Technology
Hub

Priority description

Promoting investment in C & I, developing links and synergies between businesses, research and development centers and higher education, in particular promoting investment in product and service development, technology transfer, social innovation, eco-innovation and public service applications, boosting demand, networking and clustering and open innovation through smart specialization, as well as support for technological and applied research activities, pilot lines, early product validation actions, advanced production capacities and first generation, especially in the field of generic technologies and the diffusion of general use technologies.

Priority Sharing

For the purpose of funding, Investment Priority 1.1 has been divided into several sub-priorities:

• IP 1.1 Operation A - Support to Innovation and Technological Transfer Entities (ITT) 2014-2020 Regional Operational Program
• IP 1.1 Operation B - Support for Science and Technology Parks (PST)
• IP 1.1 Operation C - Investments for SMEs to implement a research-innovation outcome in partnership with ITT

Beneficiaries:

• Infrastructure for innovation and technology transfer accredited according to the legislation in force
• Scientific and technological parks accredited according to the legislation in force
• SMEs in partnership with ITT

Through this program, the following can be financed:

• The creation and development of ITT infrastructures, including scientific and technological parks, namely the construction, upgrading, extension and endowment with necessary equipment and software
• The acquisition of specific technology services, including specialized business consultancy
• Investments for SMEs to implement a research-innovation outcome in partnership with an ITT

National financial allocation:

EUR 194.12 million (ERDF and state budget)

For information please access the link below:

http://www.inforegio.ro/ro/axa-prioritara-1

Priority description

Promoting investment in C & I, developing links and synergies between businesses, research and development centers and higher education, in particular promoting investment in product and service development, technology transfer, social innovation, eco-innovation and public service applications, boosting demand, networking and clustering and open innovation through smart specialization, as well as support for technological and applied research activities, pilot lines, early product validation actions, advanced production capacities and first generation, especially in the field of generic technologies and the diffusion of general use technologies.

Allocated Amount:

• 716,309,236.00 Euro for less developed regions - 43,884,366 Euro performance reserve)
• 177,551,724.00 Euro for Bucharest-Ilfov Region (more developed region) - 14,322,208 Euro performance reserve

Investment Priorities:

IP1.1 - Promoting investment in C & I, developing links and synergies between businesses, research and development centers and higher education, in particular promoting investment in product and service development, technology transfer, social innovation, eco-innovation and public service applications, boosting demand , networking and clustering and open innovation through smart specialization, as well as support for technological and applied research activities, pilot lines, early product validation actions, advanced production capacities and first generation capabilities, particularly in the field of key enabling technologies and the diffusion of general use technologies.

• Action 1.1.1: Large R & D infrastructures
• Action 1.1.2: Development of networks of CD centers coordinated at national level and linked to European and international networking and providing researchers with access to scientific publications and European and international databases
• Action 1.1.3: Creating synergies with RDI actions of the EU's ORIZONT 2020 framework program and other international RDI programs
• Action 1.1.4: Attracting staff with advanced skills from abroad to strengthen CD capacity

IP1.2 - Improve research and innovation (C & I) infrastructures and capacities to develop excellence in C & I and promote competence centers, especially those of European interest, by linking them to existing or emerging clustering structures that focus on innovation and economic development, in a way that responds to the development needs of the communities in which they develop.

• Action 1.2.1: Stimulating companies' innovation demand through RDI projects undertaken by companies individually or in partnership with R & D institutes and universities, for the purpose of product and process innovation in economic sectors with potential for growth
• Action 1.2.2: Credit and risk capital measures in favor of innovative SMEs and research organizations responding to market demands
• Action 1.2.3: Knowledge Transfer Partnerships

For information please access the link below:

http://www.poc.research.gov.ro

The EIC pilot supports top-class innovators, entrepreneurs, small companies and scientists with bright ideas and the ambition to scale up internationally. It brings together the parts of Horizon 2020 that provide funding, advice and networking opportunities for those at cutting edge of innovation.

How to find available funding

Between 2018 and 2020 the EIC pilot will provide €2.7 billion to breakthrough, market-creating innovations. This support is aimed at people and companies with ideas or innovations which:

• are radically different from existing products, services or technologies
• are highly risky
• need additional investment to get to market

SME Instrument

The SME Instrument is for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs – including start-ups) with a radical innovation that can disrupt established value networks and markets. The companies should have the ambition and potential to scale-up.

There are two types of grants:

• concept and feasibility grants of €50,000 to assess the viability of an innovation
• demonstration, testing, piloting and scaling grants of up to €2.5 million with a 70% co-financing rate

The SME Instrument has a total budget of more than €1.6 billion for 2018-2020.

Fast Track to Innovation (FTI)

This scheme is for relatively mature ground-breaking technologies, concepts and business models which are close to market.

Proposals must come from consortia of 3 to 5 legal entities who want to see quick market uptake of new technologies. Grants of up to €3 million may be awarded.

• For-profit entities will receive 70% co-financing
• Not-for-profit entities will receive 100% co-financing

Fast Track to Innovation has a total budget of around €300 million for 2018-2020.

Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Open

FET Open offers grants of typically €3 million to promote collaborative, inter-disciplinary research and innovation on future and emerging technologies. These grants are for consortia of at least 3 entities.

FET Open also offers ‘FET Innovation Launchpad’ grants of up to €100,000 for short individual or collaborative actions to help turn the results of FET Open projects into innovations.

FET Open has a total budget of around €700 million for 2018-2020.

EIC Horizon Prizes

The EIC Horizon Prizes are awarded to whoever can most effectively meet a defined challenge, without prescribing how that challenge should be solved. These will boost breakthrough innovation across sectors by fostering cutting-edge solutions which bring major benefits to citizens and society.

Individual prizes amount to 5 or 10 million euro.

The total budget for EIC Horizon Prizes until 2020 is €40 million.

For updated information please access the link below:

https://ec.europa.eu/research/eic/index.cfm?pg=home