Scheme details
Area: Newcastle upon Tyne, Sunderland, County Durham, Gateshead, South Tyneside, North Tyneside, Northumberland
Categories: Finance & funding, Grant
Business stage: Trading business
Page last updated: 06 September 2024
Competition opens: Friday 14 June 2024
Competition closes: Thursday 31 October 2024 11:00am
This competition is for UK businesses that want to apply to the Eureka Disaster Resilience Programme Collaborative Research and Development (CR&D) 2024 call. Please visit the Eureka call for proposals web page if you are not a UK applicant.
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, is investing up to £1 million to fund CR&D projects focused on industrial research.
The aim of this competition is to support international collaboration on R&D projects that create innovative products, processes or services for commercialisation. We will fund projects in the field of Disaster Resilience, Response and Recovery.
Your project must have high market potential and develop at least one of the following:
- innovative products
- technology-based applications
- technology-based services
Projects must include at least one partner from one of the Eureka countries participating in the competition. The countries are:
- Austria
- Belgium (Flanders and Wallonia)
- Canada
- Chile
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- France
- Lithuania
- Singapore
- South Africa
- South Korea
- Spain
- Türkiye
In applying to this competition, you are entering into a competitive process. This competition has a funding budget of up to £1 million, so we may not be able to fund all the proposed projects.
Project size
UK applicants can apply for total grant of up to £250,000 for each project.
Eligibility summary
This competition is open to UK registered businesses collaborating with organisations from other participating Eureka countries.
To be eligible for grant funding from Innovate UK your collaboration must include:
- at least one grant claiming UK registered micro, small or medium sized enterprise
- at least one other eligible partner from another of the Eureka countries participating in the competition
The UK registered partners in your Eureka project must nominate one business to start an Innovate UK application.
For more information on company sizes, please refer to the company accounts guidance.
This is a change from the EU definition unless you are applying under State aid.