"Ezertech" benefit track - technologies that help people with disabilities, is the result of a collaboration between the Israel Innovation Authority and the National Insurance Funds with the aim of encouraging research and development of industrial products that provide technological solutions for populations with disabilities, in order to enable this population. Employment.

Target Audience

Corporations (businesses and non-profit organizations) operating in Israel and interested in developing technologies that serve people with physical, mental or cognitive disabilities, which make up up to 5% of the total population. 

Funding

• If the requested budget is up to NIS 500,000

  • The grant will constitute 75% of the approved budget
    

• If the requested budget is between NIS 500,000 and NIS 1,500,000

  • The grant will be at the rate of 40%, 50% or 60% of the approved budget

  • An additional 10% to the national priority area

  • Start-up corporations of group entrepreneurs with preferential financing terms will be given a grant option at a rate of 75% in the first year and 70% in the second year.
    * Groups with preferential financing terms are defined as minorities and / or ultra-Orthodox and / or women (when at least 33% of the company's share capital is held by an entrepreneur from this group). All this in accordance with the procedures of benefit track number 1.

Preferred domains

• Corona Crisis - Following the Corona Crisis, the need arose for online and remote therapeutic / rehabilitative solutions or those that meet the required social distance challenges at the time of the spread of the Corona virus.
  

• Vision - aids for the visually impaired, reading and writing equipment, tools for adjusting the home and work environment, systems for virtual navigation.
  

• Hearing - Aids for the hearing impaired, speech aids, communication and warning systems for the hard of hearing.
  

• Mobility, Motor and Stability (Mobility) - mobility aids, propulsion and support system, seating systems and guides, assistive technology implanted, home and workplace adaptations, transportation solutions, accessories that help navigate and orient in public space for the visually impaired and people with cognitive disabilities.
  

• Cognition, Learning and Education (Cognitive) - Technologies that aid in cognitive accessibility (for people with developmental intellectual disabilities, head injuries, neurodegenerative diseases, cognitive decline, neurological diseases, etc.), early detection of learning difficulties, assistive technology for integration in the education system and classroom, tools Builders perseverance, independence, self-control and interest.
  

• Communication - Supportive and alternate communication, writing and typing aids, optimization of voice recognition. Tools that allow the expression of abstract ideas, feelings and concepts for various disabilities, interface between the brain and the computer using non-invasive means, including smart home solutions that allow pre- and / or remote and / or automatic activation of home functions for people with disabilities.
  

• Services - recreation, sports, leisure (Services) - solutions that allow access to leisure activities in public places; Solutions for fitness-adapted equipment; Solutions for social interaction; Solutions for leisure and performance improvement in sports, solutions for tourism, for navigation in foreign / travel environments.
  

• Health and treatment (Health) - solutions that provide independence in medical care, technologies that help treat people with challenging behavior, prevention of gradual decline in function. Therapeutic / rehabilitative solutions online and remotely or those that meet the required social distance challenges at the time of the spread of the corona virus.

Threshold conditions

• Reporting on expenses and progress of the project to the Innovation Authority.

• Applying for a grant will be possible throughout the year, at predetermined times or in accordance with dedicated calling votes for applying for a grant. All in accordance with the instructions and rules specified in the benefit track procedures.

• The applicant employs, or has undertaken to employ, in the context of an employment relationship, at least one research and development worker with education or experience relevant to the research and development that is the subject of the application submitted.

• To the extent that the application includes a component of a running facility on the running site as defined in the benefit track, the applicant may attach to his application a document indicating the intention to carry out the program on the running site and the contract between the parties.

• The number of cases approved for the applicant under the program that is the subject of the application does not exceed two.

• If the applicant is an association or a company for the benefit of the public, a valid certificate of proper management of the register of associations is required.

• Applicants must report to the Innovation Authority any change in research activity, company structure or ownership of knowledge.

• The applicant must act in accordance with the reporting obligation, the registration obligation, the royalty obligation, the obligation to preserve knowledge and intellectual property as specified in the Innovation Law , Benefit Track No. 2 , the track procedures and reporting procedures: 200-01 , 200-02 , 200-03 , 200-04 , 200-06

Criteria for evaluating an application

• Applications will be reviewed according to the criteria of the track:

• The level of technological innovation and the degree of uniqueness of the program together with the level of challenges in its implementation.

• The estimated degree of contribution of the products of the program to improving the quality of life of the target population, its integration into society or its integration into the labor market.

• The technological and employment contribution of the program to the Israeli economy and to the increase in the scope of the applicant's activity in Israel, including production activity.

• The applicant's business-economic growth potential due to the success of the program.

• The degree of practical programming of the products of the program that is the subject of the application in Israel, including the advantages of the product and its price compared to competitors and its cost to the consumer, with an emphasis on the cost to the Israeli consumer.

• The applicant's capabilities, including management capabilities and the ability to bring about the completion of the plan and its business implementation.

How to submit the application

The application is made in the personal area of ​​the Innovation Authority website.
Information on how to submit the application and the forms to be attached to it are listed in detail in the Auxiliary Tech track.
Applications can be submitted until 06/06/2021 at 12:00 noon.
Answers will be given August, 2021.

For details and contact

• For general questions, questions about how to submit the application in the personal area, you can contact the customer service by email: contactus@innovationisrael.org.il or by phone 03-7157900 Sundays-Thursdays from 9: 00-17: 00

• For questions about the track, you can contact the social-public arena by email: SC@innovationisrael.org.il and Nurit Horowitz Amit, Deputy Director of the Foundation for the Development of Services for the Disabled, The National Insurance Institute by email: nurith@nioi.gov.il