EUREKA EUREKA Programme...... Shaping tomorrow s innovations today EUREKA in glance > 2 A European Research Programme > Not an EU-Programme (but complementarity and co-operation - ERA) > Bottom-up project generation by partners (no thematic calls) > Flexible mechanism and lack of bureaucracy > Market orientation > Target group: mainly industry - particular attention to SMEs > Funding: public, private, own (each member country has national criteria and schemes for co-financing)
Positioning of European R&D Programmes and Frameworks > 3 Innovation EUREKA esa Basic research EU FP COST COST European Research Labs and Institutions CERN JRC National R&D Programmes The past is history > 4 > Established in 1985 > An initiative of French President Mitterrand and German Chancellor Kohl > 17 countries and the Commission of the European Communities
EUREKA programme > 5 > Intergovernmental network: 39 countries and the EU Commission (27 EU countries, 12 other European countries, European Commission) > Projects are nationally-financed > Results are market-oriented > Projects are (mostly) industry-driven, from the bottom up principle Intergovernmental network > 6 There are EUREKA offices in all 39 countries and at the European Commission (DG Research) > EUREKA national offices are usually based in the relevant Ministry (for industry, economy, science, research ) of each member country
EUREKA member countries > 7 Austria Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia European Commission Finland France Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Associated country: South Korea EUREKA NIP: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina Malta Monaco The Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russian Federation San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom Market oriented > 8 EUREKA addresses applied /industrial and not basic research projects The result of a EUREKA project must be a marketable - product, process or service
Nationally financed > 9 Financing for EUREKA projects comes from two main sources: National public sources (national research and innovation programmes, innovation funds, etc.) Investment by participants (industry) The three pillars of EUREKA > 10 EUREKA supports three types of projects Individual Projects > Small, shorter-term projects > Involve participants from at least two member countries > Result in a product, process or service with a significant advance in their sector Cluster Projects > Long-term, strategically-significant initiatives > Large number of participants, many from Europe s major companies > Develop generic technologies of key importance to European competitiveness Eurostars Projects > Consortium leader is an R&D-performing SME > Small, short-term projects, involving participants from at least two member countries > Programmed jointly with the European Commission
EUREKA Cluster projects > 11 Long-term, strategically-significant initiatives Road maps, White book, The model for JTIs Large number of participants, many from Europe s major companies (e.g. Philips, Alcatel, Siemens, Infineon, etc...) Develop generic technologies of key importance for European competitiveness EUREKA Cluster projects > 12 > Information technologies > Communication technologies > Biotechnology > Energy > More infos on websites of EUREKA Cluster projects
EUREKA Individual project > 13 A EUREKA Individual project is > international partners from at least two of EUREKA's 39 members > small, short-term projects (0.5-5.0 Meuro; 12-36 months) > proposed, defined and managed by its consortium (project partners) > mainly industry-led > financed nationally > result in a product, process or service representing a significant advance in their sector EUREKA bottom-up approach > 14 The EUREKA project consortium decides > Project objectives and content > Who they choose to work with > How much it will cost > How long it will take > How it will be managed > How risks and results will be shared > Ownership of results (IPR, etc.)
Who decides on Individual projects? > 15 Group of the High Level Representatives EUREKA High Level Representatives act on behalf of government (ministers) Meet four times a year to review project applications, decide the strategy, money, Award the internationally-recognised EUREKA label National funding decision EUREKA Individual projects building cross-border partnerships > 16 > Some 26 billion Euro of public and private money invested since 1985 > Over 3 100 individual projects generating groundbreaking products, processes and services > 15 000 project partners, of which 45% are SMEs
EUREKA Individual projects > 17 Participants of Individual running projects (700 projects, 2600 participants) EUREKA Individual projects > 18 Running projects by technological areas (% of projects)
Markets benefit from technologies developed> 19 Ex-Post Impact of EUREKA Individual projects (analyse of the Final reports 2000-2005) > 20 Impact results of EUREKA Individual projects (based on 1000 Final reports in period 2000-2005) > 1.0 MEuro of Public funding invested in a EUREKA projects stimulated in average an investment of 2.5 MEuro by Private funds, which resulted to > 13 MEuro of additional turnover (achieved and expected) and > 54 Jobs created (achieved and expected)
Thank you for your listening > 21 www.eurekanetwork.org www.msmt-vyzkum.cz www.msmt.cz Josef Martinec EUREKA NPC josef.martinec@msmt.cz