IraSME is a network of ministries and funding agencies which are owners or managers of national and regional funding programmes for cooperative research projects between small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and in participation of research and technology organisations (RTOs). Against the background of growing competition in global markets, IraSME supports SMEs in their transnational innovation activities, helps them to acquire technological know-how, extend their networks and bridge the gap between research and innovation.
IraSME is a network of ministries and funding agencies which are owners or managers of national and regional funding programmes for cooperative research projects between small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and in participation of research and technology organisations (RTOs). Against the background of growing competition in global markets, IraSME supports SMEs in their transnational innovation activities, helps them to acquire technological know-how, extend their networks and bridge the gap between research and innovation.
Requirements for Projects:
Projects must be innovative and must aim to develop new or to significantly improve existing products, processes or technical services that in their parameters exceed the existing state of the art. All projects must have significant technical risks. The outcome of the project must be concrete and demonstrate real market potential.
General conditions for projects include:
- At least a total of two SMEs from two different countries/regions (at least one SME in each country/region).
- Balanced participation of the partners in the project needs to be proven.
- Clear participation of all participating SMEs in the economic results of the project.
- Every participant has a defined role in the project (subproject) that contains research and development tasks with significant technical risks, that can be delimited from the other subprojects (no redundancy) and is necessary for the project success.
- At least 50% of the work in the complete project has to be performed by companies.
- Start date of the project should be approximately 6 month after call deadline.
- Germany: All foreign partners need to be included in the German ZIM application (annex 4 & 5) concerning company profile, work packages and market opportunities. Please add a trade register excerpt of all applicants. The cooperation agreement may be in English, incl. a German work translation.
Deadline: September 28, 2016 at 12:00 noon (strict deadline)
Proposal Submission – Transnational Level:
The project application must be signed by each partner and submitted electronically by the project coordinator before the deadline of the 18th Call on September 28, 2016 - noon.
Technical details related to the submission process will be published on the website www.ira-sme.net in due time before the call deadline. The template “Application Form” available on the website must be used including the following sections:
- General information
- Project Coordinator including signature on LOI
- Partner(s) including signature(s) on LOI
The application language for this part is English, except for pure Austrian-German consortia where all documents are accepted in German. In addition to the project application the coordinator must submit a draft Consortium Agreement (not signed!) in PDF format electronically.
Proposal Submission – National/Regional Level
At the same time the national/regional forms have to be submitted to the local funding agency according to the ZIM regulations (see http://www.zim-bmwi.de/kooperationsprojekte).
Vor Antragstellung wird den deutschen ZIM Antragstellern empfohlen eine Projektskizze (Vorlage verfügbar unter http://www.zim-bmwi.de/kooperationsprojekte/Download) zum angestrebten Kooperationsprojekt beim Projektträger einzureichen, um einen qualitativ hochwertigen Projektantrag im ZIM sicher zu stellen.
KIT-spezifische Informationen zu ZIM-Anträgen finden Sie im Intranet unter http://www.for.kit.edu/int_BMWi-ZIM-p0.php. Beachten Sie bitte, dass die KIT-interne Drittmittelanzeige im Vorfeld der Einreichung des Antrags vorzulegen ist. Weitere Informationen zur Drittmittelanzeige und die aktuellen Formulare finden Sie unter http://www.for.kit.edu/int_drittmittelanzeige.php.
Die Ausschreibung wurde im Rahmen des Programms - BMWi - Zentrales Innovationsprogramm Mittelstand (ZIM) - veröffentlicht.
Zielgruppe der Ausschreibung sind: Kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMU)
Projektträger für die Förderung ist: Projektträger AiF Projekt GmbH
Abgabetermin ist der 28.09.2016 (Ausschlussfrist)
FOR-Kontakte: Roswitha Marioth, Wolfgang Reik, Renate Wobken-Auracher