Knowledge Industry Grants for 2023. Modality A. LLavor

Modality A. Llavor: Grants for innovative projects with the potential for being incorporated into the production sector

The grants are intended for innovative projects that are in the initial phase of conceptualizing a plan for technology or knowledge transfer and generating value for society.

The objective of the grants is to finance the actions outlined in the plan to study and/or validate the technical and commercial feasibility, and to achieve a sufficient level of maturity to confidently undertake the proof of concept or service validation phase. The expected level of technical and commercial maturity upon project completion corresponds to the conclusion of the conceptualization phase of the transfer plan, based on the collected evidence or the feedback from potential customers, users, or beneficiaries. This will allow for the identification of a candidate product or service to be developed during the proof of concept phase, as well as a value generation proposal based on the proposed technology or knowledge.

The research teams of universities in the Catalan university system, research centers, technology centers, hospital foundations and non-profit institutions. They must have the main research activity and headquarters in Catalonia.

Participating research teams must be responsible for creating the knowledge or technology whose valorisation is sought.

Research teams must be made up of at least two members, who have to meet the following requirements:

1. The Responsible Scientist must possess a doctorate and must be statutorily or contractually linked to the workforce of the participating university or centre and work there on a full-time basis.
2. The Entrepreneur Scientist must be at the predoctoral or postdoctoral stage.

The Business Mentor, who must join the research team once the projects to form the Llavor team have been chosen, must meet the following requirements:

• He or she may not belong to companies or undertakings in which members of the research team have positions of responsibility, shareholdings or recognised advisory activities.
• He or she may not receive any form of remuneration for carrying on this activity.

Projects must be executed within six months from the day following the date of publication of the award resolution.

The amount of each seed aid is a fixed amount of 20,000.00 (twenty thousand) euros.