Eureka Lightweighting Call 2025

15 May – 23 Oct 2025

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15 May 2025 - 23 October 2025

Eureka Lightweighting Call 2025

Multilateral Eureka Lightweighting Call 2025 for joint R&D projects 

(This is a pre-announcement, details may change)

The national funding bodies from Austria, Belgium (Flanders & Wallonia), Chile, France, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain and Türkiye plan to support organisations collaborating on international R&D projects in the field of Lightweighting in this call. These should be collaborative research and innovation projects, resulting in innovative and marketable solutions. 

This website is a virtual marketplace to search business profiles and project cooperation opportunities - you can book meetings at any time (24/7). Further information about this call will be available on the Eureka website.

Next steps: Register yourself for the virtual Matchmaking / Marketplace and build a consortium, pitch your project idea during the international Webinar & Pitching Event, and submit your Eureka R&D project application for this call for projects until 23 October 2025 (17:00 CEST).

Time Schedule 

Timeline Tasks
1-2 April 2025 at Global Innovation Summit
Announcement of the Call
15 May 2025

Opening of the Call (Eureka Submission Platform)

15 May - 23 October 2025
1:1 Networking Meetings via b2match (24/7)
29 May 2025
Webinar & Pitching Event, Networking Day
23 October 2025 17:00 CEST
Deadline for Eureka applications 
From December 2025 to March 2026 National evaluations
From February 2026 to July 2026  Project starts

In the meantime, the attached Eureka Lightweighting Call Pitch serves as a brief introduction to the Eureka Lightweighting Call series and the Eureka Lightweighting Call 2025. Accordingly, you can explore the previous edition of the Eureka Lightweighting Call 2024, as the 2025 call aims to provide continuity for the Lightweighting community. You can also gain some high-level insights into the economic relevance of and existing instruments for cooperation in Lightweighting from the attached presentation on the Lightweighting Initiative given to the Eureka Network in Bonn on 5 March 2025.

Eureka Lightweighting Call Pitch.pdfLightweighting Initiative - Presented to the Eureka Network.pdf