| Deadline: | Volumen: |
|---|---|
| September 6, 2011 | EUR 2 Million |
This call is closed. The results will be published in the beginning of 2012.
Scientific knowledge is frequently the underlying basis for developing new products, processes and services. Ultimately many innovations can be attributed to fundamental discoveries made in the course of doing research. “Pure research” is costly and time-intensive, but can generate new fundamental knowledge.
In contrast, companies are primarily interested in finding quick solutions to customer problems and fulfilling customer requirements. Normally they cannot afford to carry out protracted, open-ended research. Nevertheless, companies continually need new ideas and sound scientific findings in order to develop new products or improve existing ones.
With this focus on the part of ZIT, the City of Vienna intends to offer an incentive to put the results of scientific research into practice more quickly and efficiently, to intensify the know-how transfer and cooperation between the scientific and business communities and to enhance the overall innovative strength of the Viennese economy.
Projects can be submitted online between June 1, 2011 and September 6, 2011.
The Call From Science to Products 2011 awards and promotes projects carried out in Vienna which
- are carried out by Viennese companies or start-ups
- on the basis of their own R&D activities,
- leading to product, service or process innovations
- which are clearly oriented to being economically exploited.
In terms of their contents, the R&D projects should directly build upon research results which have not yet been commercially exploited on the relevant market in the form of product, process or service developments. These research findings must be published in recognized scientific or specialized publications.
The company is not required to submit an application for funding in cooperation with one or several legal entities in the field of research and education (e.g. universities, academies of applied sciences). However, such a joint application can be an advantage in many cases in order to promote know-how transfer and strengthen the cooperation between science and business within the context of this call.
Projects will be supported within the framework of this call without ZIT imposing any thematic constraints.
This call makes available a total of EUR 2 million in funding. Cash grants of up to EUR 500,000 are possible for the best projects. Of course smaller projects are also eligible for funding.
In addition to the designated funding amount, bonus prize money will also be given for the top ranked projects, i.e. EUR 15,000 for the top placed application, EUR 10,000 for the project which is ranked second and EUR 5,000 for the third place entry.
Projects demonstrably shown to be scientifically managed by a woman are also eligible to receive a bonus of EUR 10,000.
Funding is granted within the framework of a competitive tender process. The projects will be evaluated by an international jury of experts led by Prof. Franz G. Rammerstorfer (Vienna University of Technology) at the end of November 2011. The best projects will be nominated for funding.
