On April 27, 2022, the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (TA CR) announced the sixth public tender in research and experimental development (hereinafter the public tender) in the Program of the Ministry of Industry and Trade to support industrial research and experimental development TREND (hereinafter the TREND Program) - subprogramme 1 - "Technology Leaders" (hereinafter PP1).
The subject of the sixth public tender of the TREND Program, PP1 “Technological Leaders” is the selection of project proposals aimed at supporting the creation of R&D results and their use for their own business activities in companies that already have experience in implementing research and development on their own capacities or in companies that have experience with the purchase of R&D services from research organizations, but have not yet developed their own R&D activities.
The main goal of the program is to increase the international competitiveness of companies, especially by expanding their markets abroad, penetrating new markets or moving higher in global value chains.
Only the company that solves the project independently and / or solves the project in cooperation with other companies and / or in cooperation with research organizations (in the form of collaborative research in accordance with the Framework) can be the main applicant.
The main applicant may submit a maximum of one project proposal to this public tender and a maximum of one project proposal to the 7th TREND public tender announced at the same time. Project proposals must not be similar, otherwise both project proposals will be excluded from both tenders.
The competition period starts on April 28 at 9:00 am and ends on June 16, 2022.Detailed information necessary for the elaboration and submission of the project proposal, including information on the method and evaluation criteria, is contained in the Tender Documentation and other documents related to the announcement of the public tender. More information, including all documentation, can be found here.