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Test your hypothesis – step 1 within BioInnovation: innovative projects of higher risk

In this offer, we support smaller research and innovation projects covering radical and innovative issues. The novelty and risk can be higher than in more traditional projects. For this offer, you can apply at any time during the year. There will be several assessment dates.

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The offer in brief

What can you apply for?

Projects aimed at verifying, confirming, or dismissing innovative innovations for a more comprehensive project.

Who can apply?

Primarily manufacturers, suppliers and users of bio-based materials, products and services, but also universities, colleges, research institutes and other relevant actors.

How much can you apply for?

A maximum of SEK 500,000 for a project. Projects must be co-financed by participating companies with the corresponding sum as applied for.

Important dates

In this offer you can apply at any time during the year. We will have several dates for collecting and assessing the proposals.

    • What is the offer about?

    The purpose of hypothesis testing projects is to be risk-taking and capture new visionary ideas that have the potential to contribute significantly to and benefit from the transition to a bio-based economy. Either the idea is technically innovative and pioneering with great market potential, or the idea is commercially innovative and has a clear customer focus with the potential to quickly reach the market.

    Project in hypothesis testing step 1 aims to verify, confirm or dismiss innovative innovations for a more comprehensive project.

    Project in hypothesis test step 1 does not finance stepwise product or process development.

    Read the call text and the application guide

    The BioInnovation Application Guide is available at Vinnova’s webpage for the call. It aims to define certain key concepts so that they can be interpreted and used in a similar way in applications and by assessors, and it provides suggestions for tools for describing the application's ambition regarding technology, market and sustainability. Read it carefully to create as relevant an application as possible.

    BioInnovation Application Guide.pdf

    The call text contains important information about the call, including detailed information about our criteria and requirements. It's important that you read this carefully before you start your application.

    How to apply

    To apply for funding, you need to complete an application form in our application portal, Intressentportalen. The form contains questions about your project, project members and budget.

    How to apply for funding

    Download attachments

    Please download the documents that you need to attach to your application.

    Projektbeskrivning - mall - rev 2019-12-16 (docx, 131 kB) Projektreferat - mall - skickas till BioInnovation (docx, 120 kB) CV- mall (docx, 873 kB)

    What happens after the call has closed?

    Once your application has been registered, we'll send a confirmation email to the person responsible for the user account, as well as to the project manager and the company signer. Please note that this may take a few hours after the call has closed.

    After the closing date, you can't register any new information. You may only add information to your application if we ask for it.

    Who can read your application?

    Applications submitted to us become official documents. However, we don't disclose information about business operations, inventions or research results if it can be assumed that someone will suffer economic damage if we do.

    This means that we must disclose the documents if someone requests them. However, we can black out information if we believe it could cause economic harm if disclosed.

    How we handle official documents and privacy

    Any questions?

    If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us.

    Anna Ottenhall

    Utlysningsansvarig

    +46 8 473 30 71

    Helena Claesson

    Administrativa frågor

    +46 8 473 31 57

    Teknisk support

    +46 8 473 32 99

    Reference number 2019-00816