Special focus

Participants are invited to submit research and innovation project proposals aiming to provide short to medium-term responses to COVID-19 specific needs.

These may include (but are not limited to):

Infection prevention and protection

Sanitation technology

Diagnostics and testing

Therapeutics, vaccines and medicines

Disease-tracking technology, analytical solutions for health systems

Smart technology for COVID-19 patients

Smart technologies and support systems for critical production and supply chains under lockdown

Safe mobility: migration data and trends, regional risk monitoring, protection of isolated and risk groups, safe use of public transports

Education technologies and digital workplace.

Eligibility criteria

In order to apply to the present call, the partners must meet the following qualifications:

• The consortium should include at least two organisations independent of each other from at least two of the participating countries (Austriam Canada, Denmark, France, The Netherlands, Spain, Turkey. Partners from other Eureka countries or countries outside of the Eureka network can also participate, but funding must be secured within the deadlines of the call.
• The product, process or service must be innovative and there must be a technological risk involved.
• The project should have an obvious advantage and added value resulting from the technologic cooperation between the participants (e.g. increased knowledge base, commercial leads, access to R&D infrastructure, etc.).
• Product, service or process implementation or market launch should happen no later than 6 months after project completion.

Duration

The duration of the project may not exceed 12 months.

Projects are expected to start by August 3 2020.

Budget

Funding assistance follows each national funding body's (NFB) funding regulations.

In case of Spain, the NFB is CDTI.

CDTI will support industrial research, technological development (R&D projects) or activities very close to the market (Innovation projects). Potential beneficiaries are Spanish companies. Universities and research centers could take part as subcontractors.