The EPSILON programme is mainly focused on improving the standing of the Czech Republic, as well as European industry in a global context, through the support of applied research and experimental development, whose results have a high potential for rapid application in new products, production processes and services, particularly in the following priority areas:
- Competitive knowledge-based economy
- Sustainability of energy and material resources
- Environment for quality of life
The aim of the EPSILON programme is to support projects, whose results have a high potential for rapid application in new products, production processes and services. The instrument for achieving this aim is fulfilment of the National priorities of targeted research, experimental development and innovation (Priorities) by providing support to projects, through which the research objectives of the areas and sub-areas of the given priorities will be achieved. The programme is therefore based achieving the objectives of the Priorities rather than industry. The objective of the programme is aimed in particular at supporting industrial applications using new technologies and new materials in the energy, environment and transport sectors. For the purposes of achieving this objective the programme is divided into three sub-programmes:
- Sub-programme 1 – Knowledge-based economy
- Sub-programme 2 – Energy and Materials
- Sub-programme 3 – Environment
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