The companies will also be entitled to benefit from up to 12 days of business coaching.

The European Commission received 962 proposals under Phase 2 by the second cut-off date of 2015 on 17 June. 357 received an evaluation score above the application threshold and 44 or 12.3%, amounting to total project costs of €93.7 million, have been selected for funding.

Spanish SMEs have once again been particularly successful with 11 beneficiaries on track to receive €15 million, closely followed by firms from Italy, the United Kingdom, Germany and Denmark.

Since the launch of the programme on 1 January 2014, 273 SMEs have been selected under Phase 2 of the SME Instrument sharing more than €387 million.

• Participant Portal – lists of all beneficiaries Phase 2
• Map of SME Instrument beneficiaries
• SME Instrument
• Twitter accounts@EU_H2020 and @H2020SME
• Contact: RTD-RESEARCH-PRESS@ec.europa.eu