Are you the next Eurostar?

Key Features

Eurostars is a joint programme supporting R&D performing small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). It is co-funded from the national budgets of 34 Eurostars countries and by the European Union through Horizon 2020.

Programme:     Eurostars

Award:     up to £1 million

Opens: 1st Jan 1970

Closes: 15th Sep 2016

! This scheme is now closed

Eurostars is an ideal first step in international cooperation, enabling small businesses to realise the many benefits of working beyond national frontiers. Participation in a Eurostars project can become a passport to growth, further innovation, an opening to new global markets and even greater business success.

Eurostars is an ideal first step in international cooperation, enabling small businesses to realise the many benefits of working beyond national frontiers. Participation in a Eurostars project can become a passport to growth, further innovation, an opening to new global markets and even greater business success.

  • Must be an SME company
  • Must have 10% or more staff dedicated to R&D activities
  • Must partner with an organisation in at least one other eligible EU country
  • Project lasting up to 36 months
  • No single participant can deliver more than 75% of the project
  • Plan to develop a truly innovative product, service or process
  • Must want to access new international markets and commercialise rapidly