Transnational cooperation
INNO INDIGO - Innovation driven Initiative for the Development and
Integration of Indian and European Research
INNO INDIGO is a project funded by ERA-Net scheme of the EU FP7 (2013-2017).
The INNO INDIGO is a partnership of 15 funding research, technology and
innovation agencies, coordinated by the The
International Bureau of the German Federal, Ministry of Education and
Research – German Aerospace Centre (DLR), Germany and, and co-coordinated
by the Council of
Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), Índia. In addition, a range
of observers (funding agencies) are associated with the project. The INNO
INDIGO main objectives are:
- Innovation related approaches: in the focus of INNO INDIGO are the
involvement of SMEs/Industries as well as Clusters/Networks of
Excellence/Competence;
- Regions: INNO INDIGO will connect its efforts to the support of
“Innovation” as a tasks mainly assisted by the “regions” in Europe and India
addressing regions as funding partner;
- Increased budget for research: INNO INDIGO will increase the budget as
well as the number of participating funding organisations in Europe and India
offering opportunities to tackle relevant challenges;
- Open bilateral programmes: pave the way towards the opening up bilateral
programmes for additional partners following the SFIC-Indian-Pilot-Initiative
(IPI) model;
- Visibility: INNO INDIGO will be successful when becoming a common
platform for European and Indian funding organisations to finance jointly
research and innovation, especially for EU countries that do not have
bilateral programmes with India and develop visions on new forms of
collaboration;
- Policy driven: INNO INDIGO will translate political decisions from
different sources (EU-MS, India Goverment, Regions, SME-Associations, SFIC
and the GSO) into practical and tangible funding mechanisms.
2nd Joint Euro-Indian Call: results for Portugal INNO INDIGO
(2015), thematic area "Diagnostics and interventions in Chronic
non-communicable diseases"
- Exploring the Volatome of NonCommunicable Diseases as a Promising
Non-Invasive and Integrating Approach for its Rapid Diagnostics. The Case
Study of Cancer and Neurodegenerative Diseases (NCDs-CAPomics), project
coordinator José Câmara, Madeira University, 199.066€. Participating
countries: IN, DE and EUA;
- One Platform- Multiple biomarker detection of Rheumatoid Arthritis
(RA
Detect), project participant Pedro Baptista, Nova de Lisboa University
137.660€. Coordinator IN and co-coordinator DE.
1st Joint Euro-Indian Call: results for Portugal INNO INDIGO
(2014), thematic area "Clean Water and Health"
- Affordable technology for mitigation of membrane (bio) fouling through
oPtimizatiOn of pre-treatMent And ClEAIng methods (POMACEA), project
coordinator Luis Melo, Porto University, 199.944€. Participant countries:
LV, IN, DE;
- Targeting the elimination of antineoplastic compounds in hospital
wastewaters: novel frontiers in sustainable treatment (TREAT-AFTER-TOO),
project coordinator João Crespo, Instituto de Biologia Experimental e
Tecnológica (IBET) Laboratório de Membranas e Processos 199.914€. Participant
countries: IN e BE;
- Treatment of contaminated drinking water using a hybrid low-cost process
(HyWATER), project
co-coordinator Alírio Rodrigues, Porto University, 173.035€. Co-coordinator
IN, participant DE;
- Wastewater reuse: improving the odds by understanding natural attenuation
(WRANA), project
co-coordinator Pedro Santos, Minho University, 150.000€. Co-coordinator IN,
other participant EE.
Maria Maia
FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Av. D. Carlos I, 126
1249 – 074 LISBOA
Portugal
Maria.Maia@fct.pt
Tel: (351) 213 911 543
INNO INDIGO webpage
http://indigoprojects.eu/about/inno-indigo/about