4th Call for Proposals for Joint R&D Projects

between Spanish and Israeli Companies

Within the cooperation practices existing between Spain and Israel in the fields of industrial and technological research and development (hereinafter called “R&D Cooperation”) in the framework of the Eureka program, in which both countries are full and active members, participants from both countries are invited to submit joint project proposals.

1. Scope of Topics for Bi-Lateral R&D projects

This call welcomes applications in all technological areas .  Yet, special priority will be given to proposals of the following domains:   

Ø   Cleantech : Environmental, new energy sources and natural resource use and Water management technologies.

Ø   Bio-Agro , agriculture and food science

Ø   ICT : applications of informatics to education and scientific research,   communication,       information technologies, data communication, software ;

Ø   Tourism Technologies  - http://www.eurekatourism.eu/Pages/home.aspx

The cooperation can be realized also in thematically EUREKA networks such as:

1.       CELTIC  - http://www.celtic-initiative.org/

2.       ITEA - http://www.itea2.org/

3.       EURIPIDES - http://www.euripides-eureka.eu/index.php?flashOK=1

4.       EUROGIA  - http://www.eurogia.com/

The projects approved by the Spanish and Israeli Authorities will be financed by   The Office of the Chief Scientist (OCS) of the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor and by CDTI (Center for the Development of Industrial Technology), a Spanish public entity under the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade, whose objective is to assist Spanish companies in raising their technological level.

The support will be given to each partner by its own Authorities in accordance with the national Laws, Rules, Regulations and Procedures in effect.

2. Qualifications

    The criteria to be followed in order to apply to the present Call are:

Ø         The Israeli partner should be an Industrial entity (company) which may be technologically and scientifically assisted by non industrial entity (eg: university research institute etc).

The Spanish partner should be an Industrial entity (company) which may be technologically and scientifically assisted by non industrial entity (eg: university research institute etc).

Ø       The Spanish and Israeli partners must express the will to cooperate, on an equal base, to the development of a new product, industrial process or service.

Ø       The product, process or service must be innovative and there must be a technological risk involved.

Ø       The project must be equally significant for both the participants.

Ø         The participants are required to have preliminarily signed a-partnership agreement on the commercialization of the product, process or service once the phase of research and development has been completed and the ownership and use of know how and IPR settlements (“Partnership Agreement”).

Any partner whose cooperative R&D project is consistent with the aforesaid criteria can apply to the present announcement in accordance with the national Laws, Rules, Regulations and Procedures in effect.

3. Submission of the project proposals

This announcement invite s partners to present joint proposals for R&D projects using Eurostars forms no later than February 25, 2010 (preliminary submission to MATIMOP February 7, 2010) and Eureka forms no later than July 15, 2010 .

The project application form must be sent, simultaneously to the official relevant contact person in the respective Eureka office (see details below); Spanish Authorities (CDTI) and Israeli Authorities (MATIMOP, the IsraeliIndustryCenter for R&D.). Forms must be filled in English, signed by both project partners and sent to the program managers.

The eligibility of each application will be analyzed by CDTI and MATIMOP. Applicants will be contacted by staff of the respective national authorities within two weeks to refine the definitive projects.

Qualifying proposals will be invited to submit funding requests using the application procedures and according to the national rules that apply in CDTI and OCS respectively no later than May 15^th 2010.

Matimop and CDTI will provide the submission guidelines to the relevant project partners.  

• Guidelines for Israeli Companies (Hebrew doc)
• Download Eureka Form

4. Evaluation and selection of the projects.

The national authorities will carry out an evaluation process of the received projects and will select the proper project to be financially supported in accordance with their national laws and regulations.  The Spanish and Israeli authorities in coordination will formally announce the companies accordingly in each country, that the project is illegible to be submitted to the funding authorities.

CDTI will sign, with the Spanish partner selected for the financial support, a contract containing the details of the conditions and the terms of the financial support that will be granted as well as the rules for eligibility of costs and procedures for technical and financial reports.  The Israeli Office of the Chief Scientist (OCS) will sign a similar document with the Israeli partner.   In addition to the above-mentioned documents a Partnership Agreement signed by the counterpart, will be added as an annex.

5. Modalities for the financial support of the projects

Projects in the framework of this announcement will be financed by the respective national authorities in Spain & Israel, in accordance with the national laws, rules, regulations & procedures in effect:

• In Israel, every selected project can be financed by the OCS up to 50% (+ regional incentives for companies located in "development zone ") of the eligible costs of research and development. When the project is successful and produces profits, the financial support of the Israeli party will have to be repaid, without interests, by means of royalties or profits deriving from the sales. No repayment is due when the project does not reach the stage of the commercialization.
• In Spain, CDTI will provide funding conditions for Spanish partners that will depend on the nature of the project and consist in credits without interests in advantageous conditions (for more information on the details, please access http://www.cdti.es/, in the Eureka section). Additional complementary sources of funding are in the Ministries of Industry and Science.
• According to EUREKA practices, applicants may choose to ask for a label without public financing (e.g. self-funding is also applicable)

6. Publicity of the Results

Project partners whose projects have been funded by its own authorities in accordance with the national regulations and procedures will be informed by means of email by the contact person mentioned below.

For partner search requests contact the program managers.

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