Industrial Leadership
The Industrial Leadership pillar of Horizon 2020 aims at making Europe’s industries more competitive and to increase investment in research and innovation. As the largest EU research and innovation funding programme to date, Horizon 2020 offers many opportunities to collaborate on development and translation research to drive job creation, prosperity and a better quality of life for citizens.
There are three programmes under the Industrial Leadership pillar (for more information on the specific programme please click the icons below):
Other EU funding programmes for Small and Medium sized Enterprises
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COSME is the EU programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and supports: better access to finance and markets, entrepreneurship and more favourable conditions for business creation and growth.
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EUREKA/Eurostars Joint Programme Initiative provides funding to international innovative projects led by R&D performing SMEs. This programme supports the development of rapidly marketable innovative products, processes and services that help improve the daily lives of people around the world. |
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The Interreg North-Wests Europe (NWE) is a European Territorial Cooperation Programme funded by the European Commission aiming to make North-Wests Europe area a key economic player and an attractive place to work and live with high levels of innovations, sustainability and cohesions. Innovation theme aims to support the innovation performance of enterprises (especially SMEs) in NWE region. |
If you would like to discuss future collaborative opportunities, please contact Dr Jill Haynes.