R&D Promotion

CLIB²⁰²¹ supports you in the planning and realization of your R&D projects, within our competent Cluster Industrial Biotechnology. We provide expert advice and help you find cooperation partners in academia, in small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) and in industry – at German and European levels. We also offer a network of partners for the commercial aspects of your plan, ranging from patent utilization to distributors, customer industries or investors.

Topics

CLIB²⁰²¹ promotes biotechnology R&D projects on raw materials, biocatalysts, processes, products and technologies that result in monomers, fine chemicals or in their functionalization. Promotion is also possible for biotechnological partial steps of chemical processes and for projects involving synergies between focal topics of CLIB²⁰²¹.

R&D Partner

CLIB²⁰²¹ offers advice regarding the project consortia that are required by relevant promotion programs. CLIB²⁰²¹ membership is expected for applicants; membership is not obligatory for R&D partners.

Promotion Programs

CLIB²⁰²¹ helps find promotion opportunities for suitable R&D topics, under all German and EU promotion programs. Application deadlines vary, depending on the promotion program.

Course of Action

We recommend the following course of action:

Contact us at an early stage. We give advice concerning current support programs and on the wording of the application.
Send us a) an outline for the expert’s assessment and b) an abstract (overall target of the project, partners, total costs and funding rate). After the approval of the cluster’s board that your project is in accordance with the goals of CLIB²⁰²¹, we will induce the project assessment. You may exclude members of the board or possible experts from the assessment for reasons of competition.
If the outcome of the board‘s and expert‘s opinion is positive, we invite you to apply for promotion funds and request the formal funding application (e.g. AZA, AZK-forms). These documents, the project outline, 2 expert assessments and an advisory opinion by CLIB will be forwarded to the funding agency by our office.

The project outline has to be structured in the following way:

1. Target
1.1. Overall Target of the Project
1.2. Project´s Fit to Funding Agencies Policy
1.3. Projects´s Fit to the Targets of CLIB²⁰²¹
1.4. Scientific and Technical Goals

2. State in Science and Technology; Earlier activities of the applicant
2.1. State of Science and Technology
2.2. Earlier Activities of the Applicant

3. Chronological description of Work Schedule
3.1. Description of budget Plan
3.2. How to exchange Experiences between the Partners
3.3. Milestones

4. Potential uses in practice
4.1. Economical Perspectives
4.2. Scientific and Technological Perspectives
4.3. Future Economical and scientific Potential uses in Practice

6. Need of public Funding

7. References

Assessment

The Board (Vorstand) of CLIB²⁰²¹ assesses the project outline as to whether the planned project basically qualifies as focal topic of the cluster.
In the affirmative case, CLIB²⁰²¹ obtains two expert opinions.
If the outcome of the expert opinions is positive, the applicant may apply for promotion funds. Further steps are carried out by the corresponding Project Management.

Confidentiality

CLIB²⁰²¹ maintains confidentiality in all phases of project assessment and examination. Applicants have the right to exclude certain persons, companies or academic institutions from assessment and examination, for reasons of competition.

Project Realization

Project realization is the sole responsibility of applicants.