The EEN-Innovate Plus PT consortium maintained the objectives presented in its proposal: the continuity of the work developed in previous projects and a focus on the transition to the new challenges of the European Innovation Council.
It was our commitment to ensure that companies continued to benefit from all services without any constraints. To strengthen companies’ business innovation by ensuring the transition from the SME instrument program to the European Innovation Council, encouraging them to pursue their objectives by support and improve their management, growth and innovation skills. Following the EU goals, it continues to be central in our strategy to support the increase of SME´s internal innovation capacities, especially innovation management capacity, and thus enabling companies to access European and international markets in a competitive and sustainable way.
The main goal mentioned in the proposal, which was aligned with the implementation strategy set out in our Consortium FPA, had two specific objectives (increased with a special one):
• SMEs beneficiaries of Horizon 2020 by SME Instrument (Phase 1, Phase 2 and Phase 3), FTI - Fast Track Innovation and FET OPEN - Future and Emerging Technologies
• SMEs with significant innovation activities and a high potential for internationalization,
• SMEs awarded with a Seal of Excellence (SoE) from H2020 SME Instrument
In summary, the Consortium partners (P01-IAPMEI, P03-ANI, P10-CEC, and P11-INESC TEC) had foreseen to deliver a total of 74 services for a one-year program covering all the regions in the country.
