Germany and Japan are announcing a Call for Proposals for joint R&D projects, focusing on developing innovative products and applications in all technological and application areas.
Applicants are expected to develop ready-to-market solutions for products, technology-based services or methods which have strong market potential.
The New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) will provide access to public funding for joint projects provided by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) Co-funding Program and by the BMWi’s ZIM (Central Innovation Programme for SMEs).
NEDO and BMWi (Coordinator: AiF Projekt GmbH) will provide all necessary assistance to project partners during project proposal, evaluation and monitoring phase.
NEDO and AiF Projekt GmbH will evaluate the submitted proposals and communicate the results within about 3 months after the call deadline.
Daedline for submission: 17 August 2017
See the attached pdf for more details.
Application forms and procedures details in below links:
NEDO: http://www.nedo.go.jp/koubo/AT091_100108.html
BMWi: http://www.zim-bmwi.de/internationale-fue-kooperationen/ausschreibungen
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