Proposal
- Contact your national funder using the contact form on the Eureka website to discuss your project idea, your financial situation, formal eligibility requirements and the national application process.
- Create an account on Eureka's application portal, one per consortium, and select the call for proposals you wish to apply to.
- Go to the application portal, fill in an application form in English per consortium. Invite other partners in the project consortium to fill in a partner form.
- Upload a GANTT chart. One per consortium. A signed and completed Co-signature form that you can download from the Platform and any additional required attachments.
- Your proposal will be checked for completeness and formal eligibility requirements before being reviewed according to a standardized assessment process. If your project is approved, it will receive Eureka's quality mark, Eureka label.
- Your national financier can do an additional assessment at national level carried out by your national contact person for Eureka and national technical experts in accordance with national rules, before you are granted project funds.
- The final step is to draw up and sign a consortium agreement. We recommend that you seek legal advice when drawing up your consortium agreement.
Vinnova is the national financier in Sweden. For detailed information on national rules and application processes, see the national rules by country and contact details below.
Austria (FFG)
In addition to the Eureka proposal Austrian participants must submit a separate national proposal to FFG General Programmes (Basisprogramm) via eCall on the FFG website.
The national proposal must contain the Eureka project proposal and a national project proposal. The assessment of the national proposal is done by internal experts. Funding decisions for national applications submitted until May 16, 2024 will be published after the delegation meeting, Advisory Board Meeting, Beiratssitzung, on September 5, 2024.
The project must meet the national criteria, "Basisprogramm-Leitfaden" . Detailed information on national rules and procedures
Contact:
Michael Walch, Eureka NPC
michael.walch@ffg.at
Belgium, Wallonia (SPW Recherche)
Applicant in Wallonia (Belgium) must submit their regional proposal in French to SPW Research via the ONTIME portal,before 9 May 2024 at 16:00 Brussels local time.
Contact:
Fabrice QUERTAIN
fabrice.quertain@spw.wallonie.be
Julie JASMES
julie.jasmes@spw.wallonie.be
Denmark (IFD)
Each Danish participant will receive an invitation to register in the national e-grant system and upload their Eureka application form, including national declarations and a table of their financial capacity. The invitation is normally sent within four weeks after the last application date.
Contact:
Thorbjorn Moth Gilberg
thorbjoern.moth.gilberg@innofond.dk
Finland (Business Finland)
The Finnish applicants must submit their national funding applications in the Business Finlands web service. A joint project plan for the entire international consortium must also be submitted for these applications.
The national funding applications are expected to be submitted at the same time as the international Eureka applications, i.e. before 9 May 2024. The Finnish applicants will be informed in detail about the timetable and deadlines for their national funding application. In order for the applications to be processed smoothly, Finnish applicant should contact Business Finland at the earliest possible stage. The names of the contact persons are:
Contact:
Outi Keski-Äijö
outi.keski-aijo@businessfinland.fi
Hanna Rinta-Erkkilä
hanna.rinta erkkila@businessfinland.fi
France (Bpifrance)
Each French participant must contact Bpifrance in advance to discuss their project and check eligibility for the available national funding systems. It is mandatory to contact the international team and the regional administrator (Charge d'Affaires Innovation). If you do not have a regional contact, the international team will provide a contact.
To maximize the chances of success, eligible French participants can use the 'Diagnostic Partenariat Technologique International' tool to prepare their proposal together with an expert consultant (finding partners, consortium agreement, application process and writing, etc.). 50 percent of this consulting service will be financed by Bpifrance.
Contact:
international.innoproject@bpifrance.fr
Germany (BMBF)
The granted project are invited to submit a complete proposal in accordance with the national guidelines. Specific instructions are available here: Specific instructions are available on Eureka's website.
Additional documents are only required after a positive evaluation as part of the full proposal.
Contact:
Dr. Claudius Klein Klein
c@vdi.de
Dr. Bastian Hiltscher
hiltscher@vdi.de
German Eureka Office
eureka@dlr.de
Israel (Israel Innovation Authority)
I Israel, the Israeli partner must submit the national application form in accordance with Israel Innovation Authority's regulations, via an online system. Israeli evaluations and funding decisions are expected in Q3 2024.
Contact:
Mr. Uzi Bar-Sadeh
Uzi.BarSadeh@innovationisrael.org.il
Lithuania (Research Council of Lithuania)
Each Lithuanian participant will be invited to register in the national e-grant system and asked to upload a pdf of Eureka proposal including national declarations and financial viability documents and more. The Research Council of Lithuania uses the international proposal as the basis for the national evaluation.
Contact:
Justina Ruksnaite
justina.ruksnaite@lmt.lt
Singapore (Enterprise Singapore)
Applicant from Singapore must prepare the following document:
- Senaste ACRA's business profile retrieved within six months from the application date.
- The applicant's latest and previous two years' audited financial statements, company and group level, or official management account.
- Completed application form at Business Grant Portal including the form for the supplementary project proposal found here
- Relevant references.
Singaporean participants must submit their applications, including all the above documents, by the deadline. Please note that the link 'Business Grant Portal' can only be generated manually. We recommend that you contact EnterpriseSG at least two weeks before the last application date to ensure that you have enough time to complete the form.
It can take around 3-6 months to evaluate the results from the time you have submitted the form in Business Grant Portal
Contact:
Koe Zi Yan
Koe_zi_yan@enterprisesg.gov.sg
South Korea (KIAT)
The national proposal must contain the Eureka project application and a national project application. See the national the call text for the supplementary document.
National project applications must be submitted online via KIAT- the call for proposals
Contact:
Youngji Tak; Honglae Cho
yjtak@kiat.or.kr; honglaecho@kiat.or.kr
Spain (CDTI)
Spanish participants must submit a formal proposal for international R&D project support via the CDTI website by the last application date. Inklusive Eureka-ansökan in English and a draft consortium agreement. It is optional at this stage, but a signed consortium agreement must be signed and provided afterwards.
Additional documents in Spanish, with detailed information about the Spanish participants, may be requested depending on the type of funding the company is applying for. If proposal is not submitted by the last application date, the international project may be rejected.
CDTI will check the eligibility of the Spanish participants after receiving the international proposal. If eligible, CDTI will send funding applications to each Spanish company. These funding applications must be completed and submitted, complete information in Spanish must be attached to the funding application. The deadline for responding is approximately one month after the last application date. If the funding applications are not submitted on time, the international project may be rejected.
Contact:
Agnes Moreus
oscar.fernandez@cdti.es
Sweden (Vinnova)
Swedish participants seeking funding from Vinnova are recommended to contact one of Vinnova's contact persons before submitting the national proposal.
In addition to proposal submitted via Eureka's application portal, Swedish participants need to apply on Vinnova's website. The national the call for proposals opens on February 1, 2023.
The international project consortium's complete Eureka application form, including all partner forms, project budget and Gantt chart of work packages must be submitted as project description in the national proposal to Vinnova.
Ett CV for the Swedish project coordinator must also be attached as Appendix 1 to proposal.
Vinnova realizes that gender equality is one of our most powerful tools for reaching the goals of Agenda 2030. Many problems or social challenges, solutions and effects may appear to be gender neutral, but turn out to affect women and men in different ways. Through research and innovation that takes into account a gender perspective, which includes the needs, conditions and behaviors of both women and men, the value and relevance of the project results can increase.
In proposal to Vinnova, participants must answer the question "Are there equality aspects, gender or gender perspectives, which may be important to take into account in connection with the project's problem area, solutions and effects?" This will be assessed as part of the Impact or impact and the criteria "Is the value creation addressed correctly" and "Is the value creation managed correctly". See section " Assessment".
Swedish participants must, as Appendix 2 Equality plan and equality integration, describe their plan for gender equality and fill in the table Compilation of gender distribution for the Swedish part of the project:
- number of men and women working in the project (in percent).
- share of work (hours) performed by men and women (in percent).
- proportion of men and women in decision-making positions in the project (in percent).
If the project is not currently equivalent (40/60), participants must justify why and describe how they will work to achieve the goal. This will be assessed as part of Quality and efficiency in implementation and the criterion "What is the quality of your consortium". See section " Assessment".
Mandatory attachments:
- Project description. Complete Eureka proposal in English pdf format. There is no page limit.
- Appendix 1: Projektledarens CV. Use Vinnova's template, maximum 1 A4 page.
- Appendix 2: Equality plan and equality integration. Use Vinnova's template, maximum 2 A4 pages.
Swedish applicant must submit their national proposal on Vinnova's websitebefore May 16, 2024, at 14:00 CET, Swedish time.
Contact:
Peter Lindberg
peter.lindberg@vinnova.se
Jeannette Dybukt
jeannette.dybukt@vinnova.se
Switzerland (Innosuisse)
In addition to the Eureka proposal, Swiss participants must apply via the Innosuisse platform
SMEs and startups must submit the annual report for the last two years, per partner, as an attachment to the full proposal. Startups without annual accounts submit a business plan.
All project participants must enter into a consortium agreement. The consortium agreement must contain the participants' mutual commitments, term regarding rights to foreground and background information and other matters of importance for the collaboration. The participants must have entered into the Consortium Agreement before the start of the project.
Therefore, a draft consortium agreement must be submitted
Contact:
Colette John-Gran
eureka@innoosuisse.ch
Turkey (TÖBiTAK)
Participants must submit a formal national proposal in Turkish via the TUBiTAK TEYDEB website by June 6, 2024, including the Eureka application form in English.
Contact:
Emine Elif Ocako or Umut Ege
eureka@tubitak.gov.tr
Great Britain (Innovate UK)
Submit the mandatory Innovate UK-ansökan at Innovation Funding Service together with the supporting documentation set out in the applicant guidance no later than 8 May 2024 at 11:00 GMT (UK time).
Contact:
Ben Morris or Teresa Arumardi
eurekanpc@iuk.ukri.org