What costs and activities are eligible?
Cost category | Description |
Professional fees/Technical assistance. | Professional fees for experts recruited specifically for the project (for example the cost of hiring engineering, ICT, financial, legal, marketing advisers). Any travel expenses incurred by the experts, including international travel where justified, must be included in their fees. |
Travel expenses | Both international and local travel expenses related specifically to the innovation. |
Fees for external technical testing services | For example, lab services for microbiology testing, analysis of materials or other types of testing |
Costs of prototypes | For example, cost of CAD designs, development of 3D models, prototypes. |
Cost of capital equipment | Costs of equipment to be used specifically for the innovation. If the equipment is not fully employed with the innovation, the % of use is also considered in determining the maximum to be allocated to the grant (% of the value of wear and tear calculated). |
Consumables | Consumables may include tools, instruments, materials required for the implementation of the innovation and during the implementation period |
Costs of graphic design: identity, logo, packaging, brochures, social media. | Graphic design costs associated specifically with the innovation. |
Costs of marketing material | Marketing material costs associated specifically with the innovation - during innovation period. |
Costs of packaging material | Packaging material costs associated specifically with the innovation - during innovation period |
Sales and marketing costs | Costs associated specifically with the innovation during the project up to the launch. |
Certification and audit costs | The costs associated with certification, including costs of auditors may be eligible provided the certification is specifically related to the innovation. |
Intellectual property | Obtaining of intellectual property right or advice |
Raw material | Raw material for testing, demonstration purposes and piloting of the innovation will be allowed |
Rent | Rental of special equipment or a special facility that provides some required service (for example temperature control room or laboratory that requires separation) during the development of the project may be eligible. However, rental that is part of normal recurrent expenditure is not eligible |
Innovation hubs | Services offered by innovation hubs (for example, laboratory, common user facilities, marker space among others) |
What costs and activities are ineligible?
The purchase of real estate; purchase of vehicles; payment of income and corporation tax; payment of recoverable VAT (if the company is VAT registered); bank charges; replacement or refund of any funds lost to fraud, corruption, bribery, theft, terrorist financing or other misuse of funds; contingency or risk premium; costs incurred prior to a formal agreement being executed, including those associated with preparing bid or grant proposals; and costs that are not directly related to the proposed project and/or which are not needed for successful outcome of the project's objectives.