COSME PROGRAMME CALL FOR PROPOSALS Design-based consumer goods COS-DESIGN-2015-3-03

European Commission – DG Growth Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) Unit A1- COSME

EASME website: https//ec.europa.eu/easme/en/cos-design-2015-3-03-design-based-consumer-goods

DG Growth website: http://ec.europa.eu/growth/smes/cosme/index_en.htm

E-mail: EASME-COSME-DESIGN-CALL2015@ec.europa.eu

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PART I COSME PROGRAMME

DG Growth website: http://ec.europa.eu/growth/smes/cosme/index_en.htm

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PART II CALL Design-based consumer goods COS-DESIGN-2015-3-03

EASME website: https//ec.europa.eu/easme/en/cos-design-2015-3-03-design-based-consumer-goods

E-mail: EASME-COSME-DESIGN-CALL2015@ec.europa.eu

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PART I

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COSME Programme

The European Commission aims to promote entrepreneurship and improve the business environment for SMEs, to allow them to realise their full potential in today’s global economy.

COSME Programme & SMEs

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Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of Europe’s economy, providing 85 % of all new jobs.

The European Commission aims to promote entrepreneurship and improve the business environment for SMEs, to allow them to realise their full potential in today’s global economy.

COSME Programme Competitiveness of Enterprises and SMEs

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COSME is the EU programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and SMEs, running from 2014 to 2020, with a budget of €2.3 billion.

COSME will support SMEs in the following areas:

Facilitating access to finance

Supporting internationalisation and access to markets

Creating an environment favourable to competitiveness

Encouraging an entrepreneurial culture

COSME Competitiveness of Enterprises and SMEs

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Budget €2.3 billion, 2014-2020

financial instruments: loan guarantees, equity facility

Access to markets: Enterprise Europe Network (business support, over 50 countries), IPR helpdesks

Promoting framework conditions: e.g. Design based consumer goods

Supporting entrepreneurship: e.g. Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs

Access to finance

financial instruments

Access to markets

EEN, Cluster internationalis

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Framework conditions

Design-based consumer

goods

Promoting entrepreneur-

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Erasmus for Young

Entrepreneurs

PART II Framework conditions Call Design based consumer goods

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The third specific objective of COSME is “to improve framework conditions for the

competitiveness and sustainability of SMEs

In 2015, there will be up to 14 actions to be financed under this specific objective with a

budget of more than EUR34 million.

Call Design based consumer goods

General objectives

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Increase creativity and innovation capacities of SMEs and therefore improve

their overall competitiveness.

Multiply the impact of the project’s solutions

and mobilise a wide market uptake of new technologies and creative solutions

by removing barriers to market

penetration

Bridge the gap between research and technological demonstration and prototyping on the one hand and commercialisation on the other

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Call Design based consumer goods Aims

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The call for design-based consumer goods (WORTH) aims to:

shorten the time-to-market of innovative solutions,

remove obstacles to wider application of creative solutions,

create or enlarge markets for related products (or services) and

improve the competitiveness of European SMEs in world markets.

KEY potential to replicate the innovations not only in participating SMEs but also across the supply-chain while generating important spill-overs.

Call Design based consumer goods example sectors coverage

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Design-based consumer goods SMEs are diverse.

They include value chains composed of design, product development, manufacturing and distribution operations of various sectors,

including for example textiles, clothing, leather and fur products, footwear, bags and accessories, sports goods, games and toys, interior home decoration products (e.g. furniture, sanitary products, floor, wall and window coverings, table and kitchen ware, glassware), spectacles, watches, jewellery, various cosmetic and beauty products, etc.

Call Design based consumer goods

supports projects of SMEs

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Deploying novel products, services or solutions through first application,

market uptake or replication of “state of the art” technologies and

creative solutions, which

Have already been technically demonstrated, but

Due to scaling up and/or commercialisation risks need

incentives to penetrate the market

Timetable Publication of the Call: 5 May 2015 Deadline for Project submission: 23 July 2015 Projects starting in: March 2016

Project duration between

12 and 33 months.

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Call Design based consumer goods Themes & Priorities

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Catalysing new applications of “state of the art” technologies mixed with creative solutions responding to new customer needs,

Promoting cross-sectoral collaboration, use of design and creative solutions, including by use of digital technologies,

Implementing innovative business models,

Responding to current and future market trends (e.g. demand for customised or personalised products and services, increasing consumers’ interaction and involvement, demand for sustainable products and processes, etc.),

Addressing societal challenges.

Call Design based consumer goods in a nutshell (I)

Encouraging market uptake of new and creative solutions by design-based consumer industries.

Many promising solutions exist but often do not reach the market due to commercialisation obstacles and risk linked to scaling up

The European design-based consumer goods SMEs rely on creativity, design and best available technologies

Bridging the gap between

research/innovation creative solutions and market uptake

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Call Design based consumer goods in a nutshell (II)

Inspired by Eco-innovation market replication projects

Budget €11.2 million

Indicative project size €800.000 - €1 million, EU contribution 50%

Targeting SMEs in the design-based consumer goods industries

One (SME) can apply alone or leading a consortia (including other SMEs,

universities, research and technology organisations, intermediary organisations, regional development bodies etc.)

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To learn more about the Call for proposals COS-DESIGN-2015-3-03 - Design Based Consumer Goods, visit us EASME website: https://ec.europa.eu/easme/en/cos-design-2015-3-03-design-based-consumer-goods

Write to us at : EASME-COSME-DESIGN-CALL2015@ec.europa.eu