Within the activities foreseen by the Agreement for Research and Development Cooperation in Industrial, Scientific and Technological fields, signed by Italy and Israel on June 13, 2000 (hereinafter called “the Agreement”), the Directorate General for Cultural and Economic Promotion and Innovation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation for the Italian Party, and the International Collaboration Division of the Israel Innovation Authority for the Israeli Party (hereinafter called “the Parties”), agreed to issue a call for proposals for the selection of joint ItalianIsraeli industrial research and development projects eligible for financial support, as foreseen in Article 4 of the Agreement.
1. Priority Research Areas
Joint industrial R&D projects can be submitted in the following areas, as listed in Article 2 of the Agreement:
- medicine, biotechnologies, public health and hospital organization;
- agriculture and food sciences;
- application of information technology to education and scientific research;
- environment, water treatment; new energy sources, oil alternatives and exploitation of natural resources;
- innovation in production processes;
- ICT, data communications, software, cyber security;
- space and earth observation;
- any other area of mutual interest.