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Criteria


1) NORDIC RELEVANCE
The project should:
  • have significance for Nordic commercial development
  • boost innovation and competitiveness in the Nordic business sector
  • benefit the Nordic region and further sustainable development
  • be based on national priorities and initiatives
  • relate to other Nordic or international projects and activities
2) ORIGINALITY AND INNOVATION VALUE IN A PARTICULAR FIELD
The project should:
  • demonstrate genuine originality
  • create new contacts and constellations
  • promote the emergence of new markets
3) DISSEMINATION OF RESULTS
The project should:
  • establish networks for increasing collaboration and transfer of competence among the Nordic countries
  • create opportunities for the project to progress to European and/or international level
  • contribute to the breaking-down of cross-border barriers and the development of an internal market in the Nordic region
  • reduce the duplication of effort and achieve synergies
Basic requirements for all projects:
  • the project must include partners from at least three (ideally, all five) Nordic countries.
  • the project should be at least 50% self-financed, either in the form of working hours or direct funding
  • the project period must not exceed 36 months
Projects with a higher element of self-funding ands more efficient project periods will be given higher priority

We do not fund:
  • basic research
  • marketing,
  • investment in individual companies
  • independent/freelance activities
  • writing of applications.
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