Industry academia
Funding scheme
Marie Curie Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways (IAPP)
Objective
This action seeks to open and foster dynamic pathways between public research organisations and private commercial enterprises, in particular SMEs, including traditional manufacturing industries, based on longer term co-operation programmes with a high potential for increasing knowledge-sharing and mutual understanding of the different cultural settings and skill requirements of both sectors.
The action will be implemented through targeted and flexible support for human resources interactions within co-operation programmes between at least two organisations, one from each sector and from at least two different Member States or Associated countries.
What will be funded
Support is provided for the creation, development, reinforcement and execution of strategic partnerships based on a longer-term cooperation programme between the participants, aimed at knowledge sharing and inter-sector mobility, based on targeted human resources interaction. Such strategic research partnership projects can be co-ordinated either by an industrial or an academic participant. The longer-term cooperation programme shall exploit complementary competences of the participants in the strategic partnership, as well as other synergies. The implementation of the co-operation programme will be realised by:
- Exchange of know-how and experience through inter-sector two-way secondments of research staff of the participants, with in-built return mechanisms, and also by enabling these staff to attend events in a trans-national setting. All projects are expected to have staff exchange, normally in both directions.
- Recruitment by the participants of experienced researchers from outside the partnership for involvement in transfer of knowledge and/or in the training of researchers.
- Networking activities, organisation of workshops and conferences to facilitate sharing of knowledge and culture between the participants also in a wider setting, involving the participants' own research staff and external researchers. Where these events are open to researchers from outside the partnership, additional reimbursements are foreseen.
Participants
Participants under this action are on the one hand, one or more universities/research centres and on the other, one or more enterprises, in particular SMEs, that propose a project based on a joint cooperation programme. Within this scheme, the industrial partners must be organisations operating on a commercial basis, i.e. companies gaining the majority of their revenue through competitive means with exposure to commercial markets, and will include incubators, start-ups and spin-offs, venture capital companies, etc. The different participants should be from at least two different Member or Associated countries, of which at least one must be from a Member State. The participants recruit and/or host eligible researchers and contribute directly to the implementation of longer-term cooperation programmes established between them in line with the objectives of this action.
Last updated on: 2008-12-01