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FET Innovation LaunchPad Call closure 14/10/2020 - Apply to transform your project results into more concrete market opportunities

Count down has started for the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Innovation LaunchPad call closure on the 14th of October 2020!This call aims to to transform results from Pathfinder/FET funded projects into societal or economic innovations. A lump sum up to EUR 100.000 per project is available to support short actions focused on non-scientific aspects and on turning early stage Pathfinder results into a genuine innovation with socio-economic impacts.

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date:  16/09/2020

The FET Innovation LaunchPad, part of the European Innovation Council (EIC), encourages activities such as defining a commercialisation process, market and competitiveness analysis, technology assessment, verification of innovation potential, consolidation of intellectual property rights, business case development. Proposals can include activities with, for instance, partners for technology transfer, license-takers, investors and other sources of financing, societal organisations or potential end-users.

The current call, open until the 14th of October 2020, comes with the novelty of lump sum payment. With this lump sum, there will be no actual cost reporting, no timesheets and no financial audits to be submitted. The payment will depend on the completion of the work.

Applications to this call are reserved for building on previous results from the Pathfinder/FET programme, which resulted in a favourable success rate in the past calls. Check the call conditions for the details on the eligibility criteria.

One of the expected impacts of the FET Innovation LaunchPad topic that is to bring about improved competitiveness of the European industry, and economy overall, by seeding future growth and the creation of jobs from EIC Pathfinder/FET research results.

Do not miss the chance and apply by the 14 October 2020!

 

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