I. Companies

INDUSAC OPEN CALL FOR COMPANIES

Programme: Horizon Europe Framework Programme

Call: A HUMAN-CENTRED AND ETHICAL DEVELOPMENT OF DIGITAL AND INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES 2021 (HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01)

The call is managed by EU project INDUSAC under Horizon Europe programme. The Horizon Europe project INDUSAC, aims to financially support short-term (4-8 weeks) research collaborations between academia (students and researchers) and industry (companies), in solving company Challenges. Financial support in the form of financial support to third parties (FSTP) is given solely to student members of the co-creation teams.

Expected outcome: 300 successful collaborations between industry and academia.

Companies are invited to provide Challenges to receive Solutions from the co-creation teams (students and researchers) within four to eight weeks after the selection process of teams is finished.

Opening date: October 2023

Deadline model: single-stage, three cut-off dates

Deadline for submitting a Challenge: Companies issue Challenges continuously from the call opening date up to one of three cut-off dates:

• 15.12.2023, 23:59 CET
• 15.04.2024, 23:59 CET
• 15.11.2024, 23:59 CET

1. Eligibility

Country: Companies established in the EU as well as companies established in associated countries will be eligible to issue Challenges: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Iceland, Israel, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, Morocco, UK. Companies with headquarters outside of listed countries but with branch offices and subsidiaries established in countries listed above, are also eligible.
Company type: entities considered as companies according to the Wikipedia source are eligible to submit Challenges. There are no restrictions on the sector, type, or size of a company to issue a Challenge (startups and large enterprises may apply as well as SMEs).
Language: English is the official language of all INDUSAC documents using the Latin alphabet.

2. Application and implementation process

Step 1 – Registration on the INDUSAC Platform

The registration process (Appendix 1) allows a company to create a profile and publish a Challenge on the INDUSAC platform. During the registration, the company is invited to provide certain information about the company, and verify that a company accepts the terms and conditions of this Call.

Step 2 – Issuing a Challenge on the INDUSAC Platform
On the INDUSAC platform, the company selects from nine different Challenge templates (Appendix 2): (1) Customer needs (and product properties) of tomorrow, (2) Finding white spots in the product portfolio, (3) Marketing campaign of the future, (4) Feel the future platform – developing a digital platform based on a market analysis, (5) Service and product ideas of the future (Basis Persona), (6) Service and product ideas of the future (Basis Scenarios), (7) Business plan – reduce your risk and optimise your planning, (8) Innovative product ideas that solve the customer pain, and (9) Business model: Adding a service to my product – Building a PSS (product service system). The Challenge templates – among other information – ask for the following:

• title of the Challenge,
• description of the problem with additional explanations of key terms,
• expectations – what does the company expect in terms of solution, impact and type of collaboration with the co-creation team,
• desired co-creation team profile – which skills are desired in solving the Challenge,
• the maximum number of co-creation teams that the company can work with.

• Personal motivation: reflection of a team’s enthusiasm for taking on the challenge.
• Did the team introduce the team members? (yes/no)
• Do their strengths and abilities adequately explain the reason why they are suitable? (yes/ no)
• Will they be able to work together as a team? Do they already have team cohesion?

• Soundness of the approach and credibility of the proposed methodology, according to the expectations of companies.
• Are the efficiency and quality of work related to the challenge well explained?

• Do you believe the co-creation team will find a solution that can be successful on the market?
• To what level will the potential solution be innovative in regards to the existing solutions on the market (incremental improvement, radical improvement, breakthrough innovation, …)? Focus on the creativity of how the team predicted their future success and not on a potential solution they might have proposed.
• Has a co-creation team already found out about the companies’ competition and how they will try to get to a differentiated solution?
• How important will the project be for the company and how well did the team foresee the impact?

• Transversal, entrepreneurial and leadership skills, technical expertise, co-creation teams’ ability to take a concept from ideas to market, and their capacity to carry through their ideas and understand the dynamics of the market they are trying to tap into.
• Does the team have specific resources that qualify them as a team specifically to find an excellent solution?
• Is the foreseen time consumption (hours/team member) for the co-creation project sensibly aligned with the project structure, and fitting within the four to eight weeks time frame?

• Does a co-creation team have ideas how to include ‘Environment and low carbon economy contribution’, ‘Equal Opportunities, Gender balance & Diversity’, ‘Inclusiveness’ or ‘Social Impact’ within their way to a solution for the challenge?

Motivation Letters that receive a score 0 in one or more criteria (1 Excellence, 2 Impact, 3 Team and Resources, 4 Transversal criteria) will be automatically rejected.

Accepted Motivation Letters need to receive all together at least 50% of available scores. A ranking list will be prepared. INDUSAC will provide companies with pre-defined justifications for rejecting Motivation Letters.

Step 4 – Implementation of co-creation projects

INDUSAC will provide the co-creation teams with a list of deliverables, methods and tools for the Challenge. In addition, the co-creation teams will be provided with a planned timeline / mentoring plan (to-do list) to complete the Challenge. These instructions will be customised for each Challenge type.

Throughout the process, the company should have a kick-off meeting, at least one (highly recommended between one and three) milestone meeting and a final meeting with each co-creation team. In addition to the meetings, the company will be available, within reasonable limits, to answer students / researchers’ questions (through agreed-upon channels, eg. phone, email, Zoom, the INDUSAC platform chat, etc.) regarding their tasks, and to supply further information needed to solve the task. If the students have multiple ideas, the company will assist in steering the co-creation team in the most promising direction; the company will also give insight into ideas that have already been tried in the past and failed. The company’s availability for additional assistance (beyond the milestone meetings) is not mandatory but it is recommended as it is in the interest of obtaining an optimal solution.

Monitoring of the Co-creation Projects by INDUSAC
Throughout the process, the company and the co-creation teams may be approached by the INDUSAC Mentoring Committee to discuss if they are progressing as planned and if they need any additional guidance.
On a more general level, a Monitoring Committee will be monitoring performance of the co-creation projects on the INDUSAC platform and bring to the attention of the INDUSAC consortium any major irregularities or digressions from the work plan, so as to find rapid solutions.

Step 5 – Reporting

The company provides feedback on the INDUSAC process through the INDUSAC platform (Appendix 6) that will include:

• Deliverable quality assessment of the Solution submitted by the co-creation team

• Questionnaire “after” (Appendix 7)
  • Questionnaire
  • Testimonial

3. Timeline

For receiving Motivation Letters in February 2024 and Solutions in May 2024, companies need to submit Challenges by 15.12.2023, 23:59 CET (first cut-off date) so as to have them published by 31.12.2023.
For receiving Motivation Letters in June 2024 and Solutions in September 2024, companies need to submit Challenges by 15.04.2024, 23:59 CET (second cut-off date) so as to have them published by 30.04.2024.
For receiving Motivation Letters after September 2024 and Solutions in December 2024 or later (but not later than April 2025), companies need to submit Challenges by 15.11.2024, 23:59 CET (third cut-off date) so as to have them published by 30.11.2024.

4. Terms and Conditions for the companies

4.1 Number of challenges issued

The company can issue more than one challenge.

4.2 Compliance with European Council Implementing Decision (on Hungarian entities)

The company confirms that it is not in conflict with the European Council Implementing Decision 2022/2506 in regards to funding Hungarian entities, which stipulates that legal commitments must not be entered into with any public interest trusts established on the basis of the Hungarian Act IX of 2021 or any entity maintained by such a public interest trust. This applies as of 16.12.2022 for as long as the measures are in place. The company confirms that it is not associated with any of the affected entities listed on the Hungarian national legislation website (https://njt.hu/jogszabaly/2021-9-00-00).

4.3 Confidentiality

The company confirms that the text, data and other content of the Challenges is non-confidential.
For cases where companies wish to share with the selected co-creation teams its confidential information, they are advised to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement with the co-creation team before the start of the co-creation project.
INDUSAC partners who have access to the co-creation projects and co-creation results, have signed the Statement on Non-Disclosure of Information and Impartiality (Appendix 8) and all non-public and personal data will be treated in confidence.

4.4 Intellectual Property

The company confirms that the material shared by the company representatives is owned by the company they represent and / or they have acquired the rights for their usage.
Should the cooperation between students/researchers and the company give rise to any form of intellectual property (for example, a patent application), division of ownership of intellectual property rights (based on individual parties’ contributions), the type of intellectual property, and management of said intellectual property, shall be defined in a separate agreement on joint inventions. The parties (company, co-creation team) agree to the following provisions:

• On the basis of the undisputed fact that an invention presents a result of joint collaboration of student/researcher and the company and that student/researcher and the company were involved in the process of creation and development of the invention, the invention shall be considered as a joint invention of student/researcher and the company.
• Any intellectual property developed prior to the solving of a Challenge belongs to the party that developed it.
• Procedures such as registration and maintenance of the intellectual property shall be coordinated by the company.
• Students must follow the guidelines set by the company in regards to intellectual property disclosure and ownership; they may sign a statement waiving their economic intellectual property rights, by which they are exempt from any financial obligations towards protection of said intellectual property rights (such as, for example, preparation, registration / filing, processing, expansion, and maintenance fees); they may opt to retain authorship rights only, in which case they remain co-authors on the invention but receive no material benefits.
• Researchers must follow appropriate invention disclosure legislation, which may include disclosing the invention to their employer and subsequently transferring intellectual property rights to the employer.
• Regardless of status and intellectual property rights transfers, student/researcher retains the right to be listed as co-author on the invention.

The parties (company, student, researcher) agree that each party, individually or together with the remaining party, may use the invention for the purpose of its own research, without restrictions and without any obligation to remunerate the other party in any form or manner. The parties agree that the results of the co-creation project, except the INDUSAC requirements, will not be published, commercialised or otherwise allowed to be used by third parties without written agreement by all parties.

4.5 Long-term relevance of the challenges

For all issued Challenges, the companies acknowledge that Motivation Letters will be evaluated at three cut-off dates and that their Challenge, regardless of how soon it was issued, must still be relevant for the first upcoming cut-off date.

4.6 Ethics

The action must be carried out in line with:

• the highest ethical standards and the applicable EU, international and national law on ethical principles (including the highest standards of research integrity).
• applicable EU, international and national law, including the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and its Supplementary Protocols.

• human embryonic stem cells
• human embryos
• human fetal tissues/cells
• cause harm to the environment, animals, or plants
• military applications
• malevolent / criminal / terrorist abuse

5. FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

6. Supporting documentation

• INDUSAC Call for Companies
• Appendix 1 – Registration form for companies
• Appendix 2 – Challenge Types
• Appendix 3 – Motivation Letter Template
• Appendix 4 – Template for Evaluation of Motivation Letters
• Appendix 5 – Template for Co-Creation Implementation Report
• Appendix 6 – Template for Evaluation of Solutions
• Appendix 7 – Questionnaire for Companies after completion of the Co-creation Project
• Appendix 8 – Statement of Non-disclosure of Information and Impartiality for INDUSAC Partners

II. Students & Researchers

INDUSAC OPEN CALL FOR STUDENTS AND RESEARCHERS

Programme: Horizon Europe Framework Programme

Call: A HUMAN-CENTRED AND ETHICAL DEVELOPMENT OF DIGITAL AND INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES 2021 (HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01)

The call is managed by EU project INDUSAC under the Horizon Europe programme. The Horizon Europe project INDUSAC, aims to financially support short-term (4-8 weeks) research collaborations between academia (students and researchers) and industry (companies), in solving company Challenges. Financial support to third parties (FSTP) is given solely to student members of the co-creation teams.

Expected outcome:

• 300 successful collaborations between industry and academia,
• Supported co-creation projects shall include at least 50% female representation overall (not on the individual co-creation project level).
• 60% of members of the co-creation teams must be from Widening Countries.
• Distribution of 900.000 EUR gross for FSTP to student members of the co-creation teams,

• 11.02.2024, 23:59 CET
• 18.06.2024, 23:59 CET
• 30.09.2024, 23:59 CET
• 30.10.2024, 23:59 CET
• 30.11.2024, 23:59 CET
• 30.01.2024, 23:59 CET

1. Eligibility

Eligible countries: In accordance with the Horizon Europe Call, students and researchers in each co-creation team must come from EU Member States: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden (countries in bold belong to the widening countries; source) or Associated Countries: Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Iceland, Israel, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, Morocco, UK, as indicated by their citizenship or residency.

Eligibility of Co-creation Teams

• The co-creation team must have at least three and up to six members.
• Co-creation team members must be from at least three different EU Member States or Associated Countries.
• At least 60% of the members of the co-creation team must be from Widening Countries.
• The co-creation team has to be gender balanced (operationally, including at least two different gender options (Male, Female, Would rather not say) in the team).
• Each co-creation team must include at least one student, ie. no co-creation team may comprise exclusively researchers.

• Students must study at public universities during the entire duration of the activity (from the co-creation team establishment until one month after the final report of the co-creation team is confirmed).
• An individual student will be able to participate in a maximum of three submitted Motivation Letters. A student cannot participate in more than one Motivation Letter submitted to the same Challenge.

• Researchers must be employed at a public research organisation during the entire duration of the activity (from the co-creation team establishment until one month after the final report of the co-creation team is confirmed).
• An individual researcher will be able to participate in a maximum of three submitted Motivation Letters. A researcher cannot participate in more than one Motivation Letter submitted to the same Challenge.
• Applicants cannot be affiliated (directly or indirectly, for example through board members or third parties) to any of the INDUSAC consortium partners. They can’t be INDUSAC consortium partner’s employees nor board members. English is the official language of all INDUSAC documents using the Latin alphabet.

2. Budget

Budget: up to 1,000 EUR gross per student (lump sum), up to 3,000 EUR gross per co-creation team wherein only students are eligible for funding; 900,000 EUR gross in total, for supporting 300 projects.

3. Application and Implementation process

Step 1 – Registration
Prior to submitting Motivation Letters, students and researchers register (sign-up) (Appendices 1 and 2) on the INDUSAC platform (each student/researcher creates their own appropriate user account) and provides certain information.

Step 2 – Putting together a co-creation team
A student/researcher selects a Challenge. Once students/researchers have chosen a Challenge, they assemble a co-creation team. They may use the platform Slack (slack.com) or another communication channel of their choice. Each co-creation team (created on the platform) automatically gets an ID.
Students already registered on the INDUSAC platform can invite students not yet registered, to join a co-creation team via e-mail. Once a co-creation team has been assembled, members can create their own channels and discuss their ambitions, goals, and further details. In this chat, they also start preparing their Motivation Letter.

Step 3 – Motivation Letter submission
Once all co-creation team members are registered on the platform, a co-creation team can apply for a Challenge. The co-creation team must select the co-creation team leader, who submits a common Motivation Letter (ie. a single Motivation Letter per co-creation team) that is confirmed by all co-creation team members before the final submission.
After the closing of a cut-off date, no additions or changes to received Motivation Letters will be considered.
Motivation Letters (Appendix 3) need to be submitted through the INDUSAC platform. Motivation Letters submitted by any other means will not be evaluated.
After the cut-off date, the company selects co-creation teams based on evaluation criteria and instructions for Motivation letter (Appendix 3).
Evaluation criteria for evaluating the Motivation Letters (from co-creation teams):

(1). TEAM’S MOTIVATION (5%)

• Personal motivation: reflection of a team’s enthusiasm for taking on the challenge.
• Did the team introduce the team members? (yes/no)
• Do their strengths and abilities adequately explain the reason why they are suitable? (yes/ no)
• Will they be able to work together as a team? Do they already have team cohesion?

• Soundness of the approach and credibility of the proposed methodology, according to the expectations of companies.
• Are the efficiency and quality of work related to the challenge well explained?

• Do you believe the co-creation team will find a solution that can be successful on the market?
• To what level will the potential solution be innovative in regards to the existing solutions on the market (incremental improvement, radical improvement, breakthrough innovation, …)? Focus on the creativity of how the team predicted their future success and not on a potential solution they might have proposed.
• Has a co-creation team already found out about the companies’ competition and how they will try to get to a differentiated solution?
• How important will the project be for the company and how well did the team foresee the impact?

• Transversal, entrepreneurial and leadership skills, technical expertise, co-creation teams’ ability to take a concept from ideas to market, and their capacity to carry through their ideas and understand the dynamics of the market they are trying to tap into.
• Does the team have specific resources that qualify them as a team specifically to find an excellent solution?
• Is the foreseen time consumption (hours/team member) for the co-creation project sensibly aligned with the project structure, and fitting within the 4-8 weeks time frame?

• Does a co-creation team have ideas on how to include ‘Environment and low carbon economy contribution’, ‘Equal Opportunities, Gender balance & Diversity’, ‘Inclusiveness’ or ‘Social Impact’ within their way to a solution for the challenge?

Motivation Letters that receive a score 0 in one or more criteria (1 Excellence, 2 Impact, 3 Team and Resources, 4 Transversal criteria) will be automatically rejected.
Accepted Motivation Letters need to receive all together at least 50% of available scores.

Step 4 – Before the start of the co-creation project implementation
Students
Once the co-creation project is approved, each student member of the co-creation team fills out the Questionnaire (Appendix 4), provides certain data (bank details, etc) and signs the FTSP declaration electronically.
Researchers
Once the co-creation project is approved, each research member of the co-creation team fills out the Questionnaire (Appendix 4).

Step 5 – Implementation of co-creation projects
Students and researchers must solve companies’ Challenges within four to eight weeks.
INDUSAC will provide the co-creation teams with a list of deliverables, methods and tools for the Challenge. In addition, the co-creation teams will be provided with a planned timeline / mentoring plan (to-do list) to complete the Challenge.
Throughout the process, each co-creation team should have the kick-off, at least one milestone meeting, and the feedback meeting with the company.
Monitoring of the Co-creation Projects by INDUSAC
Throughout the process, the company and the co-creation teams may be approached by the INDUSAC Mentoring Committee to discuss if they are progressing as planned and if they need any additional guidance.
On a more general level, a Monitoring Committee will be monitoring performance of the co-creation projects on the INDUSAC platform and bring to the attention of the INDUSAC consortium any major irregularities or digressions from the work plan, so as to find rapid solutions.

Step 6 – Reporting
The results are reported in a Co-Creation Implementation Report through the INDUSAC platform (Appendix 5) no later than 8 weeks after the start of the project.
The implementation report will include:

• Deliverables (according to a specific Challenge type) – uploaded on the platform by the co-creation team leader in the document section of the Challenge.
• Questionnaire “after” – filled out by each member of the co-creation team
• Upskilling questionnaire
• Testimonial
• Short description of the project results
• Inclusiveness statement
• Compliance with the ethics requirement

4. Evaluation of Solutions

Each criterion will be scored from 0 to 10 and the weight of each one of these criteria, in the final score, will be as follows: Deliverable quality of submitted Solution (30% of the overall score); Business performance indicators and Technical performance indicators (60% of the overall score), Deadline Compliance (10% of the overall score, which is given automatically if the Solution is submitted on time) of the submitted Solution.
Students from co-creation teams with Solutions scoring above the threshold (7 points) will receive payment.

5. Timeline

• Day 0: deadline for Motivation Letter submission
• Day 0 + 25 days: deadline for students with approved Motivation Letters to sign a FSTP declaration (Appendix 6), at which time the co-creation project begins
• Day 0 + 80 days deadline for submission of final reports by co-creation teams
• Day 0 + 126 days: students with approved reports receive funding (provided that the administrative procedure from the students’ side has been finalised)

6. Financial support to third parties

Financial support to third parties (FSTP) based on a Lump sum is given solely to student members of the co-creation teams up to 1,000 EUR gross per student. Students receive financial support to third parties after approval of the Implementation report on a Solution (as described in Step 6 – Reporting of this Call). INDUSAC coordinator shall transfer the funds to students within thirty (30) days from the date of the approval of the implementation report (provided that the administrative procedure from the students’ side has been finalised) on a Solution / final confirmation from the INDUSAC Evaluation Board.

Taxation

Payments will be done by the Jožef Stefan Institute (Slovenia). Since Jožef Stefan Institute will be transferring financial support to third parties (FSTP) to natural persons (individuals – students), Slovenian legislation and Slovenian accounting standards must be followed. The rate of taxation varies from country to country; in Slovenia it is 25%.

For students (Slovenian residents)

Slovenian residents provide their Slovenian Tax number. The taxation is 25%

For students (Non residents of Slovenia)

1.1 One-time payment
If students (Non residents of Slovenia) receive the FSTP as a one-time payment, students can provide the tax number of their country of residency. The taxation is 25%.
If Slovenia has an international treaty to avoid double taxation of income and property** with student’s country of residency, students can, if they wish, fill out a KIDO 12 form*** (Claim for reimbursement of tax on other income pursuant to the provisions of the international convention on the avoidance of double taxation of income). The claim should be submitted to the Financial administration of the Republic of Slovenia (FURS) by students on their own after the FSTP payment has been transferred to them. Each student must declare income from Slovenia after the FSTP payment has been transferred to him or her to the tax office in their country of residency (students should consult the local tax office in their country of residency).

1.2 Multiple payments per year

If students (Non residents of Slovenia) receive multiple payments per year (i. e. students participate in several rounds of this Call) students must obtain a Slovenian tax number****. The taxation is 25%. If Slovenia has an international treaty to avoid double taxation of income and property** with the student’s country of residency, students can, if they wish, fill out a KIDO 12 form*** (Claim for reimbursement of tax on other income pursuant to the provisions of the international convention on the avoidance of double taxation of income). The claim should be submitted to the Financial administration of the Republic of Slovenia (FURS) by students on their own after the FSTP payment has been transferred to them. Each student must declare income from Slovenia after the FSTP payment has been transferred to him or her to the tax office in their country of residency (students should consult the local tax office in their country of residency).

** List of valid international treaties on avoidance of double taxation of income and property as of 5 July 2024: Direct link to a list in Slovenian language is available here: https://www.fu.gov.si/fileadmin/Internet/Davki_in_druge_dajatve/Podrocja/Mednarodno_obdavcenje/Zakonodaja/Seznam_veljavnih_MP.docx (accessed, 5 July 2024)

• KIDO 12 form: https://edavki.durs.si/OpenPortal/Dokumenti/kido_12.i.en.pdf;
• Instructions for KIDO 12 form: https://edavki.durs.si/OpenPortal/Dokumenti/kido_11.n.en.pdf

• DR-02 form: https://edavki.durs.si/OpenPortal/Dokumenti/dr_02.i.en.pdf
• Instructions for DR-02 form: https://edavki.durs.si/OpenPortal/Dokumenti/dr_02.n.en.pdf

7. Terms and conditions for Students and Researchers

Compliance with European Council Implementing Decision (on Hungarian entities). The students/researchers confirm that they are not in conflict with the European Council Implementing Decision 2022/2506 in regards to funding Hungarian entities, which stipulates that legal commitments must not be entered into with any public interest trusts established on the basis of the Hungarian Act IX of 2021 or any entity maintained by such a public interest trust. This applies as of 16.12.2022 for as long as the measures are in place. The students / researchers confirm that they are not associated with any of the affected entities listed on the Hungarian national legislation website (https://njt.hu/jogszabaly/2021-9-00-00).

Confidentiality

For cases where students/researchers wish to share with the selected company their confidential information they are advised to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement with the company before the start of the co-creation project.
INDUSAC partners who have access to the co-creation projects and co-creation results, have signed the Statement on Non-disclosure of Information and Impartiality ( Appendix 7) and all non-public and personal data will be treated in confidence.

Intellectual Property

Should the cooperation between student/researcher and the company give rise to any form of intellectual property (for example, a patent application), division of ownership of intellectual property rights (based on individual parties’ contributions), the type of intellectual property, and management of said intellectual property, shall be defined in a separate agreement on joint inventions. The parties agree to the following provisions:

• On the basis of the undisputed fact that an invention presents a result of joint collaboration of student/researcher and the company and that student/researcher and the company were involved in the process of creation and development of the invention, the invention shall be considered as a joint invention of student/researcher and the company.
• Any intellectual property developed prior to the solving of a Challenge belongs to the party that developed it.
• Procedures such as registration and maintenance of the intellectual property shall be coordinated by the company.
• Students must follow the guidelines set by the company in regards to intellectual property disclosure and ownership; they may sign a statement waiving their economic intellectual property rights, by which they are exempt from any financial obligations towards protection of said intellectual property rights (such as, for example, preparation, registration / filing, processing, expansion, and maintenance fees); they may opt to retain authorship rights only, in which case they remain co-authors on the invention but receive no material benefits.
• Researchers must follow appropriate invention disclosure legislation, which may include disclosing the invention to their employer and subsequently transferring intellectual property rights to the employer.
• Regardless of status and intellectual property rights transfers, student/researcher retains the right to be listed as co-author on the invention.
  

• the highest ethical standards and the applicable EU, international and national law on ethical principles (including the highest standards of research integrity).
• applicable EU, international and national law, including the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and its Supplementary Protocols.

• human embryonic stem cells
• human embryos
• human foetal tissues/cells
• cause harm to the environment, animals, or plants
• military applications
• malevolent / criminal / terrorist abuse

8. FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

9. Supporting documentation

• INDUSAC Call for Students and Researchers
• Appendix 1 – Registration Form for Students
• Appendix 2 – Registration Form for Researchers
• Appendix 3 – Motivation Letter Form
• Appendix 4 – Skill level survey before the project
• Appendix 5 – Template for co-creation implementation report
• Appendix 6 – Declaration of Financial Support to Third Parties
• Appendix 7 – Statement of non-disclosure
• Appendix 8 – Template for Evaluation of Motivation Letters
• Appendix 9 – Solution Evaluation template