The calls for granting vouchers to SME’s operating in the health, biotechnology, IT and related sectors within DIGI-B-CUBE projects are open starting with 22nd of April.
The types of vouchers to be granted are:
- Prototyping Voucher, up to €20,000 per SME and up to €60,000 per project. Receive funding to prototype or conceptualise a solution for a digitalisation challenge in the Medical Diagnostics and related value chains. Consortia consisting of minimum two SMEs and maximum three organisations from at least two different sectors will be funded.
- Customised Solution Innovation Voucher, up to €50,000 per SME, up to €150,000 per project. Receive funding to jointly develop a novel product/ service based on an existing proven concept that addresses a digitalisation challenge in the Medical Diagnostics and related value chains. Consortia consisting of minimum two SMEs from at least two different sectors will be funded.
The first cut-off is 29th of July 2020 and the available budget for the vouchers’ call is €2,700,000. The evaluation process will take about 4 weeks.
You are welcomed to access the details of the call and supporting documents: https://digibcube.eu/open-calls/.
DIGI-B-CUBE project, in which IMAGO-MOL is ambassador, aims to unlock the cross-sectoral collaborative potential of SMEs by combining Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cognitive Computing Digital Technologies (CCDT) with the Bioimaging-Biosensing-Biobanking (B-CUBE) industries to deliver market sensitive disruptive technologies and generating innovative solutions that enhance patient-centred diagnostic work-flows, delivered through the improved algorithms for Medical Diagnostics’ efficiency and accuracy.
We encourage SMS’s(including start-ups) from medical, biotech, biopharma IT or related fields: robotics, automation, electronics, nanotech etc to apply for the different types of vouchers which will be available. We appreciate that this type of funding could support the development of innovative products in the context of COVID-19 pandemics.