Deadline: 31-Jul-25
The Research Council of Lithuania (RCL) has funding for organisations collaborating on international R&D projects.
Priority Areas
- Your project themes must align with the thematic fields of the three research, development, and innovation (R&D&I) priority areas defined in Lithuania’s Smart Strategy:
- Health technologies, biotechnologies, and safe food
- Molecular technologies for medicine and biopharmaceuticals
- Advanced applied technologies for personal and public health
- Advanced medical engineering for early diagnosis and treatment
- Safe food and sustainable agrobiological resources
- New production processes, materials, and energy efficiency
- Photonic and laser technologies
- Advanced materials and constructions
- Flexible product development, production and process management technologies
- Strengthening energy efficiency and smart energy solutions
- Use of renewable energy sources
- ICT, inclusive and creative society
- Artificial intelligence, big and distributed data, multidisciplinary analysis, processing and implementation
- The Internet of Things
- Cybersecurity
- Financial technologies and block chains
- Audiovisual media, design technologies and social innovation
- Smart transport systems
- Health technologies, biotechnologies, and safe food
Funding Information
- Lithuanian funding agency, RCL, has a budget of 4 million euro for this call for projects.
- Participants from Lithuania can receive a grant of up to 300,000 euro.
Eligible Costs
- Eligible costs are:
- Personnel costs: salaries, social security, and other taxes paid by the company
- Business trip costs: for up to two trips
- Materials and similar current asset costs: less than 20%
- R&D services acquisition costs: less than 15%
- Equipment, devices, and similar fixed asset costs or depreciation: less than 20%
- Patenting services
- Certification of the R&D product costs
- Indirect costs (overhead): 3%
Eligibility Criteria
- To apply, you must meet several eligibility criteria:
- 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, process or service with the goal of commercialisation.
- The project must have a civilian purpose.
- Your consortium must include at least two independent legal entities from a minimum of two Eureka countries.
- No single organisation or country can be responsible for more than 70% of the project budget.
- Lithuania has additional eligibility criteria for this call for projects:
- The duration of your project may not exceed 36 months.
- Your project consortium must have at least one company.
- Your project, process, or service must be innovative and there must me a technological risk involved.
- The main partner/lead applicant must be a Lithuanian university, higher education institution/college (HEI), or research centre.
- The project partner should be a Lithuanian SME, collaborating with a research institution to develop a new product, process, or service with market potential.
- It is mandatory to have an international partner, which must be an enterprise from another Eureka country.
For more information, visit Eureka Network.