CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR RESEARCH COOPERABILITY PROGRAM, CROSSING BORDERS GRANT

Background:                                                            Maximum award: 1 500 000  HRK

Research Cooperability Program supports medium-scale collaborative research projects in Croatia with involvement of scientific and research Croatian Diaspora.
Under the motto Connectivity – Cooperability – Creativity, the Unity through Knowledge Fund has mission to unite scientific and professional potential in Croatia and Diaspora in the development of the knowledge based society.
In order to achieve this task, UKF strives towards the following goals: fostering internationally competitive research, fostering research that provides new values to Croatian economy and supporting projects that develop research infrastructure.
The program goal is to attract promising research projects to Croatian companies and institutions together with their international/private financing, their accompanying knowledge, technology and potential research results.

Size of grants:

   - minimum amount: 750.000 HRK
   - maximum amount: 1.500.000 HRK.

Eligibility:

   - The outstanding experienced Croatian or foreign researchers and experts living and working in
     Croatia who want to initiate and establish cooperation with an outstanding researcher or expert of
     Croatian nationality or origin who has built career and works abroad

   - The outstanding experienced researchers and experts of Croatian nationality or origin living abroad,  
     who want to initiate and establish cooperation with the partners from Croatia

   - Main applicant and co-applicant who work in Croatia must have employment contracts at their
     institutions for the whole time of project duration.

Deadline: 01 February 2013

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