Eurostars - 2

• R&D performing SME as project leader
• Project partnership between SMEs, universities and research centres
• Project contains at least two legal entities, independent of one another 

• Personnel costs
• Travel
• Materials (consumables)
• Other (depreciation equipment, land use)
• Subcontracting (limited %)
• Overheads (20%)

Eurostars Participating State and Eureka FULL Member: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

Eurostars Partner country (3): Canada, South Africa and South Korea 

• Industrial research
• Experimental development

• Depending on national rules, i.e. between 40% - 80%
   

• Innovative, marketable new product, process or service 

• Projects must be completed in less than 36 months after the project start
• Market introduction (or start of clinical trials) must be planned within 24 months of the project`s completion

example project PARTNERSHIP and BUDGET

• SME lead participant (Slovenia, co-funding up to 50%)
• Large company as partner (Spain, co-funding up to 40%)
• Research centre as partner (Austria, co-funding up to 40%)

= 1 million in average