Eureka Network Projects

The Eureka Network Projects is a flexible funding programme for international R&D projects. This programme eases collaboration between organisations in Eureka countries and offers the freedom to design your project proposal and build your ideal consortium. We have various bilateral/multilateral CIP calls under the Eureka Network Projects (e.g. Singapore–Türkiye, Singapore–Republic of Korea, etc.).

The Network Projects also has an “Open Call” mechanism that allows projects to be submitted all year round. Singapore companies can submit projects through the Open Call, provided that the partner country is able to fund it too.

Eureka Resilience Call 2024

The Eureka Resilience Call is jointly administered by EnterpriseSG and 14 other funding agencies. This programme aims to encourage the development of ready-to-market solutions for products, technology-based services or methods that have strong commercial potential in the field(s) of disaster resilience, response and recovery.

Singapore companies keen to embark on joint innovation projects with any participating countries can now receive support by participating in the Eureka Resilience Call.

Participating countries include Austria, Belgium (Flanders & Wallonia), Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Lithuania, Singapore, South Korea, South Africa, Spain, Türkiye, United Kingdom.

Eureka Network is the world’s biggest public network for international cooperation in R&D and innovation, present in over 45 countries.

Eureka was established in 1985 as an agreement between 18 countries and the European Commission to foster competitiveness and market integration and to encourage R&D cooperation. Since then, it has expanded to include 47 countries (in Europe and beyond) who share the same goals and provide national funding to organisations to support international industry-led R&D and co-innovation.

The Eureka Resilience Call 2024 is led by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK), which is the funding agency of Türkiye.

The project consortium must involve at least one company from Singapore and one company from any participating country. All companies should be independent from each other. Each project partner should contribute no more than 70% of the total project contribution.

All Singapore companies must meet all of the following eligibility criteria in order to apply:

• Business entity registered and operating in Singapore
• Company has at least 30% local equity held directly or indirectly by Singaporean(s) and/or Singapore PR(s), determined by the ultimate individual ownership
• Company is financially ready to start and complete the project
• Companies must cooperate on a joint innovation project that will focus on developing innovative products and applications within civilian purposes.

Project requirements:

• Projects must target at least one type of disaster and have at least one clear and specific disaster-related application.
• Projects should aim to develop a product, process or service for commercialisation and the implementation of project results (such as market launch) should aim to occur no later than 24 months after project completion.
• Projects may develop fundamentally new innovations, or adapt, re-engineer and re-purpose existing innovations currently used or envisaged for different application areas. While the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) starting point will vary from one project to another, it is expected that projects will start no lower than TRL 4.

To submit an application, both Singapore companies and their foreign partner(s) have to submit a joint application through the Eureka SmartSimple platform.

In addition, Singapore companies must also complete the following procedures:

1. Fill in the preliminary assessment form here by 15 October 2024
2. Thereafter, when notified, submit the full application via the Business Grants Portal (BGP) by 31 October 2024, with the following documents:
   • Latest ACRA business profile (retrieved within six months from application date)
   • Applicant’s latest and previous two years audited financial statements (Company and Group level), or official management account
   • Supplementary Project Proposal Form (please find the template here)  
   • Relevant key quotations (e.g. equipment and software, materials and consumables, professional services)

*Concurrently, all foreign partner companies will have to adhere to the additional application requirements outlined by their respective countries’ funding agencies. Both agency-specific submissions and the Eureka SmartSimple applications have to be completed for the application to be considered complete.

For more information on each participating country’s funding criteria and application processes, please refer to the call document found on the Eureka webpage here.