Catalonia – Israel 6th Call for Proposals for Joint R&D Projects

Summary:

Participating Agencies

Government of Catalonia

Israel Innovation Authority

Program Description

The call is announced within the framework of the Cooperation Agreement for Promotion of Industrial Research and Development between ACCIÓ: Catalan Agency for Business Competitiveness and the Innovation Authority with the objective to strengthen the existing economic relations between Catalonia and Israel, based on principles of equality and reciprocity, allowing the best use of opportunities generated by technical and scientific advances, improving the technological and industrial research and development cooperation between Catalonia and Israel and to establish a framework for such cooperation.

Criteria

Eligible project proposals for industrial R&D projects must fulfil the following criteria:

• The consortia must include at least 2 independent enterprises belonging to Catalonia and Israel (one from each region at least).
• Academic research groups, universities or other public/private R&D performer organisations may also participate as subcontractors according to each country’s funding regulations.
• There is no upper limit on consortia size. Consortia can involve as many partners as necessary to achieve the project goals, although, small medium projects with no more than 4 or 5 partners are expected.
• The project should have an obvious advantage and added value resulting from the cooperation between the participants from the two countries (e.g. increased knowledge base, commercial leads, access to R&D infrastructure, new fields of application, etc.).

Application Process

Eligible project proposals for industrial R&D projects must fulfil the following criteria:

• The consortia must include at least 2 independent enterprises belonging to Catalonia and Israel (one from each region at least).
• Academic research groups, universities or other public/private R&D performer organisations may also participate as subcontractors according to each country’s funding regulations.
• There is no upper limit on consortia size. Consortia can involve as many partners as necessary to achieve the project goals, although, small medium projects with no more than 4 or 5 partners are expected.
• The project should have an obvious advantage and added value resulting from the cooperation between the participants from the two countries (e.g. increased knowledge base, commercial leads, access to R&D infrastructure, new fields of application, etc.).

In ISRAEL

• Israeli partners will be invited to submit in addition and at the same time as the short project outline their funding applications to the Innovation Authority using this link
• A provisional consortium agreement among project partners is needed at the moment of proposal submission in this phase.
• Submission to the Innovation Authority by 6th October 2019 till 17:00.