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EUREKA

The EUREKA Initiative

A Platform for International Cooperation

Michel Vanavermaete EUREKA Secretariat

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What is EUREKA?

• An intergovernmental initiative of 41 European countries

• Created in 1985 (nearly 30 years existence)

• Support European industrial competitiveness through

cooperative innovation projects


What is EUREKA project ?

• A transnational(international) cooperation project

• The project consortium is composed of at least 2 organisation of 2

different EUREKA member or associated countries

• Financed using national and regional public and private

funding

• Each organisation financed through national(regional) public funding

following the national(regional) funding rules

• Market-oriented projects results

• The research’s results must be marketable products, processes or

services for civilian use

• Bottom-up

• The consortium – usually led by a company - decides on the project

aim.


EUREKA members and associated

FYR Macedonia

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Iceland

Ireland

Israel

Italy

Latvia

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Malta

Monaco

Montenegro

The Nertherlands

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Russian Federation

San Marino

Serbia

Slovakia

Slovenia

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Turkey

Ukraine

United Kingdom

EUREKA has 41 full Members:

2 National Information Points (NIP):

Albania

Bosnia-Herzegovina

2 Associated Countries:

Canada

South Korea

(South Africa joining soon)

Austria

Belgium

Bulgaria

Croatia

Cyprus

Czech Republic

Denmark

Estonia

European Union

Finland

France


EUREKA participants

EUREKA member country

Associated country (may lead projects but it must include a full EUREKA member; 1+1 rule)

Country has participated as a ‘third’ country (may contribute to projects with two EUREKA members; 2+1 rule)


19%

14%

11%

10% 6%

6%

5%

29%

Participation from non-member countries - EUREKA individual projects and Eurostars

Canada

South Korea

U.S.A.

China

Japan

Chile

Brazil

Other

A total of 1524 project applications from non-EUREKA member countries


EUREKA three models of cooperation

1. EUREKA Individual projects:

- Open Calls (4 cut-offs per year); - Bottom-up (market driven); - Any type of

participant from at least two member states; - National Evaluation, Funding,

Monitoring; - Eureka final report and Market Impact Assessment;

2. EUREKA Clusters & Umbrellas:

- Thematic Calls (1-2 per year); - One or Two Step Centralised Cluster Evaluation and

Labeling; National funding decision based on a national review of the Cluster

Evaluation; - Cluster monitoring and impact assessment;

- Thematic networks focussing on a specific technology area to generate projects;

3. Eurostars (EUREKA –EC joint Programme):

- Open Calls (2 cut-offs per year); R&D Performing SME Driven; Central Evaluation;

- National funding; - National & Eureka monitoring; Eureka Progress & Final Reports;

- Eureka Impact assessment;


EUREKA individual projects

> Small, shorter-term projects

> Involve participants from at least two EUREKA member countries (Since 2012, 1 full member + 1 associated country)

> Result in a product, process or service with a significant advance in their sector

> Each partner is evaluated and funded by national funding bodies


EUREKA Clusters

> Medium-term, strategically-significant Industry led initiatives

> Large number of participants, including the major companies from across and beyond Europe.

> Develop generic technologies of key importance to European competitiveness


EUREKA Clusters

Communications

Energy Water technologies

> Average:

• 18.5 million euro

• 20 participants

• 40 months duration

Information technology


EUREKA Clusters

> Pre-competitive research projects lead by Europe’s

biggest companies


EUREKA Umbrellas

> Thematic networks focussing on a specific technology area or business sector

> Facilitate the generation of E! projects in their own target area

> Coordinated and implemented by a working group consisting of EUREKA representatives and industrial experts

Manufacturing Materials &

Manufacturing Tourism


SMEs and internationalisation

> SMEs are the European growth engine:

• More than 99% of all companies being either small or medium-sized

• 85% of all jobs created over the last years are in SMEs

> Benefits of internationalisation:

• Internationalised SMEs create more jobs

• Internationalised SMEs are more innovative

• Internationalised SMEs are more competitive


The EUREKA Network supports SMEs with

specific funding instruments !

The Eurostars Programme

Eurostars

> The first joint EUREKA-EU funding and support programme for R&D-performing SMEs

> Small, short-term projects, involving participants from at least two Eurostars participating countries

> Consortium leader is an R&D-performing SME


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© EUREKA Secretariat 2014

Eurostars (so far) in numbers

€1.1Bn Inc. €400M public funds

783 Approved

projects

From:

3541 applications, involving 11748 organizations, worth €4.9 billion Euro

2600

participants

3 to 4 participants

2 to 3 countries involved

29 month average duration

1.4 M€

If there was such a thing as

an average project…


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© EUREKA Secretariat 2014

Over 3500 projects submitted… > 783 projects funded (1.1 Bn€ total value)

> 79% of participants are SMEs > Annual approval rate of 20-25% > Fast processes compared to equivalent programmes

(less than 10 months from application to funding received)

Eurostars 2007-2013 Eurostars II 2014-2020

> *R&D definition widened > Even faster time to contract > More standardisation

>Remove duplication > Fast and simple

>Reduce bureaucracy > Partnership with third countries

>South Korea, Canada

2014 to 2020

33 countries involved + third countries

R&D performing SME* lead

2014 – 2020

Budget is tripled to 1.15 Billion €

33 countries involved

R&D performing SME lead

2008 - 2013

400 M€


Typical EUREKA projects

EUREKA

Clusters

projects

EUREKA

Individual

projects

Eurostars

projects

Average costs per project €18.5m €2.0m €1.4m

Average number of

participant

20 7 3-4

Average project duration (months)

40 33 29

Consortium Leader (as most frequently observed)

Large Company SME R&D SME


EUREKA Portfolio

Total Number of EUREKA projects: 5 531


EUREKA impact

2 M€

Private

Funds


Eurostars impact

With 1M€ of public funds, 10M€ of additional turnover is expected


EUREKA Clusters figures & impact

since 1987

Total project costs for Clusters projects: 14.9 B€

Public funds: 7.4 B€

E! budget portfolio: ~70%

Leverage effects of € 1 million of public funds

On additional turnover generation: 9.5

Estimated effect on direct jobs: 37.1

Estimated jobs saved & created: 270,000

Estimated additional turnover generated: 70 B€


Success story

High-Speed Scanning Atomic Force

Microscope

This project will create a triple-scanning

microscope (TRIPLE-S) by merging a dual beam

microscope with a novel high-speed atomic force

microscope.

EUROSTARS project > E! 8213 TRIPLE-S MICROSCOPE Countries >

Austria, Bulgaria, Switzerland

Cost: 2.31 M€


Success stories

Beach environmental treatment

Elimination of contaminant organics from

residual waters through oxidation treatment.

Investigating where the pollutants originate

from, their evolution and elimination.

EUREKA individual project >

E! 3385 COSTAS Countries >

Bulgaria, Greece, Spain

Cost: 3.58 M€


Success stories

Agile software development of

embedded systems

Develop an agile software development

framework and deployment model for the

embedded systems domain and demonstrate

its feasibility in a number of embedded

software industrial projects.

EUREKA Cluster project > ITEA AGILE

Countries > Belgium, Bulgaria, Finland, France,

Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Slovenia,

Spain

Cost: 20,55 M€


Success stories

Managing Academic Knowledge with

INtegrated, collaboratIve Tools

A database of academic knowledge, driven by

semantic algorithms, to manage and share

academic content.

Achieve superior recommendations based on

personalised user profiles and user

preferences.

EUROSTARS project > E! 4811 MAKIN’IT

UK Company Mendeley has sold their

developed technology for $ 100 M

Countries >

Austria, UK, Estonia

Cost: 0.86 M€


EUREKA Wins - Success Stories

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