Call for Proposals: Eurostars Joint Transnational Funding Program

By participating, organisations can access public funding for international collaborative R&D projects in all fields.

Funding Information

• Total funding available: 70 963 833,00 €
• The amount of funding your organisation receives when you participate in a project is managed by your national funding body. Funding rules vary from country to country and your national funding body decides:
  • which organisations can receive funding,
  • which project activities can be funded and
  • funding rates.

Eligibility Criteria

• To apply, you must fulfil seven international eligibility criteria:
  • The project consortium is led by an innovative SME from a Eurostars country.
  • The project consortium is composed of at least two entities that are independent of one another.
  • The project consortium is composed of entities from at least two Eurostars countries with at least one organisation coming from an EU or Horizon Europe Associated Country.
  • The budget of the SMEs from the participating countries (excluding any subcontracting) is 50% or more of the total project cost.
  • No single participant or country is responsible for more than 70% of the budget of the project.
  • The project duration is 36 months or less.
  • The project has an exclusive focus on civil applications.

Evaluation Criteria

• Eurostars has a centralised and transparent evaluation for selecting projects to receive funding. Independent evaluators will score your project application against three criteria and their sub-criteria:
  • Quality and efficiency of the implementation:
    • Quality of the consortium.
    • Added value through cooperation.
    • Realistic and clearly defined project management and planning.
    • Reasonable cost structure.
  • Impact:
    • Market size.
    • Market access and risk.
    • Competitive advantage.
    • Clear and realistic commercialisation plans.
    • Economic, environmental, and societal impact. 
  • Excellence:
    • Degree of innovation.
    • New applied knowledge.
    • Level of technical challenge.
    • Technical achievability and risk.

For more information, visit European Commission.