Current Note
The Pioneer Fund is looking for company partners for exchange financing and cooperations. If you are interested, please contact us!
The university-internal funding program Pioneer Fund aims to increase TU Darmstadt’s capacity for Innovation. The Pioneer Fund finances these development- and validation activities in projects lasting up to 18 months with up to 135.000 Euro.
The Pioneer Fund is looking for company partners for exchange financing and cooperations. If you are interested, please contact us!
Here you will find an overview about currently funded projects and open announcements in the three program lines of the Pioneer Fund.
TU Darmstadt understands the transfer of research results as a key task beneath research and teaching. However, the transfer of scientific results into application is most times a difficult task. Due to technically and economically high risks in the early stages of the development-, validation- and exploitation-process it is often difficult finding exploitation partners and investors.
The university internal funding program Pioneer Fund was created in cooperation between TU Darmstadt and Entega AG to build a bridge above the death valley of innovation in the pre-competitive field. By this, the Pioneer Fund should contribute increasing TU Darmstadts exploitation and innovation capability.
Financing
The funding program is financed equally by TU Darmstadt and ENTEGA NATURpur Institut gGmbH with 300.000 Euro per year, each.
History
The committee decides over the project proposals for the Pioneer Fund. It is equally represented by TU Darmstadt and Entega AG with four members each.
The university-internal funding program Pioneer Fund aims to increase TU Darmstadt’s capacity for Innovation. It comprises the following three program lines:
Rahmenbedingungen
Target group of all program lines are scientists of TU Darmstadt of all disciplines as well as students, graduates and former employees of TU Darmstadt. The Pioneer Fund finances these development- and validation activities in projects lasting up to 18 months with up to 135.000 Euro. Please find details in the guideline (see below).
Project proposals can be submitted continuously
Application
Current Note: No application is available at this time. The current program period of the Pioneer Fund has expired. If you are interested, please contact us or visit this page again at a later date.
Application documents
The following documents are relevant for application:
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Note on the proposal templates: The current version of the proposal templates is 01/2018. Please check before submitting your proposal if you are using the most current version of the template, which is always available on this page.
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