The funding set forth by the announcement “Sportello Innovazione” has been made available by Campania ERDF Regional Operational Programme 2007/2013 to support competitiveness through research and innovation. 

The initiative has been arranged in cooperation with Campania Innovazione S.p.A. - Agenzia Regionale per la Promozione della Ricerca e dell’Innovazione, and is part of the Industrial Innovation Programme project.

"Sportello Innovazione”, designed for SMEs and research bodies, has three implementation modes:

1) Cultural and Creative Lab Projects, designed to develop a production excellence network in one or more creative industries, which, focusing on the use of key enabling technologies, aimed at the development of new products with a highly cultural content (15 million € allocation).

2) Campania Start-up to foster and support the establishment and development of new innovative businesses in the regional area with a high knowledge content, based on the economic enhancement of research results and/or the development of products and services based on new technologies (10 million € allocation)

3) Cooperative and first industrialisation technological transfer projects for highly potential businesses to support the development of innovative SMEs, already operating in the region, through cooperative and first industrialisation technological transfer that are, along with the regional technological production, strategic for the development of the regional innovation system and competitiveness, from an international point of view, too. (50 million € allocation).

Please find below listed the dates to submit applications:

19 May 2014 - 9.00 - for Campania Start-up projects

26 May 2014 - 9.00 - for Cultural and Creative Lab projects

3 June 2014 - 9.00 - for  Cooperative and first industrialisation technological transfer projects for highly potential businesses

All projects shall be completed by 31 December 2015.

It will be possible to register in the online platform for the application submission from April, 28, 2014.