The Technology Agency of the Czech Republic informs about the preparation of the 11th public competition in the Program for the Support of Applied Research and Innovation SIGMA - sub-objective 4, Bilateral Cooperation.

Probable competition deadline: 8. 5. 2025 - 9. 7. 2025

Objectives

TA CR expects cooperation with the following foreign organizations:

French Republic, French National Research Agency ANR

Republic of Korea, Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology KIAT

Republic of Korea, Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning KETEP

Saxony, Federal Republic of Germany, Saxon State Ministry for Economic Affairs Labour, Energy and Climate Action SMWA

United States, Department of Energy of the United States of America DOE

State of Israel, Israel Innovation Authority IIA

Taiwan, Ministry of Economic Affairs MoEA

Taiwan, National Science and Technology Council NSTC

Limitations

The main applicant must be a company, the reserach oranisation could be only a partner.

Duration of the project 12-36 months.

Support for the project: 75%

Max. 20 million CZK support for the project.

Allowed types of results: F, G, N, P, Nmet, R, S, Z (result type O only in combination).

Mandatory annexes:

Common proposal - confirmation of the commitment of Czech and foreign partners to participate in the project solution and a summary of basic information about the part of the project proposal solved by foreign partners, including
the expected financing of the foreign part of the project.

Market research/marketing study - this is an annex, the aim of which is to describe the commercial assumptions, expected economic benefits and applicability of the research outputs/results on the market

Specific topics for each foreign organization (preliminary topics here).