I have my second Advisory Board member Jonas Hansen onboard for this episode where we dig into SMEs and Horizon Europe. Jonas facilitates R&D and innovation in especially SMEs in the ICT sector. He has more than 12 years experience working with the EU R&D funding programmes.

Jonas has also recently been working for a SME which results in an excellent talk about what it actually entails for SMEs to embark on EU proposals and how to implement the winning projects. We discuss why it is important for SMEs and then we dig into why SMEs are often hesitating to join proposals.

The episode has lots of practical examples.The episode has advice on how to support SMEs before entering a proposal (for facilitators), how it is to implement a EIC Accelerator project for SMEs and how to secure spin-off business and added value from the proposal process even if you don’t win the funding.