ANI BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT UNITS
ANI is the entity responsible for monitoring public policies and support instruments for Research and Development (R&D), as well as for promoting and developing R&D support tools that are crucial for modernizing and increasing the competitiveness of the national business fabric.
To achieve this, ANI has 8 specialized business units that provide dedicated support to companies, start-ups, researchers, business associations, and others.
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
The Client Development Unit prioritizes placing companies, entrepreneurs, researchers, and organizations as strategic drivers of ANI’s activities, promoting more innovation, more collaboration, and more capacity-building for all these entities.
The Interface Mission Unit aims to ensure the implementation of the core funding program for interface institutions, leveraging their capacity to mediate and facilitate collaboration between academia and businesses. This is done particularly by supporting the dynamization of infrastructures that promote knowledge and technology transfer, such as Technology and Innovation Centers (CTI) and Collaborative Laboratories (CoLAB).
The European R&I Programs Unit aims to increase national participation in European R&I programs and platforms, particularly in Pillars II and III of Horizon Europe, the EUREKA program, and the Enterprise Europe Network initiatives.
The National Incentive Systems Unit’s priority is to manage, evaluate, and monitor operations and to build the capacity of the innovation ecosystem for efficient access to R&D support instruments within the scope of the PT2020 and PT2030 community support frameworks.