Deadline: 11-Oct-22
Eureka’s Globalstars is now open to boost the productivity and competitiveness of industries by funding and supporting international collaborative market-driven R&D projects.
Scope
This call invites consortia to apply high quality R&D projects within all technology fields. However, the participating countries in particular welcome project proposals in the fields of:
- Sustainability
- clean water & sanitation
- circular and bio-based economy,
- clean energy,
- agriculture
- Health
- improving life style and living environment
- point of care diagnostics,
- treatment of infectious, chronic diseases
Funding Information
Following the EMBRAPII funding model, EMBRAPII finances up to 1/3 of the Brazilian project costs. The Brazilian business partner must finance at least 1/3 of the project costs.The remaining costs of the project can be negotiated with the EMBRAPII Unit that may add in-kind contribution.
Eligible Projects
- Your project should:
- address at least one of the fields mentioned in the call description and demonstrate the potential to research or develop a product or process for commercialisation.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eureka has limited eligibility criteria for organisations participating in a Globalstars consortium:
- Your project idea must represent international cooperation in the form of a specific project.
- The project must be directed at researching or developing an innovative product or process with the goal of commercialisation.
- The project must have a civilian purpose.
- Your consortium must include at least two independent legal entities from one Eureka country and a specified Globalstars country.
- No single organisation or country can be responsible for more than 70% of the project budget.
- This call for projects has additional criteria for organisations to be eligible to receive funding:
- The consortium should include at least two organisations that are independent from each other, one enterprise from one of the Eureka member countries participating in the call and one enterprise from Brazil.
- The Brazilian consortium in the project must include an EMBRAPII Unit contracted by a participating enterprise from Brazil.
- The product or process must be innovative, and there must be a technological risk involved for all involved partners.
- The project must benefit all involved partners.
- The project should have an obvious benefit and added value resulting from the technological cooperation between the participants from the different countries (e.g. increased knowledge base, commercial leads, access to R&D infrastructure etc.).
- The product or process must be innovative and with the potential to create impact.
- The maximum duration of a project may not exceed 36 months.
- A signed consortium agreement is required upon approval, before the actual start of the project. It ought to include, amongst others, the ownership and use of know-how and IPR settlements.
For more information, visit https://www.eurekanetwork.org/open-calls/globalstars-brazil-2022
