The European Innovation Council (EIC) supports disruptive and market-creating innovations for high-tech SMEs to scale-up and prepare for the foundation of Horizon Europe. Irish Entrepreneurs were approved €38m of funding Irish companies under this programme in 2019. Enterprise Ireland is looking to support companies to exceed this success in 2020.

Due to a proposed substantial increase to the Horizon 2020 European Innovation Council Pilot budget for March 2020, a one-off EIC Accelerator call for Green Deal start-ups and SMEs is also planned for SMEs submitting for the 19th May 2020 cut-off. Companies will need to demonstrate how their innovation contributes to the goals of the European Green Deal:

➢Increasing the EU’s climate mitigation and/or adaptation ambition;
➢Supplying clean, affordable and secure energy;
➢Transitioning of industry to a clean and/or circular economy (including waste prevention and/or recycling); ➢Building and renovating in an energy and resource efficient way;
➢Accelerating the shift to sustainable and smart mobility;
➢Transition to a fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food system;
➢Preserving and restoring ecosystems and biodiversity;
➢Realizing a zero pollution ambition and a toxic-free environment

The 7th of October 2020 cut-off for the EIC Accelerator Pilot will remain open to all kind of innovations.

Further opportunities for companies with women CEOs will be implemented in May and October, to ensure that 25% of all selected applicants in the EIC Accelerator Pilot are women-led companies. In addition, should the first round evaluation show that a minimum of 25% of companies selected for the final-stage interviews are not led by women, additional interviews will be planned.

Further details are available here: https://ec.europa.eu/info/news/increase-funding-game-changing-green-innovation-and-woman-led-companies-2020-feb-10_en and in the attached sheet available here.

Attached here you will find  presentations given at the recent Horizon 2020 Enterprise Europe Network Brokerage event at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Dublin on 4th July last:

John Magan, European Commission

Sergio Fernandez-Ceballos, Enterprise Ireland

Ann O’Connell, Irish Manufacturing Research

David Murphy, Intrigo

Craig Richmond, RMIT

Cian O’Murchu, Tyndall National Institute

Alexander Seifalian, NanoRegMed Ltd

Donal Killackey, SSPC, University of Limerick

For the next long-term EU budget 2021-2027, the Commission is proposing €100 billion for research and innovation.

A new programme – Horizon Europe – will build on the achievements and success of the previous research and innovation programme (Horizon 2020) and keep the EU at the forefront of global research and innovation. Horizon Europe is the most ambitious research and innovation programme ever.

Commission Vice-President Jyrki Katainen, responsible for Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness, said “Investing in research and innovation is investing in Europe’s future. EU funding has allowed teams across countries and scientific disciplines to work together and make unthinkable discoveries, making Europe a world-class leader in research and innovation. With Horizon Europe, we want to build on this success and continue to make a real difference in the lives of citizens and society as a whole.”
Press Release: http://www.europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-18-4041_en.htm?locale=en

Minister Halligan welcomes the appointment of Sharon Bailey as the Chairperson of the European Association of Research Managers Administrators (EARMA) – DJEI, 28th April 2017

Date: Wednesday, 24.05.2017

Time: 10.30-11.45 am (Central European Time/ UCT + 1) – the webinar session will open 15 minutes before the official start

Location: Webinar

Host: European IPR Helpdesk

Speaker: Jörg Scherer (European IPR Helpdesk)

Level of Expertise: Basic

Language: English

Prerequisites: General knowledge on Intellectual Property Rights

The webinar will provide an overview of key aspects in the field of intellectual property management in Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions.

Learning Objectives

This training session provides an overview of:
• Relevant IP issues for MSCA proposals
• Particularities of MSCA grant agreements
• Ownership of background and results
• Questions from MSCA participants received at the EIPRHD
• MSCA success stories

Duration: 60 minutes (presentation) + 15 minutes (Q&As)

Fee: The webinar is offered free of charge.

Registration: This webinar is fully booked.

For further information on how to join our webinar sessions, please have a look at our quick guide available for download below. For our web-based training sessions we use WebEX Conferencing Technology. We would like you to take note, that you will be asked by WebEx to install a browser application (i. e. the WebEx event center) on your computer when you use WebEx for the first time. This will only take a few minutes, but just for you to have this step in mind, and to possibly inform your system administrator.

Webinar: IP Management in H2020 – with a focus on MSCA | IPR Helpdesk

Registration: This webinar is fully booked.

For further information on how to join our webinar sessions, please have a look at our quick guide available for download below. For our web-based training sessions we use WebEX Conferencing Technology. We would like you to take note, that you will be asked by WebEx to install a browser application (i. e. the WebEx event center) on your computer when you use WebEx for the first time. This will only take a few minutes, but just for you to have this step in mind, and to possibly inform your system administrator.

Related Documents:

EU IPR HD – Webinar Quick Guide 2016.pdf

See DJEI press release at:
https://www.djei.ie/en/News-And-Events/Department-News/2016/June/15062016.html

A special Information and Networking Day dedicated to H2020’s ICT-15 ‘Big Data PPP: Large Scale Pilot actions in sectors best benefitting from data-driven innovation’ (also known as Lighthouse Projects) will be organised by DG Connect – Data Value Chain Unit, on 1st December 2015 in Albert Borschette Congress Center in Brussels.

Lighthouse projects are large scale Innovation Actions aiming to practically demonstrate how big data technologies can be transformative for data intensive industrial domains. Lighthouse projects are expected to deliver commercial and technological impact. Possible industrial domains of applications include (but are not limited to) health, energy, environment, earth observation, geospatial, transport, manufacturing, finance, media.

Further Information

The Predict Conference Dublin takes place from the 15-17 September 2015 at the Royal Dublin Society (RDS). This interactive conference will feature leading international thinkers in the areas of Data, Predictive Models, Technology and Decision making. The Predict Conference’s goal is to democratise big data modelling and make it accessible and available to everyone. It will be an interactive meeting designed to demystify big data analytics and introduce you to people who can help.

As part of the Conference, Enterprise Europe Network Ireland in association with Enterprise Europe Network Northern Ireland will host an INTERNATIONAL BROKERAGE EVENT on WEDNESDAY 16TH SEPTEMBER.

Focus
The focus of the event will be on;

• Predictive Analytics – Impact on Business Decisions
• Technology – Hardware and Software – From Data to Decisions
• The Data Age – Data Generation & Expert Models
• Business Impact – Case Studies
• Data Science – Mathematical Methods & Predictive Modelling
• Human Health – Food Safety, Nutrition, Predictive Intake Modelling & Chemical Exposure

The Brokerage Event will give registered participants the opportunity to meet potential business or technology partners in pre-arranged face to face meetings.

Checkout the following links for more information about the conference http://www.predictconference.com/

and about the brokerage event:

https://horizon2020.idirus.com/sites/default/files/event/files/predict_brokerage_event_details.pdf