AT-COIN – Cooperation & Innovation - 2015-2021

Instrument/Program level: 
National
Program level area: 
AUSTRIA
Name of the instrument/Program: 
COIN – Cooperation & Innovation
Instrument/Program eligible areas: 
AUSTRIA
Managing authority: 

Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy (BMWFW)

Objectives: 

Encouraging technology transfer within entrepreneurial cooperation schemes, thus raising the level of innovation within businesses and strengthening their cooperation capacities. It focuses on output-oriented cooperation projects to develop and improve innovative products and processes (COIN Netzwerke);
Funding line is on building RDI competence and infrastructure at universities of applied sciences and research institutes (COIN Aufbau). 

Eligible thematics in line with ERC sectors: 
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences and Engineering
Social Sciences and Humanities
Eligible thematics in line with S3: 
Aerospace, Aeronautics and Space
Efficient production technologies, automation & intelligent materials
Environmental technologies, renewable energies & resource efficiency
ICTs (Digital technologies & user-friendly systems)
KETs
Logistic
Secure technologies
Sustainable Living & mobility
Action typologies: 
Pilot
Other eligible actions: 

Promote the transfer of technology and know-how in trade cooperation to strengthen the innovative power of SMEs

Beneficiaries: 
Sectorial agency
Infrastructure and (public) service provider
Interest groups including NGOs
Higher education and research
Start up
Large enterprise, enterprise excluding SME
Business support organisation
Status of the eligible institutions: 
Public
Private
Program contribution maximum: 
70%
Program Budget: 
13 000 000,00 €
Project budget minimum: 
100 000,00 €
Project budget maximum: 
2 000 000,00 €
Project duration minimum: 
12 months
Project duration maximum: 
60 months