Deadline: 14-Sep-22
The Research Council, Innovation Norway and Siva (the policy instruments) are announcing up to NOK 750 million for new three-year Green Platform projects.
The aim of Green platform is to accelerate the green transition in the business world and ensure a socially economically profitable and internationally competitive Norwegian business life. They want to mobilize large and ambitious R&D projects to be carried out by consortia in actual cooperation (read more about this below).
The projects that receive support through the main call for tenders will contribute to the transition to a sustainable, competitive Norwegian business community that results in lower greenhouse gas emissions and better resource utilization in a way that ensures natural diversity and the environment.
The projects may include green restructuring of existing business and efforts that aim to lay the foundation for the emergence of new sustainable business and new green value chains. This is both about changing existing production methods and processes and about improving or developing new technology, processes, products, services or business models that contribute to turning the Norwegian business structure in a zero-emission direction. The results from the projects, and the green restructuring, will lay the foundation for a green competitiveness that provides increased export revenues and increased employment.
Topics
Green platform is open to all technology areas, industries, sectors, industries and nature-based solutions.
Details
A key characteristic of Green Platform projects is that these are projects where you have
- aim to solve specific challenges and issues that will accelerate green transformation in the business world
- concrete targets for – and high ambitions for – value creation, reduced greenhouse gas emissions and at the same time safeguarding or improving the state of natural diversity and the environment
- high degree of innovation that challenges the established and that thinks new and innovatively about technology and the market
- ambitions for results that can be spread and scaled and which will also provide lasting value creation and increased competitiveness, in addition to impacts and effects both nationally and internationally
- need for a breadth of activities from research and technology development, via testing and verification, to implementation, scaling and commercialization
- goal of building strong value chains and which requires broad collaboration across subjects, technology areas, competence environments, industries and sectors
- a scope and level of ambition that entails a need for risk mitigation beyond what is covered by ordinary schemes and instruments
Funding Information
- Support limits: Kr 30 000 000-80 000 000
- Assumed funds available: up to NOK 750,000,000. Up to NOK 340 million is allocated over the Research Council’s budget, up to NOK 340 million is allocated over Innovation Norway’s budget and up to 70 million is allocated over Siva’s budget.
- Project duration: 24-36 months
What can you apply for support for?
- You can apply for support to cover the actual costs required to carry out the project. The project manager must collect information about the costs from the partners in the project. You must enter these costs in the cost plan under the type of cost to which they belong.
- You can apply for support for:
- personnel and indirect costs
- equipment (rental / depreciation instruments and equipment), including equipment specific to existing catapult centers
- other operating costs (including subcontractors)
- The entry Purchase of R&D services in the application form must not be used. Both the companies and the research organizations must work in actual collaboration and enter their costs under personnel and indirect costs, equipment or other operating costs.
Eligibility Criteria
- Only companies and research institutes can apply:
- Companies that apply must be registered in the Norwegian business register and have economic activity in Norway.
- Research institutes in this Green Platform call are limited to institutes with basic funding and state-owned institutes without basic funding.
- The person who is the formal applicant automatically becomes the project manager.
- Sole proprietorships cannot apply.
For more information, visit https://www.forskningsradet.no/utlysninger/2022/gronn-plattform/