Eureka Eurostars 2, round 9

If you are a small company in need of public funding for your innovative idea, then Eurostars has been carefully developed to meet your specific needs. With its bottom-up approach, it stimulates international collaborative research and innovation projects that will be rapidly commercialized.  It is your ideal first step in international cooperation.

Joining Eurostars will enable your company to:

• Turn an idea into a product and commercialise it
•  Combine and share expertise and benefit from working beyond national borders
• Grow faster

Eligibility

• Research-performing SMEs can apply for funding under Eurostars. Other SMEs, research institutes, universities and large enterprises may also participate but the project leader must be an R&D-performing SME from a Eurostars country.
• Eurostars is open to all projects in all technology areas and market fields, but projects must have a civilian purpose.

• The consortium must include at least two partners independent from each other and established in at least two different Eurostars countries. Organisations from any other country may participate (as a third country), but only if two Eurostars countries are already in the project. Subcontractors are not considered as project partners.
• The project must be completed in 36 months or less. The Eurostars project market introduction of the project results should be within 24 months of the completion of the project.

Funding

Eurostars adopts a decentralised funding procedure. As such, participants do not receive funding directly from the EUREKA Secretariat or the EU. All funding to participants in approved projects is managed by their respective funding body, according to national funding rules and procedures.

For more details on Eurostars, click here. 

If you’d like to discuss this programme, please get in touch.