The Polytechnic of Leiria and the Polytechnic of Cávado and Ave have joined with Portuguese companies and RUN-EU alliance members to prepare five applications for funded projects. The co-promotion projects are a partnership between companies and non-corporate entities of the RDI System framed in Portuguese Polytechnic institutions in cooperation with European partners from Universities of Applied Sciences or Institutes of technology.

This call has been a very successful test for the RUN-EU alliance, since the RDI collaborative network has provided the international consortia for all the applications, submitted in different knowledge areas and scientific fields. These applications follow others, recently submitted to other European Calls.

The submitted application include industrial research and experimental development projects, aiming at the development of new products or services (total investment between €800,000 and €1M) as well as small industrial research and experimental development projects of exploratory nature, aiming at the development of new products or services (total investment between €200,000 and €300,000).