The national 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 fields of knowledge.

The R&D project application for this call for projects between 2 October 2023 and 2 April 2024 at 12:00 BRT / 17:00 CET. The project consortium must include at least one organisation based in Brazil and another one in any Eureka participating country in this call for projects. The parties listed above must be unrelated parties (i.e., no direct, indirect, beneficial or constructive ownership interest between these parties). This project call is for R&D projects in all thematic areas or application domains.

Timeframe

2 October 2023: Call for projects opens

2 April 2024: Deadline (international application)

April 2024: Feedback for project applications / national funding procedures start

From July 2024: Eureka label given / funding decision is made / projects can begin

Funding details

All SMEs, Small mid-cap enterprises, universities, research centres and other R&D institutions from all geographic regions from Continental Portugal (Norte, Centro, Lisboa, Alentejo and Algarve) are eligible for grant funding. There is no maximum or minimum limit to the budget of project.

Co-funding rates: For SME: from 45% to 80% of project costs for Micro and Small companies, and from 35% to 75% for Medium companies. For Universities and research organisations: 85% of eligible project costs

Funding will cover R&D direct costs that fall into the category of industrial research or experimental development, including a 15% flat rate of overheads costs applied over personnel eligible costs.

The national consortium must integrate at least one SME or Small Mid-Cap enterprise. When applying in partnership with Portuguese R&D organisations, the Portuguese company(ies) must assume the largest share of the investment.

The project must fall within the priority areas of the national or regional Research and Innovation Strategy for Smart Specialization (RIS3).

The Portuguese companies need to comply with the following financial autonomy ratios:

  • For SMEs and Small Mid-Cap enterprises: 15% financial autonomy ratio.
  • Companies that have been active for less than one year at the date of the application: they must demonstrate the capacity to finance the project with equity, equal to or greater than 20% of eligible costs.

Eligibility

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, process or service 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.

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