Funding Objectives:

• Support first applications and market uptake of innovative products, processes and services
• Aim at bridging the gap between Research & Development and commercialisation
• Remove obstacles to the wide application of ecoinnovation
• Create and enlarge markets, with a strong emphasis on SMEs

Key Facts

• Total programme Budget - 2008-2013 195 million Euros
• Launch date:  20 April 2009
• Deadline for submission of 2009 proposals: September 2009
• Intervention Rates: 50% of the total eligible costs + 7% indirect costs
• Duration - 3 years maximum
• Application tips- SMART: Specific; Measurable; Achievable; Realistic; Timely

Eligibility Criteria:

• SMEs and private beneficiaries.

Other Information:

To be successful your project will have to:

• have an innovative character and substantial positive impacts on the environment
• provide significant potential for replication, wider application and broader marketability;
• be relevant for and show clear and substantial benefits in support of Europe’s environmental policy objectives
• demonstrate a European added value and an international project dimension;
• be well thought-through from a technical and project management perspective;
• be cost-effective delivering higher quality through appropriate effort levels.

The project is not suitable if:

• The project focuses on public sector
• The project focuses on energy efficiency or renewable energies
• The project is at an early research or development stage or has a high technological risk or high financial risk
• The project focuses on landuse planning and water management

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