CELTIC-NEXT call for projects (Spring 2024)
Participation
Participation is open to companies of all sizes, universities and research organisations.
By participating in a Cluster project, you benefit from:
- Perform collaborative join RD&I consortia and projects within Europe and beyond
- Get public funding support, professional coaching and mentoring
- Reach a high chance of getting your project approved and funded
- Interconnect with SMEs and large industries in more than 45 countries
- Have low administrative overhead and a flexible framework
- Get high exploitation potential and business impact
- Immerse yourself into a rich ecosystem by growing and collaborating beyond borders
- Run your collaborative project via our Brokerage Tool
- Foster and generate collaborative innovation by leading or being part of an industry-led project
- Stimulate disruptive and sustainable ideas
- Boost your competitiveness and accelerate your growth
- Access new markets in a shortened time
Scope
CELTIC-NEXT gives project proposers almost limitless freedom regarding what research topic they can explore in their ICT research projects. The programme’s philosophy is to facilitate projects in a bottom-up way, thus offering projects the chance of both evolutionary and disruptive innovation in all relevant ICT areas without limiting their creativity and ambition.
Relevant industry sectors example:
- Network capacity
- Photonics
- Satellite
- Mobility
- ICT
- Security
- Robustness
- Energy efficiency
- 6G
- 5G and beyond
- Smart Cities
- Smart Homes
- Industry 4.0
- Logistics
- Automotive Telecom
- Blockchain
- Fintech
- E-Health
- Big Data
- Internet of Things
- Privacy, identity and Public Safety
- More …
Timeframe
13 November 2023 – Call Opening
13 February 2024 – Launch Event (online)
13 March 2024 – Proposers Brokerage Day (online)
14 – 20 March 2024 – Consortium Building Sessions (online)
3 May 2024 – Deadline for Proposals
17 June 2024 – Label Notifications
Eligibility
Eureka has limited eligibility criteria for organisations participating in a Clusters consortium:
- Your project idea must represent international cooperation in the form of a specific project.
- The project must be directed at researching or developing an innovative product, process or service with the goal of commercialisation.
- The project must have a civilian purpose.
- Your 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.
If there is no allocated budget for your organisation type in your country and you want to participate in a project consortium, contact your national funding body using the form below to see whether there are other funding opportunities available or talk to them about self-funding.
Apply
- Contact your national funding body and CELTIC-NEXT offices to discuss your project idea and eligibility.
- Create an account on Clusters Projects Tool: https://cluster-projects.eurestools.eu/
- Submit your CELTIC Project Proposal template (CPP) before the deadline, with the Confirmation Letter/Declaration of Acceptance (CLD) for each consortium partner within two weeks after your proposal submission.
- If you project is selected, you will receive a positive Label Notification, a Project Cooperation Agreement (PCA) should be elaborated and signed between the consortium partners.
During the submission process, you will be guided step by step as all documents are provided in the tool and on our Guides, Contracts & Templates page: https://www.celticnext.eu/guides-contracts-templates/
In case you have any questions regarding the CELTIC Project Portal, don’t hesitate to contact us via office@celticnext.eu.
Please note that your national funding body may have additional steps for applying for R&D funding.
Events and partner search
For this Call, the events are over.
Consortium Building Sessions:
However, proposers who presented their ideas during our Proposers Brokerage Day will have the opportunity to run a Consortium Building Session the following days from Thursday 14th to Wednesday 20th of March 2024, the session will focus on your proposal to help you find potential project partners. Dates and times are available here: https://www.celticnext.eu/online-proposers-brokerage-day-of-the-celtic-next-spring-call-2024-13th-of-march-2024/
Brokerage Tool:
In addition, to support you in preparing your project proposal for CELTIC-NEXT Calls, we have created an online Brokerage Tool: https://www.celticnext.eu/brokerage-tool/
Its goal is to help you build your Consortium for your CELTIC Project. The Following functionalities are available:
- Submission form for Project Ideas and Expertise Offers
- Overview lists with search form
- Contact request forms
- Process owner support functions: approval process and contact request tracking
After submission, the CELTIC Office will check and publish your Project Idea or your Expertise.
