You can submit your proposal at any time. There are no set topics. 14/02, 02/05, 5/09, 07/11. 2019 13/02, 08/05, 04/09, 06/11. 2020 12/02, 06/05, 02/09, 04/11. 10/01, 14/03, 23/05, 10/10. 2019 09/01, 03/04, 05/06, 9/10. 2020 08/01, 18/03, 20/05, 07/10. 21/02, 23/05, 22/10 2020 19/02, 08/06, 26/10 2018 xx/05 2019 xx/01, xx/09 2020 xx/05 Budget (€ millions) Each year's is equally divided between cut-offs —Phase 1— 2018 48.62 2019 53.66 2020 57.77 —Phase 2— 2018 423.00 2019 466.83 2020 502.63 2018 100 2019 100 2020 100 2018 184.5 2019 161.5 2020 361.5 Time to Max. after cut-off date 1: 3 months 2: 6 months 6 months 8 months Contents About this document 2 Summary 3 Introduction 5 SME Instrument 7 - Who should apply 8 - Principles and funding 9 - Call conditions 12 Fast Track to Innovation (FTI) 20 - Who should 21 - Principles and funding 22 - Call conditions 24 FET-Open 28 - Principles, characteristics and who should apply 29 - -Challenging Current Thinking 30 -- Coordination and Support Actions 32 -- FET Innovation Launchpad 33 - Call conditions 35 Prizes 40 - EIC Prizes 41 - - Who should apply and principles 41
SME Instrument Call EIC - SME Instrument Who should apply to the SME Instrument? Are you an innovative, high-flying small or medium-sized business with European and global ambitions? Have you got an idea for an innovation that targets new markets and boost the growth of your company? Are you looking for substantial funding to develop and up your idea? And could you make use of business development resources and coaching to take your company forward? Then the SME Instrument is for you. The SME Instrument supports high-risk, high-potential small and medium-sized enterprises to develop and bring to market new products, services and business models that could drive economic growth. The SME Instrument is for innovators with ground-breaking concepts that shape new markets or disrupt existing ones in Europe and worldwide. Competition for SME Instrument support is tough. The SME Instrument is very selective. Only the most convincing and excellent proposals can be funded after a thorough evaluation by multinational panels of technology, business and finance experts. Selected companies receive funding and are offered business coaching to scale up their innovation idea and can also receive mentoring services. They are helped in networking with other SME Instrument clients, with other companies of all sizes, and with potential co-investors and follow-up investors across Europe. As an
long-term impacts on society and humankind. The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of up to €0.6 million would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts. Expected impact Strengthening globally recognised European leadership in the early exploration of visionary, new and emerging technologies and with a strong engagement of scientists, citizens, innovators and policy makers. Improved long-term innovation potential in Europe both from the abundance of novel ideas and the range of actors ready to take them forward. Improved readiness across Europe to engage in inter-disciplinary research collaboration and to take up new and more open research and innovation practices. Type of action Coordination and support action Indicative budget €2 million from the 2018 budget. The conditions related to this topic are provided at the end of this call and in the General Annexes. FET Innovation Launchpad FETOPEN-03-2018-2019-2020 Specific Challenge This topic aims at turning results from projects into genuine societal or economic innovations. Scope Short and focused individual or collaborative actions to turn promising results from a FET-funded project into innovations and improving their investment readiness level. The focus is on the early innovation stages from results of an ongoing or recently finished project funded through FET under FP7 or Horizon 2020. The precise link with the relevant FET project, and the specific result for a FET Innovation Launchpad proposal is intended, are to be explicitly described in the proposal. This topic does not fund research or activities that are/were already foreseen in the original FET project. Activities should fit the level of maturity of the result to be taken up. They can include the definition of a commercialisation process, market and competitiveness analysis, technology assessment, verification of innovation potential, consolidation of intellectual property rights, business case development. Proposals can include activities with, for instance, partners for technology transfer, licence-takers, investors and other sources
(Regulation 966/2012) will apply. Contestants that have already received an EU or Euratom prize cannot receive a second prize for the same activities. Award criteria All eligible applications will be evaluated by a High-Level Jury. The High-Level Jury will consist of a group of independent experts from business, finance and academia appointed by the Commission. They will appraise the quality of the entries and submit to the Commission the final list of women to be awarded. The prize will be awarded, after closure of the contest, to the contestants who in the opinion of the jury best address the following cumulative criteria: Originality and marketability. […] Societal and economic impact and value for the innovation-ecosystem. […] Active leadership role. […] Indicative timetable Opening of contest Third quarters of 2018, 2019, 2020 Deadline to submit applications Fourth quarters of 2018, 2019, 2020 Award of prize First quarters of 2019, 2020, 2021 Type of action Recognition prize. Indicative budget Three prizes of €100 000 each and one prize of €50 000 in the 'rising innovator' category. [€0.35 million from the 2018 budget, €0.35 million from the 2019 budget, and €0.35 million from the 2020 budget.] ACTIONS EIC Pilot Actions