Germany and Republic of Korea are pleased to announce a call for proposals for joint R&D projects focusing on developing innovative products, processes, or technology-based services in all technological and application areas which have strong market potential.
The Korean Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) and and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) will provide access to public funding for joint projects provided by The Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology (KIAT) and by BMWK’s ZIM programme (Central Innovation Programme for SMEs) in Germany. KIAT and BMWK (Coordinator: AiF Projekt GmbH) will provide all necessary assistance to project partners during project proposal, evaluation and monitoring phase.
Submission deadline for grant proposals: 25 April 2024.
For more information and access to the joint project proposal form,
please visit International calls/Southkorea.
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It is highly recommended that each interested partner (companies and research institutes) contact their local funding agency before starting to fill in a project application (in Germany: AiF Projekt GmbH, project management agency for BMWK).
To encourage partnerships between German and foreign companies, BMWK and several ministries and funding organizations from various countries have launched a number of bi- and multilateral funding agreements to support joint R&D projects. All project partners must submit a separate application to the relevant national funding scheme. German applicants, who are eligible for funding under ZIM, benefit from a 10% increase in funding when applying for a transnational cooperation project.