Singapore–Israel Industrial R&D Programme

SIIRD is a co-operation between EnterpriseSG and the Israel Innovation Authority (IIA) to promote, facilitate and support joint R&D collaboration between Singapore and Israel companies across different industries. These joint projects should involve the development of new or enhanced products and technology with strong market potential.

Singapore companies keen to collaborate on an R&D or pilot project with Israel companies can now receive support by participating in SIIRD's funding schemes.

The Israel Innovation Authority (IIA), responsible for the country’s innovation policy, is an independent and impartial statutory public entity that operates for the benefit of the Israeli innovation ecosystem and Israeli economy. Its mission is to invest in innovation in order to promote sustainable and inclusive growth.

IIA functions as an enabler for all things related to the Israeli innovation ecosystem. It provides conditional grants to support disruptive technological innovations as well as engaged in creating the groundwork and infrastructure to prepare for future technologies, in order to maintain technological and economical leadership as well as improve productivity and global competitiveness of the Israeli economy.

IIA provides a variety of practical tools and funding platforms aimed at addressing the dynamic and changing needs of the local and international innovation ecosystems.

All Singapore companies must meet all of the following eligibility criteria in order to apply:

There are currently three ongoing calls for the SIIRD Programme:

Climate Tech Strategic Sector Programme

The multidisciplinary chosen topic of Climate-Tech is defined as technologies that are explicitly focused on reducing GHG emissions or addressing the impacts of global warming. Climate tech applications can be grouped into the following three broad sector-agnostic groups:

• Directly mitigate or remove emissions
• Help us to adapt to the impacts of climate change
• Expand our Knowledge about climate change

Relevant technologies under the call scope:

• Clean Energy & Carbon Capture, Utilization & Storage (CCUS)
• Low-Carbon Buildings & Green Construction & Built Environment
• Water Ecosystems & Extreme Weather Events & Precision Agriculture
• Waste Management & Circularity
• Food-tech\Future food technologies
• Eco-friendly Manufacturing
• Eco-friendly Transportation

Generative AI Strategic Sector Programme

"Generative AI" is defined in this call for proposal as a technology based on machine learning and advanced computational models, designed to autonomously generate content, information, or new systems based on user requests. These applications enable groundbreaking innovation across scientific, industrial, and environmental domains.

Generative AI is categorised into three key application areas:

1. Creation, enhancement, and acceleration of technological innovation – Developing new technologies that advance existing industries or enable the emergence of new fields of knowledge.
2. Optimisation of existing processes and performance improvement – Utilising Generative AI to accelerate computations, reduce production costs, or enhance automation.
3. Expanding knowledge and understanding of complex systems – AI capable of analysing, simulating, and predicting the behaviour of intelligent systems, including generating synthetic data, simulations, and scientific models.

Feasibility Study Project Grant, R&D Project Grant, and the Pilot Project Grant

Prior to making your application, please prepare the following documents/information. You may also refer to this guide for application details.

1. Joint Full Project Proposal in the respective template, for each corresponding grant category
   • For Strategic Sector Project Grant
   • For Feasibility Study Grant
   • For R&D Project Grant
   • For Pilot Project Grant
2. Supplementary Project Proposal Form
3. Latest ACRA business profile (retrieved within six months from application date)
4. Applicant’s latest and previous two years audited financial statements (Company and Group level), or official management account
5. Relevant key quotations (e.g. equipment and software, materials and consumables, professional services)

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Singapore companies are to submit their application documents via the following procedures:

1. Visit the Business Grants Portal (BGP)
2. Apply for "EDG (Co-Innovation Programme)"
3. Complete the application form and submit accordingly. Please ensure you have selected the correct CIP Programme in your application.

Concurrently, Israeli companies will have to adhere to the additional application requirements outlined by IIA. Both the IIA and BGP submissions have to be completed for the SIIRD application to be considered complete.