EEN Wales

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EEN Wales Lisa Wheatley RD Adviser
European CommissionEnterprise and Industry
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In brief
BioWales 17 March 2010

• Information on doing business in Europe, European
  opportunities and the European Commission
• Assisting technology transfer in and out of Wales
• Increasing the RD funding coming into Wales

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Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) what is it?

• Aim one-stop shop to meet all the information
  needs of SMEs and companies in Europe.
• 600 different organisations encompassing over
  4,000 staff in over 40 countries
• Chambers of Commerce, RDAs or DAs or University
  technology centres
• Designed for SMEs but available to all
  businesses, research centres and universities
  across Europe
• Aspires to be a two-way network bringing the
  European Commission closer to businesses and vice
  versa
• Services are free of charge

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EEN how can we help?

• Info on
• EU Directives, Regulations and Standards
• Public Sector Procurement and Contract
  Opportunities
• Grant Finding
• Trading in Europe
• Feedback concerns and problems to the Commission
• Conduct Impact Assessment studies and
  consultation exercises on specific policies and
  legislation

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EEN how can we help?

• Support for innovation and technology transfer
• Dissemination and exploitation of research
  results
• Identifying client technology needs and/or
  technology offers
• Finding suitable partners for further
  development, commercialisation, joint ventures
  etc.
• Facilitating the technology/knowledge transfer
  process.
• Providing Brokerage services across Europe
• Facilitating access to collaborative RD Funding

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EEN how can we help?

• FP7/TSB Funding
• Awareness raising events
• Call identification
• Partner searching
• Proposal reviews
• Funding

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EEN how can we help?

• Wales European Collaboration Fund
• - Proposal Preparation
• - Travel Assistance
• Stimulate the capacity of Welsh businesses and
  Higher Education Institutes to participate in the
  Collaborative RD projects.

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EEN how can we help?

• Proposal preparation
• Assistance with external costs of developing and
  submitting proposals
• FP7
• TSB
• Costs of any engagement of specific expertise to
  enable effective negotiations and conclusion of
  consortium agreement and/ or contract with the EC
  is also eligible.
• N.B. Please note, the cost of external
  consultants who intend to take part in the
  research project are not eligible for support

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EEN how can we help?

• Travel
• Assistance with eligible European overseas travel
  and accommodation costs involved in
• Identifying and building consortia for FP7
  projects.
• Negotiation of FP7 contracts.
• Technology transfer activities - meeting
  prospective collaborative partners for licensing
  or for RD projects.
• Attendance at specific conferences and
  exhibitions where technology transfer meetings
  have been pre-booked

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EEN how can we help?
First Application Repeat
FP7 Lead 100 up to 10k max 50 up to 10k max
FP7 Partner 100 up to 5k max 50 up to 5k max
TSB CRD Lead 100 up to 2k max 50 up to 2k max
EC Contract or Consortia Agreement Negotiation 50 up to 5k max 50 up to 5k max
Travel 50 up to 1k max 50 up to 1k max
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• For more information see
• www.enterpriseeuropewales.org.uk

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Contact Lisa Wheatley Email
Lisa.Wheatley_at_WALES.gsi.gov.uk Tel [phone]