Deadline: 10-Feb-22
The Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (DBEI), Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Leo Varadkar TD, launched the fourth Call for applications to the Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund (DTIF).
Purpose
DTIF Call 4 is about funding collaborations that demonstrate technology-based disruptive innovation, collaborations that can:
- Alter markets;
- Alter the way business operates;
- Involve new products or the emergence of new business models.
Funding applications for Call 4 should be within the Research Priority Areas 2018-2023. They are particularly interested in projects of scale with a strong enterprise agenda to harness maximum medium-term economic impact for Ireland. Ideally, they are looking for enterprise-driven research and development challenges that can demonstrate commercial impacts within 3 to 7 years of project completion.
Criteria
All applicants should check they are eligible to apply by carefully studying the rules. In particular, applicants should pay attention to the type of collaborations appropriate to DTIF Call 3 which should have:
- A “lead partner ” and a strong project management structure that will target the development and deployment of disruptive technologies innovation to deliver medium-term impact in Ireland;
- Collaborations delivering projects of scale with a minimum funding request from DTIF of at least €1.5 million over 3 years;
- Collaborations having at least 3 independent partners seeking funding from the DTIF of which two must be enterprises and one of these must be an SME;
- Note that enterprises can claim up to 50% of their eligible costs. Research Performing Organisations (RPOs) can claim up to 100% of eligible costs. RPOs cannot receive more than 50% of the total DTIF grant aid to the project in any collaboration, i.e. RPO funding cannot exceed the eligible funding awarded to the enterprise partners.
Eligibility Criteria
The eligibility criteria are as follows:
- The consortium is requesting minimum funding from DTIF of at least €1.5 million over 3 years.
- The consortium comprises at least 3 independent partners seeking funding from the DTIF including at least one SME and one other enterprise partner.
- The application is based on the key parameters that enterprises can claim up to 50% of their eligible costs; RPOs can claim up to 100% of their eligible costs; RPOs cannot receive more than 50% of the total DTIF grant aid to the project in any collaboration.
- To drawdown funding under DTIF, applicants must be a client of Enterprise Ireland, IDA Ireland or Údarás na Gaeltachta or an eligible Research Performing Organisation (RPO).
- All project partners must be based in Ireland.
- All partners in the consortium have confirmed that they have the financial and operational capacity to participate.
- The application is complete i.e. all sections of the application form completed.
- Where an RPO is part of a consortium, the participation of researchers has been approved by an authorised signatory for the RPO (e.g. Vice-President/Dean of Research).
For more information, visit https://enterprise.gov.ie/en/What-We-Do/Innovation-Research-Development/Disruptive-Technologies-Innovation-Fund/
