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Israel-Italy Program for Industrial, Scientific and Technological Research and Development Cooperation |
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Fourth Call for Proposals For Joint R&D Projects - 2005 |
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In the framework of the activities foreseen by the Agreement on industrial, scientific and technological research and development cooperation between Italy and Israel (hereinafter called “Agreement”) the Middle East Department of the “Directorate General for Mediterranean and Middle East Countries” of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Italian Party, and the Office of the Chief Scientist (OCS) of the Ministry of Industry Trade and Labor for the Israeli Party, intend to start the procedures foreseen for the selection of projects eligible for financial support as in Article 4 of the Agreement.
Italian-Israeli joint research projects can be presented only in the research and development areas listed in Article 2 of the Agreement. The projects approved by the Italian and Israeli Authorities, which will be selected in the framework of the present Call, will be financed by both the contracting Parties of the Agreement. The support will be given to each partner by its own Authorities in accordance with the national Laws, Rules, Regulations and Procedures in effect.
1. Qualifications.
The criteria to be followed in order to apply to the present Call are: 1. The Italian and Israeli partners must express the will to cooperate, on an equal base, to the development of a new product, industrial process or service. 2. The product, process or service must be innovative and there must be a technological risk involved. 3. The project must be equally significant for both the participants. 4. The participants are required to have preliminarily signed a-partnership agreement on the commercialization of the product, process or service once the phase of research and development has been completed and the ownership and use of know how and IPR settlements (“Partnership Agreement”).
Any partner whose cooperative R&D project is consistent with the aforesaid criteria can apply to the present Call in accordance with the national Laws, Rules, Regulations and Procedures in effect. The Italian/Israeli partner who is interested to find an Israeli/Italian Co-partner for its own research project can send the attached “MOU form”, filled only in the yellow marked area. The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs together with other institutions such as the ICE, will assist the Italian partner to find an Israeli Co-partner. The Office of the Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Industry Trade and Labor, through MATIMOP – The Israeli Industry Center for R&D, will assist the Israeli applicant to find an Italian partner. 2. Submission of the project proposals The project application must be sent, simultaneously to the competent Italian Authorities (Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Middle East Department of the “Directorate General for Mediterranean and Middle East Countries”) and Israeli Authorities (Ministry of Industry Trade and Labor - Office of the Chief Scientist – OCS, through MATIMOP) by means of the attached MOU form in English language. The application must be filled in all its parts and signed by the person responsible for the project. The Israeli partner will attach in addition to the above mentioned application the Israeli National Application Form, in accordance with the OCS regulations.
Deadline for submission of applications for the year 2005: April 15, 2005.
3. Evaluation and selection of the projects. The competent Authorities (as in Article 8 of the Agreement) will carry out an evaluation process of the received projects and will select the proper project to be financially supported in accordance with their national laws and regulations. The Italian - Israeli Joint Commission, will receive the selected projects by the two national authorities, to be endorsed as projects supported under the bi-national agreement. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs will sign, with the Italian partner selected for the financial support, a contract containing the details of the conditions and the terms of the financial support that will be granted as well as the rules for eligibility of costs and procedures for technical and financial reporting. The Israeli Office of the Chief Scientist will sign a similar document with the Israeli partner. In addition to the above-mentioned documents a Partnership Agreement signed by the counterpart, will be added as an annex.
4. Modalities for the financial support of the projects. Every selected project can be financed up to 50% of the documented and eligible costs of research and development. When the project is successful and produces profits, the financial support of both the Italian and Israeli Parties will have to be repaid, without interests, by means of royalties or profits deriving from the sales. No repayment is due when the project does not reach the stage of the commercialization.
5. Publicity of the Results. The Italian partners whose projects have been selected will be informed of the result by means of letter. The list of the selected projects will be published on the Website of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. For the Israeli party, the Office of the Chief Scientist (OCS) will inform the Israeli companies by means of letter and publication on the Website of the Israeli Ministry of Industry Trade and Labor.
For further information:
Italy Israel Mrs Sandra Passalacqua Yair Amitay - Managing Director Ministry of Foreign Affairs MATIMOP - Israeli Industry Center for R&D P.le della Franesina, 1 29 Hamered St. (P.O.Box 50364) 00194 Rome, Italy Tel-Aviv 61500, Israel Tel. +39- 06.369.12296 Tel: +972-3-5118107 Fax. +39- 06.36913567 Fax: +972-3-5177655 dgmm2@esteri.it amitay@matimop.org.il
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