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SCRATCH: A Successful Methodology |
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Since now 10 years, the SCRATCH consortium has set up an efficient methodology in order to collect research expressed interests from Small and Medium Enterprises and to submit proposals to the Commission evaluation.
This SCRATCH methodology includes three main steps: |
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to make a large awareness campaign around possibilities of funding given by the European Commission to aeronautics small companies under R&D Framework Programme |
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to provide a personal contact with local Aeronautics SMEs to better understand their needs in terms of technology acquisition and to examine as well their internal possibilities for such. |
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to help the SME in the setting up of the Research proposal up to its submission to the E.C. evaluation. |
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The results of this methodology are the following: |
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10350 companies / research centres / universities have been contacted to make them aware of FPs calls for proposals and SCRATCH related services. |
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A Database has been created which gathers more than 700 Aeronautics enterprises already visited |
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160 significant research expressed needs have been collected. |
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233 participations in business events. |
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Since FP4, 87 proposals of Aeronautics R&D led by SMEs have been serviced by SCRATCH and 32 have been retained for funding by the European Commission, for a total budget of €M50. |
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