CONTACT

Dr. Per Lindquist Project manager

Phone + 46 (0)8 21 35 45
Cell: +46 (0)70 664 61 99

Wallingatan 24
SE-111 24 Stockholm
Sweden

SwedenBIO SME Life Science EU Support Office is a collaborative effort between SwedenBIO and VINNOVA

EU Funding Opportunities for Life Science SMEs

Here life science companies (SMEs) can find links to the latest relevant calls for proposals from EUs Seventh Framework Programme, FP7 as well as from other funding opportunities. Life Science SMES will find that most of the relevant FP7 calls are published under the "Health" theme. Other highly relevant opportunities are the "Research for the benefit of SMEs" and "People" programmes.

FP7 is a huge research programme and there might also be other opportunities for your SME hidden in the many work programmes. In the table below you will find links to a few topics extracted from some other Themes. Those other themes are "KBBE" (Knowledge-based Bioeconomy) which is also called "FAFB" (Food, Agriculture, Fisheries and Biotechnology), "NMP" (Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new production methodologies), "ENV" (Environment) and "SEC" (Security).

The FP7 Calls for proposals (Work programmes for 2011) were published on the 20th of July 2010.

The FP7 "Call identifier" link in the table below will take you to CORDIS (Community Research and Development Information Service), where you can download the key documents. Expand the tab "Information Package" to find the key documents: Call fiche, The Work Programme and the Guide for applicants. Under Info, there is as well a direct link to the respective FP7 Work programme (Health, Research for SMEs, People). For the other FP7 opportunities (KBBE, NMP, SEC, ENV) you will instead find a link to an extracted version of the relevant calls for Life Science SMEs.

Call identifier	Info	Call date	Deadline
FP7-HEALTH-2011-Single-stage	Health WP2011 (Work programme)	July 20th	Nov 10th
FP7-HEALTH-2011-Two-stage	see above	July 20th	Oct 13th (1st stage)
FP7-KBBE-2011-5	Extracted information here	July 20th	Jan 25th 2011
FP7-NMP-2011-Large-5	Extracted information here	July 20th	Nov 4th
FP7-NMP-2011-Small-5	Extracted information here	July 20th	Nov 4th
FP7-ENV-2011	Extracted information here	July 20th	Nov 16th
FP7-SEC-2011-1	Extracted information here	July 20th	Dec 2nd
FP7-SME-2011	Res for SMEs WP2011	July 20th	Dec 8th
FP7-PEOPLE-2011-ITN	PEOPLE WP2011	July 20th	Jan 26th 2011
FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IAPP	see above	July 20th	Dec 7th
Eurostars (link to website)	VINNOVA_Eurostars (more info & contacts)		Sep 30th
Eureka (link to webstite)	VINNOVA_Eureka (more info and contacts)		4 times a year
EraSME	EraSME HelpDesk	June 4th	Sep 30
VINNOVA_Smint		>6 weeks before FP7 call deadline
VINNOVA_Nationella	Mixed	Mixed, see link!

Learn more about the specific FP7 themes of interest to Life Science SMEs in Sweden:

COOPERATION, Health:

COOPERATION, Food, agriculture, fisheries and biotechnology

COOPERATION, Information and Communication Technologies

COOPERATION, NMP - Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies

CAPACITIES, Research for SMEs

PEOPLE, ("Marie Curie")

SMINT

VINNOVA offers financial support to SMEs during the application phase to EU-programmes. VINNOVA offers a maximum of 150 000 SEK for the application phase and a possibility to apply for an additional 25 000 SEK for the negotiation phase. Contact VINNOVA no later than six weeks before the call closes.

Planeringsbidrag

For Swedish coordinators of any type who apply to large-scale integrating projects within FP7. VINNOVA offers a maximum of 200 000 SEK as financial support for the application phase and a possibility to apply for an additional 50 000 SEK for the negotiation phase. Contact VINNOVA no later than two months before the call closes.