EUREKA Globalstars Cooperation with India

Research institutions and companies have the opportunity to submit applications in line with Innosuisse rules, together with consortium partners from India. Evaluations will take place in all countries participating in a given project and funded according to country specific rules.

Call Deadline for EUREKA and national applications: 30 June 2020

All information on Call scope and country rules are listed in detail in the Call document EUREKA Globalstars India. Innosuisse has secured the support our EEN office to support partner searches as well as Swissnex India, to help with the Call promotion (see contacts below)

International eligibility criteria:

• The consortium should include at least, one Indian organisation and one (for profit) company from any of the EUREKA participating countries in this call. The participation of research institutes and universities is welcome according to each country’s funding regulations. Bilateral consortia (one Indian and one EUREKA member state partner) are eligible, but multilateral consortia (Indian partner with partners from multiple EUREKA member states) are warmly welcomed as well.
• Project partners from other EUREKA countries can participate, but they will not be funded by the participating funding bodies in this call. Subsequently, these partners have to secure their own funding within the deadlines for this call.
• The project partners must express their will to cooperate, on a win-win/fair basis in the research and development of a new product, process or service.
• The project must benefit all project partners in a well-balanced consortium.
• The project must have a civilian purpose.
• The project should have an obvious advantage and added value resulting from the technological cooperation between the project partners from the different countries (e.g. increased knowledge base, commercial leads, access to R&D infrastructure etc.).
• In the project activities there must be technological risk involved.
• The product, process or service must be innovative and with the potential to create impact.
• The duration of the project may not exceed 36 months.

On national level additional eligibility criteria may apply. Applicants are strongly advised to inform national contact point of their intention to submit a proposal and check if additional national eligibility criteria are applicable. Partners are strongly advised, prior to submitting the application, to contact the national/regional Authority and check the eligibility of their project.

Partners from other EUREKA countries or countries outside of EUREKA can also participate, but they will not be funded by the participating funding bodies in this call. Subsequently, these partners have to secure their own funding within the deadlines for this call.

General Submission procedure

In In order to apply for this GlobalStars call the following documents are mandatory:

a. Eureka Project Form

b. Annex GlobalStars India Project Plan

c. Document with scanned signatures

The project consortium should fill out the project description in the ‘Eureka Project Form’ (an electronic form available on http://www.eurekanetwork.org/eureka-project-application-form). The form must be completed in English. A specific instruction for filling out the 'Eureka Project Form’ for this call is available (see Annex A of the call text).

Additionally the project consortium has to fill out the ‘Annex GlobalStars Project Plan”. This document can be found in annex B of this call text.

A separate version of Eureka Project Form with the signatures of all project partners should be added as an integral part of the application.

The completed Eureka Project Form, annex and document with all signatures should be sent to [email protected] before June 30, 2020, 17:00 (CET) at the latest, indicating in the subject line “GlobalStars India Call 2020”.

Parallel to the submission of the Eureka Project Form and annexes, all project partners are required to submit a related national funding application to their respective national funding bodies.

Swiss consortia submit a national funding application via: Innosuisse Analytics along with an attached EUREKA application form.

More information:

• Innosuisse webpage
• EUREKA webpage
• Call text
• Annex GlobalStars India Project Plan
• EUREKA Project Form

Contacts:

• Call information: Colette John-Grant ([email protected])
• Partner search: Katrin Rüegg ([email protected])
• Swissnex India: Sebastien Hug, Consulate General of Switzerland ([email protected])