Capacity-building and transnational cooperation for National Contact Points (NCPs) for the EIC and Access to Risk Finance

This grant will facilitate transnational cooperation between NCPs focused on the Horizon 2020 EIC Pilot and the specific objective ‘Access to Risk Finance’. This action aims at identifying and sharing good practices and raising the general standard of support to programme applicants, taking into account the diversity of actors that make up the constituency of the EIC.

The action will involve one consortium of formally nominated NCPs in the areas of ‘Future and Emerging Technologies’, ‘Innovation in SMEs’ or ‘Access to Risk Finance’.

Activities should deliver tangible benefits to potential applicants to calls under the EIC and Access to Risk Finance. Activities should capitalise on relevant work of previous or ongoing NCP network projects, and of the 'NCP Academy' (www.ncpacademy.eu). They should also seek to enhance synergies across different parts of the framework programmes, for instance with the ERC, the EIT and financial instruments, and complementarity with activities of