The Northwest Regional Development Agency, as the Management Authority for the Northwest Regional Program 2021-2027 (NORTH-VEST REGION), publishes today, August 25, 2023, Applicant's Guide 111 – Projects in areas of intelligent specialization (research) for enterprises in the North-West Development Region.
The call for projects is competitive, with submission deadline, and funding applications can be submitted through the MySMIS 2021/2021+ computer system during: September 25, 2023, 10:00 a.m. – March 23, 2024, 10:00 a.m.
ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES related to this call for projects consist of:
- R&D activities, contract research, acquisition of knowledge and patents purchased or obtained with a license from external sources, under conditions of full competition;
- Industrial research and/or experimental development activities (at a minimum level of TRL3), including through the adoption of advanced technologies, carried out by SMEs, or SMEs in partnership with large enterprises, with the aim of putting products and services on the market innovative (including series 0);
ELIGIBLE RELATED ACTIVITIES consist in:
- Activities related to obtaining, validating and protecting patents and other intangible assets;
- Activities involving the secondment of highly qualified personnel from a research and knowledge dissemination body or a large enterprise carrying out research, development and innovation activities to a newly created function within the recipient enterprise, without replace other staff members;
- Procurement of innovation consultancy and support services, including for services provided by research and knowledge dissemination organisations, testing and experimentation infrastructures or innovation clusters.
The North-West Regional Program 2021-2027 proposes interventions for the development of research, development, innovation and digitization capacity, increasing the energy performance of the existing public and residential building fund, capitalizing on degraded spaces at the city level, sustainable urban mobility, investments in the network of county roads and in the educational infrastructure, as well as actions to capitalize on the cultural, touristic and spa potential.
In the financial year 2021-2027, public authorities and institutions, the business environment, the academic and research environment and NGOs can obtain funding.
The Northwest Regional Program benefits from a total allocation of 1,437,252,471 euros.
- Priority 1: A competitive region through innovation, digitization and dynamic enterprises - total value: 327,904,956 euros
- Priority 2: A region with smart localities - total value: 60,332,872 euros
- Priority 3: A region with environmentally friendly localities - total value: 210,666,112 euros
- Priority 4: A region with sustainable multimodal urban mobility – total value: 305,155,751 euros
- Priority 5: An accessible region - total value: 184,978,708 euros
- Priority 6: An educated region - total value: 77,386,100 euros
- Priority 7: An attractive region - total value: 210,363,134 euros
- Technical assistance – total value: 60,464,838 euros
More information about the Northwest Regional Program for 2021-2027 is available here, and the program can be consulted here.