The E3Canarias project aims at enhancing the innovation management capacity of the Canary Islands’ SMEs through the delivery of 7-day service packages, targeted to the most innovative small and medium size companies in the islands, as well as giving support to the Canarian beneficiaries of the HORIZON 2020 dedicated SME instrument, as Key Account Manager (KAM). Given the restricted number of packages available for the Canary Islands’ potential, the SMEs that have already been active in different innovation and internationalization activities will be assessed by using a standard innovation intake checklist and the SMEs with the most significant innovation activities and a high potential for internationalization will be selected. For the delivery of these services: • A minimum number of 2 EEN staff members will be trained for innovation management via the IMP3rove-Academy. • A minimum number of 7 service packages enhancing the innovation management capacities of SMEs will be provided. The final number of SMEs beneficiaries of the service could be increased depending on the resources available. • Considering the figures of participation of SMEs from the Canary Islands in the European Seven Framework Programme of RTD (FP7), a maximum of one beneficiary of the HORIZON 2020 dedicated SME instrument in 2014 is foreseen, so the expected provision of KAM service will be one. If the final number of SMEs is higher they will be supported as well.

The E3Canarias 2020-2021 project aims at continuing the activities carried out since 2014 under E3Canarias, E3Canarias 2015-2016, E3Canarias 2017-2018 and E3Canarias 2019 projects, enhancing the innovation management capacity of the Canary Islands’ SMEs through the delivery of 7 to 10 days service packages, targeted to the most innovative small and medium size companies in the islands, as well as giving support to the Canary Island beneficiaries of the HORIZON 2020 EIC pilot as Key Account Manager (KAM) services. An average of 21 SMEs will be mentored, combining two services: - A minimum of 16 SMEs beneficiaries of enhancing the innovation management capacities service. The number could be increased depending on the companies’ ambition, motivation and resources availability. - A maximum of 5 beneficiaries of the HORIZON 2020 EIC pilot. For the delivery of the services, 2 staff members are actively involved in the KAM community and have close cooperation with National NCP for SME and 3 staff members are experts for innovation Management trained via the IMP3rove-Academy and Innovation Health Check for EIMC services.

While the largest resource to avail is saline water, desalination faces two main challenges to its sustainability: the energy consumption required for the process and the waste residual brine, that can have a serious environmental impacts. Whereas the combination of Solar PV with Reverse Osmosis or Solar Thermal heat with Distillation processes has been developed along the recent decades into commercially available solar desalination solutions, the innovative integration of brine valorization and zero liquid discharge (ZLD) concepts aims at developing strategies to close the material loop, minimizing the liquid waste. The integration of these technologies results in a ZLD solar-powered desalination system - a circular economy scheme with the production of fresh water and recovery of valuable resources from the waste of the process. Gathering the experience of three non-Widening (TOP) partners presenting some of the most outstanding background and Research Infrastructure (RI), at European level, in the development of Solar-driven water production and wastewater treatment technologies (WP&WT), Sol2H2O aims at supporting the Coordinator (WIDENING) partner in the development of establishment of high-level research in this field. Based on the outstanding WIDENING RI and background in Solar Energy technologies and on its preliminary experiences in the Water-Energy nexus field, Sol2H2O seeks the development and implementation of a common scientific strategy, with a strong focus on an enhanced capacity building of researchers, going beyond purely scientific capacities and strengthening their research management and administration skills. By means of a common research strategy aiming at further developing Solar-driven Water-Energy Nexus solutions, Sol2H20 aims at creating a reference European facility for the development and testing of Circular Solar-driven Water Production & Treatment technologies, enabling the development of renewable gas or agriculture activities.

The E3Canarias 2015-2016 project aims at continuing the activities carried out in 2014 under E3Canarias project, enhancing the innovation management capacity of the Canary Islands’ SMEs through the delivery of 7-day service packages, targeted to the most innovative small and medium size companies in the islands, as well as giving support to the Canary Island beneficiaries of the HORIZON 2020 dedicated SME instrument, as Key Account Manager (KAM). These 7-day service packages will be delivered to the Canary Islands’ SMEs that have already been active in different innovation and internationalization activities, with significant innovation activities and a high potential for internationalization. A minimum of 30 SMEs up to 50 SMEs will be mentored, combining two services: - A minimum of 30 service packages on enhancing the innovation management capacities of SMEs. The service could be increased to approximately 43 service packages depending on the companies’ ambition, motivation and resources availability. - A maximum of 5 beneficiaries of the HORIZON 2020 dedicated SME instrument phase 1, and 2 beneficiaries of SME instrument phase II. For the delivery of these services, 2 staff members have been trained for innovation management via the IMP3rove-Academy in 2014. In the following years these 2 staff members will receive a more advanced training from IMP3rove-Academy and 2 other staff members will also be trained.

The E3Canarias 2019 project aims at continuing the activities carried out since 2014 under E3Canarias, E3Canarias 2015-2016 and E3Canarias 2017-2018 projects, enhancing the innovation management capacity of the Canary Islands’ SMEs through the delivery of 7 to 10 days service packages, targeted to the most innovative small and medium size companies in the islands, as well as giving support to the Canary Island beneficiaries of the HORIZON 2020 dedicated SME instrument, Fast Track to Innovation (FTI) and Future and Emerging Technologies Open (FET-Open) as Key Account Manager (KAM) services. An average of 15 SMEs will be mentored, combining two services: - A minimum of 7 SMEs beneficiaries of enhancing the innovation management capacities service. The number could be increased depending on the companies’ ambition, motivation and resources availability. - A maximum of 4 beneficiaries of the HORIZON 2020 dedicated SME instrument phase 1; 2 beneficiaries of SME instrument phase II; 1 beneficiary in FTI and 1 beneficiary in FET-Open. For the delivery of the services, 2 staff members are actively involved in the KAM community and have close cooperation with National NCP for SME Instrument, FTI and FET-Open and 3 staff members are experts for innovation management trained via the IMP3rove-Academy for EIMC services.