Open Call - ICON cooperative research program
Do you have an innovative idea in ICT, our health and care sector, the manufacturing industry or other domains? Discover how ICON, iMinds' program for cooperative research, can help you kick-start your project. Call open until 4 February, 2016.
What is ICON?
Minds’ ICON research program is our successful formula for demand-driven, cooperative research. Over a period of typically two years, multi-disciplinary research teams of scientists, industry partners and/or social profit organizations work together to develop digital solutions that find their way into the market offer of the participating partners.
ICON has already resulted in over 100 completed projects in a wide range of ICT related application domains and markets.
What does ICON offer?
Our research program will help you kick-start your project. ICON offers:
- Collaboration and research tailored to the needs of the consortium partners
- Access to the expertise of academics and industry partners
- A route to valorization through the industry partners
- Aligned procedure with IWT and Innoviris
Who can participate?
ICON is all about creating the ideal consortium of partners to solve a practical need. This consortium brings together companies (SMEs and large enterprises) and iMinds researchers, potentially complemented with stakeholders (governments, non-profit, social-profit) or international companies, other research groups or research institutes.
Important dates
- Deadline Extended Abstract submission: 4 February
- Pitch before expert panel: 18-19 February
- Go/No go decision: end of February
- Deadline Full Proposal submission: 24 March
- Go/No go decision: end of June
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