Collective Research - Funding, Guidelines
Funding of cooperative research projects (sector projects)
The funding of cooperative research projects (sector projects) in Collective Research supports pre-competitive research projects which do not include any directly exploitable product and process or service developments. The funding level is max. up to 65 % of total eligible projects costs. Submission is possible at any time and funding is carried out by non-repayable subsidies.
Collective Research stands for cooperative research projects for whose results are made available to the industry and is open to all topics.
The essentials in brief
Program Owner / Sponsor |
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Topic |
Bottom-up, Circular Economy, Climate-Neutral City, Digitalisation & Broadband, Energy Transition, Further research areas, Innovative & Competitive Companies, Life Sciences & Health, Mobility Transition, People, Qualification & Gender, Production & Materials, Quantum: Research & Technology, Society & Security, Space & Aviation, Wood: Research & Knowledge Transfer
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Project type | |
Financing | national
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Submission | Submission possible anytime
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Target group | In Collective Research, interest groups or non-university research institutions are invited, together with a so-called User Committee consisting of at least three companies from the industry sector, to submit their cooperative applications for funding. |
Selection by | Evaluations are conducted by experts of the FFG. The evaluation is carried out throughout the General Programme scoreboard and some additonal guidelines for Collective Research funding. |
What is being funded | The funding level is max. up to 65 % of total eligible projects costs (non-repayable subsidies). |
Min. / max. funding | 0 / max. € 325,000 per project year / |
Which costs are eligible for funding? | Information on the eligible costs is available in the guidelines for Collective Research and in the current version of the FFG Cost Guide. |
Min. / max. running time | 12 - 12 months |
Availability from | 01.04.2020 - constantly |
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