European Grants Advisor

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European Grants Advisor EUGA
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EUGA Grants Advisor

• Take the opportunity to GROW your business
• Develop your product
• Investigate an innovative idea
• Compete!
• Take the risk of expanding / changing your
  business
• - And get financial support to do so!

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Opportunity External funding for development
EU Lisbon Agenda SMEs are key to economic
growth External funding available for innovation
and development 1500 grant schemes for SMEs in
the UK 117bn grants, loans in 2000-2006 in EU
10bn in the UK
Innovation SMEs ISVs!
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Innovation grants regional / national

• Grant for RD
• Micro Projects Low cost development projects,
  simple prototype of new product or process.
• Up to 50, max 20k for SMEs lt 10 employees.
• Research Projects New scientific or technical
  knowledge to develop a new product or process.
• Up to 60, max 75k for SMEs lt50 employees.
• Development Projects Industrial research into a
  pre-production prototype.
• Up to 35, max 200k lt 250 employees.
• Exceptional Projects Projects with strategic
  importance for a industrial sector. 
• Up to 35, max 500k lt 250 employees.

Collaborative RD - between science
organisations and businesses. 63 m is
available for the Spring 2006, 25-75, up to
1-2m per project.

• Tax credits for RD
• additional tax relief for expenditure on RD
• SMEs 15 of RD expenditures
• Large companies 7.5 of RD expenditures.

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European innovation grants

• CIP - Competitiveness and Innovation Programme
• Call announced June 2006
• Global Budget 4.22 billion.
• The scheme is composed of three programmes
• Entrepreneurship and Innovation programme.
• ICT Policy Support Programme.
• Intelligent Energy Programme.

• eTEN - Trans-European e-Services for all
• Demonstration of the eService/eApplication in at
  least 2 countries 50 grant
• Full implementation of the service in at least 2
  countries 30 grant
• eGovernment
• eLearning
• eHealth
• eInclusion
• Trust Security
• eServices for SMEs

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What is EUGA?

• GOAL
• Make it easier for SMEs to grow their
• businesses by making grants visible
• and available
• creating better projects
• improving success rates

• Grant are not being
• used by SMEs
• Only 4 of SMEs
• apply for grants
• Only 25 succeed
• Leaving 1 successful SME applicants!

• Aims to increase businesses' awareness of EU
  funds
• Helps companies to identify grants to assess
  eligibility
• Facilitates application processes

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EUGA is virtual and physical
EUGA Off-Line Deliverables
Facilitation
Focus Eligibility check Consultancy 1.
time-saving (x10) 2. higher success rate (x2)
Local Boards
Rolling Client Workshop
European, national and regional
grants Pre-qualification of best grants
EUGA Online Deliverables
Awareness Access
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EUGA on the web www.microsoft.co.uk/euga
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Specific and alert set-up
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Listing of funds
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Details
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Consultancy support and facilitation

• Personalised services
• Focus grants search
• Help select grants and projects
• Take away red tape
• Understand grants criteria
• Understand political priorities
• Write and submit applications (no win/no fee
  basis)
• Support European projects identify EU partners

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Is EUGA something for my company?

• IF
• Your company is technically innovative
• Your company needs funding to execute projects
• THEN
• Use the EUGA web site to search for grants /
  opportunities
• Contact EUGA consultant to explore grant
  potential for specific projects

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Contact EUGA
Tanja Trier Rasmussen EUGA Consultant   mobile
44 (0) 7843 780244 e-mail v-ttrier_at_microsoft.com
To learn more, visit EUGA www.microsoft.com/uk/e
uga
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Grant details Collaborative RD

• Basic research
• Experimental or theoretical work to acquire new
  knowledge of phenomena and observable facts,
  without any particular application/use in view
• Applied research
• Original investigation to acquire new know-ledge
  directed towards a specific practical aim
• Experimental development
• Systematic work, drawing on existing knowledge,
  directed to creating new materials, products,
  processes, systems and services

• Eligible costs
• Personnel costs
• Materials consumed
• Travel and Subsistence
• Capital equipment and
• tooling
• Sub-contracts
• Consultancy
• Fees and fees for trial and
• testing
• Market assessment
• Feasibility studies
• Preparation of Technical
• Report
• Patent costs (only SME)
• Project management

Type of project Product use Grant
level Business to business Basic research
50 Applied research 40
Experimental dev. 25 Business to science
Basic research 75 Applied
research 50 Experimental dev.
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