I3 – Interregional Innovation Investments Strand 1 – 2023

Objectives

• To provide financial and advisory support for interregional innovation investments in shared and complementary smart specialisation areas along European value chains
• To facilitate demonstration and to accelerate market uptake and commercialisation
• To mobilise tangible and intangible investments in companies, in particular small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
• To enable less developed regions to participate in EU value chains, contributing to cohesion policy objectives
• To link and align the bottom-up process centred on “entrepreneurial discovery” that involves interactions among quadruple helix actors to identify new regional technological domains and market opportunities with the EU priorities ; and to bridge the gap between the supply and demand sides and help innovation ecosystems overcome market failures
• To provide support for companies (in particular SMEs) in building portfolios of interregional innovation investments in shared or complementary S3 priority areas; and to support the demonstration, market uptake and scaling up of mature innovations to be brought on the market

Priorities

• Priority 1 – Digital transition
• Priority 2 – Green transition
• Priority 3 – Smart manufacturing

Among financed actions

• Demonstration of innovative digital technologies in view of the commercialisation of research results and a better integration in EU value chains
• Innovative investments in security of health data across borders (including cybersecurity)
• Investments related to the use of digital tools to stimulate prevention, enable feedback and interaction with the healthcare providers
• Investments in innovative solutions helping administrations to make services user-friendly, accessible and more interoperable. Those investments might include the demonstration of the validity of new digital technologies in view of the large-scale adoption of new IT systems

Additional information

• This call for proposals is an open call for proposals
• Initial duration of the action: between 18 and 36 months

Eligibility

Be legal entities (public or private bodies)

• Total budget of the call: 31 million euro
• Amount of the grant: between 2 million and 10 million euro
• Co-financing rate: between 30% and 100% of the total eligible costs