Oportunidade de financiamento: Eureka GlobalStars: Funding for collaborative industry-led R&D projects between Brazil and European partners

About the opportunity

Eureka is the world’s biggest public network for international cooperation in R&D and innovation, present in over 45 countries. This call for projects has been launched following Eureka’s Globalstars framework based on mutual consent between participating national and regional funding bodies.

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 EUR, 50% of project costs for large companies/universities/research organisations
• Total grant budget: 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

Additional criteria for funding eligibility

• 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

Participating funding bodies

Brazil, Belgium (Flanders), Czech Republic, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Türkiye have allocated funding for organisations collaborating on international R&D projects.

Timeline

Application period: 2 October 2023 – 16 May 2024

Webinar: 22 February 2024 – register here