1. Financial Support to Third Parties (cascade funding)

2. Financial Support to Third Parties
Benefit for SMEs
Access to advanced digital technologies and competences
Access to infrastructure to test digital innovation
Financial support from the EC (typically from to EUR)
Quick funding decisions (typically a few weeks)
Call for proposals in all four areas
How it works
Online submission / description of project idea
How do products, processes or services become more competitive through the adoption of latest digital technologies
Ranking of submitted project ideas

3. Financial Support to Third Parties
Open call process
Application ends with fixed dates or cut-offs
Easy online registration and proposal submission
FAQs and guidelines available
Evaluation
Evaluation panel formed by external experts
Defined evaluation criteria such as impact, excellence, quality
Short evaluation process (4-7 weeks)

4. Financial Support to Third Parties
Granted project / Application Experiment (AE)
Pan-European, cross-border collaboration
Selected company is not part of the SAE project consortium
Dedicated consortium adapted to the SME and partners involved
Signature of an AE dedicated Standard Contract (workplan, budget, IPs, etc.)
Duration of AE is 6 to 18 months

5. Financial Support to Third Parties
Who profits
SMEs, start-ups, midcaps
H2020 eligible countries
Innovative companies (high-tech)
Traditional companies (non-tech)
Various application domains
Advantages for SMEs
Funds from the EU passed on to the SMEs directly by the technology provider
No entering into a complex contract with the European Commission
Lean contract with one of the technology providers