 Mae ffaglen ymchwil ac arloisi fwyad yr yw oed yr yndeb europeaeth. Horizon 2000 ag i gain ar agor, ac yn cynnig cyfleoedd i sefydliadau Cymru, fod ar flaen y gad yn y byd ymchwil ac arloisi. SPTS is the kind of leading supplier of capital equipment to the semiconductor industry. We make equipment that makes devices, one example would be the chips that go into smartphones. So we're currently involved in two Horizon 2020 projects in power base what the consortium is trying to achieve is a reduced footprint in devices which are typically used for wireless communications, LEDs, energy efficient devices and then the other project is InfoMed. What we're trying to achieve is a European pilot production line for fabricating biomedical devices. We are experts in our part of the supply chain and we get to work with all the other experts and sort of on a Europe wide scale and it's important for that to happen in order for us to achieve or make that difference on that particular product. Through these projects we've secured over 250,000 euros of funding and that's really important to us because it allows us to develop on technologies which are adjacent to our core roadmap technologies and so in the sustainability of the company we have to try and work on using new markets and this allows us to do that. Another exciting opportunity is our projects that are starting up with the Institute for Compound Semiconductors so that's an R&D facility that is being set up, same technology as the power base projects and so we can see that there are going to be big projects there with external partners that we can play a part. It's important for a company of this size to work on Horizon 2020 projects. It allows us the opportunity to work with other partners and to achieve things on a bigger scale. We're working on an ecosystem that requires people to work together internationally and longer term it allows us to increase R&D capability and ultimately achieve commercial success. Roedd 2000 yn dechwech yn flwyddyn dda iawn i sefydliadau o Gymru a fy'n Cymru trannu'n Horizon 2020. Gwellwyd Sawl chiwyddiant yn ystod o flwyddyn. Pasio caryg fi'ch dir 50 miliwn euro o gyllid, denu dros 10 miliwn euro i fusnesau Cymru, nifer y sefydliadau o Gymru sy'n Cymru trannu'n Horizon 2020, bron yn dyblu i gant adyddeg. Tia threian o'r sefydliadau o Gymru sy'n Cymru trannu'n Horizon 2020 yn arwain ei prosiectau. Nifer yr achosion o gydweithredu rhagladol gan sefydliadau Cymru wedi mwyn a dyblu i dros fi'l. Bydd y cynnydd sylweddol hwn mewn gweithgarwch yn helpu i gyfnewid arferio'n dda. Arwain at gyfleoedd ar gyfer partneri eithau a masnachu yn y dyfodol. Hwyl iso llwydiant pesiach yn cyrraedd at ffynon eisiau cyllid tebyg a chreu swyddi a thwwf ar dros Cymru. TWA technology centre Wales is part of the TWA group which specialises in structural integrity engineering. Here at Port Talbot we actually specialise in non-destructive testing and specialist inspection services. We're currently running three Horizon 2020 programmes live at the moment with an excess of one and a half million euros. Autoscan is a Horizon 2020 FTI fast tractor innovation programme which is looking to develop a highly advanced inspection system for inspection of railway tracks throughout Europe. We are working with partners from Portugal, Spain, Belgium and indeed here in the UK. We've made these partnerships and we've made these connections with partners throughout Europe that can then help our work with us on future programmes of work, also bigger more knowledge, increasing our knowledge base, increasing our science base, but also actually providing us with future research staff which we sometimes find difficult to find locally. Very often the innovative idea starts off at the academic university institution but before it gets actually to be a usable tool within its industry there's a big journey to take. European collaborative funding helps us through that journey so whilst an idea may originate out of an academic institution there are some funding mechanisms through for example the previous Framework 7 programmes which help us turn those academic ideas into working prototypes and then the more recent Horizon 2020 fast tractor innovation programmes help us take those prototypes, mature and develop them even further into a more commercial phase which can actually be used as a viable activity within that industry sector. Last year in 2016 we were very lucky to have won nearly £8 million worth of ERDF money to expand our research facility here in TWI Wales. We're going to break ground in a couple of months and almost double the size of the facility that exists and put brand new state of the art research equipment in place along with recruiting up to 20 new staff, 20 new researchers and expand our business by over 30% over the next four years. My name is Professor Peter Golesian, I'm chair environmental genomics at Bangor University and I'm coordinator of the project in Mare which is the Horizon 2020 6 million funded project which involves about 26 partners from across the continent. The project is about discovery of novel enzymes and biomolecules mostly from marine environments from very bizarre life forms that are able to cope in very harsh environments at the limits of life. Our role in the project we coordinate the project so we are responsible for preparation of resources. We also produce the genome sequencing data from environmental DNA. Altogether about 70% of funding comes from the framework 6 programme of the EU or Horizon 2020 so it's very essential to us. The collaboration is very important to us because you cannot imagine a laboratory or a research facility having everything under the same umbrella especially at these times where the research becomes multidisciplinary, so we have specialised in the range of different disciplines which are complementary. I'm Alex Collins, technical director for EcoDec, formerly trading as Van Plastik Limited. We're based in Wrexham North Wales and we are manufacturers of wood polymer composite profiles. We originally started on an FP7 EU grant system and from then that grew into the Horizon 2020 projects which we are now on. Our involvement in the project is to verify and ensure that these materials can successfully be used for new robots. Horizon 2020 is giving us the possibility to interact with institutions such as universities, technical centres and coordinate manufacturing sites that otherwise we wouldn't have had the opportunity. These three main projects collectively amount for 1.5 million euros. The funding given was very helpful to us in the fact that it led us against more or more scope to try new things without having to worry about the financial outlook involved. The impact on our business has been huge. First we have been working towards developing new materials but because of this it has given us the opportunity to create a new department that otherwise didn't exist and this consists of myself of course but as well we have an extrusion expert and we have two technicians working particularly 100% on the project. It has allowed us to increase our R&D team and also to really push for and try new innovative additives and materials and without the extra funding from the EU I don't think we would have been able to do those advances in material formulations. Mae Cymorth ar Gael. Mae Cynllun Sgwr Cymru yn enghraifft o'r Cymorth sydd ar Gael gan Lwodraeth Cymru. Mae'r gronfa wedi neudio dros 300 pedwardeg o filoedd ers cychwyn yn 2000 yn Degtri i helpu gydagwaith o liniogu siadau horizon 2000 agigain a theithio i ddatblygu partneriaethau. Mae hyn wedi arwain at chwechau swyddiannus i horizon 2000 agigain gan ddod a dros 2000 euro o gyllid i Gymru. Bicatalyst Ltd is a small to medium-sized enterprise. We are a biotechnology company based in South Wales, just north of Cardiff. We make enzymes which are specialist protein products that are used in a variety of industries including the pharmaceutical industry, food industries and also the chemical industry. Our products are used by our customers to help improve processes, to speed up processes, to reduce costs and to innovate. We have been very fortunate in the past in receiving funding from Welsh governments as well as Innovate UK. We have had a long-term interest in the Framework Program 7s and more recently Horizon 2020. We are just looking for the right opportunity to come along. When we are approached, we are just looking for the right opportunity to come along. When we are approached by Olion, who is the main part on the project, it was a very good fit technically and commercially to allow us to get access to some grant money with a fantastic collaborative network focused on a fantastic commercial opportunity. The LIPEs project is aimed at developing a new environmentally friendly process for the production of fat splitting products. By catalyst contribution to the LIPEs project is incredibly scientifically challenging and technically demanding and the contribution from Horizon 2020 of greater than 300,000 euros is going to be incredibly beneficial in allowing us to put in the necessary people and equipment resources to excel within our work packages and really deliver what the project needs. Before we applied to Horizon 2020 with the LIPEs funding, we were under probably the false impression that the whole process was going to be extremely challenging. I was pleasantly surprised from the concept through to the application process, the release of funds and the actual project work itself. It's been a relatively straightforward and very efficient process with great support from the European entities involved and good support from Welsh Government through the whole process. So we definitely consider applying for Horizon 2020 funding in future and would recommend others to do the same.