With this call, the Free State of Saxony intends to select and subsequently fund projects that will validate research results within the scope of the individual project module of the Directive on Validation Funding. The projects will be selected in a preliminary competitive application procedure.

The validation of research results has the goal to transfer research results into commercial application. The funding supports to verify, prove and evaluate the innovation potential of promising research results and to explore possible future applications. Successful validation of research results provides evidence of both the technical and commercial feasibility of these research results according to concrete requirements of the future users or providing companies of the products/services.

The funding is part of the Free State of Saxony's innovation strategy and strives for the most effective exploitation of innovation potential, allowing for openness in terms of technologies and sectors and using different innovation paths. There will be a special focus on the innovative fields of environment, raw materials, digital applications, energy, mobility and health.

Funding is available for projects to validate research results that are promising for commercial exploitation and have a project period of up to 18 months and eligible expenses/costs of up to 250,000 euros (“validation project”).

If the project is selected and approved, the grant will cover 90 percent of the eligible expenses. Personnel expenses/costs that are already covered by public budgets as well as own contributions are not eligible. The own contributions must therefore be made in cash. Since personnel expenses are subsidized as a lump sum that is generally lower than the actual costs incurred, further funds are required to cover shortfalls in personnel expenses in addition to the above-mentioned own contributions. A forecast for these costs is provided during the application process. 

Under the call, the number of eligible applications for universities with a previously funded program module is limited to six. For this reason, we will conduct an internal pre-selection process within the university. You may not apply for orientation projects. 

Submit your project outline including a cost plan and classification of the project idea to by March 31^st, 2023 at the latest. Subsequently, the project outlines will be selected that are to be submitted to the SAB on behalf of TU Dresden (maximum of six). The selection will first be done internally according to the criteria specified in the call for funding. The TU Dresden attaches additional importance to exploiting existing intellectual property rights (e.g. patents, software) with the funding and to support spin-offs. Prior to submission, a consultation with the Transfer Office (Unit 5.3) or the startup service dresden I exists is recommended. The selected outlines will be submitted in a legally binding manner exclusively by the EPC via TU Dresden's access to the SAB funding portal by April 13^th, 2023 at the latest. For any necessary revisions to the TUD internally pre-selected outlines, applicants should plan to be available between April 11^th and April 13^th, 2023.

This is a preliminary competitive application procedure. Applications can only be submitted once the SAB has confirmed the eligibility of the planned project and invited the application. We assume July 1^st, 2023 to be the earliest possible starting date for the projects.  

For more detailed information, please visit the program website.

Further links/templates*:

• Structur outline and valuation
• Classification project idea
• Cost plan
• Monthly lump sum for Personnel expenses (SCOs)
• Announcement of Saxon State Ministry of Economics, Labor and Transport  
• Directive on Validation Funding 2021-2027 (REVOSax)

*all links/forms only in German available

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