Call H2020 Industrial Leadership - Innovation in SMEs open

The European Commission has opened a call for proposals under the 2014-2015 work programme Industrial Leadership (IL) of the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation - Horizon 2020. Deadline for applications of the call Enhancing SME innovation capacity by providing better innovation support is now April 29, 2015. The call with identifier H2020-INNOSUP-2015-3 has a budget of € 1,700,000. For more detailed information and documents please click here.

The goal of the actions bundled under the specific objective Innovation in SMEs is to build SME innovation management capacity. Innovation management capacity is the internal ability of companies to manage innovation processes from the generation of the idea to its profitability on the market.

Innovation in SMEs includes actions which provide indirect support to SMEs in the form of tailored services and projects (innovation management capacity building, IPR management, etc…), networking and mobilization actions for innovation service providers and policymakers (i.e. exchange of experience between national innovation agencies).