EU-ROP ERDF ITALY - REGIONE VALLE D'AOSTA - 2014-2020

Instrument/Program level: 
European
Name of the instrument/Program: 
ROP ERDF
Instrument/Program application areas: 
ITALY - REGIONE VALLE D'AOSTA
Instrument/Program eligible areas: 
Valle d’Aosta
Managing authority: 

Regione Valle d'Aosta - Struttura programmi per lo sviluppo regionale e politica delle aree montane (Dipartimento politiche strutturali e affari europei – Presidenza della Regione)

Objectives: 

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; 
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; 
6c. Conserving, protecting, promoting and developing natural and cultural heritage.

Eligible thematics in line with ERC sectors: 
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences and Engineering
Social Sciences and Humanities
Eligible thematics in line with S3: 
Agrifood processing
Alpine activities & technologies
City development
Climate Change Mitigation
Green & Clean energy & technologies
ICTs (Digital technologies & user-friendly systems)
Nature & Biodiversity
Renewable energies & resource efficiency
Smart & energy-efficient buildings
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
Funding for R&I investment
ICTs for the communications
Development of new sustainable technologies, new products and services
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
Implementation of research, innovation and technology transfer projects to support the building-up of competences in common fields of strength defined by the Smart specialization strategy
Implementation of services for knowledge intensive startups with the strong potential to internationalize
Beneficiaries: 
Local public authority
Regional public authority
Sectorial agency
Infrastructure and (public) service provider
Higher education and research
Large enterprise, enterprise excluding SME
SME
Status of the eligible institutions: 
Public
Private
Public equivalent body
Program contribution maximum: 
50%
Program Budget: 
30 895 475,00 €