Globalstars projects

As a Swiss company, you would like to carry out an innovation project together with a Swiss or international research institute with partner companies outside the Eureka initiative. With Globalstars, you will develop new innovation partnerships worldwide.

With this support offer, you can work together with partners in large or emerging innovation countries with high growth momentum.

1. Calls for proposals, conditions and evaluation

In Globalstars projects, partners from several Eureka countries work together with a non-European country that is not a member of Eureka.

Innosuisse will review your funding application, while the relevant partner agency will review the funding application of your partners abroad. Eureka coordinates the funding decisions in the individual countries and is responsible for approval at an international level.

• Conditions in detail

  The duration of the projects is specified in the calls for proposals; it is usually a maximum of 36 months for Globalstars projects. Provided it is sensible for your project and the cost-benefit ratio is right, there is no financial limit on applications. Innosuisse covers a maximum of 70 percent of the project costs of Swiss participants.

• Overview of contributions

  Innosuisse is able to make direct project contributions to companies in international innovation projects:

  

  *For Swiss start-ups that have not yet entered the market (the same criteria apply as for Start-up Innovation Projects) and that submit an application without any other Swiss partner and only with foreign companies (no research partner), the maximum contribution by Innosuisse to eligible project costs is 70%.

• Who is who according to Innosuisse’s funding rules?

  START-UP:

  • before market entry: the start-up does not yet have ready-developed products or services on the market
  • with scalable product or service
  • established not more than 5 years ago (in justified exceptional cases up to 10 years)
  • with less than 50 full-time equivalents (at the time of submitting the application);
    if the start-up is controlled by another company, the entire group of companies cannot employ more than 249 full-time equivalents
    

  SME:

  • fewer than 250 full-time equivalents

  LARGE COMPANY:

  • more than 250 full-time equivalents

2. Submit application

• Submit application step by step

  • Apply for the international project
    > Platform for the Smart Simple application
  • Submit the funding application to Innosuisse
    > To the Innosuisse submission platform
    > How do I submit an application for an innovation project?

  As an additional element, applicants must do the following for Innosuisse:

  • Upload the document describing the international project (Smart Simple application) as an attachment to the application.

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