The Israel-Italy Joint Innovation Program for Industrial, Scientific and Technological Cooperation in R&D is dedicated to the development of long-term R&D collaboration between Italian and Israeli industries, in keeping with the economic strength of Italy its technological position in the world, and with the special abilities of the Israeli technological industrial infrastructure and its international position.

The program implements the following agreement:  

·        Bi-lateral R&D Agreement between Israel and Italy signed in Bologna on June 13th, 2000

The Parties

Israel : MATIMOP, on behalf of the Office of the Chief Scientist (OCS) of the  Ministry of Industry Trade and Labor)

Italy :   Ministry of Foreign Affairs , Directorate General for Mediterranean and Middle East Countries” of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs       

   Preferred technologies/sectors

Joint Italian-Israeli R&D projects can be presented in the following areas:

Ø     medicine, public health and hospital organization;

Ø     biotechnology;

Ø     agriculture and food science

Ø     new energy sources and natural resource use;

Ø     applications of informatics to education and scientific research;

Ø     environnent

Ø     communication

Ø     innovation production processes

Ø     space

Ø     information technologies, data communication, software ;

Ø     any other areas of mutual interest;

  Program Administration

·        The program maintainsrepresentatives in both Italy and Israel; Italian and Israeli entities should contact their respective representatives at any time.

·        One call for proposal is published per year. The call is open for 3 to 4 months for submission of application forms.

Deadline submission for project proposals 20.05.10

for other cooperation programs with Italy:

Link to Eurostars

Link to Eureka

Application Procedures

       Partner Search Form

MATIMOP, together with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, will assist companies to find an appropriate partner.  Forms are available for companies seeking assistance in locating potential partners. 

Companies which already have partners may obtain a “pre-ruling” or initial assessment of the joint project by submitting a Cooperation Form.

An initial assessment of a joint project will be performed upon submission of the Cooperation Form. The project application must be sent, simultaneously to Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Middle East Department of the “Directorate General for Mediterranean and Middle East Countries”) and Israeli Authorities (Ministry of Industry Trade and Labor - Office of the Chief Scientist – OCS, through MATIMOP, the Israeli Industry Center for R&D) by means of the attached application form in English language.

The application must be filled out completely and signed by the person responsible for the project.

Guidelines for Israeli companies

·         Respective National Forms - OCS Forms for Israeli Companies

The projects approved by the Italian and Israeli Authorities, which will be selected in the framework of the Calls, will be financed by contracting Parties of the Agreement. The support will be given to each partner by its own Authorities in accordance with the national and/or regional Laws, Rules, Regulations and Procedures in effect .

Israeli companies should submit their applications on the OCS application forms. 

Time Table and Deadlines

Israel

Ilana Gross

Program Manager - Industrial R&D Cooperation Programs –Europe

Matimop - the IsraeliIndustryCenter for R&D
Tel: (+972 3) 5118184
Fax: (+972 3) 5177655
Email: ilana@matimop.org.il

Italy

Luca Querin

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

P.le della Franesina, 1

00194 Rome, Italy

Tel: ++39- 06.369.18901

Fax: +39- 06.36913567

Email: dgmm2@esteri.it  

Useful  links

· Office of the Chief Scientist

· Eureka

· Eurostars