Deadline: 22 March 2017
Eureka is seeking proposals for its “Joint R&D Project” to carry out activities coordinated to promote technological exchanges and cooperation in research and innovation between companies in Argentina and the countries of Eureka that are measured interested in participating in this announcement.
Eureka is an intergovernmental organisation for market-driven industrial R&D. It is a decentralised network facilitating the coordination of national funding on innovation, aiming to boost the productivity & competitiveness of European industries.
Project Criteria
Projects can cover any topic and technology sector and, like all Eureka projects should have the following characteristics:
- Pursue results in a product, process or service innovative market-oriented consequence of technological cooperation of the participants.
- The project should have participants from at least two countries and should be relevant to all partners (no country should have more than 70% of the budget).
- It allows projects to make use of any technology area and are applicable to any market sector.
- The results should have civil order.
- The budget must be consistent with developments to make and technical and financial capacity of participants.
- Participants must sign a consortium agreement specifying the rights and obligations of the parties regarding the development made and possible intellectual property rights, exploitation and commercialization of the results.
Eligibility Criteria
- The project consortiums should consist of at least 1 company from Argentina and 1 company from one of the EUREKA member or associated countries participating in this Call (Austria, France, South Africa, Spain and Turkey). Participation of research institutes/universities is welcome as partners or subcontractors according to each country’s funding regulations.
- Companies from other countries may also participate, but they will not be funded by the participating parties of this call.
- The project partners must express the will to cooperate, on an equal base, to the development of a new product, industrial process or service. The product, process or service must be innovative and there must be a technological risk involved.
- The projects should come up within applied research and experimental development.
- The project should have an obvious advantage and added value resulting from the technological cooperation between the participants (e.g. increased knowledge base, commercial leads, access to R&D infrastructure etc.).
- The project should demonstrate the contribution of all the partners from the participating countries on an equal base, and the project must be equally significant to them.
- The duration of the project may not exceed 36 months.
- The participants are required, prior the official endorsement of the Eureka High Level Group, to have signed a consortium agreement.
How to Apply
Interested applicants must download application form and send it via email at the address given on the website.
Eligible Countries: Argentina, Austria, France, South Africa, Spain and Turkey.
For more information, please visit EUREKA.
