The interventions of the National RIS3 Strategy, which are understood as a tool to accomplish the objectives of the National RIS3 Strategy, are implemented through calls that are announced by operational programmes and public competitions of national support programmes. As a result of cooperation between the national and regional RIS3 teams and the managing authorities (MAs) of programmes that – through their focus – support the National RIS3 Strategy and regional RIS3 strategies, the calls and public competitions are targeted to support the priorities of oriented and applied research and innovation set out in the RIS3 strategies. In practice, the projects that are implemented on the basis of announced calls and public competitions are aimed at supporting horizontal objectives, specialisation domains and R&D&I topics defined in the National RIS3 Strategy and regional RIS3 strategies.
The allocations of financial support that have been earmarked to support the priorities of the RIS3 strategies in operational programmes are indicated in Annex 3 of National RIS3 Strategy. The amounts of financial resources have been verified with the relevant ministries. The indicative financing proposal for the National RIS3 Strategy is based on experience of its implementation in the 2014–2020 programming period and the expected allocations of operational programmes for the 2021–2027 programming period.
In addition to operational programmes financed from EU sources, some national support programmes, including relevant programmes of Czech ministries in which innovative elements corresponding to the National RIS3 Strategy were gradually identified in the 2017–2020 period, are also linked to supporting priorities of RIS3 strategies. These are earmarked national support programmes managed by the TA CR and departmental programmes, whose allocations are listed in Annex 3. The indicative financing proposal for the RIS3 Strategy from national sources is based on experience of the implementation of RIS3 strategies in the Czech Republic and on the expected allocations of national resources approved by the Government of the Czech Republic for the 2021–2027 period. The strategy also envisaged the involvement of funds from private sources, mainly through project co-financing, but it is also envisaged that the involvement of private sources will be encouraged through the EDP process.
