TA CR Sigma, Sub-objective 4, international bilateral projects: open call

The Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (TA CR) announced the 11^th call of the Programme for applied research and innovation Sigma – Sub-objective 2 – bilateral cooperation (formerly the programme Delta 2). Deadline is 9. 7. 2025.

If you plan to participate in an application submitted to this call, please, contact well in advance the Project Management Department (Romana Hogenová, romana.hogenova@natur.cuni.cz), so that all the formal requirements of the application can be prepared in time.

• Call announcement and documentation.
• Call documentation.
• Conditions of foreign organizations.
• Call webpage (in Czech) – news related to this specific call are published here.
• Programme webpage in Czech – Programme webpage in English (not all information is posted here).
• Partnering Tool offered by TA CR for search for potential project partners (in English).
• Results of the previous call (source).

The programme Sigma, Sub-objective 4 supports projects of international cooperation between Czech and foreign companies and research organisations. At least 1 foreign partner from a country participating in the call, must participate in a project. On the Czech side, the main applicant must be a Czech enterprise – a Czech research organisation can take part only as other participant.

Only bilateral collaborations are supported – a project is supported by TA CR and simultaneously by only one participating foreign funding body. Project topic must be in line with the thematic priorities supported by the respective foreign funding body.

TA CR expects that the following foreign funding bodies will participate in the call, and support projects in following thematic areas – see also the Conditions of foreign organizations:

• France: French National Research Agency (ANR);
  Safety and reliability of the present nuclear reactors, Research on materials and fuel cycle to support research reactors, Research in the field of Generation IV reactors, Support for the development of Small modular reactors.
• South Korea: Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP);
  Nuclear energy; Hydrogen.
• South Korea: Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology (KIAT);
  Future Mobility, General Machinery and Photonics, Advanced Materials, ICT (including cybersecurity), AI, Robotics and cybernetics, Disaster Resilience, Response and Recovery, Circular Economy, Semiconductors.
• Germany – Saxony: Saxon State Ministry for Economic Affairs, Labour, Energy and Climate Action (SMWA);
  Life Science, Semiconductor Technologies, Smart and sustainable mobility.
• Israel: Israel Innovation Authority (IIA)
  (No thematic restriction.)
• Taiwan: Ministry of Economic Affairs (MoEA);
  Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (Drone), Smart Manufacture Technologies (Automobile, Machinery, Machine tool), Biotechnologies and Biomedical, Green Energy Technologies, Semiconductor (IC design, Test, Equipment).
• Taiwan: National Science and Technology Council (NSTC);
  Green Energy, Artificial intelligence applications, Health Care and Biomedicine, Cyber Security, New Agriculture (incl. Smart Agriculture), Aeronautical and Aerospace Technology, Disaster prevention.

Project duration is 12–36 months. Maximal funding rate for the Czech part of the project is 75 %, maximal grant amount is CZK 20 million per project. The proposals must be submitted to TA ČR in English. Compulsory parts of the proposal include a Market research and a Common proposal confirming the commitment of the foreign partner to participate in the project.

News published by Ludmila Součková on 9. 5. 2025.

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