The first call of the Eurostars-3 for the year 2025 (cut-off 8) has been launched on 10 January 2025. Within this call, joint international R&D projects aimed at developing market-oriented innovative products, processes and services will be funded with the participation of at least one Turkish and one foreign organization from any Eurostars member country. Unilateral project applications are not accepted. An innovative SME is expected to take part in the project consortiums as the coordinator.
Eurostars-3 is a partnership created under the Horizon Europe/ European Innovation Ecosystems Program as the European Partnership on Innovative SMEs with the cooperation of the Eureka Secretariat and 37 member countries. Within the scope of the program to be carried out between 2021-2027, it is aimed to support innovative SMEs to increase their R&D, innovation capacity and productivity, and to help them reach into global value chains and new markets.
In Eurostars-3 calls, bottom-up, international R&D projects with a civilian purpose, are funded led by innovative SMEs, regardless of any technology field or sector. Please visit Eurostars website https://eurekanetwork.org/opencalls/eurostars-call-for-projects-mar-2025/ for details, guidelines and submission.
Stock corporations and researchers based in Türkiye can submit joint proposals to Eurostars-3 2025/1 call. If there is more than one partner from Türkiye in the same international project, the partners are required to apply with a single joint project together. Higher education institutions, public research centers and institutes, training and research hospitals, research infrastructures within the scope of Law No. 6550 can participate jointly under the leadership of stock corporations. Eligible national consortiums will be funded according to the rules of the national funding programme coded “1709-EUREKA-EUROSTARS 2025/1” and "Eurostars-3 Program National Call Announcement".
Before the national application, the call text should be carefully examined, if the application rules are not followed properly, the application may be returned without being evaluated.
National pre-registration and national pre-submission must be done to TÜBİTAK on the specified dates via TÜBİTAK PRODIS. In addition, after the international evaluation process, the accepted Turkish teams have to make a national application to TÜBİTAK.
The deadline for the call is 13 March 2025, at 14:00 (Brussels time)
The deadline for national pre-registration 24 March 2025, at 23:59 (Türkiye time)
The deadline for national pre-submission 27 March 2025, at 23:59 (Türkiye time)
Important Considerations for the Call:
1) Within the scope of this call, the following increases have been made in the project budget compared to previous calls;
- National call budget upper limit is 4 million Euro (previously 2.5 million Euro)
- Individual project budget upper limit is 600 thousand Euro (previously 500 thousand Euro)
- The upper limit of the project budget in partner projects is 850 thousand Euro (previously 750 thousand Euro)
- The upper limit of the budget of institutions other than capital companies is 300 thousand Euro (previously 250 thousand Euro)
2) Please note that Greece, Israel, one of the NFBs in Italy (Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy (MIMIT)), South Korea, Switzerland and United Kingdom do not foresee public funding for organisations from their country applying to the 8th call of Eurostars-3. Organizations from these countries are welcome to apply but will have to fully self-finance their part of the project.
Note: There is funding available for Italian organizations through the NFB MUR.
For questions on Eurostars Call and International Rules:
Berna LEYLUHAN YURTSEVEN
E-mail: eurostars@tubitak.gov.tr
Phone: 03122989492
Dr. Muzaffer Kaan KARAÖZ
E-mail: eurostars@tubitak.gov.tr
Phone: 03122989466
For questions on 1709 Programme an National Rules:
