Russia

 Russia-Israel Bilateral R&D Program

Program Scope

• nanotechnology in medicine and public health;    
• nano biotechnology;
• nanotechnology in agriculture and food science
• nanotechnology in new energy sources and use of natural resource;
• nanotechnology in environment
• nanotechnology in communication
• nanotechnology in space
• nanotechnology in information technologies and data communication;
• any other area of mutual interest

The projects which will be approved in the framework of the program are subject to financing by the relevant funding authorities in Russia and Israel. 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.

• The Israeli partner must be Industrial entity (company) which may be technologically and scientifically assisted by non-industrial entity (eg: university research institute etc) as subcontractor.
• The Russian partner can be an industrial entity (company) or a non industrial entity (eg: university, research institute etc). In case of a non industrial entity, it has to be assisted by an industrial entity.
• The Russian and Israeli partners must express the will to cooperate, on a mutually significant basis, towards the development of a new product, industrial process or service.
• The product, process or service must be innovative and there must be a technological risk involved.
• The project must be   mutually significant for participants from both countries with a clear commercial or industrial application.
• 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”).

For the Israeli participants: following MATIMOP's approval, the participant must submit a funding request to the OCS using the national forms.

Evaluation and Selection of the Projects

For the Russian side-evaluation will be conducted according to the following criteria:

•  Novelty of the proposal and possible impact on the Industrial activities.
• Qualifications of the applicants in performing the specific tasks.
• Expected economic results from the realization of the project.
• Relevance of the proposal to the main strategic objectives in Industrial R&D of the Russian Government.

• Technological innovation
• Capacities of the participating partners
• Economic potential of the proposed product/service.
• The added value of the cooperation between project partners
• The capability of the partners (R&D personnel, Infrastructure, Finance, Marketing)

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