Interesting EU project PERMIDES provides innovation vouchers for biopharma SMEs valued up to 60,000 € for cooperation projects with IT companies.
PERMIDES aims at bringing together SMEs from the biopharmaceutical and IT sector to advance precision medicine through the development of novel digital solutions along the biopharmaceutical value chain. Biopharma companies are e.g. active in the area of biotech/medtech, diagnostics, contract research, biobanks and bioinformatics etc.
PERMIDES receives funding from the EU Horizon 2020 programme; the project is coordinated by CyberForum. Overall a budget of about 3 million € will be handed out via innovation vouchers.
In the first application period, 22 projects totalling about 1.3 million € were funded. Interested SMEs can still apply for financial support at www.permides.eu until October 10th.
Please find further information about the application process at: www.permides.eu/how-to