AIPČR, 8 December 2011 EUREKA Programme

What is EUREKA ? EUREKA is : EUREKA is a public network supporting R&D-performing businesses EUREKA anniversary 26 years and Czech Republic 16 years EUREKA is : Intergovernmental initiative (39 Members and European Commission) Using national public and private funding Market-oriented (projects must result in a marketable product, process or service) Bottom-up (the consortium decides on the project aim; no thematic restriction) Since 1985, 26 billion euro of public-private investment has been mobilised to support some 3,100 EUREKA projects

esa EU FP CERN EUREKA JRC COST COST Positioning European R&D programmes and frameworks EUREKA National R&D Programmes Innovation esa JRC EU FP European Research Labs Basic research COST COST CERN

39 EUREKA member countries Austria Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia European Union Finland France FYROM Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Monaco The Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russian Federation San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom Associated country South Korea EUREKA NIP countries Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina

EUREKA projects EUREKA supports three types of projects Individual projects Small, shorter-term projects Involve participants from at least two member countries Result in a product, process or service with a significant advance in their sector Eurostars projects Small, short-term projects, involving participants from at least two member countries Consortium leader is an SME-performing R&D Programmed jointly with the European Commission Cluster projects EURIPIDES, ITEA2, CATRENE, EUROGIA, ACQUENAU Long-term, strategically-significant initiatives Large number of participants, many from Europe’s major companies Develop generic technologies of key importance to European competitiveness

Running individual projects by technological area EUREKA fields Running individual projects by technological area (number of projects)

Czech participation in EUREKA (November 2011) 53 running projects (84.8 M€) SMEs 44 Research Instit. 9 Universities 14 LC 22 (total 89) 197 finished projects (125,17 M€) SMEs 177 Research Instit. 61 Universities 64 LC 60 (total 362)

Czech participation in EUREKA Project co-funding EUREKA funding is targeted co-financing from governmental budget for international R&D cooperation All types of organisations: SMEs, Universities and Research institutes (incl. Academy of Sciences), not Large companies Eureka CZ (LF) from VES 2011 Support covered up to 50 % of relevant budget of involving Czech participant(s) in EUREKA project Financial limits of support: 80 000 € / 120 000 €  (2 000 000 CZK/3 000 000 CZK) per project / year

Czech participation in EUREKA (Number of projects 1995 - 2010)

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Awarded projects E! 3109 EULASNET EXPLOSIVES ANALYSER Ministerial Conference in Ljubljana 2008 E! 3161 LOGCHAIN+ E-RAILMAP Ministerial Conference in Lisbon 2009 E!2365 MEDEA+2A302 ONOM@TOPIC FR, CZ, HU, IT, NL, ES, SE) Ministerial Conference in Berlin 2010

Thank you for your attention www.eurekanetwork.org www.msmt-vyzkum.cz www.msmt.cz Josef Martinec National Project Coordinator tel: +420234811512 josef.martinec@msmt.cz