The Rostov Region Representative Office of the Innovation Promotion Foundation announces the start of the DESIGN CENTERS-EA competition.

EA Design Center is a team engaged in the design of electronic modules, blocks and equipment using computer-aided design tools.

The DESIGN CENTERS-EA competition is aimed at selecting projects that provide for R&D in the design and manufacture of electronic modules and / or electronic equipment based on domestic electronic components, the results of which have the prospect of commercialization in promising traditional, new and emerging markets of the future.

During the implementation of the project, the use of imported electronic components is allowed only in the absence of a domestic electronic component capable of performing the required functions, while the application must indicate the justification for each import component used in the performance of R&D.

The projects that make the most of the domestic electronic components will have an advantage. The project should provide for the presence of a specific consumer (or a group of consumers) of the results, including in the person of the organization of the real sector of the economy participating in the implementation of the project (hereinafter referred to as the Industrial Partner). An industrial partner can be a commercial enterprise registered in the Russian Federation, which:

is an industrial enterprise that has the potential to use electronic modules and / or electronic equipment as part of a product developed or manufactured by this enterprise;
has a concluded agreement on scientific and technological cooperation with the SIE (hereinafter referred to as the Agreement), which defines the procedure for their interaction in the course of work on the development and commercialization of innovative products;
independently or jointly with the IIP, provides off-budget co-financing of work (the procedure and conditions for co-financing R&D are determined in the Agreement);
undertakes to ensure the organization of the production of new products created using the results of R&D carried out by the IIP. At the same time, the total revenue of the Industrial partner received from the sale of such products within 5 years after the completion of R&D must be at least 4 times the amount of the grant.
Grants are provided to SIEs, selected according to the results of the Competition, for financial support for the implementation of R&D according to the terms of reference agreed with the Industrial partner. IIP should not be affiliated with an Industrial Partner. An industrial partner cannot be an executor of work on a project, a supplier of goods (work, services) financed from a grant and (or) funds provided by him to the grantee for the implementation of the project.
SIE can implement a project without involving an Industrial partner, subject to the following requirements:

has experience in commercial implementation of R&D results;
undertakes to ensure the organization of the production of new products created using the results of R&D. The total proceeds received from the sale of the developed products within 5 years after the completion of R&D must be at least 2 times the amount of the grant;
undertakes to provide extra-budgetary co-financing for the work.
The size of the grant is up to 25 million rubles, with extra-budgetary co-financing (at the expense of own or borrowed funds) - at least 30% of the grant amount. The direction of support is the performance of R&D (salary, raw materials, materials, components, services of co-executors). The term for R&D is 12/18/24 months.

Companies can take part in the competition:

related to small according to No. 209-FZ of 24.07.2007 and the unified register of small and medium-sized businesses;
who have no outstanding grant agreements with the Foundation.
Applications are accepted from 10:00 (Moscow time) October 14, 2020 to 10:00 (Moscow time) November 9, 2020. You can submit an application through the AS Fond-M system at the address: https://online.fasie.ru.

More details on the competition website http://fasie.ru/press/fund/designcentr-2020/.

You can get advice on any issues that have arisen at the Fund's Representative Office in the Rostov Region (ANO "Innovation Agency of the Rostov Region") by phone
+7 (961) 293-46-95 or e-mail rostov@fasie.ru.