1. AIPČR, 8 December 2011
EUREKA Programme

2. What is EUREKA ? EUREKA is :
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 some
3,100 EUREKA projects

3. esa EU FP CERN EUREKA JRC COST COST
Positioning European R&D programmes and frameworks
EUREKA
National
R&D
Programmes
Innovation
esa
JRC
EU FP
European Research Labs
Basic research
COST
COST
CERN

4. 39 EUREKA member countries
Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
European Union
Finland
France
FYROM
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Latvia
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
Monaco
The Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russian Federation
San Marino
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine
United Kingdom
Associated country South Korea
EUREKA NIP countries
Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina

5. EUREKA projects EUREKA supports three types of projects
Individual projects
Small, shorter-term projects
Involve participants from at least two member countries
Result 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 countries
Consortium leader is an SME-performing R&D
Programmed jointly with the European Commission
Cluster projects EURIPIDES, ITEA2, CATRENE, EUROGIA, ACQUENAU
Long-term, strategically-significant initiatives
Large number of participants, many from Europe’s major companies
Develop generic technologies of key importance to European competitiveness

6. Running individual projects by technological area
EUREKA fields
Running individual projects by technological area
(number of projects)

7. Czech participation in EUREKA (November 2011)
53 running projects (84.8 M€)
SMEs
Research Instit
Universities
LC (total 89)
197 finished projects (125,17 M€)
SMEs
Research Instit
Universities
LC (total 362)

8. 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: € / €  ( CZK/ CZK) per project / year

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

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 FR, CZ, HU, IT, NL, ES, SE)
Ministerial Conference in Berlin 2010

12. Thank you for your attention
Josef Martinec
National Project Coordinator
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