Pongratz Consulting participated in the EU Info day "SMEs and Horizon 2020 – Information Day – October 18". During this interesting workshop, Commission officials presented some details of the coming Horizon 2020 scheme. In particular the opportunities for SME was highlighted in different Horizon 2020 fields. Ingemar Pongratz, CEO from Pongratz Consulting participated in the meeting and to be able to provide the most up to date information about the coming Horizon 2020 scheme to our clients in future applications and collaborations If you are interested to know more please have a look at our homage: http://www.pongratzconsulting.com/ http://www.pongratzconsulting.se/ If you are interested to know more about Horizon 2020 don't hesitate to contact us. We are always happy to help you and discuss collaboration Regards IP

1. PONGRATZ
CONSULTING
SMES
IN
HORIZON
2020
October
18
2013

2. Agenda
• SMEs
and
Horizon
2020
–
Information
Day
–
October
18
• Madou
Auditorium
(Madou
Tower)
• Madouplein
1,
Place
Madou
–
Brussels,
Belgium
•
• 9:00
–
9:30
Arrival
of
participants
–
Welcome
Coffee.
• __________________________________________________________________________________
• 9:30
–
10:10
Welcome
/
Introduction
–
Horizon
2020:
what’s
in
it
for
SMEs?
Clara
de
la
Torre,
Director
of
Directorate
C,
Research
and
Innovation,
DG
RTD
• 10:10
–
11:50
The
SME
Instrument
under
Horizon
2020
Bernd
Reichert,
Head
of
Unit,
and
Igor
Jelinski,
Policy
Officer,
Unit
C.4
SME,
DG
RTD
• 11:50
–
12:30
SME
Participation
in
Collaborative
Projects:
the
Case
of
Industrial
Technologies
Doris
Schröcker,
Head
of
Unit,
Unit
G.1
Industrial
Technologies,
Horizontal
Aspects,
DG
RTD
• ____________________________________________________________________________
•
• 12:30
–
14:00
Lunch
break.
• _____________________________________________________________________________
• 14:00
–
14:30
SME
participation
via
the
Horizon
2020
Participant
Portal:
a
preview
Peter
Haertwich,
Deputy
Head
of
Unit,
Unit
M.2
Business
Processes
and
Simplification,
DG
RTD
• 14:30
–
14:55
Access
to
Risk
Finance
for
SMEs
under
Horizon
2020
Ignacio
Puente
Gonzalez,
Policy
Officer,
Unit
C.3
Financial
Engineering,
DG
RTD
• 14:55
–
15:15
Participation
through
Marie
Sklodovska-­‐Curie
Actions:
how
to
raise
SME
potential
through
EU
researcher
mobility
Carmela
Di
Santo,
Unit
C.3
Training
and
mobility
of
researchers;
Marie
Curie,
DG
EAC
• 15:15
–
15:45
Coffee
break
• 15:45
–
16:10
The
Eurostars
Joint
Programme
/
2014-­‐2020
Magda
de
Carli,
Deputy
Head
of
Unit,
Unit
C.4
SME,
DG
RTD
• 16:10
–
16:30
Enhancing
Innovation
Capacity
of
SMEs
under
Horizon
2020
/
Cluster
animated
projects
for
new
industrial
value
chains
Patrick
De
Smedt,
Deputy
Head
of
Unit,
Unit
D.2
SME
Access
to
Markets,
DG
ENTR
/
Carsten
Schierenbeck,
Policy
Officer,
Unit
D.5
SMEs:
Clusters
&
Emerging
Industries,
DG
ENTR
• 16:30
–
17:00
Final
Q&A

3. General
Comments
• No
deadlines
for
the
different
schemes
available
yet
• SME
Instrument:
Competition
will
be
hard
• More
information
about
the
3
stages
was
provided
and
what
the
different
steps
will
aim
to
provide
• Information
about
the
proposal
evaluation
was
provided
• EEN
presented
the
plans
to
provide
coaching
• Coaching
will
be
in
place
for
the
first
proposals
• The
role
of
other
partners
was
discussed
• Possibilities
for
SME
in
other
priorities
was
presented
• Access
to
Risk
Finance,
Marie
Curie
etc

4. Disclaimer
• More
details
and
in
depth
analysis
of
the
outcomes
of
the
meeting
is
available
to
Pongratz
Consulting
customers
only
• Please
contact
us
for
further
discussion
• Ingemar.Pongratz@pongratzconsulting.com