EUREKA Eurostars 3 – Call 8

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The project duration is 36 months or less.
French funding body, Bpifrance, funds R&D costs for SMEs participating in Eurostars programme.

Funding conditions :

– If you are a SME : As a French SME (companies with fewer than 250 full time equivalent employees), you could receive a grant covering up to 40% of your project costs.

– If you are a large company : Bpifrance covers up to 30% of project costs in grants for large companies with fewer than 2,000 full time equivalent employees.
France currently has no allocated budget for large companies with more than 2,000 full time equivalent employees participating in the Eurostars programme.

– If you are a research organisation or university : Bpifrance covers up to up to 40% of project costs in grants.
The maximum funding amount is a grant of 120,000 euro per participant if there is a French SME in your consortium OR a grant of 50,000 euros per participant if there are no French SMEs in your consortium.

To apply, you must fulfill seven 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 from one another.
– The project consortium is composed of entities from at least two Eurostars countries with a minimum of one organisation 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 has an exclusive focus on civil applications.

French companies must confirm that they can finance their part of the project (with e.g. equity capital or funds raised).