Spain- Israel 4th Call for Proposals for Joint R&D Projects
Submission by April 16, 2012

Within the cooperation practices existing between Spain and Israel in the fields of industrial
and technological research and development (hereinafter called “R&D Cooperation”) in the
framework of the Eureka program, in which both countries are full and active members,
participants from both countries are invited to submit joint project proposals.

1. Scope of Topics for Bi-Lateral R&D projects

This call welcomes applications in all technological areas. Yet, special priority will be given to
proposals of the following domains:

• Cleantech: Environmental, new energy sources and natural resource use and Water management technologies.
• Bio-Agro , agriculture and food science
• ICT: applications of informatics to education and scientific research, communication, information technologies, data communication, software ;

The projects approved by the Spanish and Israeli Authorities will be financed by The Office of
the Chief Scientist (OCS) of the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labour from Israel and by
CDTI (Center for the Development of Industrial Technology), a Spanish public entity under the
Ministry of Economy and competitiveness, whose objective is to assist Spanish companies in
raising their technological level. In the framework of this call, Matimop and ACC1O are
implementing Israeli-Catalan cooperation track. For further details: http://www.acc10.cat/ACC1O/cat/

The support will be given to each partner by its own Authorities in accordance with the
national Laws, Rules, Regulations and Procedures in effect.

2. Qualifications

The criteria to be followed in order to apply to the present Call are:

• The Israeli partner should be an Industrial entity (company) which may be technologically and scientifically assisted by non industrial entity (eg: university research institute etc).The Spanish partner should be an Industrial entity (company) which may be technologically and scientifically assisted by non industrial entity (eg: university research institute etc).
• The Spanish and Israeli partners must express the will to cooperate, on an equal base, to the development of a new product, industrial process or service. The product, process or service must be innovative and there must be a technological risk involved.

The project must be equally significant for both the participants.

The participants are required, prior to obtain the Eureka label, to have preliminarily signed
a consortium agreement on the commercialization of the product, process or service once
the phase of research and development has been completed which includes the ownership
and use of know how and IPR settlements (“Consortium Agreement”).

Any partner whose cooperative R&D project is consistent with the aforesaid criteria can apply
to the present announcement in accordance with the national Laws, Rules, Regulations and
Procedures in effect.

3. Submission of the project proposals

This announcement invites partners to present joint proposals for R&D projects using
Eureka forms no later than April 16th, 2012.

The Eureka project application form must be sent, simultaneously to the official relevant
contact person in the respective Eureka office (see details below); Spanish Authorities (CDTI)
and Israeli Authorities (MATIMOP, the Israeli Industry Center for R&D.).Forms must be filled
in English, signed by both project partners and sent to the program managers.

The eligibility of each application will be analyzed by CDTI and MATIMOP. Applicants will
be contacted by staff of the respective national authorities within two weeks to refine the
definitive projects.

Qualifying proposals will be invited to submit national requests using the application
procedures and according to the national rules that apply in CDTI and OCS respectively
no later than July 1st, 2012.

Projects starts are foreseen at the 4th quarter of 2012.


4. Evaluation and selection of the projects.

The national authorities will carry out an evaluation process of the received projects and will
select the proper project to be financially supported in accordance with their national laws and
regulations. The Spanish and Israeli authorities in coordination will formally announce the
companies accordingly in each country, that the project is eligible to be submitted to the
funding authorities. .

CDTI will sign, with the Spanish partner selected for the financial support, a contract
containing the details of the conditions and the terms of the financial support that will be
granted as well as the rules for eligibility of costs and procedures for technical and financial
reports. The Israeli Office of the Chief Scientist (OCS) will sign a similar document with the
Israeli partner. In addition to the above-mentioned documents a Partnership Agreement signed
by the counterpart, will be added as an annex.

5. Modalities for the financial support of the projects

Projects in the frame of this announcement will be financed by the respective national
authorities in Spain & Israel, in accordance with the national laws, rules, regulations &
procedures in effect:

· In Israel, every selected project can be financed by the OCS up to 50% (+ regional
incentives for companies located in "development zone ") of the eligible costs of
research and development. When the project is successful and produces profits, the
financial support of the Israeli party will have to be repaid, without interests, by means
of royalties or profits deriving from the sales. No repayment is due when the project
does not reach the stage of the commercialization.

· In Spain, CDTI will provide funding conditions for Spanish partners that will depend
on the nature of the project and consist in credits without interests in advantageous
conditions (for more information on the details, please access http://www.cdti.es, in the
Eureka section). (for Catalonian participants check Acc10 website).

· According to EUREKA practices, applicants may choose to ask for a label without
public financing (e.g. self-funding is also applicable)

6. Publicity of the Results

Project partners whose projects have been labelled/funded by its own authorities in accordance
with the national regulations and procedures will be informed by means of email by the contact
person mentioned below.