HORIZON 2020 SME INSTRUMENT - PHASE 2 2014

1. OBJECTIVES OF THE FUNDING PROGRAM SMEs will be the centre consideration in the development of the Work Programme with 20% of resources to be allocated across the societal challenges and enabling and industrial technologies, either within projects or through targeted measures. In particular, the dedicated SME instrument, following a predominately bottom-up logic, will be introduced in order to address the needs of innovating SMEs. Coaching services will be offered to beneficiaries to strengthen innovation management capacity and to support accessing the loan guarantee and equity instruments [...]