EU-ROP ERDF ITALY - REGIONE LIGURIA - 2014-2020

Instrument/Program level: 
European
Name of the instrument/Program: 
ROP ERDF
Instrument/Program application areas: 
ITALY - REGIONE LIGURIA
Instrument/Program eligible areas: 
Liguria
Managing authority: 

Regione Liguria - Settore Competitività e Innovazione del Sistema Produttivo funzionalmente inserito nel Dipartimento Sviluppo Economico

Objectives: 

1a. Enhancing research and innovation (R&I) infrastructure and capacities to develop R&I excellence, and promoting centres of competence, in particular those of European interest; 
1b. Promoting business investment in R&I, developing links and synergies between enterprises, research and development centres and the higher education sector, in particular promoting investment in product and service development, technology transfer, social innovation, eco-innovation, public service applications, demand stimulation, networking, clusters and open innovation through smart specialisation, and supporting technological and applied research, pilot lines, early product validation actions, advanced manufacturing capabilities and first production, in particular in key enabling technologies and diffusion of general purpose technologies; 
2a. Extending broadband deployment and the roll-out of high-speed networks and supporting the adoption of emerging technologies and networks for the digital economy; 
2c. Strengthening ICT applications for e-government, e- learning, e-inclusion, e-culture and e-health; 
3a. Promoting entrepreneurship, in particular by facilitating the economic exploitation of new ideas and fostering the creation of new firms, including through business incubators;
3b. Developing and implementing new business models for SMEs, in particular with regard to internationalisation; 
3c. Supporting the creation and the extension of advanced capacities for product and service development; 
3d. Supporting the capacity of SMEs to grow in regional, national and international markets, and to engage in innovation processes;
4b. Promoting energy efficiency and renewable energy use in enterprises;
4c. Supporting energy efficiency, smart energy management and renewable energy use in public infrastructure, including in public buildings, and in the housing sector;
4e. Promoting low-carbon strategies for all types of territories, in particular for urban areas, including the promotion of sustainable multimodal urban mobility and mitigation-relevant adaptation measures;
5b. Promoting investment to address specific risks, ensuring disaster resilience and developing disaster management systems

Eligible thematics in line with ERC sectors: 
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences and Engineering
Social Sciences and Humanities
Eligible thematics in line with S3: 
Advanced Manufacturing
Blue growth
City development
Cloud computing, e-tourism, smart mobility systems
Entrepreneurship & Growth of young companies
Environmental technologies, renewable energies & resource efficiency
ICTs (Digital technologies & user-friendly systems)
Life Science & Biotechnology
Logistic
Maritime technologies
Nature & Biodiversity
Public health & security (e-Health)
Smart manufacturing and related services
Sustainable Living & mobility
Action typologies: 
Support of technology and know-how transfer between research, technology institutions and businesses or clusters for the development and adaptation of new technologies, products or services
Development of Living Lab
Actions to improve sustainable linkages among actors of the innovation systems for strengthening regional innovation capacity
Sharing of good practices
Development of collaborative management approaches
Best-practice, demonstration, pilot or information, awareness and dissemination projects
Feasibility studies
Funding for prototipes development
Development of platforms for knowledge sharing (knowledge innovative communities, data clouds) and creation of functional networks of joint distributed research facilities
Building transnational networks for the transfer of knowledge among public administration on technological solutions
Beneficiaries: 
Local public authority
Regional public authority
Sectorial agency
Infrastructure and (public) service provider
Higher education and research
Education/training centre and school
Start up
Large enterprise, enterprise excluding SME
SME
Status of the eligible institutions: 
Public
Private
Public equivalent body
Program contribution maximum: 
50%
Program Budget: 
188 500 000,00 €
Project duration minimum: 
36 months