EUREKA open call for Switzerland-Russia R&D projects

Eureka is an intro-governmental network providing a platform for international R&D&L cooperation, promotes and supports market-oriented international R&D&L projects and facilitates access to finance for companies involved in innovation projects. As member states of Eureka, Switzerland and the Russian Federation have jointly launched the Eureka call for R&D project outlines.

The goal of the EUREKA call is to help projects find partnering opportunities, give recommendations on suitable fundraising mechanisms and provide guidance on how to prepare a high-quality proposal and on how to apply for funding in a second phase.

The Call is open for all topics, but focuses on the development of products and services within the fields of Electronics (micro- and nanoelectronics; microwave technology, photonics), and Medicine (biochemistry, bioengineering; medical equipment).

Applications can be submitted until 31. march 2018. Eligible to apply are startups and innovative companies, researchers and universities, high-tech entrepreneurs and inventors. These must fulfil the following criteria:

•  The consortium should include at least one company from each country. Other organisations such as research institutes and universities are welcome as additional participants.

• The project must create an obvious advantage and added value resulting from the cooperation between the participants from the two countries, for instance, increased knowledge base, commercial leads, access to R&D infrastructure etc. (Developments for military applications are excluded from this call.)

• The project should demonstrate the contribution of the participants from both countries in a balanced way, and the project must be significant to both countries.

Accepted proposals will receive funding to launch their project. The funding support will be given to each partner of approved projects by its own funding organization (Ministry of Education and Science, Industrial Development Fund and Russian Investment Agency in Russia, and Innosuisse in Switzerland) in accordance with the national laws, regulations and procedures in effect.

About the Eureka initiative
It’s an intro-governmental network established in 1985. Switzerland and the Russian Federation are member states of the EUREKA initiative and support cooperative innovation projects through the different EUREKA instruments. Both countries collaborate continuously with all EUREKA member states and support all innovation topics as EUREKA is by nature bottom-up and focused mainly on the innovation activities of companies.

The official partner of the Call is InnMind - an international platform that connects startups, investors and industry leaders. The Call is managed by the Swiss EUREKA Project Office, located at the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) and by the EUREKA Project Office of the Russian Federation in the field of electronics, located at the Moscow Technological University "MIREA", in line with the EUREKA initiative.

Innmind  is the official online platform to apply for the grant

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