Eurostars Call 12 for projects – deadline March 2027

• Signed commitment and signature form
• SME declaration, if the applicant is an SME
• Financial annex, depending on the country
• Self-funding declaration, if you are not eligible to receive public funding or do not request public funding

Who is eligible?

• Innovative SMEs in the leading role
• Large companies, universities, research organisations, and other types of organisations may participate as project partners

• Independent evaluators score applications on quality and efficiency of implementation, impact, and excellence.
• Quality and efficiency of implementation covers consortium quality, added value through cooperation, realistic project management and planning, and reasonable cost structure.
• Impact covers market size, market access and risk, competitive advantage, clear and realistic commercialisation plans, and economic, environmental, and societal impact.
• Excellence covers degree of innovation, new applied knowledge, level of technical challenge, and technical achievability and risk.
• Applications are considered for funding if they are among the best 200 projects evaluated by the remote experts, all project partners receive a positive Legal and Financial Viability outcome, and the Independent Evaluation Panel judges them excellent or good quality.

• Contact your national or regional funding body using the Eureka contact form to discuss your project idea, funding in your country, legal and financial viability, and eligibility.
• Create an account on the project platform, and have the innovative SME leading the consortium open the application and invite the other partners.
• Complete the application form in English on the platform and submit it electronically.
• Upload annexes to the online application form, including the signed commitment and signature form and, if you are an SME, the SME declaration.
• Add any required financial annex, and if you are not eligible to receive public funding or do not request public funding, add a self-funding declaration.
• Submit the completed application form before the deadline.

• The eligibility check is performed within one week of submission, and applications may be reassessed later if new information comes to light.
• The Legal and Financial Viability Check is mandatory and may disqualify applications based on issues such as incorrect SME status, incorrect legal establishment, financial difficulty, noncompliance with national rules, missing declarations, or insufficient financial capacity.
• Independent evaluators score the application, and the Independent Evaluation Panel then ranks the projects.
• Ethics review is carried out after the evaluation stages.
• If the application is rejected because of a procedural mistake, the consortium leader may submit a redress request on procedural grounds with clear evidence.