• Access EU innovation funding

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• H2020
• SME instrument
• Fast Track to Innovation
• Eurostars

Eurostars

What is Eurostars?

Eurostars is the first European funding and support programme for innovative small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) across all sectors.

The programme provides funding for market-orientated research and development produced by SMEs.  The Eurostars Programme encourages international collaborative research and innovation project by helping to ease access to support and funding.

Eurostars takes a 'bottom up' approach to project generation.  Projects can address any technological area and should be aimed at the development of a new product, process or service.

Eurostars eligibility

• A Eurostars project is collaborative, meaning it must involve at least two participants from two different Eurostars member countries
• The lead partner must be an R&D performing SME (10% of turnover or 10% of staff time dedicated to R&D activities)
• The consortium should be well balanced, which means that no participant or country will be required to invest more than 75% of the total project costs
• R&D performing SMEs have to undertake at least 50% of the total R&D project costs
• Project duration if 36 months or less
• Market introduction is foreseen within 2 years after the project has ended, with the exception of biomedical or medical projects where clinical trials must be started within two years of project completion

UK specific criteria

• Academics/universities and large companies are welcome to participate in a Eurostars project but must fund their own participation or use funds from other sources
• UK participants are eligible for up to 60% funding on eligible costs, with a maximum grant level per UK participant of €360,000
• Companies must be trading for over 12 months
• Eurostars is open for funding applications on a continuous basis, with an average of two application submission deadlines each year.

Eurostars is a joint programme between EUREKA and the European Commission, co-funded from the national budgets of 34 Eurostars Participataing States and Partner Countries and by the EU under Horizon 2020.  In the 2014-2020 period it has a total public budget of €1.14billion.

The next deadline for submissions is 17th September 2016 20:00 Brussels time. For further information, visit https://www.eurostars-eureka.eu/ or contact Ken Gordon ken.gordon@scotent.co.uk