COMET Centres

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Compentence Centers for Excellent Technologies

The Austrian competence centre programme

Objectives

COMET Centres aim to develop and focus competences through excellent cooperative research with a medium to long term perspective. They conduct research at top international level and stimulate new research ideas in their fields. Continuous international benchmarking must be ensured. They contribute to initiating product, process and service innovations with a view to future relevant markets.

Requirements

Consortium: At least one scientific partner and five company partners
Duration: 8 years (4+4)
Financing:

  • 50% public funding 
  • Min. 5% by scientific partners
  • Min. 40% by company partners
  • Max. federal funding: 2 million Euro/year 
  • Max. federal funding: 1 million Euro/year

The COMET programme addresses both existing competence centres and COMET projects as well as new consortia of science and industry.
The programme line COMET Centres K2 will no longer be continued.

The essential in brief

Closed Availability
01.04.2025 - 18.11.2025
Initiative for
Competence centresLarge companiesResearch facilitiesSmall and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)UniversitiesUniversities of applied sciences
Funders
Federal Ministry for Economy, Energy and Tourism Logo
Federal Ministry for Innovation, Mobility and Infrastructure

Contact

NGUYEN Budiono

Budiono NGUYEN

+43 577 55-2104 E-Mail

Julia BISSENBERGER

+43 577 55-2103 E-Mail
FLEISCHHACKER Ingrid

Ingrid FLEISCHHACKER

+43 577 55-2102 E-Mail
STARZER Otto

Otto STARZER

+43 577 55-2101 E-Mail

About the FFG

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