Deadline: 30-Nov-22
Vinnova is accepting applications for Preparatory Projects Next Generation Strategic Innovation Programs.
The purpose of the future innovation programs within Impact Innovation is that they should function as powerful and actor-driven instruments that mobilize actors to work together towards a common objective, mission. The programs must accelerate development in strategically important areas for Sweden with broad social relevance.
The programs must integrate strategic investments for strengthened international cooperation both within the EU and globally that give clearly positive effects to the missions that are formulated. It will be required that the programs can involve all relevant actors, financiers and expert authorities so that the goals can be reached.
Focus Areas
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The system change must address one or more of the following three designated challenge areas:
- Good and equal health.
- Attractive and well-functioning communities.
- Production, consumption and value chains within the boundaries of the planet.
Offer
- The Swedish Energy Agency, Formas and Vinnova are carrying out a call for proposals in 2022 for preparation projects within Impact Innovation. With this call, they want to strengthen the conditions for building new actor-driven and long-term innovation programs for system change. The new programs must address areas of broad social relevance to ensure greater systemic effects and clearly contribute to global competitiveness through transition for sustainable development.
Funding Information
- The grant can amount to a maximum of SEK 1.5 million per project.
Activities
- The types of project activities that can be funding in this call must be of the Feasibility Study nature.
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Approved activities within the scope of this call are, for example:
- Formulate and develop mission(s)
- Analyzes that will form the basis of a proposal for a future innovation program
- Identify and engage actors and partners
- Participation in the mobilization process organized by funding agencies.
Eligibility Criteria
- With this the offer, they are targeting actors who want to develop and run a future innovation program. In this the offer, they have no eligibility requirements on the number of parties, but the credibility, ability and plan of participating actors to mobilize and engage relevant actors is part of the assessment.
- Only legal entities can be project parties. An organization that is a participant takes part in the design of the project, contributes to its implementation and shares the risk and the result in connection there with.
- Participant seeking funding must be a Swedish legal entity with its seat in Sweden. In this respect, a foreign organization that has a branch or place of business in Sweden is equated with a Swedish legal person. The costs in the project must be attributable to the branch's or establishment's activities.
Ineligible
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What is not funded in this call for proposals is, for example:
- Project that does not have the ambition to submit a proposal to an innovation program
- Technical development
- Project proposal that does not address one or more of the challenge areas
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For more information, visit https://www.vinnova.se/en/calls-for-proposals/preparation-project/preparatory-projects-next-generation-2022-01693/