Taftie Expert Session/ Taftie Academy Networking Workshop, Strasbourg, 22nd September
ExExpert Session / Taftie Academy Networking Workshop
EnEnhancing operational cooperation with EIB/EIF and the EC:
RDI risk sharing schemes and EU instruments
2222nd September, Strasbourg
On 22nd September the third Taftie Expert Session of 2016 took place in Strasbourg.
The focus was twofold:New EU debt instruments for innovation financing (Innovfin SMEG, InnovFin large projects and national agencies) & Non-grant financing and RDI projects
Download here the REPORT or the presentations below.
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Welcome & Roundtable
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Presentation of participants
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Session 1: Non-grant financing and RDI projects
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EC expectation on non-grant financing/EIC - Speaker: Steve Rogers - European Commission
Financing close-to-market innovation projects (eg Seal of Excellence phase 2 type of projects) - Speakers: Gerald Dlesk -FFG & Jean-Luc Eggen- RVO
The implementation of non-grant RDI financing with ESIF - Speaker: Javier Garcia-Serrano - CDTI
Financing European RDI collaborative projects - Speaker: Laure Reinhart - Bpifrance
Discussion session 1 - 3 working groups
Working Group presentations
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Session 2 : New EU debt instruments for innovation financing : Innovfin SMEG, InnovFin large projects and national agencies
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Presentation of EIB Group on the InnovFin debt instruments - Speaker: Olivier Edelman - European Investment Bank
Presentations of TAFTIE Agencies on how to better connect SMEs already supported in RDI phases to EU supported later stages debt financing - Speaker: Christian Dubarry - Bpifrance