1. ACCESS4SMES Access to Risk Finance and SMEs NCP cooperation Network
On-site mentoring mission in Bulgaria
Sofia, October 16, 2018

2. OVERALL OBJECTIVES Improve capacities of SME&ARF NCPs
Identify and share key success factors for SMEs’ participation in H2020
Assess the impact of the SME Instrument on beneficiaries
Spread knowledge and information on financial instruments
Enhance the outreach of the SME&ARF NCP Network and maximise its impact

3. Participant organisation name
A4SMES CONSORTIUM
Participant No *
Participant organisation name
Country
1 (Coordinator)
AGENZIA PER LA PROMOZIONE DELLA RICERCA EUROPEA - APRE IT 2
CENTRO PARA EL DESARROLLO TECNOLOGICO INDUSTRIAL - CDTI ES 3
OESTERREICHISCHE FORSCHUNGSFOERDERUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH - FFG AT 4
INSTYTUT PODSTAWOWYCH PROBLEMOW TECHNIKI POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK – IPPT PAN PL 5
MATIMOP, ISRAELI INDUSTRY CENTER FOR RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT – MATIMOP IL 6
DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUER LUFT - UND RAUMFAHRT EV - DLR DE 7
NORGES FORSKNINGSRAD - THE RESEARCH COUNCIL OF NORWAY - RCN NO 8
BPIFRANCE FINANCEMENT SA - BPIFRANCE FR 9
FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY HELLAS – FORTH GR 10
ENTERPRISE IRELAND IE 11
FUNDACAO PARA A CIENCIA E A TECNOLOGIA - FCT PT 12
GIS-TRANSFERCENTER FOUNDATION – GIS TF BG
12 CORE PARTNERS +
39 ASSOCIATED PARTNERS

4. STRUCTURE

5. Lead Participant Short Name
WORKING PLAN WP
Work Package Title
Lead Participant Short Name 1
Project management
APRE 2
WP Services (benchmarking/trainings/ meet and exchange workshops) and cooperation with SME related networks (EEN)
IPPT PAN 3
Project quality – identifying and sharing good SME practices in H2020 projects
DLR 4
Assessing the Roll-out of winning proposals and the evaluation of relevant impacts
CDTI 5
Fostering the use of Financial Instruments 6
Stakeholder engagement, communication and dissemination
FORTH

6. WP5 Task 5.4
On-site mentoring missions for a more systematic use of EU financial instruments
Guarantee on loans : InnovFin SMEG
Equity : InnovFin Equity

7. 6 On-site mentoring missions
Republic of Slovenia
Slovak Republic
FYROM
Greece
Republic of Lithuania
Bulgaria

8. On-site mentoring missions
Aim :
Develop a more systematic use of EU backed financial instruments
Mission Agenda :
A round of collective or bilateral meetings to analyse the the lacks/needs of the country
Roadmap design with the identified potential for the country

9. Thank you to ARF and SME’s NCP
for organising this mission and meetings with
the national stakeholders of Bulgaria