Eligibility

Funding Details

Please refer to the following link on the eligibility criteria and submission process:

EUREKA | Globalstars call for project with Japan

Japan (NEDO)

• Grant of up to 100m yen per project for SMEs only.
• https://www.nedo.go.jp/koubo/AT092_100217.html
• https://www.nedo.go.jp/english/index.html
  

Canada (NRC IRAP)

• Eligible Canadian SMEs may receive up to 50% reimbursement of eligible project costs up to a maximum total funding grant of $500,000 CAD.
• English: https://nrc.canada.ca/en/irap/about/international/index.html?action=view&id=162
• French: https://nrc.canada.ca/fr/pari/apropos/internationales/?action=view&id=162
  

Czech Republic (MEYS)

• Grant up to 3 mil CZK per project per year (or 4 mil CZK per project per year in case of more than one Czech participant) for SMEs or large companies. Small enterprises may apply for grant funding up to 80 % of the eligible costs, middle enterprises up to 75 % and large companies up to 65 %
• EUREKA, MŠMT ČR (msmt.cz)

France (Bpifrance)

• Loan or reimbursable advance up to 80% of the R&D costs for SMEs and large companies below 2000 FTE. For deeptech projects, a mix between grant and reimbursable advance is possible. Universities can only join as a subcontractor or on a self-funded basis, as an additional partner.
• Programme Globalstars Japon | Bpifrance

Netherlands (RVO)

• Enterprises and research institutes in the Netherlands can apply for grant funding up to 50% of the eligible costs, depending on the type of organization and the type of activities. Maximum funding is 350,000 EUR per project.

Singapore (EnterpriseSG)

• Grant of up to 70% (startups and SMEs) or 50% (non-SMEs) of the total qualified project costs.

Spain (CDTI)

• Will finance industrial research and/or technological development activities of Spanish companies. Universities and research centers could take part as subcontractors.
• https://www.cdti.es/index.asp?MP=100&MS=802&MN=2

United Kingdom (Innovate UK)

• Grant of up to £600,000 per project for businesses and research and technology organisations, which must include an SME and be business-led.
• https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/

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, 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 Japan and a minimum of one other Eureka country listed in this call (United Kingdom, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Netherlands, Singapore, Spain).
• 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 duration of a projects may be between 12 -48 months (Canada, Czech Republic, France, the Netherlands and Spain can fund projects up to 36 months only)
• The participants are required, prior to the start of the project, to have signed a project consortium agreement on the execution of the project and commercialisation of the projects results and must
  be sent to the relevant national funding agencies after the results of the evaluation have been communicated and before the start of the project.

Any partner whose cooperative R&D project is consistent with the aforesaid criteria can apply to the present call in accordance with the national laws, rules, regulations and procedures in effect in each country, on a non-exchange of funds basis, and subject to budgetary availability. The amount of funding available per project partner is subject to national rules and regulations.

Project partners are strongly advised, prior to submitting the application, to contact their National Contact Points in order to check the eligibility of their project.

Partners from other EUREKA countries or countries outside of EUREKA can also participate, but they will not be funded by the participating funding agencies in this call. Subsequently, these partners have to secure their own funding within the deadlines for this call.