Deadline: 19 October 2016
European Commission-Growth is currently inviting applications for its Galileo-EGNOS Award Scheme Innovative Ideas and Support for Incubation with an aim to promote the industrial innovation and the uptake of high-technologies across Europe.
The grant aims to contribute to the funding of an EU-wide prize-awarding scheme and incubation/acceleration support by public or private organizations that reward the development of specific space downstream applications (i.e. using GNSS as building component). The grant aims also to improve the quality of submitted ideas as well as the number of applications from EU Member states and other countries.
Objectives
- Reward companies and/or entrepreneurs for their development of innovative GNSS applications, emphasizing the added-value of the use of EGNOS/Galileo and their synergies with Copernicus earth observation technology.
- Encourage SMEs and innovative entrepreneurs/organizations to invest in EGNOS/Galileo based applications.
- Make new GNSS-based ideas known, thus creating opportunities for SMEs to raise support not only at a local level but also at a broader scale.
- Foster pan-European space downstream entrepreneurship.
- Increase the quality of the competing ideas.
- Lower the “cost of entry” for regional organizations or private sponsors willing to fund GNSS R&D, therefore creating an incentive to other sponsors to offer special prizes in application domains of particular interest.
- Provide support to start-ups in GNSS downstream applications. The award shall be embedded into an integrated innovation support scheme and should represent an initial/intermediate step to access finance and or other support schemes, aimed at creating commercially viable new ventures.
- Promote development of downstream applications using EU GNSS technologies and their synergies with Copernicus earth observation technology.
Funding Information
Maximum budget allocated for EU financing under this call: € 1.500.000
Eligibility Criteria
- Applications from legal entities established in one of the following countries are eligible:
- EU Member States
- Switzerland, Norway
- Several applicants, submitting a joint proposal should choose within their midst a lead organisation, referred to as the coordinator.
- The coordinator and other applicants must satisfy the same eligibility criteria.
- All applicants must satisfy the same eligibility criteria
- Applications must be submitted by a legal person
- Applicants must correspond to the definition, of the following target organisations
- Companies;
- Non-profit organization;
- Association of companies and local/regional authorities;
- Association of companies, local/regional authorities and non-profit organization;
- Corporate bodies must be properly constituted and registered under the law. If a body or organisation is not constituted under the law, a physical person must be designated to provide the legal responsibility.
- Legal entities having a legal or capital link with applicants, which is neither limited to the action nor established for the sole purpose of its implementation, may take part in the action as affiliated entities, and may declare eligible costs. For that purpose, applicants shall identify such affiliated entities in the application form. The affiliated entities will have to comply with the eligibility and exclusion criteria.
- Several entities that form together one entity, whether or not this entity is established for the purpose of implementing the action, may apply as a sole beneficiary. The entities will be considered as affiliated entities, which each will have to comply with eligibility, exclusion and selection criteria
How to Apply
Applicants must fill the application forms given on the website.
Eligible Countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, the UK, Norway or Switzerland.
For more information, please visit EC-Growth.