Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs
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View on F&T portalProviding an effective mechanism for inclusion of innovative, agile SMEs lowering the barriers for small actors to enter the market and exploit new business opportunities.
Scope
Proposals are expected to define an outreach approach for identifying and attracting SMEs whose innovation potential and competitiveness could be increased as users of advanced HPC services, and a mechanism involving financial support to third parties, which will adequately stimulate such innovation potential of SMEs participating in the action. The focus of the action should preferably aim at European engineering and manufacturing SMEs.
The proposal will define the process of selecting SMEs for which financial support will be granted. Taking into account the complexity of projects involving access to advanced HPC services, such as for example AI/HPDA, etc., typically the financial support will be in the order of EUR 50 000 – 150 000[1] per party. At least 80% of the JU funding should be allocated to financial support for these third parties.
The selected project should collaborate with the future national HPC Competence Centres and the related coordination action (topic EuroHPC-04-2019 in this Work Plan), if selected for funding, Digital Innovation Hubs, or other relevant domain-oriented or industry associations.
The JU considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the JU of between EUR 8 and 10 million and a duration of 3 years would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately.[2] Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals with another duration or requesting other amounts. Only one proposal will be selected
Expected Impact:- Contribution to the realisation of the EuroHPC overall and specific objectives[3]
- Improving European competitiveness and productivity, by supporting the innovation in SMEs through the use of HPC and ensuring European technological autonomy in this field
- Widening the HPC user base by attracting new users of HPC in different application domains (with a preference focus on engineering and manufacturing, or any other fast growing sector of the economy)
- More competitive European service providers through provisioning of new types of HPC services
[1]In line with Article 23 (7) of the H2020 Rules for Participation, the amounts referred to in Article 204 of the Financial Regulation may be exceeded where it is necessary to achieve the objectives of the action. Findings from a European Investment Bank study on HPC infrastructures and services, and from the ongoing action Fortissimo, supporting SMEs in manufacturing, show that the cost of this kind of HPC services is very likely to exceed EUR 60 000, and can reach EUR 150 000.
[2]Please refer to the Annex of the Work Plan for the funding rate and the national contribution to this topic
[3]Council Regulation 2018/1488 of 28 September 2018 establishing the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC) https://eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/documents/Regulation.pdf
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Additional information and the link to the Annex of the EuroHPC Work Plan containing national eligibility, funding rate and national contribution to this topic was added under Eligibility and admissibility conditions.
Opening date: 2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
Closing date: 2019-11-14 (6 years ago)
Procedure: single-stage
Budget: 10,000,000
Expected grants: not specified
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H2020-JTI-EuroHPC-2019-2
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Call published · 30 Sep 2024 (2 years ago)
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Work programme published
25 May 2019 · est.
Call opens
25 Jul 2019
Call closes
14 Nov 2019
Outcome expected
14 Apr 2020 · est.
Grant agreement signed
14 Jul 2020 · est.
Call published
30 Sep 2024
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25 May 2019 · 7 years ago
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25 Jul 2019 · 7 years ago
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14 Nov 2019 · 6 years ago
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14 Apr 2020 · 6 years ago
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14 Jul 2020 · 6 years ago
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