OLAE + is a transnational call for collaborative research and development proposals under the European Commission’s (EC’s) ERA-NET Plus scheme. We are seeking proposals to develop and stimulate the technology and business relationships within the European organic large-area electronics (OLAE) community, building the supply chain and removing barriers to industrialisation.
OLAE + is a joint initiative by:
- Technology Strategy Board, UK
- Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany
- VDI Technologiezentrum GmbH, Germany
- Israel-Europe R&D Directorate for the EU Framework Program (ISERD), Israel
- Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWT), Flanders
- VINNOVA – Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems, Sweden National Centre for Research and Development (NCBiR), Poland
- Agency for the Support of Businesses in Catalonia (ACC1Ó), Catalonia
- Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)/Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT), Austria.
It is co-funded by the EC’s Directorate- General Information Society and Media (DG INFSO). The rules and procedures of this call have been developed and agreed by the participating national funding bodies (OLAE+ agencies) in strict consideration of the ERA-NET Plus scheme as defined by the EC. The call is organised as a competition for funding and will be implemented jointly by the national funding bodies.
The competition is open to participants from Austria, Catalonia, Flanders, Germany, Israel, Poland, Sweden and the UK (the participating countries and regions). We expect to fund a mixture of small and large projects, with total costs typically in the range €0.5m to €3m. Projects must be bi or multinational, collaborative, application-orientated and pre-competitive.
Applications will need to satisfy general and national criteria to be eligible for funding. The participants in a project to be funded through this competition will need to confirm that a consortium agreement is in place before the project starts.
Each national funding body will issue funding contracts (grant agreements) to individual project participants in accordance with its national law. Grants will be paid to the project participants solely by the national funding bodies.
The reporting duties of individual project participants will be determined by the relevant national regulations. Each project must attend an annual co-ordination meeting of all the OLAE + projects to share progress and best practice as the projects develop. The project co-ordinator, on behalf of the consortium, must also submit an annual short standard report in English on the project’s progress. For the final report, the project co-ordinator must summarise the results, accomplishments and impact of the project. The final reports must be suitable to be published by the participating countries and the EC.
This is a two-stage competition. It opens on 24 October 2011; the deadline for submitting stage-1 pre-proposals is 31 January 2012 (13:00 CET); and the deadline for submitting stage-2 full proposals is 31 May 2012 (13:00 CET).
All proposals must be submitted online by one of the partners, acting as the project coordinator on behalf of the consortium. Application forms (including nationalannexes) are available for download from the OLAE+ website at www.olaeplus.eu
