ITEA Call 2024

Key Features

ITEA has opened a call for organisations collaborating internationally on the R&D of software innovation projects. By applying and participating, your organisation can access national public funding for your R&D project.

Programme:     Eureka

Award:     Share of up to £750,000

Opens: 10th Sep 2024

Closes: 11th Nov 2024

! This scheme is closing soon

Overview

ITEA call 2024 has opened a call for organisations collaborating internationally on the R&D of software innovation projects. By applying and participating, your organisation can access national public funding for your R&D project.

The goal of this call for projects is to foster software innovation and digital transition, enabling a large international community of large industry, SMEs, startups, academia and customer organisations, to collaborate in funded projects that turn innovative ideas into new businesses, jobs, economic growth and benefits for society.

You can submit your R&D project application between 10 September and 11 November by visiting the ITEA website.

Scope

In a rapidly changing society where societal challenges are omnipresent, digitisation is no longer an option but should be regarded as the opportunity to create innovative solutions. Software innovation is a core component for mastering this digital transition.

It is ITEA’s mission to enable businesses to create innovative solutions that master the digital transition and tackle the major societal challenges. ITEA encourages its global Community to create impact and value through RD&I projects in the area of software innovation with the knowledge of industry and the capability of national financing.

Your project should:

  • address at least one of the fields mentioned in the call description and
  • demonstrate the potential to research or develop a product, process or service for commercialisation.

Relevant industry sectors include (but are not limited to):

  • mobility
  • healthcare
  • energy
  • manufacturing
  • engineering
  • safety and security
  • smart cities and communities

Software innovation technologies to be researched and developed include (but are not limited to):

  • artificial intelligence
  • large language models
  • digital twin
  • IoT
  • process automation
  • block chain
  • big data
  • modelling
  • simulation
  • visualisation
  • etc.

Participation

Participation is open to companies of all sizes, universities and research organisations.

By participating in a Cluster project, you benefit from:

  • access to national R&D funding,
  • an international network of companies including key industry players,
  • guidance, coaching and monitoring of your project by ITEA offices,
  • low administrative requirements and
  • receiving a quality label.

Eligibility

Eureka has limited eligibility criteria for organisations participating in a Clusters 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, process or service with the goal of commercialisation.
  • The project must have a civilian purpose.
  • Your consortium must include at least two independent legal entities from a minimum of two Eureka countries.
  • No single organisation or country can be responsible for more than 70% of the project budget.

Please ask your national funding body if they have additional criteria for their organisations to be eligible to receive funding.

If there is no allocated budget for your organisation type in your country and you want to participate in a project consortium, contact your national funding body using the form below to see whether there are other funding opportunities available or talk to them about self-funding.

Applying

  1. Contact your national funding body and ITEA office to discuss your project idea and eligibility.
  2. Log in or create an account an ITEA account at the ITEA website.
  3. Submit your project outline (an overview of the project, its main objective, partnerships and expected impact) and receive feedback via the ITEA Community website.
  4. Submit your final project proposal.

Please note that your national funding body may have additional steps for applying for R&D funding.

Interested in applying for this competition?

Book an appointment to speak to one of our advisors to discuss your eligibility to apply for this Grant Funding opportunity.