EUREKA's EUROSTARS call 11 now open
As the world’s largest SME R&D funding program, Eurostars supports the creation of innovative products, processes, and services for commercialization...... Read More
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Start Date: 9 July 2026, 12:00 AM CEST
End Date: 10 September 2026, 2:00 PM CEST
Eurostars Call 11 for projects – an international funding program for collaborative research and development (R&D) projects led by innovative small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). As the world’s largest SME R&D funding program, Eurostars supports the creation of innovative products, processes, and services for commercialization. Applicants can use Eurostars to access public funding for international R&D projects. The program has some unique features:
Work with international partners to strengthen your R&D
Reduce the risk of your R&D
Develop new business relationships
Access international markets
Be guided from idea to commercialisation with advice and support from a network of national project coordinators
Eurostars provides funding to international R&D projects. Projects must be led by an SME or startup from a Eurostars country or region, and the project consortium must also include at least one other independent organization from another Eurostars country. Partners in the consortium can include any type of organization. Eurostars funding comes from National Funding Bodies, which are ministries or funding agencies in each Eurostars country or region, and from the European Commission. National Funding Bodies determine how much funding is available, the funding rate per type of company, and which activities are eligible based on national rules.
Who can apply
Your project must meet specific criteria to be eligible for Eurostars funding:
The project consortium must be led by an innovative SME from a Eurostars country.
The project consortium must be composed of at least two entities that are independent from each other.
The project consortium must be composed of entities from at least two Eurostars countries. At least one of those countries must be an EU or Horizon Europe Associated Country.
The budget of the SMEs from the Eurostars countries (excluding any subcontracting) is 50% or more of the total project cost.
No single participant or country in the project can be responsible for more than 70% of the project’s budget.
The project must have a duration of 36 months or less.
The project must be exclusively focused on civil applications.
The Eurostars program uses a decentralised funding methodology. That means that organizations do not receive public funding from the Eureka Network. Instead, they receive funding directly from National Funding Bodies. This funding is granted according to national rules and procedures. Large companies, universities, research organisations and other partners may participate if they meet the rules, but whether they receive grant funding depends on national or regional rules. Organisations from non-Eurostars countries may participate only by self-funding their project costs. Make sure that you and your project partners contact your National Funding Body to understand what national rules and procedures apply. You can find these rules, and contact details for National Funding bodies, in each call for projects.
Please read all the guidelines before submitting a project application. If you do not meet all our eligibility criteria, your application will be rejected. Detailed guidelines on making an application, and the evaluation process, are available in the resource library at https://www.eurekanetwork.org/programmes-and-calls/eurostars/eurostars-resource-library/
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