The FET Innovation Launchpad aims to take FET research closer to the society and the market. By their very nature – foundational, novel, high-risk, interdisciplinary – FET-funded projects have the potential to create many innovative social and economic opportunities. Not all of those promising ideas can however be taken-up under the original project.

This is where the Innovation Launchpad comes in. It will take-up those ideas from FET funded projects and explore their possible social and market applications. Ultimately it aims at stimulating entrepreneurial mind-set in the FET research world. Participants of ongoing or recently finished FET projects under FP7 or H2020 are invited to apply to the FET Innovation Launchpad .

The first cut-off date is 29/09/2016, with a budget of €1.2M. There will be a second cut-off date on 27/09/2017, with a budget of €1.8M.

For the proposals submitted before the first cut-off date (29/09/2016), the related FET project is considered 'recently finished' if its end date was between 29 September 2015 and 28 September 2016. The Commission considers that proposals for actions no longer than 18 months and requesting a EU contribution of up to €0.1M would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately.

More information about the FET Innovation Launchpad is available on the Participant Portal.

A dedicated Information Day has been organised in Brussels on 20 April 2016: you can watch the video of the InfoDay and check the slides of the presentations and other information here.