General qualification criteria
Partners must meet the following qualifications:
- The consortium should include at least two companies that are independent from each other, one company for Singapore and one company from one of the EUREKA member countries participating in the call.
- The project partners must express their will to cooperate on a win-win/fair basis in an R&D project leading to a new product, industrial process or service.
- The product, process or service must be innovative, and there must be a technological risk involved for all involved partners.
- The project must benefit all involved partners.
- The project should have an obvious benefit and added value resulting from the technological cooperation between the participants from the different countries (e.g. increased knowledge base, commercial leads, access to R&D infrastructure etc.).
- A signed consortium agreement is required upon approval, before the actual start of the project. It ought to include, amongst others, the ownership and use of know-how and IPR settlements
- The maximum duration of a project may not exceed 36 months.
- Proposals which are backed by actual customers for commercialisation will be favourably considered.
- No individual organisation, or individual country, can claim more than 70% of the total eligible costs of a joint project.
- Military projects are excluded.
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/regional Authority (see below) 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 bodies in this call. Subsequently, these partners have to secure their own funding within the deadlines for this call.
Denmark
Innovation Fund Denmark (IFD) can fund industrial research and experimental development according to the General Terms and Conditions for International Projects here.
Maximum funding per Danish project partner is €300.000. If two or more Danish partners participate in one project the maximum funding for all partners is €500.000. The total call budget is approxematly €1 mio. We expect to be able to fund 2-3 projects. At least one of the Danish partners per project must be a private enterprise.
Danish applicants must no later than two weeks after the deadline for submission the 26th September 2019 register in the national e-grant system. We invite Danish partners to contact us for a pre-check of their project ideas and for the financial assessment of the participating SMEs.
Stage 1: EUREKA application
The coordinator of the international consortium must download and complete the EUREKA project application form on behalf of the entire consortium. The completed electronic form, including the required annexes, should be sent to globalstars@eurekanetwork.org by 11:59pm Central European Summer Time with the following subject: EUREKA GlobalStars Singapore 2019.
EUREKA Project Form
- The project consortium should fill out the project description in the ‘EUREKA Project Form’ (an electronic form available on http://www.eurekanetwork.org/ eureka-project-application-form). The form must be completed in English.
- For this call specific instruction for filling out the 'EUREKA Project Form’ is available (see Section A of the call text). The project consortium is strongly advised to follow this instruction and describe all necessary elements in the form as requested. You can contact your EUREKA national office to get support preparing the document (see below for detailed information per funding agency in section 4)
A separate version of the application form with all signatures of the project partners should be added as integral part of the application.
A Project plan: Additionally, the project consortium has to fill out the ‘Additional project info”. See Annex B of this call text.
Stage 2: National applications
In parallel to the submission of the EUREKA project form, all project partners are required to submit a related funding application, if required, to their respective funding bodies, taking into account all relevant procedures and submission rules. Deadline for submission might differ between the participating funding bodies (see below for detailed information per funding agency)
All Danish participants in an applicants must individually register in our national e-grant portal and upload the application with annexes no later than two weeks after application deadline the 26. September 2019
Stage 3: International and national evaluation
All applications are assessed against the eligibility criteria of the call before being put forward for the national assessments according to the national evaluation criteria.
Danish applications will be evaluated by external EUREKA experts and internal Scientific Officers.
Stage 4: national funding decision
Funding will only be provided to labelled projects that are positively evaluated by all participating funding bodies, taking the common ranking list into account. Funding of project partners is subjected to budgetary availability and national funding conditions stipulated by each funding body.
All project partners are notified of the funding decisions by their respective national funding bodies.
Any IPR arising from cooperative project activities under this call shall be regulated in a Consortium Agreement (CA) in accordance with the relevant laws of the countries participating in the project.
A signed CA on the execution of the project and commercialisation of the projects results is mandatory for selected projects and must be send to the relevant national funding agencies no later than 3 months after the results of the evaluation has been communicated. The project start can in any case not be prior to the approval of the signed CA.
The Netherlands' Chair invite all potential applicants to learn more about the call and pitch their project ideas through a webinar on August 13 at 10.00-13.00hrs (CET) Join here.
Innovation Fund Denmark
Senior Consultant, Mr. Jens Peter Vittrup
Email: jens.peter.vittrup@innofund.dk
Phone: +45 6190 5023
