VLAIO - EUREKA call for R&D lightweight technology projects

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 

• to EUREKA via their application portal
• to VLAIO: the application must also be registered via the online portal of VLAIO by 25 April 2023, via the instructions you can find here.
  After registration with your eID you receive (as main applicant) a link to your application to complete the proposal and to upload all necessary supporting documents. Please note that after submitting a part of the proposal, the data in this proposal cannot be modified anymore. Make sure that before submitting all parts that the budget is final and that everything in the online portal is consistent with the content of the completed templates.

  Only OBI is allowed to submit the part for the "kennisinstelling", as they have a mandate to do so.

Deadline for both applications: 25 April 2023

More information bout the EUREKA application you can find here.

More information?

You can find more information about this call 
on the VLAIO - website
on the EUREKA - website 

Please contact research@uhasselt.be if you want to apply.

Deadline intern

14.04.2023, 25.04.2023

Contact Hasselt University?

E-mail sarah.szyr@uhasselt.be

Tel. +3211269052