The International Bureau (IB) of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Russian Foundation for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises (FASIE) announce a joint call for proposals aimed to promote German-Russian collaborative projects focusing on emerging technologies that have a high priority for both Germany and Russia.
The call is mainly aimed at innovative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs¹) in Germany and Russia that are active in the field of research. On the German side, German research institutions that conduct application-oriented research are also eligible to apply.
For German applicants:
Project grants can be awarded on the basis of private-law funding contracts in accordance with the present announcement, the BMBF's standard terms and conditions for grants on an expenditure or cost basis and the administrative regulations under sections 23 and 44 of the Federal Budget Code (BHO). There is no legal entitlement to funding. The funding provider will make a decision after due assessment of the circumstances and within the framework of the budget funds available.
For Russian applicants:
Projects can be funded by the Russian Fund for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises in accordance with the Russian Federation's legal regulations on project funding and the Fund's own funding regulations within the limits of the budget funds available.
German-Russian research collaborations in the following fields are eligible for funding:
- Biotechnology and health research
- Medical genome research
- Post-genome technologies and proteomics
- Medical technology
- Nanotechnologies
- Nanoceramics
- Biocompatible and biofunctional materials
- Biomimetic materials
- Modern functional materials, surfaces and coatings
- Substitutes for toxic substances or rare elements
- Optical technologies
- New photonic materials for the targeted control of light propagation and light-matter interaction
- Micro- and nanophotonic components, including their use for innovative light sources and photodetectors
- New optical fibres, fibre optic components and fibre-based optical systems
- Information and communication technologies (ICT)
- ICT for mechanical engineering / automation: Monitoring and control of processes, hardware and software embedded in products (embedded systems)
- ICT for health / medicine: Telemedicine, intelligent patient systems for hospitals; new diagnostic procedures; stand-alone monitoring systems for high-risk patients
- Human-technology interaction: Communication with IT systems via language, gestures, facial expressions and touch
- ICT for logistics and services: Real-time management of logistics chains, fully-automated storage systems, telematics
- Microsystems technology applications in process technology, production processes and health
- Environmental technologies
- Integrated environmental protection in industrial production
- Climate protection technologies, energy efficiency and reduction of CO2 emissions
- Materials efficiency, recycling and closing of material cycles
- Water technologies, water management
German and Russian applicants who want to form a consortium need to submit a full application describing the proposed project both to the International Bureau of the BMBF (German applicant) and FASIE (Russian applicant) by 15 July 2010 at the latest. Projects that are only submitted in one country will not be considered.
For more information, please see http://www.internationales-buero.de/en/3838.php