Eureka Network Lightweighting Technologies 2024-25 Call for Proposals

• One application form per consortium, in English
• Partner form for consortium members
• GANTT chart
• Signed and completed co-signature form
• Any additional required annexes

Who is eligible?

• Organisations participating in a Network projects consortium
• Consortia must include at least two independent legal entities from a minimum of two Eureka participating countries
• Organisations from non-participating countries may join if public or self-funding is secured by the call deadline

Who is not eligible

• Walloon partners without an operating establishment in Wallonia
• Walloon companies in difficulty or without a healthy financial situation
• Projects that have already received public funding
• In Türkiye, higher education institutions, public research centers and institutes, education and research hospitals, and research infrastructures covered by Law No. 6550 cannot apply independently
• Large companies with more than 2,000 full-time equivalent employees are not eligible for public funding in France

Eligible expenses

• Personnel costs, including researchers, technicians, administrators, and managers
• Operating costs and general overhead costs
• Equipment, materials, software, and consumables used for the project
• Subcontracting, consultancy, and other services
• Travel costs

Eligible geographic areas

• Belgium (Flanders)
• Belgium (Wallonia)

• Impact: market size, access and risks, value creation, competitive advantages, and commercialisation plans
• Excellence: degree of innovation, technological maturity and risk, use of new knowledge, and technical achievability
• Quality and efficiency of implementation: consortium quality, added value through international cooperation, project management, and cost structure
• Overall perception: experts list positive and negative points and recommend whether the project should receive public funding

• Contact your national funding body to discuss your project idea, financial viability, eligibility, and national procedures.
• Create an account on the application portal and select the funding opportunity you want to apply to.
• Complete one application form per consortium in English and invite the other consortium partners to fill in a partner form.
• Upload the GANTT chart, the signed and completed co-signature form, and any additional required annexes.
• Your application will be checked for completeness and eligibility before being reviewed using a standard evaluation procedure, and a successful project will receive a Eureka label.
• Your national funding body may carry out a further evaluation according to national rules before allocating funds, and the final step is to complete and sign a consortium agreement.

• Applications are checked for completeness and eligibility.
• Applications are reviewed using a standard evaluation procedure.
• Successful projects receive a Eureka label.
• National funding bodies may carry out further evaluation according to national rules before allocating funds.
• The final step is to complete and sign a consortium agreement before project start.

• A consortium agreement must be signed before project start.
• The project cannot have received public funding already.
• Projects are submitted in parallel to Eureka and ONTIME.
• A French-language funding request to SPW Recherche is mandatory for Walloon applicants.