Leitat Organises the session on politics and opportunities in the program of the EU Horizon 2020

The past 4 April, the building of the Pedrera of Barcelona received the third edition of the ‘Paneuropean SME Event Vision 2020', where attended near of half hundred of SMEs with high interest and potential in being leading actors in the execution of innovative projects with financials of the program Horizon2020. Organised by Leitat, the act pretended to give to know the aims of this program and his thematic of the present edition connect the SMEs with the organisations of investigation and innovation so that they can access to the bottoms of 79 billion of euros with which the EU has endowed the program Horizon 2020.

The start of the activities surroundings to the new program mark of helps to the science and innovation H2020, went sufficient reason so that the technological Institute Leitat worked to achieve organise in the city condal this meeting, answering to his commitment and vocation with the small and average companies of the country. The act, that had members of renown of the platform Vision2020 and of the structure of science and technology of the EU, served to confirm the interest of the SMEs in the new program given his big capacity of incidir in the economy but, especially, by his clear need and vocation of valorizar products and services generated in the process creative.

For Joan Vine, general director of Leitat, “need incidir in the economy with innovation that was able to create economic value, by means of the incidence in the GDP and in the creation of places of work. In this sense, Leitat has been traditionally engaged with the SMEs, which represent 95% of his activity”.

The day had the participation of the director of the platform Vision 2020, Abdul Rahim, as well as of Samuel Maenhout, representative of the European Commission that presented the instruments of financials for SMEs. In his exhibitions moved the importance of the program for the EU, in the measure that will generate a high business impact in the industrial fabric of the countries members, by means of the creation of differential products, that allow to exert a leadership multilateral in front of the competition based in the price of other regions of the world.

Dirk Saseta, director of International Projects of Leitat, stood out that”we have opted by contents of high value for the SMEs, by means of the participation of people of reference in Europe on the subject, but besides moving cases of success that help to the companies to comprise better like them same can form part”, and added: “Leitat aspires to fulfil with his mission, helping to the companies of profile SME to cover the space between his daily activities of operation of business and the need of innovar, taking advantage of to the maximum the instruments of financials”.

Leitat Has appeared recently in the European Research Ranking of 2012, on catchment of European bottoms, in the position 10 to level of the Spanish state, that takes like indicator the number of projects awarded by the European Commission through the 7º Program Mark of R&D. Circumstance that evidence his high level of success in the achievement of European bottoms with high impact in the business fabric of the country, in spite of his reduced dimensions in front of other actors of greater dimension.