Lead or Participate in an International Research Project - Eureka - Multilateral Biotech Call

Eligible partner types are companies.

A proposal is eligible if all the following are positive :

• The research budget of partners from any one country cannot exceed 70% of the total project budget.
• The product or process must be innovative, with real technological risk for each partner.
• The project must benefit all partners.
• The project must show clear benefits and added values from technological cooperation between participants from different countries.
• The product or process must be innovative and have potential impact.
• A consortium agreement must be signed before project start.
• Walloon industrial partner(s) must have a sound financial situation.
• Walloon participants must have an operational headquarters in Wallonia.
• The project must not have received prior public funding.
• Subcontracted research activities to approved research centers, university research units, and high school research units and associated research centers, cannot exceed 20% of the total research budget of Walloon partners.
• Project duration cannot exceed 3 years.

Evaluation and Selection

The evaluation and selection process includes :

• Step 1 : For Walloon partners, evaluation on three criteria (proposal quality, technological quality, valorisation) by SPW Research experts and possibly independent experts. Foreign partners evaluated by their funding bodies.
• Step 2 : Multilateral consensus meeting among funding bodies to select projects based on evaluator scores.
• Step 3 : Selection proposal sent to the Minister in charge of Research.
• Step 4 : After agreement from other funding countries, Eureka labels the project.
• Step 5 : Selected proposals notified to project leaders.

Evaluation criteria :

• Impact,
• Excellence,
• Quality and Implementation Efficiency.

Aid is granted as a subsidy at 40-80% of each Walloon partner's budget, based on company size and research qualification (industrial research or experimental development).

Subsidies cover all research-related costs :

• personnel (researchers, technicians, administrators/managers),
• operating expenses,
• overheads,
• equipment,
• subcontracting.

Convention duration up to 3 years maximum.

Preferably, an information meeting between Walloon project partners and SPW Research program agents is organized before submission.

Important : Applications must be submitted on both the Eureka Smart Simple platform and the ONTIME platform (SPW Research) by the deadline.

• Decree of 3 July 2008 concerning support for research, development and innovation in Wallonia
• Decree from the Walloon Government of 18 September 2008 concerning support for research, development and innovation in Wallonia, which was amended on 15 May 2014
• Text concerning the management of State aid for research, development and innovation (2014/C 198/01)
• General Block Exemption Regulation (GBER) - State aid (Wallonia.be)

Appeal procedures

How can I contact the department who made the decision ?

You may contact the administrative department that made the decision at any time, independently of the appeal procedures outlined below, in order to obtain information about why the application was rejected.

You must contact the following department :

SPW Economy, Employment and Research
Technological Research and Development Research
Boulevard Cauchy, 43-45
5000 NAMUR

This free process is not subject to any specific formalities and does not suspend the periods for filing an appeal. The absence of a response from the administration does not constitute acceptance of your request.

How to file an appeal

Unless the dispute can be viewed as relating to a subjective right - in which case only courts of law and legal tribunals have jurisdiction - an appeal may be submitted to the State Council, in accordance with the procedures outlined below.

Request for cancellation

Cancellation of the decision may be requested by filing a request with the State Council, either : 

• electronically to https://eproadmin.raadvst-consetat.be ;
• via a signed and dated registered letter to

Conseil d'Etat
Greffe
Section du Contentieux administratif
Rue de la Science, 33
1040 Brussels

You must submit your request within 60 calendar days from the date of notification for the disputed decision.

In your request, you must indicated the "reasons' for your appeal, that is, the legal rights that have been infringed by the decision and the way in which they have been infringed.

Request for suspension

Sending a cancellation request does not suspend the effects of the decision.

In an emergency arises which is incompatible with the processing of the case, and if a serious argument is manifestly likely to lead to the cancellation, you may file a request to suspend the decision with the State Council.

The request for suspension may be submitted before, at the same time as, or after sending the request for cancellation.

In exceptional cases, and under specific conditions, you may also request the suspension of the decision in cases of extreme emergency.

Practical information

Requests for cancellation and suspension requests are only valid if they contain certain annexes and information. Reference is made to the coordinated laws and decrees mentioned below, which are available at http://www.raadvst-consetat.be ('Procedure' section).

Each requesting party must pay a fee of €200 (amount as of 9 January 2017), using a transfer form that will be sent to the party after the appeal is received. Payment is not currently subject to any deadline and the payment of the sum may be made at any time before the closure of the dispute.

Find out more : laws on the State Council, coordinated on 12 January 1973, Regent Decree of 23 August 1948 determining the procedure before the administrative disputes department of the State Council, Royal Decree of 5 December 1991 determining interlocutory proceedings before the State Council, which are available at http://www.raadvst-consetat.be ('procedure" section).