Programme for the support of collaboration in applied research and experimental development through joint projects and technological innovation agencies DELTA (hereinafter referred to as the “DELTA Programme”) was approved by Government Resolution No. 668 of the 28th of August 2013.
The DELTA programme is aimed at supporting collaboration in applied research and experimental development projects through joint projects of enterprises and research organizations supported by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (hereinafter referred to as “TACR”) and major foreign technological and innovation agencies and other similar agencies with which TACR has/will have at the time of publication of the public tender in research, development and innovation (hereinafter referred to as the “public tender”) established collaboration.
The objective of the DELTA programme is to increase the number of specific results of applied research and experimental development in areas where there is a consensus with foreign partners who will successfully implement the results in practice, whereby strengthening the competitiveness of the Czech Republic by promoting bilateral or multilateral collaboration of leading Czech and foreign participants. The selected projects must respond to the current and future needs of the country, which are defined in the Czech Republic in the National priorities of targeted research, experimental development and innovation.
The DELTA programme must have at least one candidate participating from a country in which the partner agency is registered and at least one candidate from the Czech Republic, which is an enterprise. Research organization from the Czech Republic meeting the definition of a research organization pursuant to Article 2.2 of the Community Framework for State Aid for Research, Development and Innovation – Official Journal of the European Union C 323, 30thof December 2006 may be an applicant for support only if there is at least one enterprise from the Czech Republic among the other project participants. Only the costs of applicants from the Czech Republic may be covered may be covered by TACR from the state budget of the Czech Republic.
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