Innovation in SMEs
Innovation in SMEs provides SME-tailored support to stimulate all forms of innovation in SMEs, targeting those with the potential to grow and internationalise across the single market and beyond.
Your NCP contact for this programme
Magali Parent
magali.parent@vlaio.be
+32 2 432 42 42
About this programme
Innovation in SMEs provides SME-tailored support to stimulate all forms of innovation in SMEs, targeting those with the potential to grow and internationalise across the single market and beyond.
Background information about this programme can be found in the Workprogramme beneath, containing in 2019-2020 mainly INNOSUP topics.
These actions are designed to provide opportunities to Member States and regions to enhance their services through collaboration, and peer-learning. The emphasis is on further testing new approaches for better innovation support, such as blockchain technologies, workplace innovation, a network for Open Innovation, training on advanced manufacturing, experimentation in innovation agencies and a tool for investors in financing SMEs.
The EIC pilot was launched on 27th October 2017. The Enhanced European Innovation Council (EIC) pilot aims to support top-class innovators, start-ups, small companies and researchers with bright ideas that are radically different from existing products, services or business models, are highly risky and have the potential to scale up internationally.
All information related to the EIC pilot can be found on the dedicated EIC pilot programme page on this website.
Latest news
Digital, Industry & Space EIC SME Instrument
HUBCAP: support for SMEs leveraging Model-based Design in Cyber Physical Sy...
Is your SME looking to embrace digital innovation? Connect with a supplier from the HUBCAP platform and receive tailormade support and services to co-create and experiment with CPS & MBD tools. The HUBCAP initiative aim at upgrading the capacity of SMEs to leverage Model-Based Design (MBD) technology in Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) and ultimat... read more
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Partnerships
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Documents
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- Manual Toolbox
- EIC SME isntruments phase 2 pitch
- Annotated template EIC SME in phase 1 and 2
- European Innovation Council-Bernd Reichert- EASME-05.12.2017
- Successful participation of stakeholders in Flanders in Horizon 2020
- Assessment study report: SME instruments beneficiaries
- Promotional guide on InnoFin
Testimonial
Miricle - Mine Risk Clearance for Europe
The Miricle project, ‘Mine Risk Clearance for Europe’, obtained funding under the European Defence Industrial Development programme call ‘Underwater control contributing to resilience at sea’. The main objective of the project was to achieve a European and sovereign capacity in future mine warfare and create a path for the next generation ‘made in Europe’ countermeasure solutions. In order to realise this objective, Miricle addressed various stages: studies, design, prototyping and testing. These stages inter alia included the successful testing of an XL Unmanned Underwater Vehicle, a protototyped mine disposal system and multiple innovative systems to detect buried mines. Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), was one of the five Belgian partners in the consortium. Within the project, VLIZ was able to forward its research on the acoustic imaging of the seabed to spatially map and visualize buried structures and objects - in this case buried mines - in the highest possible detail. VLIZ also led the work on ‘Port and Offshore Testing’, building on the expertise of the institute in the field of marine operations and technology.
