European Funding: the European Union, thanks to specific programmes and funds, implements its policies and meets its goals and objectives.
European Funding
- Growth and development
- Economic and social cohesion
- Environment and resource efficiency
- Security
- Active Citizenship
Areas
Thematic areas include research and innovation, competitiveness of enterprises, culture and tourism, security and citizenship, fundamental rights safeguard, training and mobility of students and entrepreneurs.
Beneficiaries
Beneficiaries of EU funded programmes are businesses, cities and regions, public and private bodies, non-profit organisations, universities and research centres, students, researchers, farmers and European citizens.
The new financial period 2014-2020 brings in a whole set of new programmes that cover Europe’s political priorities for the next 7 years, in line with the Europe 2020 strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. The 2014–2020 Multiannual Financial Framework – 960 billion euros – finances activities and projects ranging from research and innovation, growth and competitiveness, education and job opportunities, environment and social inclusion.
The European Union awards huge numbers of grants through specific programmes. Vendor provides outstanding advisory services tailored to clients’ needs and requirements. Vendor approach focuses on clients’ peculiarities and on identifying the grants suitable for clients’ ideas and projects, in order to maximise funding opportunities.
- Monitoring and scouting funding opportunities and call for proposals
- Critical analysis of client project idea in relation to the funding programmes identified
- Defining the proper funding scheme
- Developing and drafting the project proposal and the budget
- Identifying project partners, building and managing project consortium
- Submitting the project proposal
- Supporting the negotiation process with the contracting authority and the signing of the grant agreement
- Managing the funded project, ensuring sound project workflow, administrative and financial management of the project.
- Foster frontier research
- Supports the development of technologies underpinning innovation across a range of sectors, including ICT, biotechnologies and nanotechnologies
- Support projects covering activities from research to market with a focus on innovation-related activities, on a challenge-based approach in different fields, including energy, environment and climate action, transport, security, health
- Help companies and organisations engaged in R&I to gain easier access, via financial instruments, to loans, guarantees, counter-guarantees, mezzanine and equity finance
- Concept & feasibility assessment of ideas and their commercial viability
- Demonstration of commercial potential of disruptive businesses
- Messa in commercio delle idee
- Appalti per servizi di pubblica utilità (acqua, energia, trasporti e telecomunicazioni).
- Appalti del Fondo europeo di sviluppo (paesi ACP)
- Progetti finanziati dalla Banca europea per gli investimenti (BEI), dalla Banca centrale europea (BCE) e dalla Banca europea per la ricostruzione e lo sviluppo (BERS)
- Nature and biodiversity projects
- Environmental protection and resource efficiency
- Mitigating and adapting to climate change
- Governance policies and information
- Safe and efficient use of water resources
- Waste
- Resource efficiency, green and circular economy
- Environment and health
- Air quality
- Facilitating access to finance for SMEs.
- Creating an environment favourable to SME creation and growth.
- Encouraging an entrepreneurial culture in Europe.
- Strengthening the sustainable competitiveness of EU enterprises.
- Supporting the internationalisation of SMEs and improving their access to markets
- Improve their access to markets