Welcome to KAPPA-Health
KAPPA-Health project endeavours to assess and valorise the success of small and medium-sized biomedical companies (SMEs), which have received funds from the European Union Framework Programmes 6 and 7 (FP6 and 7) for research and technological development.
The project includes 7 Participants. Five of them are SMEs. They provide complementary knowledge on Framework Programmes, managerial issues, financial market and awareness of the challenges that SMEs
are facing in their perspective of achieving commercial success out of their research results.
On June 7, 2010, the day before the FP7 Health - Open Information Day & Brokerage event, in Brussels, the KAPPA-Health project organised the networking event "FP7 Support Actions & Services: Knowledge exchange and networking event".
In total, more than fifty participants from the Health research intensive SMEs; FP7 Research intermediaries, Support actions projects & stakeholders, NCPs, Funding and investment funds as well as other FP7 expert organisations joined the event.
Several presentations gave an overview of current support actions for successful project submission and implementation, and an interactive working session allowed to promote synergies between current projects and match project initiatives between participants.
Presentations available here
A recent study financed by the European Commission within the project “KAPPA-Health” found that over 90% of research-intensive SMEs having participated in a FP6 co-financed research project considered their participation as a success and 50% of these have already generated commercial return.
The KAPPA-Health project aims to assess the success factors which lead healthcare companies to generate value from their participation in a co-funded research project, and to determine how this can be planned at the time the decision is made to apply for an FP7 project.
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KAPPA-Health trained SMEs and support organisations at the occasion of the BioTech Forum 2009 in Stockholm (25 Nov 2009).
The workshop provided an overview on current public funding programmes and access to private investors, together with discussion and practical tips on how to get the best out of participation in public funded research programmes. A panel discussion with SMEs support services has been held on with assessment of key success factors identified by SMEs participating in EU research projects.
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Review on International Funding Forum on 12 & 13 June 2009 in Zurich/Switzerland
Date: 13/06/2009
The 1st International Conference on Research Funding took place 12th and 13th June 2009 in Zurich, Switzerland.
The two-day event was a success!
It was organised to inform the research community and High-Tech and Producing SMEs about “Where to get funds/grants for R&D and how to deal with funds?”
On the first day, major funding opportunities were presented (“Where to get funds/grants for RTD?”). On the second day, workshops were organised to get more detailed information and special trainings (“How to deal with funds”).
Watch this short movie about 1st International Funding Forum 2009:
The Health Directorate is currently seeking top industrial/scientific experts to support the selection of the best FP7 proposals
If you are a scientist working in Health industry (large or small company), you can enrol yourself as an expert evaluator for Research Activities of FP7.
FP7 proposals are selected through a peer review system, where top experts in the fields of the proposals being evaluated are involved in a fair and transparent assessment of the submitted proposals that follows the EC rules for evaluation, selection and award procedures.
Being an expert evaluator for Research Activities of FP7 is a useful experience to understand the EC evaluation system and it is generally considered very valuable. Compensation is foreseen both for time and expenses.
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