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Participation in international calls
Participation in international calls, in Scientific Centres of Excellence, attracting resources from ESI funds
STP II goals are to support Croatia in the absorption of EU funds in the research and innovation sector by improving selected public sector organizations' capacity to qualify for and manage EU Funds in the area of research and innovation and to develop a pipeline of public and private R&D projects, including research groups, that could qualify for financing through EU structural funds.
The Fund has continued with its current practice, in accordance with one of the Fund's goals, which is supporting research that is competitive on international level and enabling groups of scientists to acquire knowledge and skills working on the UKF projects as well as to network with the world's top scientific research institutions, and to improve capacity for attracting European and other international sources of funding, especially within the Horizon 2020.
Some of the projects results, knowledge and human resources development achieved through UKF projects will be used and further developed through the ESI funds. A number of UKF scientists continued their research through the scientific centres of excellence.
Attracted funds
38 UKF projects leaders as well as projects participants financed within three calls of proposals call of the Cooperability program have applied to various sources of funding and so far attracted over 22,6 mil EUR in total, which is 4,8 times the total amount that UKF invested in these projects (4,6 mil EUR).
Most funds are attracted for projects in scope of Horizon 2020 program, 9.860.914 EUR in total and amung them three ERC grants (Starting, Consoildator and Sinergy grant). For Scientific Centres of Excellence, 6.025.239 EUR in total were attracted and 1.684.295 EUR were attracted for program Interreg, while from other Structural funds previous project leaders have attracted 4.196.656 EUR. From other european sources 584.312 EUR were attracted and 307.511 EUR from other international sources.
The list of Scientific centres of excellence which involve UKF projects participants
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