EUREKA NETWORK

The Eureka Network is the biggest public network for international cooperation in R&D and innovation, present in over 45 countries.

The aim of the Eureka Network is to promote the growth of start-ups, SMEs, large corporations, investigation centres and universities through funding and support of international cooperation in R&D and to provide preparation services for investment access.

The Eureka Instruments are based on a bottom-up philosophy, in which entities have freedom and flexibility to:

• choose the technological focus of their R&D project.
• create their ideal consortia with partners from the various Eureka countries (as well as third-party countries such as South Africa, Argentina, Canada, Chile, South Korea and Singapore).
• select the EUREKA instrument that best fits their needs:
  • EUREKA clusters
  • European Partnership on Innovative SMEs - Eurostars
  • European Partnership on Innovative SMEs-Innowwide
  • EUREKA Network Projects
  • Globalstars
  • InvestHorizon – Investment Readiness Programme.

Since 1985, the Eureka Network has been supporting R&D and the commercialization of thousands of innovative products, processes and services that positively impact societies around the world.

Funding

In Portugal, the national participation in EUREKA projects has been funded through Portugal 2020 Notices for Projects and Industrial R&D projects on a European Scale.

• Read Notice 14/SI/2021

Eureka Calls (open / planned):

European Partnership on Innovative SMEs - Eurostars 3: January 12th, until March 14th

Eureka Clusters:

• ITEA Call: Opens September 2024 until November 2024 (prediction)
  
  
• CELTIC NEXT: Spring Call 2024
  - November 13th 2023 until May 3rd 2024 
  
  
• Eurogia Call: Call 25
  - January 2nd - March 24th 2024
  
  
• SMART Call: Call 7
  - Submission Deadline for PO: January 18th 2024 - 11AM CET
  - Submission Deadline for FPP: April 28th 2024 - 11AM CET
  
  
• XECS Clusters: Call 3
  - Submission Deadline for PO: January 18th 2024 - 5PM CET
  - Submission Deadline for FPP: April 28th 2024

Eureka-Globalstars Projects:

• Call for projects with Brazil: October 2nd 2023 until May 16th 2024 - 6PM BRT / 10PM CET
  

Learn more about how Eureka might support your organization.

• Learn about the EUREKA Network Instruments.
• Contact the Portuguese National Coordinator for EUREKA Projects and receive counselling on EUREKA programs, open calls and corresponding funding opportunities.

EUROSTARS/ EUROPEAN PARTNERSHIP ON INNOVATIVE SMEs

The EUROSTARS Programme is an European Partnership on Innovative SMEs instrument dedicated to the financing of international R&ID projects led by innovative SMEs in collaboration with large corporations, universities, research centres and other sorts of entities.

The European Partnership on Innovative SMEs also includes the Innowwide programme which funds technology or market feasibility projects in global markets.

It is the largest international funding programme for SMEs that intend to cooperate in R&ID projects towards the development of new products, processes or innovative services for commercialization.

By participating in a Eurostars project, organizations from 37 countries might access public funding for their R&ID projects in international consortia, covering all technological areas.

In addition to the member-states of the European Union, third countries to Horizon Europe, as well a non-european countries (South Africa, Canada, South Korea and Singapore) will also take part in this programme, with their own public funding.

Eurostars is a competitive programme that has a 29% application approval rate.

The submission processes for Eurostars applications is centralized and the evaluation criteria are strict and transparent.

Next EUROSTARS Call:

• cut-off 6: Open on January 12th, until March 14th
• cut-off 7: Open on July 12th, until September 12th - 1PM Portugal Time

Find out more about the call here.

More information on the EUROSTARS/European Partnership on Innovative SMEs programme.

Learn more about application submission.

Contact the Portuguese National Coordinator of EUREKA Projects and EUROSTARS, who may support you in finding potential international partners and national funding sources.