SME research call

The European Commission has published a call for proposals for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs)  wishing to pursue horizontal research activities. This is one of the areas covered by the ‘Integrating and strengthening the foundations of the European Research Area’ pillar of the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) .

The call is divided into two annexes:

– Cooperative research projects (CRAFT) : this instrument provides
support to SMEs with a capacity to innovate but without their own
research facilities. It allows a number of SMEs from different
countries with particular R&D problems or needs to assign a
significant part of the research activities to R&D ‘performers’,
such as universities and research centres. This call covers any
subject across the whole field of science and technology specified
by Article 163 of the EC Treaty. (Total indicative budget – 75
million euro) ;

Read more here.

– Collective research projects: collective research is a type of
research carried out by R&D performers (for example, research
centres, universities, etc.)  on behalf of industrial associations
or groupings in order to expand the knowledge base and improve the
overall competitiveness of large communities of SMEs. This call
covers any subject across the whole field of science and technology
specified by Article 163 of the EC Treaty. (Total indicative budget
– 65 million euro) ;

Read more here.

Source: Cordis Rapidus