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For funding rules, in particular the criteria for eligibility for funding of their participation in the activities
following transnational call organised by PRIMA-IS, applicants should refer to the national funding
rules and if necessary contact their national funding bodies.
Applicants must be eligible for funding according to their national funding body rules (national
regulations). The national regulations mention the eligible structures or entities that are allowed to
apply (for example, some funding bodies can fund private entities and other cannot). Each funding
body establishes its own national regulations that provide to the applicants the topics that are funded
under the call (see table below) and a list of criteria to check for their eligibility. National regulations
also provide a comprehensive list of eligible costs (for example some funding bodies can support
mobility or sub-contracting and other cannot). Therefore before applying to the call of the section 2,
applicants must verify their own national eligibility by reading carefully the national regulations and
by contacting the national contact point appointed for this task (the list of the national contact points
is included in the call announcement).
5.2.4 Types of activities: specific
provisions and funding rates
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Description of the activities: Research and innovation activities (RIA)
These activities primarily consist of activities aiming to establish new knowledge and/or to explore the
feasibility of a new or improved technology, product, process, service or solution. For this purpose
they may include basic and applied research, technology development and integration, testing and
validation on a small-scale prototype in a laboratory or simulated environment.
Projects may contain closely connected but limited demonstration or pilot activities aiming to show
technical feasibility in a near to operational environment.
All the projects will have to include collaborative research. Collaborative research is compulsory and
undertaken by a partnership of institutions (consortium) designed to produce new knowledge through
scientific research, whereby each team within the partnership actively pursues specific tasks and
objectives with a view to pooling the results to contribute to the achievement of a set of common,
well-defined project objectives.
Funding level
The level of funding and the list of eligible costs are given in the national regulations. Each applicant
has to comply with the requirements stated in their own national regulations. A contact point
established in each country and who can be contacted directly by the applicant belonging to the
same country, will inform the applicants about the rules.
5.2.5 Technology readiness levels (TRL)
Where a topic description refers to a TRL, the following definitions apply, unless otherwise specified:
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Participants may ask for a lower rate.