COMET Compentence Centers for Excellent Technologies – COMET Module
The Austrian competence centre programme – COMET Module
The new programme line COMET Module aims to establish promising/emerging fields 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.
Specifications COMET Modules
Applicants: only existing COMET Centres (K1) are eligible for application
Consortium: Min. one scientific partner and three company partners
Duration: 4 years
Financing:
- 80% public funding
- Min. 5% by scientific partners
- Min. 15% by company partners
- Max. federal funding: 0.5 million Euro/year
- Max. federal funding: 0.25 million Euro/year
The essentials in brief
| Program Owner / Sponsor |
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| Topic |
Bottom-up, Circular Economy, Climate-Neutral City, Cooperation & Research Infrastructure, Digitalisation & Broadband, Energy Transition, Life Sciences & Health, Mobility Transition, Production & Materials, Quantum: Research & Technology, Society & Security, Space & Aviation, Wood: Research & Knowledge Transfer
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| Project type | |
| Financing | national
international
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| Submission | Submission with a proposal process
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| Target group | The programme line COMET Module aims at existing COMET Centres (K1) as applicants, and their scientific and economic partners. |
| Selection by | Jury |
| What is being funded | A maximum of 80% of the eligible costs can be funded. |
| Min. / max. funding | 0 / max. 0.5 million €/year federal funding plus max 0.25 million €/year provincial funding |
| Which costs are eligible for funding? | Fundable costs include personnel costs as well as other project-related direct costs (use of RDI infrastructure, third-party costs, travel expenses, material and equipment costs). Details concerning the fundable costs can be found in the programme document and the COMET guideline. |
| Min. / max. running time | 48 - 48 months |
| Availability from | 24.04.2018 - constantly |
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