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Presentation held by Ms. Anita Grozdanov- Faculty of Technology and metallutrgy as a part of the WINS ICT Call7 Session at the 8th SEEITA and 7th MASIT Open Days Conference, 14th-15th October, 2010
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Dr. Anita Grozdanov,
Faculty of Technology and metallurgy
NCP-SME, NCP NMP R. Macedonia
Opportunities for Macedonian SME’s in FP7
“Triangle of Knowledge”
Research
Growth
and Jobs
Education Innovation
Knowledge is at the core of the Lisbon agenda, and underpins all its elements.
Research and technology are, together with education and innovation, the
components of the “Triangle of knowledge”.
What is the Seventh Framework Programme?
•The Seventh Framework Programme (2007-2013) of the European
Community for Research, Technological Development and
Demonstration Activities
€50.5 billionΞ £35 billion = £35,000,000,000
•Building the Europe of Knowledge
•The biggest Research Programme in the World
The Structure of FP7
4 specific programmes
Cooperation – 9 Thematic Areas/ Priorities
Ideas – Scientific Excellence – Think SFI!!
People – Marie Curie
Capacities - SMEs, regional potential, Science in
Society and international cooperation.
Overview of the European SMEs
Source: Eurostat (2005)
European SMEs:
• 23 Million enterprises• 75 Million jobs• 2/3 privet jobs in
Europe are in SMEs• 99% of all European
enterprises
“Small firms are in fact the real giants of the European economy”
Micro-businesses dominate employmentin countries such as Italy (48%) and Greece (57%), whilst the share of large enterprises in total employment in the United Kingdom is over 45%.
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
Basic
SMEs
70%
Technology
adopting
enterprises
20%
Leading
Technology
users
<10%Technology
pioneers
<3%
%
None of few R&D
activities
Adapting existing
technologies – low
innovative SMes
Developing or
combining
existing
technologies on
an innovative
level
High Level
research activities
Categories of SME
Source: EURAB’s report on “SMEs and ERA”
The Importance of SMEs in the European
Economy
• SMEs represent 99% of all
enterprises throughout Europe
• SMEs account for 67% of
European GDP
• Provide 55% of total jobs in the
private sector
€ million
Ideas; 7 510
People; 4 750
Capacities; 4 097 JRC (EC); 1 751
Cooperation,
32 413
Cooperation
Ideas
People
Capacities
JRC (EC)
FP7 budget: € 54 bn
SME specific actions
Indicative budget breakdown 2007-2013
Budget allocation to SMEs
in FP6 and FP7
€ million FP6 FP7 FP6
annual
average
FP7
annual
average
Increase
annual
average
SME specific
measures
473 1.336 118 191 61%
SME participation
(15% target)
1.865 4.862 466 695 49%
Total 2.338 6.198 585 885 51%
CAPACITIES - International
Cooperation
CAPACITIES – the vehicle for this coordination
Coordination of the international cooperation actions
under the different programmes and across Themes
Aim :
To strengthen overall coordination to ensure a coherent
approach and develop synergies with
other Community policies
Thematic Breakdown Within the Cooperation
Programme
Thematic Area Budget (€m) %
Health 6,050 19
Food, Agriculture, Fisheries, and
Biotechnology 1,935 6
Information and Communication
Technologies 9,110 28
Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials
and new Production Technologies 3,500 11
Energy 2,300 7
Environment (including Climate Change) 1,900 6
Transport (including Aeronautics) 4,180 13
Socio-economic Sciences and the Humanities 610 2
Space & Security 2,780 9
Total Cooperation Budget 32,365
What does FP7 fund?
• Not your short term new product project
• Not to enable your organisation to survive
• Knowledge generation that looks a bit too much
in the future for you to fund fully
• Things you can’t do alone
• To establish and bind expanded networks
NEW call
Administrative procedures
• Following on from proposal preparation and submission, participation in an EU project brings with it the necessity to complete contract forms, to record the amount of time and resource spent on a project and regular reports and audits
Need for disciplined partnership
• It is important, especially for short projects, to ensure that all partners understand the need for setting and maintaining a rigorous timetable for reporting and delivery of results.
• key issue for project coordinators, especially if they are an SME, is the obligation to respond to the frequent reporting requirements set by the European Commission.
FP7 proposal: SMEs
Research for the benefit of SMEs (2)
• Target population: all SME that need to outsource research activities
– Mainly low to medium tech SMEs with little or no research capability
– Research intensive SMEs who need to outsource research to complement their core research capability
• More than doubling of average annual budget
– FP6: about 120 M€/yr
– FP7: 270 M€/yr
• Actions in the entire field of science and technology (bottom-up)
• Improvements and simplification of modalities (e.g. evaluation, financial regime, IPR)
Industry-academia partnerships and pathways
• support cooperation between academia and industry
• encourage SME participation through
Staff secondments between academia and industry
Temporary hosting of experienced researchers from outside
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/people/industry-academia_en.html
SME support in FP7
“People” programme
SME are encouraged to participate in collaborative research projects within this specific programme
In order to form a favourable environment, a target of 15% SME participation has been set 40,7 million euro per year!
This representing an amount of about 5 bn € until 2013
Simplified financial and administrative procedures (e.g. 75% funding rate for SME, reduced requirements for audit certificates,no bank guarantees)
Identification of areas and specific measures of particular interest to SME in the individual work programmes
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/home_en.html
SME support in FP7
“Cooperation” programme
HOW
1. Presentation of the FP7 programme
2. Presentation of the guides & documents for FP7
3. Presentation of the project preparation process
4. Team consultation
5. Following of the success story of MK-FP7 SME
projects
6. Consultation with EC-FP7 Office
Tips to optimise participation
- Start your experience as partners in projects co-ordinated by others
- You’ll be seen as far away partners. You must have a + to be preferred to others
- Seek advice from those who have experience
- Search for already funded projects within your areas of
interest (be complementary, avoid overlapping)
How to get into a partnership
• If new to Europe look at ways to get in..
• Get active early… watch out for NCP info
• Network with potential partners - Travel
• Have a sales pitch on what you and your instit offer
• Pick up the phone
• There are a range of examples of what works
Partner searching
• Go to the training
• Keep in contact with the NCP
• Watch partner searches…Our method..
• Cordis is an option
• NCP search
• KEEP TRYING…
Finding Partners
– CORDIS Partner Finding Service
– Do it Yourself
– http://partners-service.cordis.lu/
– NCP Industial engagement
IDEAL*IST Partner Finding Service
– Free assisted service
– http://www.ideal-ist.net/
– Use Local support if available
– Hang around in foreign bars
Delivering of Partner Search List
PREPARING THE PRPOSAL
A proposal has two parts:
1. Part A – contain the administrative information about the proposal and the participants (the work, contact persons, participants, funding info)
(annex 3 of the Guide)
(on-line form)
2. Part B – template or list of heading, you should follow the structure to present the scientific and technical content of the proposal.
(annex 4 of the Guide)
(keep the proposal limits)
3. Use EPSS to upload the parts A & B, submitte
PART B1. Scientific and/or technical quality
1.1. Concept and objectives
1.2. Contribution to the co-ordination of high quality research
1.3. Quality and effectiveness of the co-ordination mechanisms, and
associated plan
2. Implementation
2.1. Management structure and procedures
2.2. Individual participants
2.3. Consortium as a whole (only if relevant)
2.4. Resources to be committed
3. Impact
3.1. Expected impacts listed in the work programme
3.2. Spreading excellence, exploiting results, disseminating knowledge
4. Ethical Issues
PIC (Partner Identification Code)Organisation Data
=================
Legal name :
Business Name :
Official Language :
Name in 2nd Language :
2nd Language :
Legal form :
VAT Number :
Registration Number :
Registration Date :
Registration authority :
NACE Code :
Registration Country :
EVALUATION procedure
• The evaluation will follow a single stage
procedure; proposals will not be evaluated
anonymously.
• The evaluation criteria and scoring scheme are
set out in annex 2 of the work programme.
Evaluation criteria S/T QUALITY
“Scientific and/or technological
excellence (relevant to the
topics / activities addressed by
the call)”
IMPLEMENTATION
“Quality and efficiency of the
implementation and the
management”
IMPACT
“Potential impact through the
development, dissemination
and use of project results”
Sound concept, and quality of
objectives
Innovative character in relation to
the state-of-the art
Contribution to advancement of
knowledge / technological
progress
Quality and effectiveness of S/T
methodology and associated work
plan
Quality of the consortium
as a whole (including
complementarity and balance)
Appropriate allocation and
justification of the resources to be
committed (budget, staff,
equipment)
Contribution, at the European
[and/or international] level, to the
expected impacts listed in the
work programme under the
relevant topic/activity
Appropriateness of measures
envisaged for the dissemination
and/or exploitation of project
results, and management of
intellectual property
Positive Pass
• For the evaluation of ERA-NET or ERA-NET Plus
proposals (coordinating), thresholds for the individual
criteria will be:
• 1. S&T quality: threshold [4] out of [5]
• 2. Implementation: threshold [3] out of [5]
• 3. Impact: Threshold [3] out of [5]
• The overall threshold, applying to the sum of the
three individual scores, will be [10.]
Funding schemes• To support actions implemented on the basis of the
call for proposals:
1. Collaborative projects• Projects can range from small or medium-scale (≤ € 3 Million) to large
scale integrating projects (between € 3 and € 6 Million)
2. Networks of Excellence3. Activities run by a number of research organisations integrating their
activities in a given field
3. Coordination and Support Actions• Activities aimed at coordinating or supporting research activities and
policies (~ € 1Million)
4. Others: Individual projects (ERC); Fellowships; Research projects for third parties (i.a. SMEs)
FP7 Funding schemes overviewFunding
scheme
Nature Max EU
Contrib.
Duration of
project
Targeted at N° of
partners
Small-
medium CP
(STREP)
Single issue
project
2-3 M€ 18-36 m
Research
institutes,
universities
and
industry,
including
SMEs
6 – 15
Large CP (IP) Multidisciplina
ry integrated
projects
4 – 20
M€
36-60 m 10 – 20
CSA
Supporting
Preparing
future actions
0.5 M€ 9-30 m 1 – 15
CSA
Coordinating
Coordinating
& networking
participants
1 M€ 18-36 m 12 – 36
NoE Integrating
research
activities
7 M€ 48-60 m 6 – 50+
FP7 Funding rates
Type of
organisation
Public bodies, universities, research
centres, SMEs75%
Type of
projectAccompanying measures (CSA) 100%
Type of
activity
Project management
but NOT exceeding 7% of total
funding
100%
Funding rates also depend on:
Why shall SMEs participate?
Economic benefits can be achieved & innovative performance increased
• Consider FP7 funding as additional money• Commercial risks are reduced• Increased turnover and profitability• Enhanced productivity and market share• Establishing new international 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• Long term perspectives (innovative approach of the SME will be stronger)• More patents
Successful FP participation can lead to stronger competitiveness of the enterprise
Does my organisation qualify as an
SME ?
SME Definition
The new SME definition takes into account
the size
MICRO < 10 employees < €2 million turnover
SMALL < 50 employees < €10 million turnover
MEDIUM < 250 employees < €50 million turnover
and ownership
AUTONOMOUS: < 25% owned by non-SME
PARTNER: 25 to 50% owned by Universities, Venture
Capitalists etc
LINKED: special case for groups and subsidiaries
THE SME DEFINITION DOES NOT TAKE ACCOUNT OF SME TYPES
AND ACTIVITIES i.e. HIGH-TECH, LOW-TECH
SME PROFILES FOR FP7
Which sort of SME are you ?
SMEs in FP7
Main initiatives
Optimized
participation of SMEs
Dedicated scheme
with special emphasis
on SMEs
Budget increase for
the SME specific
measures
"Cooperation" "People" "Capacities"
Research performing
SMEs
Research performing
SMEs
SMEs
outsourcing research
Thematic areasIndustry-academia
pathwaysBottom-up approach
Complementary pillars of SME support in FP7
“Capacities”- Research for the benefit of SMEs
Objective:
Strengthen the innovation capacities of SMEs
to develop new products and markets by
outsourcing of research:
Increase their research effort
Acquire technological know-how
Extend their networks
Improve the exploitation of research results
SMEs in FP7
specific initiatives
FP7 proposal: SMEs
Research for the benefit of SMEs (1)
Two specific schemes to support SMEs or SME associations in need of outsourcing research
– Research for SMEs: to support small groups of innovative SMEs to solve common or complementary technological problems
– Research for SME associations: to support SME associations and SME groupings to develop technical solutions to problems common to larger number of SMEs in specific industrials sectors or segments of the value chain
Research for the benefit of SMEs
Work programme
1. Supporting SMEs outsourcing research activities- Research for SMEs
- Research for SME associations
2. Developing and coordinating support
to SMEs at national level- Eurostars Article 169 Initiative
- ERA-NET
- Support to national and/or regional “exploratory awards”
- NCP-network
3. Support measures- Coordination and Support Actions
- Studies
Total budget within FP7: Million € 1.336
SMEs in the
knowledge economy - KBBE• SMEs are at the core of the European industry and are
a key component in the chain of transformation of knowledge into exploitable products, processes and services
• SMEs are faced with increasing competition in the internal market and globally and need to increase their research intensity and networks and expand their business on larger markets
• A growing number of SMEs are directly concerned by research activities
SME support in FP7
JTI Example
The Innovative Medicines Initiative will supportthe development of new knowledge, tools andmethods so that better and safer medicines can bemade available more quickly.
The programme will have €2 billion to invest overseven years. The Community contribution of €1billion will go entirely to SME and universities forresearch that can be used by the pharmaceuticalsector
Major companies will match this amount and willinvolve these SME and universities.
Funding Scheme
Key Indications
Research for SMEs Research for SME
associations
Duration 1-2 years 2-3 years
Number of
partners
5-10 10-15
Total budget € 0.5 – 1.5 Million € 1.5 – 4 Million
Activities R&D, demonstration,
management, other
activities
R&D, demonstration,
management, other
activities
Number of partners
Minimum requirements, coordination
Research for SMEs At least three independent SME participants, established
in three different Member States or Associated countries.
At least two RTD performers.
Other enterprises and end-users optional.
Research for SME associations At least three independent SME association/groupings,
established in three different Member States or Associated countries, or one European SME association/grouping.
At least two RTD performers.
Other enterprises and end-users with at least two SMEs.
SMEs or SME associations may entrust coordination to a partner in the consortium specialised in professional project management.
Complementarities between FP7 and CIP
FP7-RTD CIP
• Funding of
projects
• Research,
technological
development and
demonstration
• Take-up of proven
technologies:
environmental, ICT and
Energy-efficiency
• SMEs
participation in
Research
• Simplification
• Definition of thematic
content
• Specific schemes for
SMEs
• Actions and services
encouraging SMEs
participation in FP7
• Access to finance • « Risk Sharing Finance
Facility » for large
European RTD projects and
infrastructures (with EIB)
• Risk capital (start-up and
expansion)
• SMEs Guarantee facility
• SMEs loan securitisation
• Capacity building
• Dissemination of
knowledge
• Within projects
• In thematic areas
• Networks providing
innovation support services
• Promotion projects to remove
non-technical barriers (Article
43)
• Regions • Research driven clusters • Innovation clusters
Dr. Anita Grozdanov
NCP SME
NCP NMP
How can local networks like the
NCP contribute to positive results
for RM
MKD SME in FP7
More information
Research for the benefit of SMEs:http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/capacities/research-sme_en.html
CORDIS/SME TechWeb:sme.cordis.lu/research/fp6_support.cfm
National Contact Points http://cordis.europa.eu/fp6/ncp.htm