This aid scheme from the Ministry of the Economy and Foreign Trade provides support for studies conducted prior to an R&D project or programme in order to determine the technical feasibility of the project or programme. This type of study must permit an identification of the technological risks, the advantages of a product compared to competing products, or an assessment of the potential of a technology for the development of a new application. The study’s conclusions must allow a decision to be made on the launch of an R&D project or programme.

Beneficiaries

All enterprises and private research organisations established in Luxembourg are eligible.

Eligible costs

Eligible costs include the following costs insofar as they are directly associated with the technical feasibility study:

• personnel expenses
• costs for the use of instruments, equipment, machines, tools, installations, land and buildings
• materials and other consumables
• subcontracting expenses
• overhead expenses
• any other type of cost directly associated with the study

Forms of aid

The maximum allowable aid intensities vary according to the type of study.

For a study prior to an industrial research activity:

• 75% of the eligible costs for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)
• 65% of the eligible costs for large enterprises.

For a study prior to an experimental development activity:

• 50% of the eligible costs for SMEs
• 40% of the eligible costs for large enterprises

Submitting an application

Aid applications and their appendixes should be submitted both:

• in electronic format (pdf and docx or doc, rtf, odt) to the following e-mail address: loi.rdi@eco.etat.lu. The mail subject must include the name of the company and the name of the project
• and in paper format to the Ministry of the Economy and Foreign Trade, Directorate of Research and Innovation, L-2914 Luxembourg

Aid applications must be submitted before the RDI investments are made or before the relevant connected activities are launched. Before submitting your application, consult the guidelines for the submission of aid applications.