Beyond Europe Call Guideline – Call 3
Guidelines Cooperative R&D Projects
Project Description Cooperative R&D Projects
Guidelines Exploratory Projects
Project Description Exploratory Projects
Declaration SME Status
The Programme "Beyond Europe" supports Austrian companies, research and university institutes and other organisations in creating and extending collaborations. The Programme is open to all thematic fields. Funding is available for projects in all technical disciplines. The present Call invites proposals for relevant research projects. Project proposals may be submitted for explorytory projects and cooperative R&D projects of the category "Experimental Development".
The Programme "Beyond Europe" supports Austrian companies, research and university institutes and other organisations in creating and extending collaborations.
The Call is open for all topics. Funding is available for projects in all technical disciplines.
The applicant must ensure that the bilateral projects submitted are not aimed at developing weapons or violence-promoting products or at gambling of any kind (i.e. games in which the outcome is determined exclusively or predominantly by chance).
Project proposals may be submitted for exploratory projects and cooperative R&D.
The FFG's Technical Guidelines apply as a matter of principle. Some special characteristics of this Call are:
All applications must be submitted by an Austrian company.
Exploratory projects can be carried out as individual projects or as cooperative projects with 2 or more project partners. If the exploratory project is carried out as a cooperative project, at least one Letter of Intent of a prospective project partner from a Beyond Europe country must be submitted.
In Cooperative R&D Projects the consortium must include at least one partner from a "Beyond Europe" country. The maximum level of funding granted is EUR 500.000,-. Only projects of the category "Experimental Development" are eligible for funding.
All legal entities, partnerships and sole traders that are not part of the Austrian federal administration are eligible to receive funding.
Partners from all countries/states of the world can apply for funding under the Beyond Europe programme and international RTI cooperation with the exception of the other 27 EU Member States and the following Associated Countries to Horizon 2020:
Albania
Armenia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Faroe Islands
Georgia
Iceland
Macedonia
Moldova
Montenegro
Norway
Serbia
Switzerland
Tunisia
Ukraine
The participation of project partners from the countries listed above is possible and welcome, but they are not eligible to receive funding under this Call.