1. Research and Innovation Research and Innovation Fast Track to Innovation 1 Dr Bernd Reichert Unit "Horizon 2020: Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises" European Agency for SMEs (EASME)

2. Objectives: Increase the participation of industry, SMEs and first time applicants in Horizon 2020 Stimulate private sector investment in research and innovation Promote research and innovation with a focus on value creation and accelerate the development of technologies into innovative products, processes and services Means: Full-scale pilot running in 2015 and 2016 In-depth assessment as part of interim evaluation 2017 Horizon 2020

3. Proposals relating to any technology field under LEITs and Societal Challenges (bottom-up driven logic) Open to any legal entity - consortia of 3 to 5 participants About 100 grants will be given Permanently open call with three cut-off-dates per year Impact criterion given a higher weighting in evaluations Time-to-grant: 6 months Horizon 2020

4. Funding of innovation actions (close-to-market) For proposal involving technological innovation, the consortium must declare that the technologies are at least at TRL 6. Proposals shall include a business plan describing the business opportunities of participants and a credible commercialisation strategy. Particular attention should be paid to IP protection and ownership, and the possibility of commercial exploitation ('freedom to operate'). Initial market take-up no later than 3 years after submission. Horizon 2020

5. at least 60% of the overall budget of the proposal must be allocated to consortium partner(s) from industry, or the minimum number of industry participants must be 2 in a consortium of 3 or 4 partners, and 3 in a consortium of 5 partners. The maximum EU contribution per project is EUR 3 million. The indicative EU contribution per project is expected to be between EUR 1 million and EUR 2 million. Horizon 2020

6. Deadlines: 29/04/2015 01/09/2015 01/12/2015 Similar expected for 2016

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