Funding Details
Please refer to the following link on the eligibility criteria and submission process:
EUREKA | Globalstars Japan call for projects
Japan (NEDO)
- Type of funding: Grant
- Call for projects budget: 2 billion yen (total amount of programme period)
- Grant of up to 100 million yen per project for SMEs only.
- https://www.nedo.go.jp/koubo/AT092_100239.html
- https://www.nedo.go.jp/english/index.html
Austria (FFG)
- Type of funding: Grant
- Call for projects budget: 1 million euro
- Grants for Austrian companies participating in Eureka projects: Up to 60% of the eligible costs for small companies; up to 50% for medium-sized companies and up to 40% for large companies.
- All companies registered in Austria are eligible for funding, universities and research centers can be funded as subcontractors.
Canada (NRC IRAP)
- Type of funding: Contribution
- Call for projects budget: 1 million Canadian dollars
- Eligible Canadian SMEs may receive up to 50% reimbursement of eligible project costs up to a maximum total funding of 500,000 Canadian dollars.
- Other Canadian organizations, such as research institutes, universities, research and technology organizations, large enterprises and other companies may participate on a self-funded basis or as subcontractors.
- English: https://nrc.canada.ca/en/irap/about/international/?action=view&id=208
- French: https://nrc.canada.ca/fr/pari/apropos/internationales/?action=view&id=208
Finland (Business Finland)
- Type of funding: Enterprises can apply for grant funding for research projects or loan funding for development and piloting projects.
- A grant can cover up to 50% (70% in certain cases) of the eligible costs. Public research organisations can receive up to 80% funding. Specific national co-innovation project funding rules apply.
- Call for projects budget: No specific euro limit for the project size
- Research, Development & Piloting
France (Bpifrance)
- Type of funding: Reimbursable advance or loan
- Call for projects budget: Open
- French companies with fewer than 2,000 FTEs may receive a loan or reimbursable advance up to 65% of their R&D costs. For deeptech projects, a mix of a grant and reimbursable advance could be possible but applicants must check this option with Bpifrance before applying.
- Universities can only join as a subcontractor or on a self-funded basis, as an additional partner.
- Appel à Projets Eureka France-Japon | Bpifrance
Netherlands (RVO)
- Type of funding: Grant
- Call for projects budget: 1 million euro
- 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.
Singapore (EnterpriseSG)
- Type of funding: Grant
- Grant of up to 70% (startups and SMEs) or 50% (non-SMEs) of the total qualified project costs.
- 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.
United Kingdom (Innovate UK)
- Type of funding: Grant
- Call for projects budget: 2 million pounds
- Grant of up to 600,000 pounds 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 (Austria, Canada, Finland, France, Netherlands, Singapore, United Kingdom).
- 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 12-36 months
- 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.
