After the launch of the urgent Eureka initiative associated with the Covid-19 Virus, the call has been divided into two calls for project grants: Eureka Covid-19 Call and Eureka Post Covid-19 Call.
EUREKA Covid-19 call
Eureka's first call was designed to support projects that respond to the needs derived from the current Covid-19 situation and closed its application deadline last Friday, May 15.
EUREKA Post Covid-19 Call
The second Eureka Post Covid-19 call has as its main objective respond to the future challenges of facing new situations of diseases with a high degree of contagion and impact on human beings. Both calls are designed so that proposals are led by companies. However, they are not the only type of actors or entities that can be presented, this will depend on the national aid tools that each of the countries uses to support the projects. In the case of CDTI, for Spanish projects, one of the following grants can be obtained:
Type of grant: both companies and technology centers can be beneficiaries, with the possibility of outsourcing from other entities as well. Type of credit: in this case, they can support companies (of any size). Technology centers and universities must participate in the project as subcontractors or assume the self-financing of their partition. Grants in the form of credit are both the line of R&D projects and that of innovation.
Learn more about the Eureka Post Covid-19 Call
The projects submitted to this call must be projects that may be on the market in the medium term, therefore, will be accepted proposals with a duration of between 1 and 3 years.Los countries participating in this call and with which a bilateral or multilateral project can be carried out are: Belgium, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, the Netherlands, Sweden and other countries outside the euro region such as Turkey, Canada and South Africa.
What is the deadline for submitting the Eureka Post Covid-19 Call?
The deadline for applying for the call ends on July 15 for the Eureka portal. However, Spanish partners participating in the project must register the proposal with CDTI before July 15, since this type of Eureka proposal has 2 levels: the level of request for national aid and the level of international request.It is estimated that the funding will be resolved in mid-November 2020.If you are interested in learning more about the Eureka Post Covid-19 Call you can consult the databases published by the CDTI. You can also review a database developed by EEN that connects partners with their own ideas or other entities that want to participate in projects that deal with Covid-19.Finally, we recommend that you also take a look at our latest articles on Covid-19 aid, such as:COVID-19 GrantsThe ICO launches a proposal to mitigate the effects of Covid-19Exceptional Government measures to deal with Covid-19
