Bilateral R & D in international technological cooperation with unilateral certification and monitoring are carried out by international consortia projects formally constituted with the participation of one or more Spanish companies that work effectively in an R + D with one or more partners foreigners of the following countries:
Algeria, Australia, China, Colombia, Egypt, UAE, USA, Indonesia, Malaysia, Morocco, Mexico, Singapore, Thailand and Taiwan whose proposals must be submitted to CDTI under specific calls are regularly announced in CDTI website.
Beneficiaries
Individual companies or economic interest groupings (EIG) or consortium made up of at least two independent companies, proposing the development of an R & D collaboration with foreign institutions of these countries.
In addition, participants in projects arising from multilateral (Iberoeka, EUREKA) and bilateral (CHINEKA, JSIP, ISIP) programs having previously positive pre-assessment has not been possible CDTI international certification received.
Duration of projects
The duration of these projects may be 12 to 36 months.
Project budget
The minimum fundable budget company will be € 175,000. In the case of projects developed by a consortium or AIE minimum project budget is € 500,000, with a minimum budget of the Consortium of € 175,000.
Form and amount of funding CDTI:
The R + D submitted will be financially supported based on a Help partially refundable similar to those of the projects under the multilateral and bilateral programs in force, up to a maximum of 75% of the total approved budget, a refundable portion conditions ( TR) and a portion of non-refundable aid (TNR) of 30%.
The conditions of the refundable portion (TR) are: interest rate one year Euribor, fixed at the date of approval of the aid by the Board of Directors of the CDTI, repayment period of 10 years, counted from the center of gravity project and the first repayment after 3 years from the center of gravity of the project, with a minimum of 2 years from the date of completion. The loan will accrue interest every six months from the time of disposal.
In the case of co-financed projects (ERDF or other) the interest rate applies only in the TR. In projects financed exclusively by the CDTI the interest rate will apply to all the aid granted.
The final application of the bonus in TNR is conditional on the International Dimension report is positive. In the event that finally the necessary international cooperation could not prove, shall apply to the TNR project of a draft basic R & D, provided that:
this lack of cooperation occurs for reasons not attributable to the Spanish company and
project monitoring, according to the CDTI, strengthen the part of the international project executed by the Spanish company it has sufficient entity in itself for funding as R & D project.
Projects between a parent company and its foreign subsidiary is not considered in this category. In this case, it considers the funding of the national part of the project as an ordinary R & D project without TNR international cooperation.
Application date:
During 2016 will have 3 court dates for the submission and evaluation of proposals.
First court date: Thursday, February 25, 2016, at 24:00 hours peninsular
Second cutting Date: Friday, June 24, 2016, at 24:00 hours peninsular
Third cutting Date: Friday, October 28, 2016, at 24:00 hours peninsular