2018-annual-report

An important source of funding and technology transfer
opportunities for the Institute are cooperative projects,
awarded through competitive calls for proposals by national
and international funding agencies, and contracts with
industry. During 2018, the Institute participated in a total
of 31 funded research projects and contracts, many of
which (13, a 41%) involve collaboration with industry and
eight of them have direct industrial funding. Of these 31
projects, 15 come from international sources (11 funded
by the European Union, one by the ONR-US agency, and
four by foreign companies), 13 have a national source,
and funds for three come from regional sources, either
through competitive calls or via contracts with companies.
Note that due to non-disclosure agreements not all the
industrial projects them are reported in the rest of this
chapter. Figure 1 shows the origin of project funding. In
the same year, the Institute benefited from 8 fellowships.
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The trend of external funding for the period 2012-2018
is shown in Figure 2. The amount of external funding
for 2018 amounts to e2.6M, with the percentage of
external funding for research and innovation w.r.t. the
total Institute budget reaching 46%.
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External Income (R&I)
2,500,000
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500,000
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Figure 2. Evolution in external funding since 2012