Research
Funding organisation:
Agentschap Innoveren en Ondernemen
What?
VLAIO allocates funding for Flemish organisations collaborating on international R&D projects in the field of lightweighting via the EUREKA call for R&D lightweight technology projects.
To be targeted by lightweighting technologies, they must
- Optimise energy and resource efficiency: Increased energy and resource efficiency is necessary for creating sustainable success environmentally, economically and socially.
- Create sustainable value circles: Circular solutions based on smart lightweight design and a technology for production and materials usually provide immediate results in terms of reduced carbon dioxide emissions.
- Bolster lightweight integration in more areas: Through determined efforts to integrate lightweighting in more contexts than in the automotive, aviation and sipping industries, circular solutions can get a big boost in significantly more areas, such as construction, agriculture, forestry and energy.
Lightweighting technologies to be researched and developed include (but are not limited to):
- Joining technology in multi-material design
- Optimization of (multi material) design approaches
- Lightweighting through functional integration
- Additive manufacturing
- Novel lightweight materials, including optimised manufacturing
- Life cycle assessment / circular economy
Projects should address at least one of the fields mentioned in the call description and demonstrate the potential to research or develop a product, process or service for commercialisation.
Companies based in Flanders can apply for grant funding via a development project and receive up to 50% of the eligible project costs, up to a maximum amount of 500,000 euro per project. Staff and other costs can be funded with a 25% to 50% subsidy of the project budget, with a minimum budget equivalent to support of 25,000 euro.
Hasselt University can not receive funding without the participation of a Flemish company.
Who?
Eureka has limited eligibility criteria for organisations participating in a Network projects consortium:
- project ideas must represent international cooperation in the form of a specific project.
- projects must be directed at researching or developing an innovative product, process or service with the goal of commercialisation
- projects must have a civilian purpose
- a consortium must include at least two independent legal entities from a minimum of two Eureka countries
- no single organisation or country can be responsible for more than 70% of the project budget
Additional criteria for organisations for this call:
- projects must benefit all involved partners
- projects should have an obvious benefit and added value resulting from the technological cooperation between the participants from the different countries (e.g., increased knowledge base, commercial leads, access to R&D infrastructure etc.)
- The product or process must be innovative and with the potential to create impact.
- The maximum duration of a project may not exceed 36 months.
- A signed consortium agreement is required upon approval, before the actual start of the project. It ought to include, amongst other things, the ownership and use of know-how and IPR settlements
Application?
Application has to be done
Deadline for both applications: 25 April 2023
More information bout the EUREKA application you can find
here.
You can find more information about this call
on the
VLAIO - websiteon the
EUREKA - website Please contact
research@uhasselt.be if you want to apply.
Deadline intern
14.04.2023, 25.04.2023
E-mail sarah.szyr@uhasselt.be
Tel. +3211269052