Objective
The European Commission has decided to experiment under FP7 a new approach for an Exploratory Awards (EA) scheme for a limited period. As a first approach, the general aim of this EA scheme is to provide financial support to SMEs and SMEs Associations in order to submit better prepared proposals for actions under “Research for the benefit of SMEs”.The general idea of the present proposal is to identify all issues in order to implement new mechanisms of EA, targeting SMEs in FP7 Capacity Work Program. The new mechanism(s) to be developped will provide additionality to the National/Regional existing schemes, and target both countries with and without existing schemes. This “FP7 SMEs EA scheme” coordinated by OSEO innovation gathers 26 partners from 24 countries, working together during seven months on the project built on 4 steps approach, defined in the proposal 4 Work Packages. As a main deliverable, the “FP7 SMEs EA scheme” proposal will provide the European Commission with an implementation action plan, including one or several pilot funding schemes with an appropriate needed budget and a specification for the most appropriate management organisation at European level. The outputs provided by participants and associated experts, will result in an added –value roadmap for an optimised and cost-efficient implementation of the possible EA scheme.
Call for proposal
FP7-Adhoc-2007-13
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Funding Scheme
CSA-SA - Support actionsCoordinator
94710 Maisons-alfort
France
Participants (25)
1090 Wien
1030 Brussel
1060 Bruxelles
2043 Nicosia
45470 Mulheim An Der Ruhr
11510 Athens
1077 Budapest
105 Reykjavik
D03 Dublin
61500 Tel Aviv
00153 Roma
44156 Kaunas
4362 Esch Sur Alzette
MEC 0001 Pieta
0283 Oslo
00529 Warsaw
4150 649 Porto
010362 Bucharest
811 09 Bratislava - Stare Mesto
28001 Madrid
10158 Stockholm
1000 Bruxelles
DN4 5HZ Doncaster
75009 Paris
2509AC Den Haag