Call for proposals

Horizon 2020 – Industrial Leadership – “Fast Track to Innovation (FTI)” – H2020-EIC-FTI-2018-2020

 

Objective and description

The call “Fast Track to Innovation (FTI)” (Call identifier: H2020-EIC-FTI-2018-2020) has been opened for submission of proposals under the Horizon 2020 Programme within the pillar Industrial Leadership.

 

The Fast Track to Innovation (FTI) is now central part of the European Innovation Council (EIC) pilot, targeting radically new, breakthrough products, services, processes or business models that open up new markets.

 

EIC Fast Track to innovation (FTI) is a fully-bottom-up measure in Horizon 2020 promoting close-to-the-market innovation activities that is open to all types of participants. EIC FTI aims to reduce the time from idea to market and to increase the participation in Horizon 2020 of industry, SMEs and first-time industry applicants. Proposals must relate to any field of H2020 under the specific objective "Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies" and/or to any of the specific objectives under the priority "Societal challenge".

 

EIC FTI also aims to nurture trans-disciplinary and cross-sector approaches. All kinds of innovation actors can work together to develop sustainable innovations addressing societal needs or areas under 'Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies' and, at the same time, create viable business opportunities. This is why FTI projects must be business-driven and clearly demonstrate a realistic potential for quick deployment and market take-up of innovations.

 

Eligible applicants

The eligibility conditions described in General Annex C of the work programme apply, with the following exceptions:

·         Participation of three to no more than five different legal entities, independent of each other, in a consortium.

·         Allocation of at least 60% of the overall budget to consortium partner(s) from industry; or a minimum of 2 industry partners out of a consortium of 3 or 4; or a minimum of 3 industry partners out of a consortium of 5.

·         Requested EU contribution not more than ?3 million.

·         All consortium members established in EU Member States or in countries associated to Horizon 2020.

 

Budget

The total available budget is EUR 100 million.

 

The budget will be divided equally between each cut-off date.

 

On offer is a maximum EU contribution of EUR 3 million per proposal with time-to-grant (from the cut-toff to the signature of the grant) of around 6 months. 

 

Deadline for proposals’ submission

The deadlines for EIC-FTI-2018-2020: Fast Track to Innovation (FTI) are: (multiple cut-off)

21 February 2018, 17:00 (Brussels local time).

31 May 2018, 17:00 (Brussels local time).

23 October 2018, 17:00 (Brussels local time).

21 February 2019, 17:00 (Brussels local time).

23 May 2019, 17:00 (Brussels local time).

22 October 2019, 17:00 (Brussels local time).

19 February 2020, 17:00 (Brussels local time).

09 June 2020, 17:00 (Brussels local time).

27 October 2020, 17:00 (Brussels local time).

 

Applicants must submit their proposal electronically, following the link on the submission service.

 

Further information

You can find more information and the call documents at the following link: https://tinyurl.com/ycwoptve    

 

 

Kind regards,

Ioanna

 

Ioanna Asimakaki
Erasmus+ Trainee

European Office of Cyprus

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