Deadline: 30-Apr-23
Eureka invites consortia to apply high quality R&D projects within all technology fields.
The national funding bodies from Kenya, Austria, Belgium (Flanders), Estonia, France, Finland, South Africa and Spain have allocated funding for organisations collaborating on international R&D projects within all technology fields. The participating countries especially hope to receive applications in the fields of sustainability or health.
Focus Areas
- Sustainability
- circular and bio-based economy
- clean energy
- clean water and sanitation
- agro economy
- Health
- improving lifestyle and living environment
- shift curative to preventive
- Your project should:
- preferably address one of the fields mentioned in the call description and
- demonstrate the potential to research or develop a product, service or process for commercialisation.
Funding Information
- Kenya
- The total amount available for this call is 595,000 euro. Each project will be funded up to a maximum of 85,000 euro. Funding will be made available for a maximum of 3 years.
- Estonia
- Maximum amount of grant is 300,000 euro per project.
- Finland
- Main information for the French partners: SMEs and midcap up to 2000 FTE can apply for a repayable advance or a loan up to 3 million euro per company per project, in the limit of own equity. French universities can only join as a subcontractor or on a self-funded basis, as additional partner.
- South Africa
- South Africa, through the Department of Science and Innovation will allocate a budget of 600,000 euro for the call. The total budget for each project will be at maximum funding of between 150,000 and 200,000 euro per project.
- Spain
- Main features of the funding for Spanish partners are: Soft loan up to 85% of eligible costs (Euribor 1 year interest fee) Minimum budget of 175,000 euros (no maximum budget). Long recovery period (10 or 15 years) where 24.75% of the eligible costs do not have to be repaid.
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, service 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 a research organisation/university combined with a company from Kenya;
- The product, service 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, service or process must be innovative and with the potential to create impact;
- The maximum duration of a project may not exceed 36 months.
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