To help businesses innovating and investing in R&D, regional and European public authorities implement various mechanisms ranging from R&D funding to calls for research projects.
Aid for research
As a research centre certified by the Walloon region, CETIC gives you access to various instruments such as:
The chèques services technologiques that constitute a new flexible, simple and fast instrument to pay for a service performed by a certified research centre. The eligible types of activities that can benefit from this aid are listed in the. settlement. The same company can benefit from 40 CSTs (20 000 euros) per calendar year. The beneficiary shall bear 25% of the value and the rest is covered by the Walloon Region and the European Development Fund.
Feasibility studies allow you to benefit from a grant for the feasibility study of:
o the development a new product or service
o the development of a new software of industrial interest
Collaborative R & D, via the "partnership for technological innovation" involving several companies and several academic research units and certified research centers.
Being certified by the Walloon region, CETIC is implicitly recognized as a certified research center by the Brussels region, and thus gives access to corresponding instruments available to businesses in the Brussels region.
Finally, CETIC is also approved by the French ministry of research and therefore allows companies to access the equivalent programs implemented by this instance.
Calls for proposals
In terms of calls for projects, the Region continues to support the Marshall Plan and the collective research, while the European Commission through the 7th Framework Program, is opening calls for large-scale ICT. If you wish to register your company in this innovation process, CETIC put, since eight years, his expertise at your service in this role of R & D partner in these types of projects.
