© EIPA – Marco Lopriore / EU enterprise and CIP Marco Lopriore Senior Lecturer Applying successfully to the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme

© EIPA – Marco Lopriore / EU enterprise and CIP Budget: € million for ; 60 % increase in annual spending on competitiveness and innovation by 2013 compared to 2006 Intervention mechanisms: - Community financial instruments for SMEs - Business and innovation support services - Pilot and Market replication projects - Policy development at Community level as well as at national, regional and local level Annual work programmes for each of the 3 specific programmes:  Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme  ICT Policy Support Programme  Intelligent Energy Europe CIP

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© EIPA – Marco Lopriore / EU enterprise and CIP

© EIPA – Marco Lopriore / EU enterprise and CIP Serbia in CIP since 2009

© EIPA – Marco Lopriore / EU enterprise and CIP Simplification of structure of CIP incl. € 1130 m for finan.instr. € 585 m for eco- innovation STEER SAVEALTENER

© EIPA – Marco Lopriore / EU enterprise and CIP Pilot and market replication projects Projects: First applications or market replications of techniques, products or practices which have been technically demonstrated with success, but owing to residual risk, have not yet significantly penetrated the market and support to interoperability (for ICT based services).

© EIPA – Marco Lopriore / EU enterprise and CIP Who and how to apply? Who can apply: A wide range of businesses, organisations and individuals & EU Member states & Certain third countries Check for each call: Eligibility criteria differ from one funding scheme to the other; it might also differ between two different calls within the same funding scheme Grants for projects and other intervention mechanisms –Through calls for proposals launched by EC Contracts for studies and other services –Covered by calls for tenders launched by EC Community financial instruments for SMEs –implemented by the EIF through financial intermediaries (e.g. banks) or specialised funds

© EIPA – Marco Lopriore / EU enterprise and CIP Innovation for Reducing pollution and optimising resource use What is Eco-innovation in CIP ?  New production processes or business methods lowering costs and environmental impacts  Environmentally-friendly products and services addressing new needs, new markets  Voluntary approaches to environmental management, eco-innovation clusters and networks

© EIPA – Marco Lopriore / EU enterprise and CIP Eco-innovation : opportunities and challenges

© EIPA – Marco Lopriore / EU enterprise and CIP Support to Eco-innovation in CIP Via Financial instruments (€228 million)  Investment in Venture Capital funds active in the field of eco-innovation  Capacity building for the technical capacity of financial intermediaries Pilot and market replication projects (€205 million)  Innovative products, services, clean technologies developed by or for SMEs  Environmental management, eco-design, eco- labelling  Eco-innovation networks and clusters

© EIPA – Marco Lopriore / EU enterprise and CIP PRIORITY AREAS Material recycling ex. improved sorting process for waste Building and construction sector ex. environmental building materials Food and drink sector by ex. better water management processes Greening business by ex. subsituting scarce material with secondary raw materials 2010 Call on Eco innovation Innovative, Large but priority to SME, 1 partner can submit but clear EU added value and high potential for market replication MARKET UPTAKE ! Typical project € EU covers 50% Open closes 9 september 2010 Between 2008 and 2013 budget of € 200 mn 2010 call with 35 mn

© EIPA – Marco Lopriore / EU enterprise and CIP. Call 2009 Eco innovation projects First application and market replication projects

© EIPA – Marco Lopriore / EU enterprise and CIP Eco-innovation as borderline to other funding programmes

© EIPA – Marco Lopriore / EU enterprise and CIP. ICT PSP policy support programme Three main interlinked objectives –develop the single information space –wider uptake and better use of ICT –an inclusive Information Society Main instruments: –Pilot projects –Best practice exchanges and Networking –Policy analysis and promotion actions

© EIPA – Marco Lopriore / EU enterprise and CIP Single information space –Access to services, interoperability, digital content, security and governance Innovation and investment in ICT –Promoting best use of ICTs in SMEs and public services, skills, partnerships and investment Inclusive information society –Accessibility, privacy, quality and availability of public interest services ICT PSP policy support programme

© EIPA – Marco Lopriore / EU enterprise and CIP ICT Calls for proposals ies/ict_psp/participating/calls/ ies/ict_psp/participating/calls/ ies/ict_psp/participating/calls/

© EIPA – Marco Lopriore / EU enterprise and CIP ICT Calls for proposals

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© EIPA – Marco Lopriore / EU enterprise and CIP Energy supply security, competitiveness and sustainability Objectives Intelligent Energy Europe: Promote: Energy efficiency & rational use of resources (SAVE) New & renewable energy sources (ALTENER) Energy efficiency and new and renewable energy sources in transport (STEER) Main instruments: Promotion and dissemination projects Market replication projects

© EIPA – Marco Lopriore / EU enterprise and CIP capacity building diffusion know how exchange of experiences awareness training BUT NO Hardware, research nor demonstration projects Open since March closes 24 June 2010 Intelligent Energy Europe Call for proposal CIP EIE 2010 Current call € 56 mn available 2010 Themes: SAVE: efficiency focus on buildings efficiency and working with consumers Eco design ALTENER: renewable electricity and local energy plans STEER: training /Capac.building on energy aspects in transports 3y projects 3 partners min EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Croatia Budget between 0.5 and 2.5 € mn EU covers up to 75 %

© EIPA – Marco Lopriore / EU enterprise and CIP Steps to follow What should you do ? subscribe to IEE news alert do not duplicate but build on existing projects; Ex: CHANGE project – promoting intelligent energy for SMEs check IEE project data bases pre check you idead with EC participate to IEE info days find partners through online submission.... good luck ! Ex: Change project on Chambers promoting Intelligent Energy in SME financed under IEE

© EIPA – Marco Lopriore / EU enterprise and CIP Your first step