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

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

Regione Piemonte, Direzione Attività Produttive

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; 
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; 
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: 
Aerospace, Aeronautics and Space
Automotive
Chemicals
Entrepreneurship & Growth of young companies
ICTs (Digital technologies & user-friendly systems)
KETs
Life Science & Biotechnology
Mechatronics
Public health & security (e-Health)
Sustainable innovation & infrastructure
Action typologies: 
Cluster cooperation
Support to pre-standardisation, pre-commercial procurement, standardisation and other user-centered measures to help the deployment of innovative products and services into the market
Actions to improve sustainable linkages among actors of the innovation systems for strengthening regional innovation capacity
Improve access to finance for SMEs in their start-up, growth and transfer phases
Increasing skills of employees and entrepreneurs regarding new technologies, innovative products, services, processes and social innovation
Joint Product Innovation / Service Innovation, Process Innovation, Strategic and Organizational Innovation
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
Beneficiaries: 
Local public authority
Regional public authority
Sectorial agency
Infrastructure and (public) service provider
Higher education and research
Start up
SME
Business support organisation
Status of the eligible institutions: 
Public
Private
Public equivalent body
Program contribution maximum: 
50%
Program Budget: 
463 605 475,00 €