COMET-Module

Compentence Centers for Excellent Technologies

The Austrian Competence Centre Programme

Objectives

The programme line COMET Module aims to establish promising/emergingfields of research and thus new fields of expertise to strengthen Austria’s position as a research location, preparing for future challenges. COMET Modules are characterised by research of especially high-risk. COMET Modules are thematically defined research areas which carry out excellent top-level research to open up new topics being way beyond the state-of-the-art.

Requirements

Applicants: only existing COMET Centres are eligible for application 
Consortium: min. one scientific partner and three company partners
Duration: 4 years 
Financing:

  • 80% public funding
  • 5% by scientific partners
  • 15% by company partners
  • max. federal funding: 0.5 million Euro/year 
  • max. federal funding: 0.25 million Euro/year

The programme line COMET Module aims at existing COMET Centres as applicants, and their scientific and economic partners.

The essential in brief

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

KUNZ Barbara Katharina

Barbara Katharina KUNZ

+43 577 55-2404 +43 664 8 82349-45 E-Mail
FIRNBERG Nicole

Nicole FIRNBERG

+43 577 55-2409 E-Mail

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