Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik; Beantragung einer Förderung

The Free State of Bavaria supports companies in research and development projects in the field of digitalization and information and communication technology.

Purpose

The funding is intended to support companies in research and development projects in the field of digitalization and information and communication technology and to improve and accelerate their implementation in new products, services and business processes.

Object

The funding covers the following topics and issues in particular:

• Hardware and software engineering,
• Data and knowledge management,
• human-machine communication,
• real-time systems and embedded systems,
• Data networks for intelligent infrastructures (e.g. energy, mobility, etc.),
• automation and intelligent production,
• communication networks,
• Technical IT services,
• IT security,
• Artificial intelligence,
• quantum technology.

Cross-cutting issues such as reliability, robustness, quality assurance procedures, etc. are also covered.

Research and development projects aimed at solving the above-mentioned issues in the following areas are eligible for funding

• industrial research,
• experimental development

in accordance with Art. 25 (1) in conjunction with (2) (b) and (c) of the General Block Exemption Regulation (GBER).

Recipients of funding

Eligible applicants are

• Commercial enterprises and members of the liberal professions based or established in the Free State of Bavaria,
• Non-university research institutions, state universities and institutions of state universities in Bavaria.

Preference will be given to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as defined in Annex I of the GBER.

Applicants must have sufficient creditworthiness to carry out the project and provide evidence of this if necessary.

Eligible costs

The eligible costs are determined in detail in accordance with Art. 25 GBER.

Type and scope

• up to 50% of the eligible costs in the case of industrial research,
• up to 25% of the eligible costs in the case of experimental development.

The R&D projects must be carried out in close cooperation between several companies or between companies and research institutions (joint projects). Several companies should cooperate along a value chain. At least two companies, including at least one medium-sized company and, if applicable, a university or non-university research institution, should be involved in a joint project.

Further requirements are

• The implementation of the projects must be associated with a considerable technical and economic risk.
• The projects must be characterized by a high degree of innovation, i.e. the technologies, products and processes to be developed must go beyond the state of the art in science and technology.
• The essential parts of the projects must be carried out in Bavaria.
• Applicants must already have relevant technical experience and specific research and development capacities at the time of application.
• Applicants or project participants from the commercial sector must provide evidence that they are using an appropriate amount of their own or external funds to finance the project, which are not financed by other public aid or subsidized.
• Cumulation with European Union funds or other state aid is only possible under the conditions of Art. 8 GBER.
• Funding will not be provided for projects that have already begun before the responsible body receives a verifiable application and approves the start of the project, or for projects that are essentially carried out on behalf of third parties not involved in the collaborative project.

The application must be submitted in writing to the project management organization (see under "Responsible for you"), which prepares the basis for the decision. Approval is granted by the Bavarian State Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy.