Federal Ministry for Sustainability and Tourism
Funding details
Call : Call for transnational, collaborative, inter-/transdisciplinary research projects on ICT-enabled agri-food systems
Country specific: Funding is restricted to organisations from Austria
Funding: €200,000
Conditions full:
Eligibility criteria:
Applicants must meet other requirements of eligibility determined by the national programme “PFEIL20”, and the follow-up programme, which are the main funding programmes.
All the proposals submitted must be in line with the general policies of the BMNT.
Further details:
Applicants must contact their national contact point prior to submission of the pre-proposal.
Requested BMNT contribution per project is limited to the budget provided in the table of the indicative call budget. The requested contribution includes the total costs requested.
In-kind contribution of the contracted Austrian organisation shall be calculated as at least 10% of the requested BMNT contribution.
Each email request sent to BMNT must be indicated by the following subject line:
ICT-call-2019-acronym-surname,
whereas acronym is the acronym of the proposal and surname indicates the name of the Austrian applicant. Requests could be written in German.
Applying organisations shall also contact their respective legal department and research service department, if any, so to clarify internal coherence for all applicants from that particular organisation.
For one eligible project there will be only one contract between BMNT and the respective Austrian partner, whereas additional Austrian partners shall be subcontracted. The Austrian partners should decide upon the lead partner amongst themselves at an early stage, and the lead partner must be eligible for funding.
After the final selection for funding of a proposal the Austrian partner, if any, has to submit the full proposalproject via www.dafne.at.
Amortisation costs for equipment are eligible in proportion to the share relevant for the project.
Travel and meeting costs are eligible according to the Austrian “RGV”.
Overhead costs maximum 20% of direct costs.
National / regional topic priorities:
The Federal Ministry of Sustainability and Tourism (BMNT) funds research projects within all topics of the call.
The following frame conditions must be made evident by the applicants:
- availability of data, open data, application of data.
- use of data.
- process efficiency.
- data protection, risk prevention.
https://www.dafne.at/dafne_plus_homepage/001_PFEIL20_Endversion.pdf
https://www.bmnt.gv.at/land/digitalisierung/digitalisierung-in-der-landwirtschaft.html
“Digitalisierung in der Landwirtschaft”
More details in the national/regional call announcement:
Payments by BMNT principally consist of prepayment, payment after approval of the Interim Report, and a final payment after the approval of the Final Report (min. 10% of the requested BMNT contribution).
Contact person(s):
Stefan VETTER
Chiara Ohrloff