Academia de Științe a Moldovei, Centrul Proiecte Internaționale, Rețeaua Punctelor Naționale de Contact pentru Programul Horizon 2020 și Centrul pentru Dezvoltare Socio-Economică și Susținere a Antreprenoriatului Inovațional invită tinerii antreprenori să participe vineri, 5 iunie 2015, la workshopul specializat ”INOVAȚIA ÎN AFACERI”, care se va desfășura în incinta Academiei de Științe a Moldova, bd Ștefan cel Mare și Sfânt, nr. 1, cu începere de la ora 11:00.

On 12 of May 2015 will be held in Brussels the Third Training for HORIZON 2020 National Contact Points for SMEs and Access to Risk Finance. The event is focused on the results and lessons learnt from cut-offs in 2014, on business coaching services and different financial instruments available for SMEs.

Along with grants offered through SME Instrument in Horizon 2020, European Commission has other opportunities in Programme COSME, in wich Moldovian institutions are fully eligible. Currently, there are two open calls under COSME: Statistics for Family Businesses and Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs. Bellow we offer you short descriptions and links to these calls:

During 2014, 827 companies from all over Europe have accessed funds through SME Instrument. Total amount for both Phase 1 and Phase 2 offered to beneficiaries raises to 255,35 million Euro.

We invite you to view diagrams and beneficiary lists on the links below:

Phase 1: https://ec.europa.eu/easme/en/news/sme-instrument-13-million-feasibility-studies-phase-1

Under Horizon’s SME Instrument, beneficiaries do not only receive money, they can also benefit from up to 12 days of business coaching. In each region there’s a person at Enterprise Europe Network – the Key Account Manager (KAM) – ready to help the beneficiaries identifying the challenges they face, their coaching needs and also selecting the most relevant coaches.

The European Commission (EC) introduced two new funding instruments in the Horizon 2020 programme, meant to shorten the time-to-market of European innovations and support research-performing SMEs. The new schemes have been widely acclaimed as a much needed change of focus compared to FP7, as they support close-to-market innovation activities (e.g. demonstration, market replication) instead of pure research activities, and therefore are more attractive to SMEs.

On the links below, you can find the list of SME Instrument beneficiaries after the second cut-off in 2014. The results of the third cut-off will be published by the European Commission at the begining of March.

Results for Phase 1: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/doc/call/h2020/h2020-smeinst-1-2014/1637612-sme-instrument-phase1-beneficiaries_en.pdf