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 — Austrian or foreign — of any legal form.
Maximum public funding is 45% of eligible project costs, with up to 0.45 m EUR/year federal funding and 0.225 m EUR/year provincial funding per project. The headline call cap is 2,700,000 EUR; participating companies must contribute at least 45%. Co-financing by federal provinces follows a 2:1 federal-to-provincial ratio and must be applied for in advance through the provincial authorities. Projects run 3–4 years with the possibility of follow-up projects and development into a COMET Centre. The call is open 24 March 2026 to 13 October 2026; the evaluation panel meets in early June 2027 and the funding decision is announced in June 2027.
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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