Eureka announces Globalstars Call for Projects

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.

For more information, visit Eureka.