Yesterday the managing authority of Operational Program "Innovations and Competitiveness" 2014-2020 - "European Funds for Competitiveness", announced the long awaited intake on project proposals under procedure BG16RFOP002-1.002 "Support for the development of innovations from start-up enterprises"

The goal is to provide support for start –up enterprises and increase the innovation activity in the thematic areas of the Innovational Strategy for Intelligent Specialization of Republic Bulgaria 2014-2020 (ISIS).

The project activities must be implemented on the territory of Bulgaria and to lead to the development of a product (stock or service) or a process in the priority directions of ISIS.

Eligible are the following activities

• Performing applied scientific research, testing and measurements (including the creation of programs and methodologies), connected with the development of the innovative product or process;
• Research, acquisition and application or research results, technologies, know-how, unpatented inventions, intellectual property rights;
• Protection of intellectual property on a national and international level (including registration fees for patents, utility model or industrial design);
• Creation and testing of prototypes and pilot lines;
• Development of an economic evaluation, financial evaluation and technical evaluation (including investment business plan) of the developed innovative product or process;
• Development of technologies for the production of the innovative product or process;
• Development of market analysis, marketing plans for market realization of the innovative product or process;
• Organizing promotional events in Bulgaria, connected with the promotion of the innovative product or process;
• Visualization of the project.

Applications will be conducted entirely electronically - by completing a web based application form, submission of the form and the accompanying documents through the Information System for Management and Monitoring 2020, and only by a qualified electronic signature (QES).

The deadline for submitting project proposals expires at 19:00 on 05/05/2016.

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