Developed within the European Horizon 2020 program, the DIVA initiative has led to support and finance the deployment of digital innovations in the agri-food, environment, and forestry sectors. Created and coordinated by Agri Sud-Ouest Innovation, together with 9 highly motivated partners, the project started in 2018 and ended in 2021
In DIVA, two open calls were launched in February 2019 and February 2020 at the European level. As a whole more than 400 proposals were received. In the end, 134 projects involving 180 SMEs from 9 different EU countries were selected: 88 maturation projects, 38 demonstration projects and 8 internationalization projects, which represents a 35 % average success rate. The beneficiaries have benefited from direct financial support under the form of vouchers worth 10 to 60 k€ depending on the type of project and a strong support of expertise from the DIVA partners to carry out their project. The list and summary of all the projects is available on: www.projectdiva.eu/funded-projects
DIVA resulted in :
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- 2,7 M€ allocated to SMEs
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- 28 % of trans-national projects
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- 58 projects leading to business contracts between the SMEs or with other stakeholders
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- 124 new solutions / services developped
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- 3,1 of leverage effect
The European label of DIVA provided visibility and credibility to attract investors and 34 SMEs benefited from an equity investment worth 3,9 M€. Adding the 4,8 M€ budget investment made by the SMEs, this represents a total of 8,4 M€ of private investment, that is a leverage effect of 3,1 for the EC investment (2,7 M€ of vouchers).
More details on www.projectdiva.eu
