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SME Instrument @finodexproject #publicfunding #myFIWAREstory
Albert Alonso aalonso@zabala.es
13/04/2016
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Support highly innovative SMEs with a clear
commercial ambition and a potential for high growth
and internationalisation
SMEs on
their own or
consortia
Broad
topics:
nearly
bottom-up
4 cut-off
dates per
year
SME Instrument
3 DIFFERENT PHASES
SME Instrument. Phase 1 3
Funding 50.000€
Proposal 10 pages (a draft of your business plan)
Score +13/15
Lenght 6 months
Activities covered:
risk assessment, market study, user involvement,
Intellectual Property (IP) management, innovation
strategy development, partner search, feasibility of
concept (this is the basis for the Phase 2 proposal).
SME Instrument. Phase 2 4
Funding 70% [€0.5M - €2M]
Proposal 30 pages (an
extended business plan)
Score +12/15
Lenght 1-2 years
Activities covered
demonstration, testing, prototyping, piloting, scaling-up,
miniaturisation, design, market replication
SME Instrument. Phase 3 5
No direct funding!
Activities covered
Indirect support measures and services as well as access
to the financial facilities. Building a community of
successful European SMEs and easing investment by VC
and big companies.
SME Instrument. What’s the best topic? 6
Besides the topic as such, check the
success rate and choose wisely.
SME Instrument. Proposal Style 7
Use graphics, tables, figures and make the
text easy-to-read
SME Instrument. Who decides? 8
- Profile of SME Instrument evaluators-
This is the kind of people you need to
convince! Make it as a pitch-deck not as a
technical description.
SME Instrument. Time dedication 9
1 Month: Phase 1 (last week for refining)
2 Months: Phase 2 (2 last weeks for
refining)
SME Instrument. Resubmission 10
Proposals get funded after several
resubmissions. Don’t give up!
SME Instrument. Dates 11
Phase 1
Phase 2
24-02-2016
03-05-2016
07-09-2016
09-11-2016
15-02-2017
03-05-2017
06-09-2017
08-11-2017
03-02-2016
14-04-2016
15-06-2016
13-10-2016
18-01-2017
06-04-2017
01-06-2017
18-10-2017
SME Instrument: Success Stories 12
Also from the FIWARE Accelerate Programme
2 out of the 3 best projects in FINODEX call 1
succeded in SME phase 1 instrument too.
SME Instrument. Final advise 13
Page 1 is not a copy
paste. Provoke emotions
in the reader! It’s a pitch.
It’s not about luck. It’s about
writing a convincing proposal out
of a good project.
Evaluate your chances. Check
the statistics, topics, etc.
Thanks!
info@finodex-project.eu
www.finodex-project.eu
finodex Future Internet Open Data Expansion
This project is co-funded by the European Union
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