The Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) and the Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology, EPE (CDTI) from Spain have allocated funding for collaborative R&D projects, focusing on developing innovative products and applications in all technological and market areas.
Sponsoring Agency: Eureka
Type of Fund: Research and Development
Deadline Available: Available
Deadline Date (mm/dd/yyyy): 09/15/2021
Size of the Fund: Not Available
The Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) and the Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology, EPE (CDTI) from Spain have allocated funding for collaborative R&D projects, focusing on developing innovative products and applications in all technological and market areas.
Scope
Applicants are expected to develop market-ready solutions or projects that have strong market potential for Austria and Spain.
This call accepts projects in ALL thematic areas or application domains, with a special focus on the following domains:
• Unmanned vehicles systems
• Green building
• Photonics
• Environmental technologies
Eligibility Criteria
Austrian and Spanish organisations are invited to submit a joint proposal for industrial R&D projects (a typical Eureka project has an average duration of 2-3 years and an average budget of 1-2 million euro) according to the following criteria:
• Your consortium must include at least one Austrian and one Spanish company. Research institutes, universities and other organisations are welcome to participate as self-funded or subcontractors, according to each country’s funding regulations.
• Organisations from other countries may also participate, but they will not be funded by CDTI or by FFG.
• Your project idea must represent international cooperation in the form of a specific project.
• The project must be directed at researching or developing an innovative product, process or service with the goal of commercialisation. The product, process or service must be innovative and there must be a technological risk involved.
• The project should have an obvious advantage and added value resulting from the technological cooperation between the participants from the countries (e.g. increased knowledge base, commercial leads, access to R&D infrastructure, etc.).
• The project should demonstrate the contribution of all participants (no single organisation or country can be responsible for more than 70% of the project budget) and the project must be significant to all.
• The participants are required, prior to obtaining the Eureka label endorsement, to have signed a consortium agreement.
• Any partner whose cooperative R&D project is consistent with these criteria can apply to this call for projects according to the national laws, rules, regulations and procedures in effect.
More information at: https://www.eurekanetwork.org/open-calls/austria-spain-2021
Eligible Countries:
Austria, Spain
