30-07-2013
Funded by the Portuguese Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program has launched an open call to support innovative projects, with a maximum duration of four years, called Entrepreneurial Research Initiatives (ERIs).
ERIs are projects in science, engineering, management and policy that link both fundamental and applied research to technological innovation and economic development, explicitly focusing on important real world problems entailing significant scientific challenges. Their mission is to stimulate and promote Portuguese innovation in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), by acting as international innovation engines, embedded in global knowledge and business networks, to train creative innovators, generate new ideas, and translate them into products, processes and services. An ERI consortium must include Portuguese research institutions, Carnegie Mellon University and at least a company.
Approximately € 6 million, half in Portugal and half at CMU, are expected to be available to support four to seven ERIs. The call will remain open until 5pm (GMT), of October 16, 2013.
More information about the Call is available at: http://www.fct.pt/apoios/projectos/concursos/cmu/2013/ or http://www.cmuportugal.org/tiercontent.aspx?id=4786 .
