Access to CIP

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Access to CIP
European Commission AGUINAGA, Jean-François
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Who are you?

• A company?
• A partner in Enterprise Europe Network?

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Access for companies

• Contact the Enterprise Europe partner on your
  doorstep
• www.enterprise-europe-network.ec.europa.eu/info/ne
  twork_en.htm
• They will help and orient you
• The financial support goes through a transparent
  and competitive process
• Call for proposals
• Call for tender

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Enterprise Europe Network partners

• Limited amount
• Restricted calls
• Improve the uptake of some tools
• Increase the skills and develop the quality of
  services to SMEs
• Identify and disseminate better practices

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Success story

• Online auction developer makes bid for EU funding
• Grzegorz Kozak runs a web development company
  called Virtual People in Szczecin.
• Online commercial tendering service funding?
• West Pomeranian Economic Development Association.
  
• Solution innovative economy actions, structural
  funds.
• Successful application for funding
• Kozak has now developed his innovative website,
  www.alteregro.pl

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Success story

• Marine SME makes waves with EU funding
• Coastal Research and Management (CRM) from
  Germany a small company with a big dream
• CEO Dr Levent Piker looking for funding under
  Life
• Hamburg-Schleswig-Holstein partner.
• Network experts Cornelia Pankratz and Annegret
  Meyer-Kock advised on application.
• Successful application for funding.
• ECOSMA process for the ecological certification
  of products from sustainable marine aquaculture.