The Ministry of Science, Education and Youth launched a call on 17 June 2025. Collaborative scientific research to support the implementation of collaborative industrial research projects between enterprises and research organisations.
Purpose of the call
Increasing the level of development of new technologies, products and processes by conducting collaborative applied research.
Financial allocation
The total amount of grants available is 29.593.441,00 EUR.
- Minimum aid amount per project: 350.000,00 EUR
- Maximum aid amount per project: 1.000.000,00 EUR
Aid intensity
- Aid for research and development projects: to 80% eligible costs
- Innovation aid for SMEs: to 50% eligible costs
- De minimis aid: to 80% eligible costs
Eligible applicants
- Research organisations
- micro, small or medium-sized enterprise
Eligible partners
The eligible partners are research organisations, large companies and technology transfer offices.
Eligible activities
- Industrial research activities (TRL 2-4) (mandatory activity)
- Activities aimed at continuing research activities and cooperation between academia and the economy (compulsory activity)
- Verification and protection of intellectual property
- Dissemination of research results and networking (mandatory action)
- Promotion and visibility of the project (mandatory activity)
- Project management (mandatory activity)
- Horizontal actions (mandatory action)
Eligible costs
- Staff costs
- Expenses of external research services, project management, related to the verification and protection of intellectual property...
- Knowledge and patent costs
- Costs of research consumables
- Indirect costs
- Field research costs
- Costs of purchasing equipment and associated costs
- Cost of leasing equipment on another institution
- Depreciation costs of instruments and equipment necessary for the implementation of the project
- Costs of fees and charges payable to national or supranational IP offices
- Costs of visits and organisation of events
- Costs of publishing scientific papers
- Costs of creating the project website
- Costs of production and procurement of promotional materials
- Costs of organising events for the promotion and visibility of the project
- Costs related to the implementation of horizontal principles
Deadline and method of submission of applications
The call is open until 11 a.m. on 15 October 2025. The submission of the project proposal is allowed from 11 a.m. on 1 September 2025 at the earliest. The project proposal is submitted to the Ministry of Science, Education and Youth through the portal ecohezija.gov.hr.
Questions and Answers
Potential applicants have the right to ask questions related to the Call continuously until the expiry of the deadline for the submission of project proposals, and no later than 14 days before the expiry of the deadline for the submission of project proposals. Questions with a clearly indicated reference to the Invitation can only be sent via e-mail to the address kzi@mzom.hr.
The answers shall be published on the ‘Questions and answers’ form on the Portal within seven working days from the date of receipt of the specific question, but no later than seven days before the deadline for submission of project proposals.
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