Instructions and important information for applicants

1) Register your account

If you wish to submit your application to the PoC program, please register your account by completing the registration form and providing basic information about yourself and your institution. When you have completed your registration form, you will receive a confirmation e-mail to the e-mail address that you provided. Your registration request needs to be approved by the IF staff, usually within 2 working days. In case you don’t receive your approval e-mail after this period, please contact the IF by phone or e-mail.

Once your registration is confirmed, you will be able to log in and create a new Project by using the Applicant Menu on the left side of the Portal.

2) Register new project

First step is to provide basic information about the project (project name and the name of r&d institution). After that you will be required to conduct the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) self-assessment in order to determine the estimated current level of development of the proposed technology. Projects with TRL 1 are not yet ready for financing under PoC program. Projects with TRL above 4 are too mature to be financed through PoC and they can be considered for Technology transfer program.

In order to submit your Project for evaluation, you will be required to download and fill out the necessary application forms and upload these documents to portal. Please read the instructions carefully:

• The application cannot be submitted without all mandatory elements, which are (1) PoC application form and (2) Project budget.
• Use only predefined templates available on the Portal under “Application documents”, as other format documents are not allowed.
• Pages that require signatures and/or stamps must be scanned and provided in PDF format.
• Please ensure that the information provided in your Application is complete, as incomplete Applications cannot be processed (missing signatures, stamps, etc.).
• In case you have missing documents the IF will not consider these application for peer-review.
• All important documents and templates can be found in the “Public” section on the left side of the Portal, under “Application documents”.

Once you have uploaded all the necessary documents and selected your technology readiness level, you will be able to submit your Project for evaluation. Once the Project has been submitted, you will be notified via e-mail. All subsequent developments regarding your application will be communicated to you by the IF staff.

3) Terms of Confidentiality

Any discussion between you and the IF about your Project is confidential. To avoid any inadvertent public disclosure of your invention, please use Confidential Disclosure Agreement to protect discussions with other parties.

4) Additional support

If you need a support from the IF, please contact us directly on jelena.stanarevic@inovacionifond.rs, ivana.kostic@inovacionifond.rs or POC@inovacionifond.rs.