Call description
In this call, one can apply projects together with Chinese counterparts within its specified topics:
- Climate Change
- Circular Economy
- Sustainable Development
- Health
- Other fields both sides agree to fund
For whom?
Call is open for individual Finnish and Chinese companies as well as for consortia including research organizations (Co-innovation project). Normal Business Finland eligibility and funding criteria are applied. Applying is done using the normal Business Finland application system and the applicants must include into their submission a joint project plan and consortium agreement done together with the Chinese partner(s); both need to include IPR remarks. Only those projects are eligible that have at least one applicant from each country and funding can only be given for those projects that are accepted by both countries' (Finland and China) governmental funding organizations.
Call criteria
Funding can be granted to a company operating in Finland or a Finnish research organization participating in the project. Business Finland applies national funding criteria, including the criteria of the Co-innovation funding service for those consortia that include a research organization. In addition to the normal innovation cooperation targets, the target of the call is to support Finnish companies in their access to China market and in finding collaboration partners both in RDI and business. There is no specific funding allocation reserved for the call, but all the applications compete against other applications sent to Business Finland in the open call within the available annual granting authority.