As you know, consulting service is the task of transferring expert knowledge and experience to your clients. In this simple definition there is a section to be noted: Specialisation in the field.
When we look at the applications from abroad, consulting firms specialize in specific fields, establishing strategic partnership with customers and signing works that create value added together. With the development of entrepreneurship ecosystem in our country, consultancy services have increased rapidly in recent years.
But we want to draw attention to the issue of specialization at this point. We believe that everybody should not do any work, let the specialists work in the selected field of expertise. For this reason, we have the principle of giving quality service to you with our knowledge, experience and human resources in the scope of our specialization fields.
We provide you consultancy services on R&D, Innovation, Project Management and Technology Commercialization.
The European Union Framework Programs (EU FP) is the structure of the Union Program for the harmonization of Europe's science and technology policies and practices. The first was launched in 1984, the highest budget bears the distinction of being the world's civilian research programs. The Framework Programs are carried out between the EU Member States and the Asiatic Countries in order to strengthen European research and technology development capacity and to promote university-industry collaboration. The National Coordination of Horizon 2020 in Turkey is carried out by TUBITAK. Horizon 2020, the European Union's new term Research and Innovation Framework Program, have passed a budget of around 80 billion Euros during the period between 2014-2020.
The SME Instrument Program within H2020's sub-programs; R&D and innovation have highly competitive threshold for SMEs in order to penetrate into international markets. SMEs who want to develop new product-process-technologies and want to increase their level of competitiveness can benefit from this program. The SME Inst. program consists of three phases. Conceptual feasibility studies are supported in the first phase. Demonstration and market application studies in phase 2 and commercialization studies in phase 3 are supported. The amount of support in Phase 1 is fixed at 50 thousand euros and in Phase 2 it is 70% + 25% of indirect costs. In Phase 2, the contribution of the European Commission is at least 500 thousand euros and at most 2.5 million euros.
Between the years 2014-2018 the project has received the support of only 25 applicants from Turkey. Six of the supported projects were prepared by E-CO.
E-CO is one of the few companies that are accredited by TÜBİTAK under the SME Inst and FTI Programs. According to 2014-2018 statistics overall success rate of Turkey was realized as 2.9%. The success rate of our company is 24%.
Our company is the most successful consulting company in Turkey with 6 successful projects under the H2020-SME Instrument program.
We prepare your project proposal application file, perform the process management, and provide turnkey services for the preparation of the feasibility reports.