Number of ongoing projects (by area)

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EUREKA
a catalyst for innovative RD projects
Svatopluk HaladaEUREKA Secretariat, Brussels
Brno, September 22, 2004
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Why EUREKA ?

• A European programme and network in field od
  applied and industrial research and innovation
  activities
• Integral component of the European Research Area
• Target group mainly industry and particular
  attention to SMEs
• Involving of research organisations
• Public funding only from member (national)
• sources - not at a central level !

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Positioning frameworks and programmes in ERA
National RD programmes
Innovation
EUREKA
JRC
esa
EU FP
European Research Labs
Basic research
CERN
COST
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The relative positions of the key
programmes of ERA
BENEFITS OF SOCIETY AND EUROPE
EUREKA
RESEARCH --- INNOVATION
ERA
FP
COST
MARKET
ERA ELEMENTS
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EUREKA history

• Historical data
• Launched in 1985 with 17 member countries from
  Western Europe and the Commission of the European
  Communities
• 1991 - EUREKA opened its doors to Central
  Eastern European countries
• 1998 - Encouraged project participation from
  anywhere in the world, allowing industry to work
  with the best
• Currently 33 member countries and the Commission
  of the European Union

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34 Members
Including two future candidates for EU accession
and non-EU members
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The EUREKA structure
Operational
Policy / Strategy
Ministerial Conference
CHAIRMANSHIP
NPC Network and National Offices
Executive Group
Interparliamentary Conference
EUREKA Secretariat
High Level Group
CUSTOMERS ENTERPRISES, UNIVERSITIES, RESEARCH
INSTITUTES PROJECTS
E! structure
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Why EUREKA ?
Light ex-anteevaluation

• Flexibility

Time to market reactivity Shared
responsibility Opened possibility of public
cofinancing
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Why EUREKA ?
The advantages

• ? Bottom-up project generation by partners
• Flexibility to adapt project content and
  structure
• Efficiency and limited overheads
• IPR negotiated between and owned by partners
• Exploitation of research results by project
  partners to develop new products and services
  strengthening Europes industrial competitiveness
• Set-up of de facto European standards

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2 Pillars
Strategicinitiativesfor Europe
a NetworkforSMEs
a common RDpublic-privatesynergy
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EUREKA
?
A pan European decentralised Network for
innovative projects by SMEs
19 years of experience !
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EUREKA
?
Strategic initiatives

• A favourable environment for European
  competitiveness and job creation
• Focus on the strength of European industry

(mobile communications, home of the future, smart
cards, automotive, aeronautics)
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EUREKA
?
A real public-private RD synergy increasing the
European competitiveness 3 Lisbon objective
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EUREKA participation versus total RD
participation by member
Contribution of EUREKA to the 3 objective
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What is a EUREKA project?

• A EUREKA Innovative project is
• international - partners from at least two of
  EUREKAs 34 members
• developing innovative products/processes/
  services for the market
• proposed, defined and managed by its partners
  (the bottom up approach)
• essentially industry led by industry
• financed locally

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EUREKAs bottom-up pproach

• The participants decide
• what the project aims to do
• who is in it
• how much it will cost
• how long it will take
• how it will be managed
• how risks and results will be shared

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Setting up your EUREKA project

• Key factors for success
• Clear objectives
• Right partners
• Project management
• Resources availability
• Market opportunities
• Partnership agreement

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Building cross-border partnerships

• ? 1500 finished projects
• ? 600 running projects
• Investment of 500 M each year

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Financial size of ongoing innovative EUREKA
projects
In m PClt1 1ltPClt3 3ltPClt5
5ltPClt10 10ltPClt20 20ltPClt40 PCgt40
No. of Projects
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
BIO
COM
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ENV
INF
LAS
MAT
ROB
TRA
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Participation of SMEs in EUREKA
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EUREKA Strategic initiatives

• EUREKA Cluster projects
• ICT
• Telecoms
• Energy
• Biotechnologies

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Co-ordination of Cluster projects
Partners283295168240
Countries16181319
MicrochipsSoftwareInterconnexionMicro-
Nanosystems
MEDEAITEAPIDEAEURIMUS
986 European partners working together! 1 B
each year
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Enhancing European competitiveness

• Common strategic view of industry
• Define European standards
• Prepare interoperability
• End-user focused

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Ongoing EUREKA projects by thematic
areas (Innovative projects and Cluster projects)
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Ongoing projects by project initiator
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EUREKA and FP5 project initiators
EUREKA
FP5
University
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Research
Institute
31
Others
5
Large
Company
11
SME
20
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EUREKA
Rate of success of proposals 65 Overheads of
the Initiative lt3

• More project proposals than funding available
• The return on investment of public funding by
  taxes over induced turnover is less than 2 years

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EUREKA Success story (1)

• EUREKAs support for increasing
• of European Competitiveness
• JESSI - Submicron Silicon Process Technology
• strategical project in 1988-1994
• budget 3 800 Mio Euro
• result 3 European companies in the Top 10
  ranking of microchip manufacturers
• EPROM Industralisation of Integrated Circuit
  Non-Volatile Memory
• strategical project in 1990-1994
• MEDEA Microeloctronics Programme for
  Integration Into Selected Application Systems
• MEDEA Plus - Microelectronics for Europe and
  Information Society
• IT strategical projects from 1998 till present
• budget 3 000 Mio Euro

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EUREKA Success story (2)

• EUREKAs support for increasing
• of European Competitiveness
• EURIMUS Microsystems for Information Technology
  
• strategical project in 1988-1994
• budget 3 800 Mio Euro
• ITEA - Software systems for ICT
• strategical project for software-intensive
  systems
• PIDEA and PIDEA Plus - Packaging Technologies for
  Miniaturasation in Electronic industry
• strategical project ITC Technology for Packaging
  and transport in 1999 till present
• budget 2 500 Mio Euro
• AMADEUS
• Reservation, Ticketing and Payment System of
  Flight Tickets

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EUREKA in the Czech Republic (1)

• EUREKA member since 1995
• Czech EUREKA infrastructure
•  
• EUREKA High Level Representative Mr. Karel
  Šperlink
• EUREKA National Co-ordinator Mr. Josef Martinec
• josef.martinec_at_msmt.cz
• The EUREKA NPC Secretariat Located at the
  Ministry of
• Education, Youth and Sports
• The EUREKA Board of the Czech Republic advisory
  body to MEYS
• Association of Innovative Entrepreneurship suppo
  rt of EUREKA
• 
  management in CR,
• project generation,

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EUREKA in the Czech Republic (2)

• National project assessment and procedures
• Application for public tender (one deadline per
  year)
• National evaluation procedure and EUREKA Project
• Assessment Methodology (PAM)
• Obtaining of EUREKA label by High Level Group
• Contract with MEYS CR
• Starting of national co-financing

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EUREKA in the Czech Republic (3)

• EUREKA Project funding
• Targeted co-financing from budget of the
  Ministry of
• Education, Youth and Sports (budget for RD
• International Cooperation)
• Amount of 3,5 M in 2004
• Subsidy to both public as well as private
  entities and
• to all types of organisations (SMEs, LCs,
  Universities
• and Research Institutes)
• Support should cover up to 50 of relevant
  budget of
• involving Czech organisations in project
  consortium
• Max. limitation up to 115 000 per project

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EUREKA in the Czech Republic (4)

• EUREKA NPCs services
• Partner search
• Project management support
• Financial sourcing
• Market and technological knowledge and expertise
• Contact to NPC framework

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For more information

• Have a look to the EUREKA
• public website

www.eureka.be
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EUREKA Web site

• www.eureka.be
• Project database, Partner search
• Launch project suggestion/idea
• Forthcoming events (Partnering/Brokerage,
  Conferences, etc.)
• EUREKA contacts

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Thank you for your attention
EUREKA
The European network for industry-led,
market-oriented RD
Business Conference EUREKA and the Czech
Republic Brno, September 22, 2004