The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is funding cooperative, pre-competitive research projects (collaborative projects) to strengthen value creation in Germany as part of the High-Tech Strategy 2025 "Research and Innovation for People" and the "Future of Value Creation - Research on Production, Services and Work" program.
There is funding for holistic solutions with which individual companies, operational value chains as well as cross-company value creation networks can be improved through the application and use of digitalization can economically adapt to changing conditions in a short reaction time.
The research priorities are structured into the following three design fields:
Opening scope for action for circularity in companies
Tightening, closing and extending life cycles
Digital pervasiveness for circular value creation
The funding period is generally three years. The application procedure has two stages. In the first stage of the procedure, project outlines must first be submitted to the project management organization Karlsruhe in written and electronic form by March 4, 2022 at the latest.