The Call is a promotion of research and development at operational level. The projects have to show efforts in research and development, and be assigned to the realm of pre-competitive development according to EU-definition.

What is being promoted?
The call promotes research and development projects of Viennese companies and company founders that are carried out with one or more partner companies (or research institutions) from Central European and Eastern European countries. The activities have to be based on the companies own research and development work.
The call adresses projects from all technology sectors.
The joint R&D-activities have to result in new or explicitly better production, processes or services with clear economic utility.
The funding includes labour costs and costs for consultancy services in the area of R&D. A special financial bonus is available for projects with female leadership.

Target countries for this call are all Western Balkan countries (Albania, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, FYR of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia) but also Bulgaria and Romania as well as the Central European countries (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Slowenia), Malta, Cyprus, Turkey and Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Moldavia, Ukraine, Belorussia and finally Russia.
Project coordinators have to be located in Vienna, Austria. Funding is provided by the City of Vienna.

Further information:
www.zit.co.at

Contact:
Manuela Schein, schein@zit.co.at