What is BRIDGE about?
Funding is provided for basic research projects carried out by consortia and partners from scientific research and the manufacturing industry. The projects are classified as industrial research in accordance with the EU funding ceilings.
The BRIDGE Initiative is aimed at researchers and companies from all scientific disciplines and sectors in Austria. Both research institutes and companies are eligible to apply. The consortium must consist of at least two partners (one each from science and industry respectively)
Science transfer takes place. The main objectives pursued are as follows:
- Further development and transfer of basic research findings towards economic applications, as well as the initiation and deepening of research cooperation between science and industry.
- Intensification of Austrian research performance in the field of high-quality scientific research and involvement of companies in the early stages of industrial research.
- Utilization of the potential in the field of human resources for industrial research by facilitating the transfer of researchers from universities to research in companies (intensive involvement of doctoral students and postdocs in the projects).
BRIDGE key data
- Funding is open to all topics and technologies
- Submission at proposal dates - one to two calls per year
- Evaluations are conducted by internal experts of the FFG and external evaluation processing.
- Costs max. 360.000 EUR (eligible projects costs)
- Grant up to max. 80 % (depending on size of the organization participating and consortia)
- Small enterprises (SE) 80 %
- Medium-sized enterprises (MS) 70 %
- Large enterprises (LE) 60 %