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Fast Track to Innovation Pilot
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Fast Track to Innovation Pilot
3 Call deadlines: 28th April/1st Sept/1st Dec 2015
Type of Action: Innovation Action (70%)
Budget: 1-3 million
H2020 Pillar: FTI pilot must relate to any field under ‘Societal challenges’ or ‘LEIT’ pillar.
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Fast Track to Innovation Pilot
Only bottom up measure in H2020 promoting close-to-market innovation activities– Aims to reduce the time from idea to market – Increase industry participation and first time
industry applicants– Nurture trans-disciplinary and cross-sector
approaches– Must be business driven and demonstrate potential
for quick deployment and market up-take
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Eligibility Criteria
1. Max. of 5 and min. of 3 legal entities can participate in a project. All legal entities must be established in EU Member States or Associated Countries.
2. Proposals must include a business plan3. If proposal involves technological innovation
the TRL level must be at least 6
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Eligibility Criteria
4. At least one of the following conditions must be met:– Either at least 60% of overall budget must be
allocated from industry or– The minimum number of industry participants
must be 2 in a consortium of 3 or 3 in a consortium of 5 partners
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Evaluation Criteria
Proposals must achieve the threshold for each of the three criterion of Impact, Excellence and ImplementationThe prioritorisation of evaluation is based in the following order;
1. Impact (threshold 4)2. Involvement of SME’s3. First-time industry participants 4. Gender balance
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Contact Details
For further information please contact the SSPC funding team:• Abigail Pattenden [email protected]• Aisling Arthur [email protected]• Orla Kelly [email protected]
Irish NCP for Fast Track Innovation [email protected]