FFG COMET Projects
Supports Austrian academia and firms through collaborative innovation projects that turn research outputs into commercial solutions.
COMET Projects 2026 funds high-quality cooperative research between academia and industry, aimed at exploitable products, processes and services with strong development potential and medium-term market maturity. Consortia must include at least one scientific institution (universities, universities of applied sciences, research organizations) and at least three mutually independent companies — Aust…
Thematically open within Austria's key technologies (per the industry strategy). Chips, electronic components and systems excluded from the current call.
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