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The Business of the Bioeconomy: Accelerators, funding and supports Dr Imelda Lambkin National Director Horizon 2020
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The Business of the Bioeconomy: Accelerators, funding and supports
Dr Imelda Lambkin National Director Horizon 2020
Horizon 2020 - biggest EU Research and Innovation programme ever with nearly €80 billion of funding available over 7 years (2014 - 2020)
• Two types of research opportunities:
– Collaborative Industrial Leadership
Societal challenges
– Single entity SME Instrument
https://ec.europa.eu/easme/en/sme-instrument
Single entity participation – SME Instrument (IA’s)
Goal: Invest €3 billion in 7,500 companies by 2020.
• Strong innovation at prototype stage
• Significant international business led opportunity
• Rapid growth prospects
• External investment secured
• An innovative project that requires large investment (€1 million +)
Type of SME suited to SME Inst.
3 Phases…
€1.12m
€0.66m
€0.64m
€2.48m
€1.09m
€0.18m
€1.72m
€1.01m
€4.27m
€4.49m
€0.99m €1.6m €1.26m
€0.40m
€2.75m
€2.20m
€3m
€1.12m
€1.12m
€1.52m
Successful applications • Demonstrate a disruptive/novel innovation,
• Have a clear ambition to grow at EU level, will generate revenues and create jobs.
• Demonstrated knowledge of target market / convincing commercialisation plan.
• Explain the market conditions and the evolution of the competition including concrete and realistic figures on the market share and sales price.
• Show at least 3 years of projection of sales volume, turnover and number of jobs created.
• Demonstrate that your project has a European or international market
• Intellectual property - Protection very important and must be explained.
https://sme.easme-web.eu/#
Interactive map to view companies, budgets, abstracts, locations etc.
Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI – JU)
www.bbi-europe.eu
Objectives:
Resource efficiency
Sustainable low carbon economy
Increase economic growth in rural areas
Implementation
Establishing a sustainable biobased
industry
Advanced biorefineries
Technologies / Chemicals /
biomaterials
Business models / whole value
chains / supply / biorefineries /
consumers / clusters / connections
Flagship biorefinery plants /
technologies / business models /
cost performance
Reduction in the use of fossil fuels
vs. biobased materials for material,
chemical, energy & fuel production
BBI JU budget
TOTAL
€ 3705 M
(about 75% from
BIC)
€ 975 M
Call for Proposals
(in cash and in kind)
€ 975 M
Additional
Investments
€ 1755 M
+ =
BBI Challenges
Biomass and waste Biorefineries Fuel
Chemicals and materials
Feed & food ingredients
Bio-Based Industries (BBI) are facing complex and
substantial technological and innovation challenges
More information: http://www.bbi-europe.eu/projects
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https://eit.europa.eu/eit-community/eit-food
Access to all opportunities via the Participant Portal…
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/home.html
Patrick Barrett, DAFM [email protected]
SME Advisors: Sean Burke ([email protected])
Jill Leonard ([email protected])
Horizon 2020: www.horizon2020.ie
Enterprise Europe Network Ireland: www.een-ireland.ie
