The European Commission Horizon 2020, under its Innovation in SMEs programme, will shortly be inviting proposals for its H2020-INNOSUP-2016 enhancing SME innovation capacity by providing better innovation support call. More information will be released in the third quarter of 2015. The following information, including which topics may be addressed in this call, are subject to change.

Proposals may address the following topics:

•INNOSUP-1-2016 capacity building support and exchange on good practices of the national contact points for SMEs and access to risk finance under H2020;

•INNOSUP-X-2016 SME innovation detachment/fellowship;

•INNOSUP-X-2016 services to accelerate the uptake of advanced manufacturing technologies;

•INNOSUP-X-2016 SMEs for social innovation – challenge platform;

•INNOSUP-X-2016 innovating SMEs – segmentation along lifecycle and sectors;

•INNOSUP-X-2016 cluster animated projects for new industrial value chains;

•INNOSUP-X-2016 peer learning for innovation agencies.

Proposals must take the form of coordination and support actions, research actions or innovation actions, depending on the topic addressed.

Research actions and innovation actions require participation by at least three legal entities, each established in a different EU member state or associated country.

Coordination and support actions require at least one legal entity established in a member state or associated country. All H2020 funding calls allow third country partners who secure their own funding to participate in consortia.

http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/h2020-section/innovation-smes