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Owners of fishing vessels.

Owners of fishing vessels.

Economic operators, recognized trade associations or any other competent body designated for this purpose by the Member State, in cooperation with a scientific or technical entity.

Aquaculture Research Centres of the Autonomous Communities

6. Beneficiaries
Support is available to enterprises, private research bodies, and business groups or associations, as defined in Annex IV of Order ITC/362/2011 of 21 February.
The competitive application process is open to anyone who wishes to conduct innovation projects or activities in the various thematic areas defined as of interest by the subprogramme. A single advance payment is made in respect of the activities being supported, irrespective of whether the project is being implemented on an annual or a multi-year basis.

Universities and firms.
Support is granted to universities, technological research institutes for basic research, co-operative research institutes (i.e. institutes financed jointly by government and industry) and to individual firms and inventors. Aid to industry is considered as state aid by EU law and has to be approved by the European Commission. A precondition for receiving support in the form of grants is that the result of the supported project is made public.

All firms, regardless of industry, are eligible. However, the support is focused on small firms and individual innovators. The support to firms and individual inventors is in the form of soft loans with conditional repayment. A loan can cover up to 50% of project costs. Repayment, including market interest rate, is required if a project becomes commercially successful. The duration and other terms of the loan are dependent on the objective of the loan and various economic factors. Costs for personnel, material and supplies related to R&D&I, instruments and equipment, IPR, consulting bought-in research etc. are eligible for aid. Other possible aid should be taken into account before the decision of support is made. In practice, projects supported by other state aid schemes do not normally receive support from VINNOVA. To the extent that this occurs, the aid ceilings apply to the combined aid.

Universities and industry (subject to approval from the European Commission)
Support is granted to universities, institutes of technology, co-operative research institutes (i.e. institutes financed jointly by the government and industry) and to undertakings. Aid to industry is considered as state aid by EU law and has to be approved by the European Commission. The general rule is that all results from the Energy Research Programme are official and shall be made publicly available. Aid to firms accounts for a minor portion of the expenditure. Costs for personnel, materials and supplies related to R&D, instruments and equipment, consulting, bought in research etc. are eligible for aid. Maximal aid intensity is 50% of eligible costs. Other possible aid shall always be taken into account before decision of support is made.

R&D activities in the energy sector that have a positive impact on environmental protection.
The Swedish authorities has provided aid for R&D activities relating to the development of a pre-commercial demonstration plant for indirect gasification of low-quality forest raw material into bio -methane. In addition to promoting R&D activities this serves as guidance for future investment decisions regarding the commercial scale-up of the relevant energy technology by demonstrating the feasibility of producing biogas of sufficiently high quality, the aid has also a positive impact on environmental protection, security of energy supply and creation of new jobs.

R&D activities in the energy sector that has a positive impact on environment.
The aim of the aid is to promote certain R&D activities in the field of energy technology. In addition, the aid has a positive impact on environmental protection and security of energy supply.

Trainning programmes to achieve competences in health and environment.
Module 1 - Basic Training: This part of the training concerns general basic skills of the workforce. Purpose of the module is to provide a block of upper secondary level qualifications through a series of courses such as Swedish and English language as well as maths. In addition, through a series of objectives (inter alia "basic technical education", "basic computer education", "health and environment ", "product knowledge") the training will allow workers to achieve broad general competences that they can use across the whole heavy vehicle industry.