Call for proposals - DG ENTR ENT-SAT-10/5010: GALILEO-EGNOS prize award scheme

This call offers co-financing for a prize-awarding mechanism for innovative applications based on the EU GNSS technology (EGNOS and GALILEO), aimed at promoting industrial innovation and the uptake of high-technologies across Europe.

The kinds of activities to be supported are:
- organisation and management of a yearly prize-awarding competition (publication of calls for ideas generating applications from entrepreneurs, evaluation by experts of ideas, and awarding prizes)
- fund-raising to match the Commission grant
- dissemination 'inbound', i.e. to expand the number of innovative ideas submitted every year into the GALILEO prize-awarding competition
- dissemination 'outbound', i.e. obtain adequate visibility within the worldwide GNSS industry to promote the competition, its participants and winners
- monitoring prize winners and participants
- coordination with innovation support schemes and later stage financing facilities, so that such GALILEO prize-awarding represents an intermediate step to access finance and or other support to innovation/entrepreneurship

Applicants should be private or public organisations and established in one of the following countries: the 27 EU Member States, Iceland, Liechtenstein or Norway.

The total budget earmarked for the co-financing of the project is €900,000.

The scheduled start date is May 2011. The project will have a maximum duration of 36 months.

The deadline for applications is 15 January 2011.

Further information is available on the DG Enterprise website.

Reference: 2010/C 292/06

(Added 2010-10-28)