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FAQ for Projects and Ideas
As Austria’s largest innovation laboratory for green energy, we accompany you with our services through the entire innovation journey – from the first idea to market readiness. Together we create an integrated energy system for a sustainable future with customer-centered solutions.
General
We support actors such as companies, startups, research institutions, cities and municipalities in the development of bold new ideas. Individual submissions as well as submissions from existing consortia are possible.
As part of the Quick Check+, your idea will be submitted to the Green Energy Lab team and our Steering Group. The experts in the Steering Group have signed a confidentiality agreement for this purpose.
In order to decide whether your project is supported by our defined service package and included in the Green Energy Lab project portfolio, we carry out a transparent quality check, the Quick Check+. In the Quick Check+, we evaluate your project idea together with our Steering Group experts based on transparent criteria (see project idea description [German]). The decision on Green Energy Lab project status is also confirmed by the Green Energy Lab Association Board.
The clear advantage for you: You receive qualitative expert feedback as early as the submission phase and, if the decision is positive, defined support services for your project proposal.
Our advantage: We identify and support the best projects, thus ensuring the quality-assured growth of our project portfolio.
Ideas can be submitted at any time. There are respective submission deadlines for the implementation of concrete project ideas in specific calls for proposals. These will be made known in good time.
The Green Energy Lab does not award grants or funding. As an innovation laboratory, we support your submission to selected national and international funding programs and provide access to Austria’s leading energy suppliers.
There are no costs for submitting the project idea. Our support services for developing your idea into a concrete innovation project (prior to funding approval) are available to Innovator Circle members free of charge. The project development services include thematic field workshops, quick check and project selection, project development workshops, as well as review and support with project set-up and project applications.
In the implementation phase, i.e. after funding or financing has been approved, we as Green Energy Lab take on a role as a subcontractor with specific rights and conditions related to the function of network coordination of the showcase region and provide defined services. These service packages are usually compensated with a lump sum of 1.5% of the project costs. If further KPC demonstration projects are linked to an R&D project submitted to the FFG, as may be the case in the context of the Vorzeigeregion Energie tender, for example, an additional flat-rate fee of € 1,500 per year is charged for each KPC demonstration project.
Premium services over and above these defined services are charged on the basis of project-specific agreements, depending on the work involved.
Submitting your idea, which you would like to develop further together with the Green Energy Lab, does not create any obligations.
If – following a positive Quick Check+ decision by the Green Energy Lab team and our Steering Group and a funding or financing commitment – the idea is turned into a project, the project partners commit to cross-project cooperation within the framework of the Green Energy Lab showcase region. Specific obligations apply to project ideas that are to be implemented as part of the Flagship Region Energy call.
We are currently primarily looking for new ideas. However, you are also welcome to send us your challenge and we will define the next steps together to generate suitable ideas.
If you would like to develop an idea together with the Green Energy Lab, all you need to do is submit the completed project idea canvas (German). Together we will then define the next steps to develop your idea into a concrete project. However, project ideas that you would like to submit as part of specific calls for proposals should already be concrete and show a corresponding interest in implementation. Concrete project ideas should be submitted with the general project description (German).
