The CSM Project Financing capability guarantees to the company an efficient and effective support to innovation through financing for industrial, pre-competitive research and technology transfer activities.
Accordingly, there are many opportunities to be exploited in the framework of several national, regional and European funds which facilitate research and innovation by industrial companies and research centres. These require specific specialised expertises dedicated to their monitoring, selection, technical-economic preparation of projects, activation of appropriate well-balanced consortia in terms of industry, universities, etc. partecipation and the interaction with financing agencies.
In this field CSM is able to actively support the industries with which it collaborates respect to the orientation and the assistance in the management of applications and formalities, the drawing-up of project applications and the relative technical execution and management.
For that reason, the CSM’s capability in “project financing” is an important asset completely integrated to the company technical activities, even when commissioned to it by Shareholders and Customers.
The early collaborative R&D projects, CSM started to participate to, were conducted in late '60s, just few years after its foundation, under the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) Research Programme. Over time, it has also raisen its partecipation of the national-funded projects issued by the Italian Ministry of Research and University, Ministry of Industrial Affairs and the Ministry of the Defence.