Co-Creation

Co-Creation

Rahoitusta tutkimusorganisaatioille

Co-Creation-projektissa tutkimusorganisaatio(t) ja yritykset työstävät yhdessä uutta tutkimusideaa, joka voi edetä tutkimuslaitoksen ja yritysten yhteiseen Co-Innovation-hankkeeseen, jossa on mukana suomalaisia yrityksiä. Tavoitteena on, että yrityksille syntyy merkittäviä kansainvälisiä liiketoimintamahdollisuuksia ja tutkimusorganisaatiolle mahdollisuus tehdä tieteellisesti korkeatasoista tutkimusta.

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Updated 1.1.2025

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Co-Creation-rahoitus

Voimme myöntää tutkimusorganisaatiollenne rahoituksen, joka kattaa 80 % projektille hyväksytyistä kokonaiskustannuksista. Projektin kokonaiskustannukset voivat olla enintään 100 000 euroa per idea. Projekti voi olla myös useamman eri tutkimusorganisaation yhteinen, mutta sen kokonaiskustannukset voivat silti olla enintään 100 000 euroa.

Rahoituksessa käytetään kiinteää yleiskustannuskerrointa 20 % ja henkilösivukustannuskerrointa 50 %. Co-Creation-projektin kesto on tyypillisesti 4–6 kuukautta.

Kuka voi hakea rahoitusta?
Tutkimusorganisaationne on tutkimus- tai tiedonlevittämisorganisaatio kuten korkeakoulu, AMK tai tutkimuslaitos.
Tutkimusorganisaationne päätavoitteena on harjoittaa riippumattomasti perustutkimusta, teollista tutkimusta tai kokeellista kehittämistä tai levittää tällaisen toiminnan tuloksia koulutuksen, julkaisujen tai tiedonsiirron kautta.

See instructions for applying for funding

When to apply for funding?

Co-Creation funding can be applied for when:

A research organization and company want to develop a new idea and its potential together

The purpose is to assemble a joint project with great potential around the idea and to build international cooperation and an international network.

A research organization wants to build a new consortium and competence network required for its activities and engage companies in joint development

In a co-creation project, research organizations define a research problem and a path to resolve it with companies, prepare a project plan to attract companies, and build a new business network and international cooperation.
During the project, companies also prepare their own R&D project.

What can the funding be used for?

To demonstrate the relevance of the new research idea and the genuine demand for it, and to develop the idea further
To build the business network and international network required for conducting the research and developing the innovations
For other activities related to the feasibility of the idea

Co-Creation funding is not available for the preparation of joint projects related to leading companies (veturi in Finnish). New joint projects in leading companies’ ecosystem themes will be planned in existing platforms and forums.

Before applying

Consider the following

If a company exercises major control over a research organization as a shareholder or member, for example, the company cannot have any pre-emptive right to the research organization's results.
If a research organization is engaged in financial activities, any profit must be re-invested in research, education or publication activities in accordance with the organization's main goal.

Set goals for your project

In your application, define the preliminary problem and how it can be solved. The potential of the research idea must be high, and it must have broad applicability. When you apply for funding for a Co-Creation project, Business Finland's specialists will evaluate your application. During the evaluation, we will focus specifically on the following:

Impact of the project

The novelty value of the idea on an international scale
The impact of the planned joint project on the international business of companies
The impact of the planned joint project on the research organization's capabilities
In particular, we want to get new companies and groups of companies involved

Quality of the plan

Actions for demonstrating the business potential and the need for research
Actions for engaging companies and preparing a joint research plan
A potential pool of companies has been identified, and some key companies' initial interest in participating in the Co-Creation project has been surveyed

Promoting the goals of Business Finland's programs

APPENDIX 1: Brief project plan

Attach a brief project plan of at most five pages with your application, including the following:

1. What is the significant problem that the research idea aims to solve, and what is its economic and social significance?

What is the internationally recognized problem that the research idea aims to solve?
Which industries/businesses are affected by the problem?
What is its significance to economics, society, and sustainability?
What is the radical/significant research idea that enables cutting-edge international public research on the problem?
What international public research has been carried out or is underway in relation to this research idea, and how does your proposal stand out?
What are the preliminary research questions of a possible Co-Innovation project?
What is the role of a possible Co-Innovation project in solving these issues?
What kind of preliminary objectives would you set for the Co-Innovation project?

2. Describe your desired cooperation network and the roles of its different actors (companies, research organizations, other actors). International cooperation partners?

Describe the cooperation network that the project seeks to build and the parties that would form the network.
What would the potential roles of the participants in the network be? (e.g., a company's own R&D project, a company financing a public research project, an in-kind investment)
Who has already been contacted and who intend to join the project? Which parties will be contacted during the Co-Creation project?
International cooperation plans for a possible Co-Innovation phase?

3. What kind of new international business opportunities could the project bring?

How would the Co-Innovation project promote the growth and renewal of the international business of Finnish companies (qualitatively and in euros)?

4. Describe the public research Co-Creation project's

Objectives (concrete and measurable)
Implementation and schedule (work packages: who will do what and when, roles)
Resources and project costs (services purchased, specify from whom and what)

APPENDIX 2: Notification of participation in a project

Yritysten ilmoitus projektiin osallistumisesta – Notification of participation in a project (docx)

Eligible costs

We only accept costs that are associated with the implementation of the project. These costs include:

salaries and wages
indirect personnel costs amount to 50% of the company's expenditure on salaries
overhead is 20% of the company's expenditure on salaries and indirect personnel costs
travel expenses
costs of materials and supplies
purchased services necessary for the implementation of the project

The following costs cannot be accepted as project costs

research work
unrequited expenses, such as grants, donations, awards
costs of financial activities
representation expenses (excluding meeting expenses for project negotiations)
advertising or marketing costs
equipment costs

How does Business Finland funding work?

Before you apply

Plan a project and define its goals. Ensure the sufficiency of self-financing.
Apply for funding

Submit your application through online services. Submit the additional information requested.
Approve the funding decision

Business Finland will assess your application and notify you of its decision. Read the decision and its terms and conditions, and approve the decision in online services.
Use the funding

Arrange project accounting. Notify Business Finland of any changes.
Report your project

Report your project's implementation and costs. Attach the additional information requested with your report.

Definition

Research and knowledge-dissemination organisation means an entity (such as universities or research institutes, technology transfer agencies, innovation intermediaries, research-oriented physical or virtual collaborative entities), irrespective of its legal status (organised under public or private law) or way of financing, whose primary goal is to independently conduct fundamental research, industrial research or experimental development or to widely disseminate the results of such activities by way of teaching, publication or knowledge transfer.

Where such entity also pursues economic activities the financing, the costs and the revenues of those economic activities must be accounted for separately. Undertakings that can exert a decisive influence upon such an entity, in the quality of, for example, shareholders or members, may not enjoy preferential access to the results generated by it.