The scheme is part of the component on Business Capitalisation and Innovation of the Recovery and Resilience Programme (RRP) and aims at fostering the transformative recovery of the Portuguese economy in a lasting, fair, sustainable and inclusive manner, in particular by encouraging a shift towards higher value-added activities. The scheme is also intended to develop synergies between businesses and research organizations, in order to exploit existing scientific knowledge to produce new innovative goods and services.
The scheme will only provide aid to collaborative projects (“Agendas”). Thus, undertakings have to set up consortia in order to apply, which must then establish partnerships with research organizations (hereinafter, “knowledge centres”) in order to be eligible for aid under the scheme.
