H2020 LeIT Information Day

Horizon 2020 Industry Leadership pillar - Info Day

Western Gateway Building,University College Cork, 10.00am

Target Audience: SMEs, MNCs and Academic Community interested in applied research/demonstration/validation/testing activities. Participation can be as a single entity or in multi-partner consortium developing innovative new product/process ready for industrial uptake.

Morning: The National Contact Points in Ireland for Horizon 2020 will introduce the Horizon 2020 funding opportunities for the upcoming call 2016/7. Sub programmes covered: ICT, Nanotechnology, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Space, SME Instrument and Fast Track Innovation Pilot.

Afternoon: National Contact Points will be available for individual meetings on the H2020 programme.

AGENDA

10.00am – Registration

10.45am – Welcome – Prof Paul Giller - UCC Registrar and Senior Vice President Academic

10.50am – Key note – Minister for Skills, Research and Innovation, Damien English, T.D

11.10am – Intro to the day – MC – Dr Seán McCarthy, Hyperion Ltd .

11.15am – The ICT Work Programme 2016-7 – Mr Stephen O’Reilly – National Delegate and Contact Point for H2020 ICT in Ireland, Enterprise Ireland

11.40am – The NMPB Work Programme 2016-7 – Dr Sergio Ceballos - National Delegate and Contact Point for H2020 NMPB in Ireland, Enterprise Ireland

12.05pm – The SME Instrument and Fast Innovation Pilot – Mr Sean Burke - National Delegate and Contact Point for H2020 SMEs in Ireland, Enterprise Ireland

12.30pm – SME perspective H2020 – Inform Bio Ltd – Dr Hillary Cronin

12.55pm – Academic Perspective H2020 - Prof John Morrison – UCC

13.20pm – Final Remarks and close – Dr Sonia Monteiro – Research Support Services UCC

Lunch Break

13.45pm – 1 to 1 individual meetings – H2020 National Contact Points

Horizon 2020

Horizon 2020 is the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme ever with nearly €80 billion of funding available over 7 years (2014 to 2020). Horizon 2020 has three key pillars, excellent science, industrial leadership and societal challenges. For general information and further details about each of these pillars, visit the main webpage of Horizon 2020.

The Industrial Leadership pillar aims to speed up development of the technologies and innovations that will underpin tomorrow's businesses and help innovative European SMEs to grow into world-leading companies.

The main specific objectives are:

• Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies will provide dedicated support for research, development and demonstration and, where appropriate, for standardisation and certification, on information and communications technology (ICT), nanotechnology, advanced materials, biotechnology, advanced manufacturing and processing and space.

• Access to risk finance will aim to overcome deficits in the availability of debt and equity finance for R&D and innovation-driven companies and projects at all stages of development.

• Innovation in SMEs will provide SME-tailored support to stimulate all forms of innovation in SMEs, targeting those with the potential to grow and internationalise across the single market and beyond