Alfredo Escardino EUROPEAN COMMISSION Enterprise and Industry DG Unit A1General Coordination

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Alfredo EscardinoEUROPEAN COMMISSIONEnterprise
and Industry DGUnit A1/General Coordination
European Commission
EU Grants and Incentives seminar
                                                  
    
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The Lisbon Goal
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CIP 9 previous programmes
eCONTENT
Innovation
Modinis
MAP
4 common objectives
ENTREPRENERSHIP (PARTICULARLY SMEs)
INNOVATION AND ECO-INNOVATION
INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECNOLOGIES
INTELLIGENT USE OF ENERGY
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CIP Budget breakdown
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1st pillar EIP

• Objectives
• Access to finance
• Cross border cooperation
• Innovation and eco-innovation
• Entrepreneurship
• Business and Innovation Support Services
• Instruments
• Policy analyses, development and coordination
• Financial instruments
• Innovation projects
• Network of Business and Innovation support
  structures

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Business and Innovation Support Services in EIP
Network partners will provide - Information,
Feedback, Business Cooperation,
Internationalisation Services - Services for
Innovation and the transfer of Technology and
Knowledge - Services encouraging the
participation in FP 7
Some of this services are currently provided by
and
No wrong door no closed door
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Support to Eco-Inovation in EIP

• Objectives
• Innovative products, services, clean technologies
  developed by or for SMEs
• Environmental management, eco-design,
  eco-labelling
• Eco-innovation networks and clusters
• Instruments
• Financial Instruments
• Pilot and Market Replication Projects
• Policy analysis and promotion actions

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2nd pillar - ICT

• Objectives
• Develop the single information space
• Wider uptake and better use of ICT
• An inclusive Information Society
• Instruments
• Pilot projects
• Best practice exchanges and Networking
• Policy analysis and promotion actions

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3rd pillar - IEE

• Objectives
• Energy efficiency rational use of resources
  (SAVE)
• New renewable energy sources (ALTENER)
• Energy efficiency and new and renewable energy
  sources in transport (STEER)
• Instruments
• Promotion and dissemination projects 
• Pilot and Market Replication Projects

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Some final remarks

• CIP is a framework programme
• To follow the annual Work Programmes
• EIP Work Programme 2007 already adopted. To be
  published soon.
• EIP first relevant calls for 2007
• Network of business and innovation support
  structures
• Strengthening IPR dimension
• Europe Innova

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Further Information

• http//ec.europa.eu/enterprise/
  enterprise_policy/cip/index_en.htm