Submissions open for R&D Projects in France and South Korea

Scope

• This project call is for R&D projects in all thematic areas or application domains.

Funding Information

• France (Bpifrance) funding:
  • Participants from France can receive a loan of up to 3 million euro.
  • Companies with more than 2,000 full-time equivalent employees are not eligible for funding but can self-fund their project costs.
  • Research organisations and universities are not eligible for funding but can participate as subcontractors.
• South Korea (KIAT) funding:
  • Participants from South Korea can receive a grant of up to 500,000,000 South Korean won (approximately 305,716 euro with an exchange rate of ₩1.64/€1)

Eligibility Criteria

• Eureka has limited eligibility criteria for organisations participating in a Network Projects consortium:
  • Your project idea must represent international cooperation in the form of a specific project.
  • The project must be directed at researching or developing an innovative product, process or service with the goal of commercialisation.
  • The project must have a civilian purpose.
  • Your consortium must include at least one France-based company and one South Korea based company.
  • No single organisation or country can be responsible for more than 70% of the project budget.
• France (Bpifrance) eligibility:
  • The duration of your project may not exceed 36 months
  • Your project consortium must have at least one company.
  • All partners must express the will to cooperate and develop a new product, process, or service.
  • Your product, process, or service must be innovative and there must be a technological risk involved.
• South Korea (KIAT) eligibility:
  • Your project consortium must include at least one company (private enterprise). Research institutes and universities can also participate.
  • Korean companies should have been in operation for more than one year after establishment; government (Korea Industrial Technology Association).
  • Korean organisations must meet all eligibility criteria in accordance with local regulations.

Evaluation Criteria

• Impact:
  • Is the market properly addressed (i.e. size, access and risks)?
  • Is the value creation properly addressed (i.e. employment opportunities and environmental and societal benefits)?
• Excellence:
  • What is the degree of innovation? (i.e. is the proposed product, process or service stateof-the-art? Is there sufficient technological maturity and risk)?
  • How is the new knowledge going to be used?
• Quality and efficiency of implementation:
  • What is the quality of your consortium (i.e. balance of the partnership and technological, managerial and financial capabilities of each partner)?
  • Is there added value through international cooperation?
• Overall perception:
  • Experts will list three positive and negative points to your application and finally state whether they recommend your project for public investment.

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