Product development grant Eurostars
Eurostars is an activity under the European Partnership on Innovative SMEs within the European Horizon partnership. You can find more information about partnerships here.
Within the Eurostars framework, we support international product development projects that have received a positive evaluation from the international innovation cooperation network Eureka.
Eureka application rounds occur twice a year, the next deadline for submitting joint projects is 13 March 2025 at 14:00 CEST.
Who is the main target of the grant?
- For small and medium-sized enterprises wishing to carry out a product development project with at least one partner from a Eurostars country.
- The Eurostars project application is submitted jointly with partners on the Eurostars IT platform.
- The costs related to projects of companies that have received a positive decision in the Eureka Eurostars program are funded by Enterprise Estonia.
What is the grant for?
What will change in my company?
Increased added value of the product
More international cooperation
Increased competitiveness
Eurostars project conditions
A joint application by project partners is submitted to the innovation cooperation network Eureka within the framework of the Eurostars program, which organises the evaluation of projects. Projects that receive a positive funding decision are financed by the home countries of the respective project partners.
Come for a consultation
We offer advice and support in the project preparation phase.
Get in touch:
Sandra Kaljumäe
[email protected]
+372 53003863
Find necessary partners
To receive funding, your company must have at least one business or product development partner from a country participating in the Eurostars program.
Submit an application to Eureka
The application consists of:
- Project application (including an overview of the project, partners, work packages),
- Financial statements,
- Mandatory appendices declaring interest in participating in the project and the SME declaration,
- Optional appendices: technical appendix and Gantt chart. These aim to provide more information about the project application than the official application form allows.
- Submit a joint application with a partner on the Eureka Project Management Platform.
The deadline for submitting applications for the next round of Eurostars is 13 March 2025, at 14:00 CET.
Evaluation of the application at Eureka
The entire application evaluation process can take up to 16 weeks.
The content of the application is evaluated by three experts and in the second stage by a panel of experts.
- Within one week after the application submission deadline, Eureka conducts a compliance assessment of Eurostars projects.
- Seven weeks after the application submission deadline, Eureka informs applicants whether their project has passed the first evaluation stage, including legal and financial capacity checks.
- 13 weeks after the application submission deadline, the Eureka Secretariat informs whether the project has met the threshold and is submitted to the funding agencies of the partner countries for approval.
Eureka confirmation
16 weeks after the application submission deadline, the Eureka Secretariat will announce whether the project will be funded, i.e. whether the partner countries are ready to finance the project partners.
Project funding
In Estonia, Enterprise Estonia organises the funding of Estonian companies that have received a positive decision in the Eurostars program.
If your application has received a positive funding decision, you can proceed to implement your project with your partners.
If the project is approved by Eureka, the lead partner must submit a signed consortium agreement to Eureka within 6 weeks.
- Once the project is approved by Eureka, we await the Estonian company’s funding application to Enterprise Estonia. All project partners receive funding from their home country.
- The exact conditions for funding are in the regulation of the Minister of Entrepreneurship and Information Technology “Supporting the international cooperation in research and development and innovation of enterprises.“
Reporting
Project interim reports must be submitted once every 6 calendar months.
The deadlines for submitting reports are in the funding decision.
The reports are submitted through the structural funds e-toetus environment.
Project stages
A joint application by project partners is submitted to the innovation cooperation network Eureka within the framework of the Eurostars program, which organises the evaluation of projects. Projects that receive a positive funding decision are financed by the home countries of the respective project partners.
We offer advice and support in the project preparation phase.
Get in touch:
Sandra Kaljumäe
[email protected]
+372 53003863
To receive funding, your company must have at least one business or product development partner from a country participating in the Eurostars program.
The application consists of:
- Project application (including an overview of the project, partners, work packages),
- Financial statements,
- Mandatory appendices declaring interest in participating in the project and the SME declaration,
- Optional appendices: technical appendix and Gantt chart. These aim to provide more information about the project application than the official application form allows.
- Submit a joint application with a partner on the Eureka Project Management Platform.
The deadline for submitting applications for the next round of Eurostars is 13 March 2025, at 14:00 CET.
The entire application evaluation process can take up to 16 weeks.
The content of the application is evaluated by three experts and in the second stage by a panel of experts.
- Within one week after the application submission deadline, Eureka conducts a compliance assessment of Eurostars projects.
- Seven weeks after the application submission deadline, Eureka informs applicants whether their project has passed the first evaluation stage, including legal and financial capacity checks.
- 13 weeks after the application submission deadline, the Eureka Secretariat informs whether the project has met the threshold and is submitted to the funding agencies of the partner countries for approval.
16 weeks after the application submission deadline, the Eureka Secretariat will announce whether the project will be funded, i.e. whether the partner countries are ready to finance the project partners.
In Estonia, Enterprise Estonia organises the funding of Estonian companies that have received a positive decision in the Eurostars program.
If your application has received a positive funding decision, you can proceed to implement your project with your partners.
If the project is approved by Eureka, the lead partner must submit a signed consortium agreement to Eureka within 6 weeks.
- Once the project is approved by Eureka, we await the Estonian company’s funding application to Enterprise Estonia. All project partners receive funding from their home country.
- The exact conditions for funding are in the regulation of the Minister of Entrepreneurship and Information Technology “Supporting the international cooperation in research and development and innovation of enterprises.“
Project interim reports must be submitted once every 6 calendar months.
The deadlines for submitting reports are in the funding decision.
The reports are submitted through the structural funds e-toetus environment.
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