Eureka Eligibility criteria
Eureka has limited eligibility criteria for organisations participating in a Network projects 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 two Eureka countries.
- No single organisation or country can be responsible for more than 70% of the project budget.
National/regional eligibility criteria
This call for projects has additional national criteria for organisations to be eligible to receive funding.
Organisations/Companies are strongly advised, prior to submitting the application, to contact their national/ regional authority to check the eligibility of your joint project.
Please check the Eureka Danube Call Website and the Call Text (in particular the section “Funding conditions and rules per national funding body”) for detailed information.
Apply
- Contact your national funding body using the contact form on Eureka’s website to discuss your project idea, financial viability, eligibility and national procedures.
- Create an account on our application portal (one per consortium) https://eureka.smartsimple.ie/s_Login.jsp and select the funding opportunity you want to apply to. NOTE: During the information session on 5 April 2022, the Eureka Experts will answer all questions you might have related to submission to smartsimple Platform.
- Using the portal, complete one application form per consortium (in English) and invite other consortium partners to fill in a partner form.
- 4. Your project application must be completed online by 30 June 2022 17:00 CET.
- Upload a GANTT chart (one per consortium), a signed and completed co-signature form (which you can download from the platform) and any additional required annexes.
- Your application will be checked for completeness and eligibility before being reviewed using a standard evaluation procedure. If successful, your project will receive a Eureka label.
- If required by your national funding body, you must submit a related national funding application – taking into account all relevant national procedures and submission rules. Submission deadlines might differ between the participating national funding bodies.
- Your national funding body may carry out a further evaluation (performed by the National Project Coordinator and technical experts) according to national rules before allocating funds to successful applicants.
- The final step is to complete and sign a consortium agreement (CA). We recommend that you seek legal advice when drafting your CA.
For detailed information on national rules and application procedures please see section “Funding conditions and rules per national funding body” in the call text.
Evaluation
Your project application will be reviewed according to our Network projects evaluation methodology.
Overall evaluation
Impact
- Is the market properly addressed (i.e. size, access and risks)?
- Is the value creation properly addressed (i.e. employment opportunities and environmental and societal benefits)?
- What are the competitive advantages of your project (i.e. strategic importance, enhanced capabilities and visibility)?
- Are your commercialisation plans clear and realistic (i.e. return on investment, geographical and sectoral impact)?
Excellence
- What is the degree of innovation? (i.e. is the proposed product, process or service state-of-the-art? Is there sufficient technological maturity and risk)?
- How is the new knowledge going to be used?
- Is your project scientifically and technically challenging for consortium partners?
- Is the technical achievability and risk properly addressed?
Quality and efficiency of implementation
- What is the quality of your consortium (i.e. balance of the partnership and technological, managerial and financial capabilities of each partner)?
- Is there added value through international cooperation?
- Is your project management and planning realistic and clearly defined (i.e. methodology, planning approach, milestones and deliverables)?
- Is your cost structure reasonable (i.e. costs and financial commitment for each consortium partner)
Overall perception
Experts will list three positive and negative points to your application and finally state whether they recommend your project for public investment.
Your national funding body may carry out a further evaluation (performed by the national project coordinator and technical experts) according to national rules before allocating funds to successful applicants (see section “Funding conditions and rules per national funding body” for detailed information).
National evaluation
Your project application will be reviewed according to the following additional national evaluation processes:
- Albania: The evaluation of the Albanian project part is carried out by internal experts at NASRI.
- Austria: The evaluation of the Austrian project part is carried out by internal experts at FFG.
- Croatia: A formal 2-step evaluation is carried out according to the basic admin criteria and Project Assessment Methodology.
- France: A formal two-steps evaluation is carried out between the Innovative Departement of Bpifrance and the regional offices of the company. Bpifrance could conduct a first “pre-eligibility check” as soon as the company contact the team before submitting the application. Once the application is submitted, Bpifrance will first evaluate the technical project, if the project is approved, Bpifrance will open a national founding application. Once the national funding application is submitted, the regional relationship manager will evaluate the project and decide of the type of funding and amount based on the company typology and the project. For further details, please see “Funding conditions and rules per national funding body”
- Germany: A formal two-step evaluation is carried out according to the evaluation process and criteria published in the German Bundesanzeiger.
- Montenegro: The Ministry of Economic Development will engage two independent experts from the List of Independent Experts made in accordance with the Rulebook on Criteria for Appointing Experts and the Procedure for Evaluating Innovation Programs and Projects ("Official Gazette of Montenegro", No. 107/21). In case the evaluations of two independent experts differ, the Ministry will submit the project application to the third independent evaluator for individual evaluation.
- Poland: evaluation criteria of national applications will be available on 1 March at : https://www.gov.pl/web/ncbr/platforma-konkursowa#/ncbr?sort=announcementDate,desc¤tPage=0&limit=10
