Lithuania call for projects – 2025

Funding information

Your project themes must align with the thematic fields of the three research, development, and innovation (R&D&I) priority areas defined in Lithuania’s Smart Strategy:

Health technologies, biotechnologies, and safe food

1. Molecular technologies for medicine and biopharmaceuticals
2. Advanced applied technologies for personal and public health
3. Advanced medical engineering for early diagnosis and treatment
4. Safe food and sustainable agrobiological resources

New production processes, materials, and energy efficiency

1. Photonic and laser technologies
2. Advanced materials and constructions
3. Flexible product development, production and process management technologies
4. Strengthening energy efficiency and smart energy solutions
5. Use of renewable energy sources

ICT, inclusive and creative society

1. Artificial intelligence, big and distributed data, multidisciplinary analysis, processing and implementation
2. The Internet of Things
3. Cybersecurity
4. Financial technologies and block chains
5. Audiovisual media, design technologies and social innovation
6. Smart transport systems

Timeline

Apply from: 29 May 2025

Deadline: 31 July 2025

Funding decision: 31 January 2026

Projects can start: 1 March 2026

Eligibility criteria

To apply, you must meet several eligibility criteria:

• 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.

Lithuania has additional eligibility criteria for this call for projects:

• The duration of your project may not exceed 36 months.
• Your project consortium must have at least one company.
• Your project, process, or service must be innovative and there must me a technological risk involved.
• The main partner/lead applicant must be a Lithuanian university, higher education institution/college (HEI), or research centre.
• The project partner should be a Lithuanian SME, collaborating with a research institution to develop a new product, process, or service with market potential.
• It is mandatory to have an international partner, which must be an enterprise from another Eureka country.

Lithuania

Lithuanian funding agency, RCL, has a budget of 4 million euro for this call for projects.

Participants from Lithuania can receive a grant of up to 300,000 euro. The percentage of eligible project costs that can be funded depends on the type of organisation, the type of R&D activities, and on effective collaboration:

National criteria

Eligible costs are:

• Personnel costs: salaries, social security, and other taxes paid by the company
• Business trip costs: for up to two trips
• Materials and similar current asset costs: less than 20%
• R&D services acquisition costs: less than 15%
• Equipment, devices, and similar fixed asset costs or depreciation: less than 20%
• Patenting services
• Certification of the R&D product costs
• Indirect costs (overhead): 3%

The project must start at Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 5 and must reach TRL 7 to 9 by the end of the project.

The mandatory applicant is a Lithuanian university or another higher education institution/research organisation, and the Lithuanian SME is a partner. The international consortium may be led either by the SME or by the university or research organisation.

Lithuanian applicants must first submit their international Eureka project application (in English), on the Eureka Smart Simple system. During the national call, Lithuanian participants must submit a national project application (in Lithuanian) to the Research Council of Lithuania, along with the international Eureka project application and other documents specified in the national rules.

The higher education institution or research organisation is required to provide justification for its non-economic activities, specifically independent research and development (R&D) activities. A signed consortium agreement is required upon approval before the actual start of the project. It should include, amongst others, the ownership and use of know-how and intellectual property rights (IPR) settlements.

Application process

1. Contact your ministry or funding agency through Eureka’s website to discuss your project idea, finances, eligibility and procedures.
2. Create an account on our application portal (one per consortium) and select the funding opportunity you want to apply to.
3. To apply, use the portal and complete one application form per consortium in English. Additionally, request that other partners fill out a partner form.
4. Submit a GANTT chart, a signed co-signature form (available for download on the platform), and any other required attachments.
5. We will check your application for completeness and eligibility before reviewing it using a standard evaluation procedure. If successful, your project will receive a Eureka label.
6. Your country or region’s ministry or funding agency may conduct another evaluation performed by experts and based on national regulations.
7. The final step is to complete and sign a consortium agreement. We recommend that you seek legal advice when drafting your consortium agreement.

Important: Your national or regional funding body may need you to complete additional steps to apply to this Network Projects call. If you do not provide the information required by your national or regional funding body, you may render yourself ineligible to receive public funding.

Evaluation process

1. Impact

• Is the market properly addressed (i.e., size, access and risks)?
• Is the value creation properly addressed (i.e., employment opportunities and environmental and societal benefits)?
• What are the competitive advantages of your project (i.e., strategic importance, enhanced capabilities and visibility)?
• Are your commercialisation plans clear and realistic (i.e., return on investment, geographical and sectoral impact)?

2. Excellence

• What is the degree of innovation? (i.e., is the proposed product, process or service state-of-the-art? Is there sufficient technological maturity and risk)?
• How is new knowledge going to be used?
• Is your project scientifically and technically challenging for consortium partners?
• Is the technical achievability and risk properly addressed?

3. Quality and efficiency of implementation

• What is the quality of your consortium (i.e., balance of the partnership and technological, managerial and financial capabilities of each partner)?
• Is there added value through international cooperation?
• Is your project management and planning realistic and clearly defined (i.e., methodology, planning approach, milestones and deliverables)?
• Is your cost structure reasonable (i.e., costs and financial commitment for each consortium partner)?

4. Overall perception

• Experts will list three positive and negative points about your application and state whether they recommend your project for public funding. Your ministry or funding agency may carry out a further evaluation according to national/regional rules before allocating funding to organisations.

Lithuania has additional evaluation criteria for this call for projects:

• The project applications will be evaluated by national R&D experts of RCL. The evaluation for funding, which includes financial and legal eligibility as well as compliance with state aid rules is conducted by another state agency.

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