2.500.000 EUR for funding your R&D
SME Instrument is your opportunity to receive up to 2.5. million EUR of EU funding for development and commercialization of your innovation. The received funding will help you reduce the risks and bridge the funding gap for demonstration and scale-up of your innovation into market ready products.
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Trusted by consulting companies in 36 countries
Used by start-ups and mature companies
Best SME Instrument tools available
ALES PUSTOVRH, ABC ACCELERATOR, EU funding consultant
These tools are great and very helpful. Moreover the manual has lots of insight. I especially loved the check lists and the additional instructions on what to include in the proposal.
TOMAS SALAMON, Incomaker.com
The book helped us a lot with our preparation of H2020 proposal. Writing a good paper is still really complex job, but the book allows to avoid unnecessary mistakes and makes many things much clearer.
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WHY ARE WE OFFERING THIS?
GET FUNDED UNDER THE H2020 SME INSTRUMENT
4.378 companies already funded
Significant and non-refundable financing has attracted thousands of companies that have recognized the opportunity to get financing without diluting the ownership. 4.378 European companies have already received funding to develop their innovation without the need for borrowing or searching alternative investment sources.
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Start-ups and innovative SMEs
WHAT IT TAKES TO GET THE FUNDING
A Great Business Idea
The aim of the instrument is to fund disruptive ideas and transform them into concrete innovative solutions with European and global impact. But having a great innovation is not enough to win the SME Instrument funding, because the evaluators are flooded with outstanding innovations and only a fragment of them can get funded.
An Outstanding Proposal
If you want to attract evaluators' attention, you must also focus on the formatting and visual design. The exceptionally prepared proposal often makes the difference between failure and success. Researchers from the elite Carnegie Mellon Univeristy proved that visual design is an important part of any document. Visual elements, formatting and layout design, can significantly improve the readers' understanding of the content as well as their perceptions of the people that created the documents.
Second time applicants
Academic spin-offs
Based on winning proposals
Systematic analysis of winning proposals enabled us to gather approaches, methods and techniques that proved to consistently deliver highest evaluation scores.
Tips and tricks based on evaluators' insights
Series of useful tips and tricks on how to build an optimal and winning proposal gathered from insights of several SME instrument evaluators.
Best-practice examples
Best-practice examples enable much easier preparation and replication of approaches used by SME Instrument winners.
A great Idea is not enough
Fair opportunity for everyone
Our experience shows that...
Most of the winning proposals use similar writing approach, formation and tricks that allow them to be assessed fast and earn exceptional evaluation scores. On the other hand, most of the rejected SME Instrument proposals fail to deliver the right information, contain fatal mistakes or drop out essential but not obvious elements that are critical for success.
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KATARZYNA BARTKOWIAK, RCIiTT
The manual is really useful. I use it in my everyday work and it helps me a lot. I took part in preparation of several SME Instrument applications (successful too) but although I am quite experienced your publication brought some very interesting insights.
GET ALL THE ANSWERS ON HOW TO PREPARE A WINNING PROPOSAL
With our manuals you will be able to replicate the best practices used by winning SME Instrument proposals and also to:
MANUALS
SAVE TIME WITH PROFESSIONAL PROPOSAL TEMPLATES
PROPOSAL TEMPLATES
MAKE SURE YOUR PROPOSAL MEETS ALL THE EVALUATION SUB-CRITERIA
SPECIAL SELF-ASSESMENT TOOL
GET HIGH-QUALITY FEEDBACK FROM EXPERIENCED EVALUATORS
PROPOSAL CLINICS
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TOOLS FOR SME INSTRUMENT PHASE 1
TOOLS FOR SME INSTRUMENT PHASE 2
PRO Toolbox - SME Instrument Phase 1
Pro Toolbox contains all essential tools for effective proposal writing, with practical knowledge and useful secrets on how to write a successful SME Instrument Phase 1 proposal, not available anywhere else:
PRO Toolbox - SME Instrument Phase 2
Pro Toolbox contains all essential tools for effective proposal writing, with practical knowledge and useful secrets on how to write a successful SME Instrument Phase 2 proposal, not available anywhere else:
HOW OUR TOOLS HELP YOU OBTAIN FUNDING
Everything you need in one place
When planning the proposal preparation, manuals offer everything you need to know in one place, including formal requirements, instructions on where and how to start, and how to divide tasks in proposal writing team.
Step-by-step guidance
During the proposal writing, manuals will help you with step-by-step guidance and best practice examples. Ready to use proposal templates will help you save time and effort on structuring and formatting the proposal with pre-defined chapters and editable visuals
Identify strengths and weaknesses
After you have roughly finished the proposal, self-assessment tool will help you identify strengths and weaknesses of your proposal so that you will know on which parts to focus to meet the evaluation criteria. Proposal clinic is a step further in improving the proposal. Experienced evaluators will examine your proposal and give you concrete advice and suggestions for improvement which will significantly improve your chances of winning funding.
Step-by-step guidance
Practical step-by-step guidance throughout the proposal demonstrates what and how to write each part of the proposal, simply and to the point.
Highly interactive
Our on-line self-evaluation tools enable timely assessment and optimisation of the quality of the proposal. Moreover you can improve your proposals with our Proposal clinics that give you first-hand expert insights.
From planning to submission
Our tools cover the entire process from project planning and optimization to submission and eventual resubmission of the proposal. All the resources you need in order to secure SME Instrument funding are included in our Toolboxes.
Time efficient
Our proposal templates include optimal proposal structure, instructions on how to write every part of the proposal, with built-in pre-formatted key tables and visuals, enabling quick and comprehensive preparation of a winning SME Instrument proposal.
Comprehensive information in one place
Our tools offer an extract of all the key information on SME instrument and instructions for building the proposal in one place. No more wondering through limitless sources of scattered information all over the web.
Customized to your needs
Our proposal clinics offer expert assessment, simulating the official evaluation process and customized one-on-one consultation for improvement of every part of your project and proposal.
Most of proposals are not of sufficient quality, even though this is the key to winnning the funding, says the head of SME Instrument at the EU.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Authors of the manuals are an international team of experts with years of direct and hands-on experience in EU funding and have successfully consulted, cooperated, evaluated and managed several EU projects.
Manuals are published by Replika PRO ltd., one of the leading companies in obtaining EU funds for clients that has contributed to the realization of more than 27.5 millions of euros in EU funded projects of innovative companies and research organizations.
Dr. Borut Del Fabbro is a EU funding specialist with a long record of successful EU project development. He has planned and coordinated numerous successful proposals and participated in several EU funded projects. For the last couple of years, he is also a H2020 evaluator. He is a tireless executive with a broad set of knowledge ranging from project appraisal and financing to leadership and marketing skills.
Rok Berovič is a project and business development manager with a proven expertise in project management, business planning and strategy, market research, and project planning and implementation. His skills and knowledge have contributed to realization of multiple H2020, Eurostars and other EU funded proposals.
Dr. Benjamin Leskovec has more than 10 years of experience in EU funding programmes. As an accomplished entrepreneur, he is known for his ability to recognize feasible project opportunities. He has thus contributed to development and preparation of several EU proposals that led to projects with meaningful outcomes for participants and European society in general.
Helena Suárez Lozano is a visual communication expert. She specializes in creating compelling and effective document designs that facilitate reading and conveying of ideas.
Anja Bartol has international experience and specializes in writing the Impact section of H2020 proposals. She has extensive knowledge of the European Commission and expertise with funding programmes like FP7, Horizon 2020, COSME, and Eurostars. She contributed to the thoroughness of the section dedicated to impact.