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If you have an idea for the (further) development of innovative technologies in information and communication technologies (ICT), you can be funded under certain conditions. The aim is to transfer knowledge from research to industry.
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The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) funds projects for researching, developing and using innovative technologies in information and communication technologies (ICT) that partners from academia alone or alliances from academia and industry want to carry out.
They can apply for funding for basic academic projects or overarching technology alliances, either alone or together with collaborative partners. The prerequisite is that these promise a significant technological contribution to mastering future complex IT systems. Funding is possible in the following areas:
You can apply for funding for basic-oriented projects or technology alliances.
Base-oriented projects are academically driven individual and collaborative projects that research topics that create prerequisites for many fields of application. Such as algorithm development, software methods or tools for data structures. As a prerequisite for funding, you must submit a research strategy.
In addition, you can apply for funding as a broad-based alliance of science and industry as a technology alliance. This must either create a broadly oriented technology innovation that is open to all sectors or develop basic technologies across all sectors and bring them into application. The participation of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in such alliances is mandatory.
As a university, research and scientific institution in the non-economic sector, you can receive funding for up to 100 percent of the project-related costs/expenses.
Universities and university hospitals can additionally receive a project lump sum of 20 percent for non-economic research projects.
As a commercial enterprise, you can receive funding of up to 50 percent of the eligible project-related costs.
There is no entitlement to the grant. Rather, the granting authority decides on the basis of its dutiful discretion within the framework of the available budget funds.
Eligible to apply are:
Further requirements for companies:
In general:
New or further development of hardware is not eligible for funding.
Für die 1. Verfahrensstufe, Projektskizze mit folgenden Angaben:
The application procedure for funding research projects to improve the exploration and integration phases of ICT research has 2 stages.
Stage 1: Project outline
Stage 2: Application
You submit your application for funding for research projects to improve the exploration and integration phases of ICT research as follows:
Levy: none
You can submit your project outline to the assigned project management organization of the BMBF (DLR-PT) until June 30, 2024.
If you run a small or medium-sized business that conducts research in electronics, autonomous driving, or high-performance computing, you may be eligible for funding under certain circumstances.
If you are a small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) and want to strengthen your competitive and innovative capacity in the field of information and communication technologies (ICT), you can receive funding under certain conditions.
Are you a scientist at a university of applied sciences? Then you can apply for funding through the "FH Europa" measure, which you can use to finance the preparation of EU funding.
If you are a programmer who wants to develop open source software as a creative solution to a social problem, you can be funded to do so under certain conditions.
The funding measure "Validation of the technological and societal innovation potential of scientific research - VIP+" supports researchers in systematically validating their research results.