PORTUGAL 2030
Portugal 2030 materializes the Partnership Agreement established between Portugal and the European Commission, which sets the major strategic objectives for the application, between 2021 and 2027, of a total amount of €23 billion in projects that stimulate and develop the Portuguese economy during this period.
ANI is the intermediary body responsible for the selection and management of applications for the Research and Development Incentive System (SIID), under the COMPETE2030 Program and the Regional Programs for the Center, Alentejo, Algarve, and Lisbon. It also assumes responsibilities in typologies under the Support Systems for the Creation of Scientific and Technological Knowledge (SACCCT) and Collective Actions – Knowledge Transfer.
The projects supported can be submitted in the form of co-promotion or individual projects:
Co-promotion Projects:
Individual Projects:
Under SIID, applications for the following Project Types are supported:
Business R&D Projects
Demonstrative Projects
Operations involving advanced technologies and/or pilot lines, based on successfully completed R&D activities, aimed at demonstrating to a specialized audience in a real situation the economic and technical advantage of new technological solutions that have not been sufficiently validated for commercial use.
Mobilizing Programs
Co-promotion operations involving high technological and innovation content, contributing to the value chain of products, services, or processes and acting as drivers of scientific and technological capabilities and competences, inducing significant impacts at the sectoral, multi-sectoral, regional, cluster, or other collective dynamics levels, allowing the internalization and exploitation of the developed technologies.
Proof of Concept
Operations aimed at demonstrating an idea and validating its performance, allowing results to be evaluated and implementation challenges minimized.
R&D Hubs
Operations aimed at creating or strengthening companies’ internal R&D competencies and capabilities.
Internationalization Projects:
Operations supporting the internationalization of business R&D, including:
Operations supporting the internationalization of business R&D, including: Support for the preparation of applications to European Programs: Operations supporting the preparation and submission of applications to R&I programs funded by the European Union. Under this category, applications from ENESII are also supported;
R&D Projects integrated into International Partnerships: Industrial R&D operations on a European scale;
Operations aimed at boosting participation in international R&I networks by companies
Operations awarded a Seal of Excellence under the Horizon 2020 program, Horizon Europe program, or other European programs
Intellectual and Industrial Property
Operations aimed at registering intellectual and industrial property rights in the form of patents, utility models, designs or models, copyrights, and related rights, through national, European, and international channels.
Simplified Regime Operations
Support for consulting services in research and innovation, specifically consulting services in research and technological development activities, as well as technology transfer services, under a simplified regime in accordance with the de minimis aid regime.
Under SACCCT and the Collective Actions Support System – Knowledge Transfer, applications for the following Project Types are supported:
Proof of Concept
Operations aimed at demonstrating an idea and validating its performance, allowing results to be evaluated and implementation challenges minimized.
Protection of Intellectual and Industrial Property
Operations aimed at registering intellectual and industrial property rights in the form of patents, utility models, designs or models, copyrights, and related rights, through national, European, and international channels.
R&D Internationalization
Operations aimed at supporting the preparation and submission of applications to R&D programs funded by the European Union.
Collective Actions – Knowledge Transfer
Operations aimed at enhancing the economic valorization of R&D results produced by the R&I system and strengthening the transfer of scientific and technological knowledge to the business sector.