Competence Centres

Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies (COMET) is the competence centre programme established in 2007, which aims to intensify and concentrate cooperation between science and industry. By establishing and exploiting joint research expertise, Austrian companies will be able to expand and secure their technological leadership, strengthening Austria as a research location. The programme’s most ambitious task is to support research programmes of international excellence, and to encourage the involvement of companies and scientists operating world-wide. The programme addresses existing competence centres and networks, as well as new consortia with participants from science and industry. All three programme lines are thematically open. However, every centre and every research project must have a defined theme.

COMET continues the success of the first generation of competence centre programmes in Austria - Kplus, K_ind and K_net, which were initiated in 1998 and are now being phased out.
COMET is operated by the FFG on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT) and the Federal Ministry of Economy, Family and Youth (BMWFJ).

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