The Support System for Collective Actions aims to strengthen the transfer of scientific and technological knowledge to the business sector and boost the economic value of R&D (Research and Development) results produced by the R&I (Research and Innovation) system.

The beneficiaries of this support are R&I non-corporate entities which propose to develop projects within the scope of their competences and which aim to boost the creation or improvement of the surrounding conditions, with particular focus on collective and intangible competitiveness factors, materialising in the provision of goods and/or services with a transversal socio-economic impact, capable of inducing sustainable effects on the economy's internationalisation and which are not liable to private appropriation nor to conferring advantage to a specific company or restricted group of companies.

The Collective Actions should demonstrate a collective, comprehensive and non-discriminatory nature, which may respond to common risks and opportunities of a large group of companies, guarantee a wide publicity of its results, complemented by demonstration and dissemination actions, and ensure the free and universal availability of all goods and services produced, without particular benefit to any entity.

Submission of Applications - Please use Balcão 2020

The SIAC - Collective Actions Support System provides funding for Scientific and Technological Knowledge Transfer structuring projects run by non-entrepreneurial entities of the R&I, such as the following types of “individual projects” or “co-development projects”:

• Interaction and knowledge transfer initiatives with a view to their economic appreciation;
• Technological development demonstration activities, with a view to their economic appreciation;
• Activities to publicise and raise awareness of new knowledge and technologies generated within the framework of R&D, for the business community;
• Publicity activities in the area of successful experimental European projects;
• Activities to increase the economic value of research results, specifically the patenting and licensing of industrial property;
• Development of seed projects and spin-offs, as part of the R&I system framework, with a view to transforming innovative ideas into corporate initiatives;
• The promotion of activities that do not fall within the framework of current activities but that enhance the obtaining and production of relevant information, in the context of valuing and technology transfer, specifically roadmapping and technological watch.