Early Stage - Funding, Guidelines

Strengthen your competitiveness in early stage of industrial research
Early Stage

Early Stage supports research projects belonging to the category industrial research of companies with a high potential for growth in the relevant technology or business area. Funded projects shall provide a sound basis for a following phase for the development of innovative products, processes or services. The funding quota is max. 70 % of total eligible projects costs (non-repayable subsidies ) not dependent on the research topic, the branch of industry. Submission of an application is currently not possible.

Funded projects shall provide a sound basis for a following phase for the development of innovative products, processes or services. 

The essentials in brief

Program Owner / Sponsor FFG - Austrian Research Promotion Agency Nationalstiftung für Forschung, Technologie und Entwicklung
Topic
Project type
Financing
national
Submission
Submission possible anytime
Target group The relevant target groups are companies intending to enter new technology or business areas and start-up companies with high potential for growth.
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 funding.
What is being funded The funding quota is 70 % for small companies, 60 % for medium-sized and 40 % for large enterprises up to a maximum funding of € 1.000.000.- per project per year.
Min. / max. funding Early Stage Guidelines (German only) / look up Guidelines / € 1 Mio. per year (IR)
Which costs are eligible for funding? Guidelines (German only)
Min. / max. running time 12 - 36 months
Availability from 29.06.2017 - 31.12.2030

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Karin RUZAK
Karin RUZAK
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