all projects contain demonstration activities in the sense of prototype solutions due to funding conditions. On the other hand this action could be interpreted as a kind of trial balloon for innovation activities foreseen in the drafts of the follow-up framework programme. Thus the needs of SME should be better taken into consideration and the projects should be more oriented towards practice and business.
946 proposals were submitted in the three calls. The results were:
| Research for SME | Research for SME associations | Demonstration activities | |
| Proposals | 758 | 157 | 30 |
| Above threshold | 477 | 63 | 11 |
| Mainlist | 125 | 40 | 11 |
| Ineligible | 16 | 13 | 9 |
In the work programme these three are foreseen again. The deadline will be on December 6 2011.
The budget will increase from 204 Mio. EUR to 220 Mio. EUR:
• Research for SME, budget 150 Mio. EUR
• Research for SME associations, budget 49.7 Mio. EUR
• Demonstration activities, budget 20 Mio. EUR
FORTHCOMMING EVENTS:
The R&D Management Conference 2011
http://www.iei.liu.se/rnd2011?l=en
The 16th Baltic Dynamic Cross-Regional Initiatives for Business Innovation
http://www.tehnopol.ee/en/bd2011/Welcome-to-Baltic-Dynamics
Environmental (BIO) Technologies and EU-FP7 Environmental Brokerage Event
http://www.envbiotech11.kongresy.com.pl/sites/bio_gda11/index.php5?o=page&p=1&mpos=1
Marie Curie Research Symposium, SCIENCE – Passion, Mission, Responsibility
http://www.mariecurie2011.pl/Default.aspx?id=3
EEN Annual Conference 2011
http://www.enterprise-europe-network.ec.europa.eu/public/calendar/home.cfm
http://www.prezydencjaue.gov.pl/en/
