Deadline: 5-Mar-23
Vinnova is seeking applications for the “BioInnovation Hypothesis Testing Step 1 – Innovative Project with Higher Risk” to support innovative research and innovation projects that deal with a radical and innovative hypothesis.
Objectives
- All of BioInnovation’s efforts are based on an overarching mission to increase the added value in the Swedish bio-based sector and thereby contribute to creating a more sustainable society. Cross-border cooperation that creates competitiveness and new business opportunities are pursued. Great importance is attached companies’ interest and commitment. Products and services must fill a clear market need, be based on resource efficiency and meet relevant environmental requirements.
- The purpose of the call is to stimulate higher risk-taking and generate new visionary ideas that have the potential to significantly contribute to and benefit from the transition to a bio-based economy. Either the idea is technologically innovative and ground-breaking with great market potential, or the idea is commercially innovative and has a clear customer focus with the potential to quickly reach the market.
- The project must be part of and contribute to BioInnovation’s work with external communication, portfolio analysis, dissemination of results and systematic learning. With its projects, BioInnovation wants to create development within the aspects of technology, market and sustainability in the area of the call.
- With the call, BioInnovation wants to get more people to work together to develop their innovation skills and create new solutions that contribute to the goals for sustainable development in Agenda 2030, within the framework of the call’s priorities.
- The projects are expected to contribute to an egalitarian development of society through the fact that both women and men share in the grant equally, have influence over the project and participate actively in its implementation. Another gender equality aspect involves analyzing and deciding whether there are gender and/or gender aspects that are relevant in connection with the project’s problem area, solutions and utilization.
- Results from research and innovation that are made freely available provide increased opportunities for more people to contribute to solutions to societal challenges. The call should contribute to more results being made freely available to everyone and scientific publication should take place with open access.
Funding Information
- The call offers two application opportunities per year and has an indicative budget of SEK 3.5 million per application opportunity. Grants are granted with a maximum of SEK 500,000.
- The total funding from companies must be at least as large as Vinnova’s contribution. Expected project time for a project in this call is around 6 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- The call is primarily aimed at manufacturers, suppliers and users of bio-based materials, products and services. Universities, colleges, research institutes and other relevant actors are also covered by the offer.
- The actors must have the ability and interest in collaboratively contributing to the goals of BioInnovation.
- The project group must consist of at least two project parties, of which at least one is a company. A project party must have its own budget with its own costs, and not just finance the costs of another project party. The project group must include companies with operations in Sweden. Grants are only granted to Swedish organisations.
- Swedish organizations also mean foreign organizations that have a branch or place of business in Sweden. The costs in the project must be attributable to the operations of the branch or establishment. However, an organization that is not Swedish can be a project party that does not receive a grant.
- It is a clear ambition from BioInnovation to capture the concrete opportunities that different owners of needs see. It can be both manufacturers and suppliers as well as users of bio-based materials, products and services. In this call, priority is given to applications that have a need owner as project manager. Many need owners may find it difficult to set aside time for application work, and it is therefore natural that collaboration takes place with research executors, but the expectation is that with need owners as project managers, more focus will be placed on customer needs and market value and not primarily on the development and testing of new research results.
For more information, visit https://www.vinnova.se/en/calls-for-proposals/the-strategic-innovation-program-bioinnovation/bioinnovation-hypothesis-testing-step-1-2022-02440/