Check out this webinar where INCOBRA will disclose important information about this call: https://www.incobra.eu/en/object/event/660
EUREKA is a publicly-funded, intergovernmental network, involving over 40 countries. EUREKA’s aim is to enhance European competitiveness by fostering innovation-driven entrepreneurship in Europe, between small and large industry, research institutes and universities. It is a leading open platform for international cooperation in innovation. It remains to this day the only initiative of its kind committed to the ‘bottom-up’ principle - ensuring that any R&D project with a good business plan receives the support it deserves, independent of its technological nature, or the type of organisations involved.
The GlobalStars initiative was adopted during the EUREKA network meeting in June 2016 – its aim is to facilitate international R&D&I cooperation between EUREKA countries, including associated countries, and non-EUREKA partner countries. GlobalStars shall be a flexible, reliable, lean and fast instrument allowing global cooperation for EUREKA countries in a variable geometry.
Within the GlobalStars initiative of EUREKA, a new call for projects with Brazil is open for submissions.
The EUREKA participating countries in this call are:
- Austria
- Belgium
- France
- Germany
- The Netherlands
- Spain
- Switzerland
Participants from Brazil and the respective EUREKA member countries are invited to submit joint project proposals in any field of industrial and technological research. EMBRAPII, FINEP and FAPESP are the Brazilian national agencies involved in this project.
This call invites projects in ALL thematic areas, reflecting the bottom-up approach of the EUREKA Network projects.
Who may apply?
Partners must meet the following qualifications:
- The consortium should include at least one Brazilian and one (for profit, independent) company of the EUREKA member countries participating in the call. Participation of research institutes and universities is welcome according to each country’s funding regulations.
- The project partners must express their will to cooperate on a win-win/fair basis in an R&D project leading to a new product, industrial process or service.
- The product, process or service 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.).
- Partners are required, prior to submitting the application, to contact their national/regional Authority (see the link below) in order to check the eligibility of their project.
- A signed consortium agreement is mandatory before the actual start of the project. It ought to include, amongst others, the ownership and use of know-how and IPR settlements.
- The duration of the project may not exceed 36 months.
- Any partner whose cooperative R&D project is consistent with the aforesaid criteria can apply to the present call in accordance with the national laws, rules, regulations and procedures in effect in each country, on a non-exchange of funds basis, and subject to budgetary availability.
Information about the funding schemes, as well about the candidacy procedures and contacts for doubts, are available at http://www.eurekanetwork.org/globalstars-brazil-2018
FAPESP offers information about this call in Portuguese: http://www.fapesp.br/11843
Deadline 31 October 2018