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EUREKA AND EUROSTARS PROGRAMS – A FRAMEWORK FOR INNOVATION PROJECTS IN

TOURISM

Javier Echávarri Delmás

ICT Technical Officer at Promotion and Cooperation Unit

CDTI

[email protected]

Palma, November 13th, 2014

mailto:[email protected]


• About CDTI

• Collaboration in tourism technologies through EUREKA

• EUROSTARS: focus on R&D intensive SMEs

• Additional Information

Index

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Center for Industrial Technological Development

Created in 1977

Public Entity (Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness)

Business innovation funding agency

National contact point for the promotion of technological innovation

High national and international prestige

Spanish Eureka office

About us

Enhance Spanish companies’ competitiveness and internationalization through innovation

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About us

Over 35 years supporting business RTDI

14,500 beneficiary companies

EUR 13,158 million committed Business RTDI

Technological modernization Internationalization

Availability of funds in 2014 ~ 1000 M€

The main beneficiaries of CDTI instruments are SMEs (64% of companies in 2013)

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RTDI funding

Support to the creation and consolidation of

technological start-ups

• Evaluation and funding: • Individual R&D projects • National Cooperation R&D

projects • Innovation projects • Internationalization

• Certificates valid for tax exemption

• NEOTEC • NEOTEC Venture Capital • INNVIERTE

RTDI internationalization

• Support to technological transfer: Foreign network

• Technological Cooperation: H2020,

Eureka/Eurostars,

Iberoeka, H2020…

• International Technological Promotion

Aeronautics, Space and Industrial Returns

Programmes

• Aerospace RTDI • Technological supplies:

CERN , Hispasat, Eumetsat…

What we do

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• Tourism: more than 10% of GDP, 11% of jobs (1)

• Strategic business area for economic recovery in the

2012-2015 period:

• Tourist-centric innovation

• Smart destinations – innovation in destination

management

• Get closer to “Smart Cities” concept

• Innovation in mature destinations

• Use ICTs to improve destination services and

sustainability

• XXI Century Tourism tourist office

• Encourage new business models based on a new

approach of tourism experience and the

emergence of new actors (eg. urban and inland

tourism).

• Make better use of enormous cultural heritage

• Promote environmentally friendy tourism.

Tourism market in Spain and new perspectives…

Source: Plan Nacional Integral del Turismo 2012-2015

Ministerio de Energía, Industria y Turismo

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Main R&D areas (2):

Mobile technologies, geopositioning, advanced electronics

Gamification

Content management technologies. Tourism 2.0. Cloud DMS

Interfaces: Augmented/virtual reality, virtual travel, 3D avatars, natural language processing

Affecting computing

Security: biometrics, 3D facial recognition, trust and privacy in business exchanges, etc.

Interoperabilty, system interconnection. Big and linked data and tourism applications

Advanced marketing techniques

Future Internet applications for tourism (services, IoT, etc.). Integration in Smart Cities

Applications and services for inclusion

ETC.

Source: Tourism R&D strategic agenda: Tourism Technologial Platform- Thinktur

… and how ICT can contribute

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Internationalization

Seed Start-up Early growth

Consolidation Competitive growth

INNVIERTE

NEOTEC

R&D Projects

Market

Industrial research

Development

Innovation Internationalization

INN

VO

LU

CR

A

INN

VO

LU

CR

A

Innovation projects

R&D Projects for PCP/PPI

Our funding tools

CIEN

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Some areas which we have covered

• About CDTI




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• Intergovernmental initiative established in 1985 to foster the competitiveness of European industry

• Eureka supports the enhancement of the industry competitiveness through R&D&i international collaborative projects

• 41 full members: EU-28, EU and 12 other countries

• Decentralized management, evaluation and funding

• Market-oriented: marketable product, process or service

• No predefined R&D topics (bottom-up approach)

Introduction to ….

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Introduction to ….

Source: Eureka Secretariat, 2014

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Structure

ESE: Eureka Secretariat MC: Ministerial Conference IPC: Inter-parliamentary Conference HLG: Higl Level Gruoup EG: Executive Group NPC: National Program Coordinators


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In what countries? Austria Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland, France

Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Latvia Lithuania

San Marino Serbia Slovak Republic Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom European Union

Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Monaco Montenegro the Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russian Federation

NIPs Albania Bosnia-Herzegovina

Associate countries Canada Sout Korea South Africa

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• At least two enterprises from two different countries. In average projects of between 1 and 2 M€.

• Bottom-up: consortium decides, no thematic restriction

• The result of project has to be a product, process or service marketable in the short/medium term

• Partners must have technical and financial viability to undertake their contribution

• A consortium agreement must be signed including information of exploitation of results

• Civil application

What kind of projects?

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• Open call but countries can set-up multi/bilateral calls

• Decentralized programme (evaluation, funding)

• Done through Eureka National Offices – EUREKA IN YOUR COUNTRY

• Documents: – Eureka Application form (one for any country of the

consortium)

– Draft consortium agreement

• + additional docs in each country (eg. Spain) – National preproposal including project plan

– Financial statements

– Other documents

How does it work?

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Open/bilateral calls (1)

(1): As of November 13th, 2014 (excluding Clusters)

Call Deadline

Call for EUREKA individual projects OPEN ALL YEAR LONG

Bilateral call between Canada and Israel OPEN ALL YEAR LONG

Bilateral call between Canada, United Kingdom and EUROGIA2020

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

Bilateral call between Canada and Spain NOVEMBER 30, 2014

Bilateral call between Sweden and Switzerland DECEMBER 10, 2014

Bilateral call between Czech Republic and Switzerland DECEMBER 31, 2014

Bilateral call between Belgium and Switzerland JANUARY 15, 2015

Call for Umbrella PRO-FACTORY-PLUS projects JANUARY 15, 2015

Call for Eurostars-2 projects MARCH 5, 2015

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How can you set up a project?


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Consortium Well balanced Partnership Added value through co-operation Technological capacity Managerial capacity Methodology and planning approach Milestones and deliverables Cost and financing structure Financial commitment of each participant

Technology and innovation Technological maturity and risk Technological achievements Degree of innovation Geographical/ sectorial impact

Market and competition Market size Market access and risk Return on investment Strategic importance of the project Enhanced capabilities and visibility

What are the evaluation criteria?

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• It depends on each country!!!

• In Spain, CDTI:

– Only companies, only R&D or innovation tasks

– Subcontracting allowed

– Minimum budget for each company: 175,000 euros

– Credit up to 75% of eligible costs

– 25% of the credit in advance payment (up to 200,000€)

– R&D projects:

• Loans with Euribor interest rate, 10 years repayment

• Non reimbursable part (up to 30%)

– Innovation projects:

• Interest rate: 1-2%, up to 5 years repayment

What public funding can I expect?

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Umbrellas

• About CDTI




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Joint programme between EUREKA and EU

Dedicated to R&D-performing SMEs

Market-oriented

Bottom-up

International cooperation

What is Eurostars?


Forthcoming cut-off dates: March 5th, 2015 and September 17th, 2015

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75%

EUROSTARS

COUNTRIES

CONTRIBUTION

EU

CONTRIBUTION

25%

EUROSTARS TOTAL PUBLIC BUDGET 2014-2020

1.148 BILLION

Eurostars under H2020


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What countries are in Eurostars?


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Project

leader is an

R&D-

performing

SME from a

Eurostars

country

At least 2

participants

• Autonomous

entities

• Legal entities

from at least

2 Eurostars

countries

Max 70%

budget per

country

SMEs are

in the

driving

seat

(>50% of

the budget

allocated to

R&D-

performing

SMEs)

Project

duration is

max. 3 years

Market

introduction

within 2

years

Elegibility


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SMEs in the driving seat!


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TECHNOLOGICAL AREAS MARKET AREAS PROJECTS SUBMITTED PROJECTS SUBMITTED

Bottom-up approach


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A typical Eurostars project is…


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Eurostars in numbers…


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Expected impact


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Evaluation process and scoring procedure


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Evaluation criteria


• About CDTI




Index

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Eureka: Innovation Event 2014

• Main event of Swiss Presidency in Eureka

• Meeting point for European, Canadian, South Korean and South African entities looking for partners

• Main sectors: Manufacture, ICT and Biotechnology

• Plenary sessions and B2B

• Back to back with Swiss Innovation Forum

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Useful contacts

Dpto. Energía, Transporte, Fabricación y Sociedad Digital

[email protected] 915815707

CDTI - Spanish Eureka Office: Tel. +34 91 581 5607

Mr. Óscar Fernández Moyano

National Project Coordinator

[email protected]

Ms Juana Sánchez

Clusters and Umbrellas coordinator

[email protected]

Mr. Oscar González

Eurostars and bilateral calls coordinator

[email protected]

+ CDTI overseas delegations in Brussels, Israel, Turkey, Russia, South Korea, Canada and South Africa





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Thanks for your attention!

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Javier Echávarri Delmás

ICT Technical Officer at Promotion and Cooperation Unit

CDTI

[email protected]

Palma, November 13th, 2014


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