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Eurostars (Eureka / European Partnership on Innovative SMEs)

Eurostars

Status

Closes in 155 days

Applications close 2027-03-04.

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Amount
Not published

There is no single Eurostars grant amount. Funding is decentralised: participants receive money 'directly from National Funding Bodies', and each national agency sets its own 'funding rate per type of company' and eligible costs. Applicants must check their National Funding Body's rules. Projects must run 36 months or less.

Funder

Eureka Network / European Partnership on Innovative SMEs, co-funded by Horizon Europe and by national funding bodies

ppp · supranational

Deadline: Fixed cut-off dates — Two cut-offs per year, typically March and September. Call 11 (deadline 10 September 2026) has closed. Eurostars Call 12 is open, deadline 4 March 2027, per eurekanetwork.org.

Your odds
20.0%

Published by the funder, Eurostars-3 (2021-2027), programme-level.

Source

Effort
major

Major bid — written case, budget, possibly partners.

Who can apply

Rules: 'The project consortium must be led by an innovative SME from a Eurostars country'; 'composed of at least two entities that are independent from each other'; participants from at least two Eurostars countries; 'The budget of the SMEs from the Eurostars countries (excluding any subcontracting) is 50% or more of the total project cost'; 'No single participant or country in the project can be responsible for more than 70% of the project's budget'; maximum duration 36 months; exclusively civil applications. Because money comes from national budgets, individual national awards may be granted under GBER or under de minimis - check the national body.

How to apply

  1. Build a consortium led by an innovative SME from a Eurostars country, with at least two independent entities from at least two Eurostars countries (one must be an EU or Horizon Europe Associated Country). — link
  2. Contact your National Funding Body to understand national funding rates, eligible costs and any national procedures before submitting. — link
  3. Submit the joint project application online by the cut-off date; central Eureka evaluation is followed by national funding decisions. — link

What you will need

Related reading: How grant deadlines actually work

Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://www.eurekanetwork.org/programmes-and-calls/eurostars/

"The project consortium must be led by an innovative SME from a Eurostars country. ... The budget of the SMEs from the Eurostars countries (excluding any subcontracting) is 50% or more of the total project cost."

Verified on 25 September 2026

Source: www.eurekanetwork.org

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