Ministry of Science and Education (MZO) through National Recovery and Resilience Programme 2021-2026 published 28 July 2023 Public call for project proposals “Demonstration of an innovative concept Second Call’.
Purpose Invitation is an increase in readiness to develop new products and processes due to improved R&D and innovation capacities of enterprises and scientific organisations.
Subject matter of the call is the award of grants to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, and scientific organizations, for the co-financing of pre-commercial activities in the initial stage of development of new products, services and technological processes, in order to determine the potential for commercialization, direct further development and reduce investment risk.
Financial allocation
- Total grant: 4.799.920,37 €
- Minimum grant amount: 26.500,00 €
- Maximum grant amount: 66.000,00 €
Eligible applicants
- Micro-entrepreneurs
- Small Entrepreneurs
- Medium-sized entrepreneurs
- Scientific research institutions
- Citizens
Applicants who are businesses the project is implemented independently. Applicants who are Public research organisations the project is implemented in mandatory partnership with the Recognized Centre. Applicants who have their own status the Recognized Center, the project is implemented independently. The list of Recognised Centres for the implementation of the Proof of Innovative Concept programme is available at the following link: link.
Eligible project activities
The project will primarily fund research activities at the Technology Readiness Level TRL 3-4, which may be classified in the category of industrial research. Industrial research means planned research or critical review aimed at acquiring new knowledge and skills for the development of new products, processes or services or at achieving a significant improvement of existing products, processes or services. This includes the creation of components of complex systems and may include prototyping in a laboratory environment or in an environment with simulated interfaces to existing systems, as well as pilot lines where this is necessary for industrial research, primarily for generic technology validation.
1) Research (TRL 3-4)
- Prototyping;
- Demonstration of technical feasibility.
2) Innovation cycle management activities
3) Preparation of documents for the purpose of commercialization of innovations
- Market analysis;
- Preparation of a feasibility study;
- Development of a concept and/or strategy for product development and/or commercialisation (commercialisation study or plan);
- Verification and protection of intellectual property;
- Patent search;
- Validation of the idea i.e. market needs, analysis of the IP protection strategy.
4) Administrative management of the project
Date of commencement of receipt of project applications: 1.10.2023., 00:00
Deadline for submission of project applications: 1.12.2023., 23:58
Read more about the call in Instructions for applicants.
