AIPČR , 8 December 2011

The Eurostars Programme is powered by EUREKA and the European Community

AIPČR, 8 December 2011

EUREKA Programme


> 2 What is EUREKA ?

EUREKA is a public network supporting R&D-performing businesses

EUREKA anniversary 26 years and Czech Republic 16 years

EUREKA is : • Intergovernmental initiative (39 Members and European

Commission)• Using national public and private funding• Market-oriented (projects must result in a marketable

product, process or service)• Bottom-up (the consortium decides on the project aim; no

thematic restriction)

Since 1985, 26 billion euro of public-private investment has been mobilised to

support some3,100 EUREKA projects


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Positioning European R&D programmes and

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> 4 39 EUREKA member countries

AustriaBelgiumBulgariaCroatiaCyprusCzech RepublicDenmark

EstoniaEuropean UnionFinlandFranceFYROMGermanyGreeceHungaryIcelandIrelandIsraelItalyLatviaLithuaniaLuxembourg

MaltaMonacoThe NetherlandsNorwayPolandPortugalRomaniaRussian FederationSan MarinoSerbiaSlovakia SloveniaSpainSwedenSwitzerlandTurkeyUkraineUnited KingdomAssociated country

South Korea

EUREKA NIP countriesAlbania, Bosnia and Herzegovina


> 5 EUREKA projects

EUREKA supports three types of projects

Individual projects

Small, shorter-term projectsInvolve participants from at least two member countriesResult in a product, process or service with a significant advance in their sector

Eurostars projects

Small, short-term projects, involving participants from at least two member countriesConsortium leader is an SME-performing R&DProgrammed jointly with the European Commission

Cluster projects EURIPIDES, ITEA2, CATRENE, EUROGIA, ACQUENAU

Long-term, strategically-significant initiativesLarge number of participants, many from Europe’s major companiesDevelop generic technologies of key importance to European competitiveness


> 6 EUREKA fields

Running individual projects by technological area(number of projects)


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Czech participation in EUREKA

(November 2011)

53 running projects (84.8 M€) • SMEs 44

• Research Instit. 9

• Universities 14

• LC 22 (total 89)

197 finished projects (125,17 M€)• SMEs 177

• Research Instit. 61

• Universities 64

• LC 60 (total 362)


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Czech participation in EUREKA

Project co-funding

EUREKA funding is targeted co-financing from governmental budget for international R&D cooperation

• All types of organisations: SMEs, Universities and Research institutes (incl. Academy of Sciences), not Large companies

• Eureka CZ (LF) from VES 2011

• Support covered up to 50 % of relevant budget of involving Czech participant(s) in EUREKA project

• Financial limits of support: 80 000 € / 120 000 € (2 000 000 CZK/3 000 000 CZK) per project / year


> 9 Czech participation in EUREKA (Number of projects 1995 - 2010)


> 10 www.eurekanetwork.org


> 11 Awarded projects

E! 3109 EULASNET EXPLOSIVES ANALYSER Ministerial Conference in Ljubljana 2008

E! 3161 LOGCHAIN+ E-RAILMAP Ministerial Conference in Lisbon 2009

E!2365 MEDEA+2A302 ONOM@TOPIC FR, CZ, HU, IT, NL, ES, SE)Ministerial Conference in Berlin 2010


> 12 Thank you for your attention

www.eurekanetwork.org

www.msmt-vyzkum.cz

www.msmt.cz

Josef MartinecNational Project Coordinator

tel: +420234811512

[email protected]

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