BRIDGE – Funding, Guidelines
BRIDGE is funding cooperation between scientific institutes and companies. The research projects should be designed to be close to basic research - however, there should already be a recognizable exploitation perspective. The participating companies must be effectively involved in the project work and, if necessary, make a financial contribution. The funding offer is open to all topics and technologies and is offered on different dates.
BRIDGE provides funding for collaboration between scientific institutes and businesses. The projects should be designed as basic research projects but should also offer prospects for commercialisation. The participating companies must be effectively involved in the project work and make a financial contribution, if applicable.
Goals
- Further development and transfer of basic research findings to industrial application
- Extending research collaboration between science and industry
- Facilitating access to scientific research for small and medium-sized enterprises
- Promoting the transfer of researchers from universities to industrial research (PhD theses, Post Docs)
- Intensifying research performance in high-level industrial research and experimental development as well as innovations in social and economic sciences and services
- Promoting the commercialisation of high-tech innovations in order to enhance the innovative performance of the Austrian economy
Funding
The funding quota is 80 % for small companies, 70 % for medium-sized and 60 % for large enterprises up to a maximum funding of € 360.000,-.- per project.
Cooperation
The BRIDGE Programme 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).
The essentials in brief
| Program Owner / Sponsor |
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| Topic |
Bottom-up, Circular Economy, Climate-Neutral City, Digitalisation & Broadband, Energy Transition, Further research areas, Innovative & Competitive Companies, Life Sciences & Health, Mobility Transition, People, Qualification & Gender, Production & Materials, Quantum: Research & Technology, Society & Security, Space & Aviation, Wood: Research & Knowledge Transfer
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| Project type | |
| Financing | National
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| Submission | Submission with a proposal process
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| Target group | Researchers and companies from all scientific disciplines and sectors in Austria |
| Selection by | Evaluations are conducted by internal experts of the FFG and external evaluation processing. |
| What is being funded | Basic research projects also offering prospects for commercialisation |
| Min. / max. funding | 0 / 360.000 |
| Which costs are eligible for funding? | Information on the eligible costs is available in the guidelines for BRIDGE and in the current version of the FFG Cost Guide. |
| Min. / max. running time | 12 - 36 months |
| Availability from | 01.09.2005 - constantly |
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