Eureka is the world’s biggest public network for international cooperation in R&D and innovation, present in over 45 countries. It is a decentralised intergovernmental organisation aiming to boost the productivity and competitiveness of industries by funding and supporting international collaborative market-driven R&D projects.
This call for projects has been launched following Eureka’s Globalstars framework based on mutual consent between participating national and regional funding bodies.
The national / regional funding bodies from Brazil, Belgium (Flanders), Czech Republic, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Türkiye have allocated funding for organisations collaborating on international R&D projects in all technology fields.
You can submit your R&D project application for this call for projects between 2 October 2023 and 16 May 2024. Your project consortium must include at least one organisation based in Brazil and another one in any Eureka participating country in this call for projects.
Scope
This call invites consortia to apply high quality R&D projects within all technology fields.
Funding details
Brazil (FINEP)
Grant from 280 000 up to 400 000 EUR, 50% of project costs for SMEs/ universities/ research organisations;
grant from 280.000 up to 940.000 euro/ 50% of project costs for large companies / universities/ research organisations,
total grant budget of 50.000.000 Reais (approx. 10 M€)
Brazilian companies can check details on FINEP website here
Eureka 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 or process with the goal of commercialisation.
- The project must have a civilian purpose.
- Your consortium must include at least two mutually independent companies, one from Brazil and the other from any Eureka participating country in this call
- 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:
- All partners must express their will to cooperate 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 project should have an obvious advantage and added value resulting from the technological cooperation between the participants from the countries (e.g. increased knowledge base, commercial leads, access to R&D infrastructure etc.)
- The project should demonstrate the contribution of all participants and the project must be significant to them.
- The maximum duration of a project may not exceed 36 months.
- The participants are required, prior to obtaining the Eureka label endorsement, to have signed a project consortium agreement.
Check eureka Globalstars call here
Deadline: 16 May 2024. new
Webinar about the call
When: 22 February 2024