Call for research and innovation to boost Europe’s SMEs
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Entrepreneurship and SMEsDeadline: 03/12/2009
See also: Details of the call
The “Research for SMEs” call has a budget of €136.84 million and falls under FP7’s 2010 Capacities Work Programme: Research for the Benefit of SMEs.
The call will help SMEs which do not have the capacity to undertake research themselves to commission work from R&D performers such as universities, research centres and industrial companies.
The programme’s goal is to strengthen innovation capacities in European SMEs and improve their contribution to the development of new technologies.
Project bids for this call can address any research topic in the field of science and technology, but they must be centred on the innovation needs of the SMEs that are outsourcing their research requirements. Projects should aim to produce new knowledge and results that can be harnessed to develop or improve products, processes or services for participating SMEs.
To be eligible under the scheme, a consortium must include at least three independent SMEs from three different EU Member States or Associated Countries. They must also include two R&D performers independent of any other participant.
The deadline for this call is 3 December 2009 – for further details, including an information pack, please go to the weblink below.