Eureka Lightweighting Call 2025

When: 4 June 2025
Where: Hybrid setting at the ELN-Konference in Kraków/Poland and online

You have an idea for the perfect lightweighting project, or you are already working on a proposal? Then join us for this international Webinar & Pitching Event. The event will give you the opportunity to discuss project ideas and can help you building up a consortium.

In this event we invite you to give visibility to your Lightweighting R&D&I challenges and project ideas, or your industry-related implementations for which you are looking for partners. Our goal is to enable a strong European and global cooperation, but also to create awareness for the opportunities provided by Lightweighting.

What to expect?

The focus of this event is to give you and your project ideas the floor in order to discuss ideas, exchange experiences and to find the right partner for your consortium. Therefore, the event will mainly consist of your project pitches. Additionally, we will briefly present the context of the call and illustrate the submission process.

What not to expect? We will not explain the funding conditions, eligibility criteria, national procedures etc. in detail. You can find detailed information on this including video clips of your national funding agency on the Eureka homepage.

What to do?

1. Register via the Register button.

2. Add the Hybrid Webinar & Pitching Event to your personal agenda. On the day of the webinar, you can access the meeting online on this website.

3. Important: If you would like to pitch your Lightweighting project:

   • Please prepare a pitch that can be presented in 3 minutes.

   • Download a template for your pitch here.

   • Register your pitch → Contact martin.zottler@biz-up.at from the ELA team and michael.walch@ffg.at with your filled out template.

4. Optional: If you attend the ELN-Konference in Kraków/Poland, there will be the option to participate in a hybrid setting. Contact martin.zottler@biz-up.at for details.

Virtual matchmaking is a quick and easy way to meet potential cooperation partners. You can request 1:1 meetings with other participants at any time (24/7) until 23 October 2025. This allows you to discuss cooperation for joint Eureka projects. 

1) Registration
Register via the Register button.

2) Publish a business profile to showcase your cooperation wish
Create a clear and concise business profile to raise your visibility on the b2match platform.
Create project cooperation opportunities for your envisioned projects.
Your profile should describe who you are, what you can offer to potential partners, and who you want to meet. A good profile will generate significantly more meeting requests. Use the marketplace to pitsch your ideas for project cooperation opportunities.

3) Browse profiles of attendees and other project cooperation opportunities
Go to the participants list to find out who is offering interesting and promising business opportunities. 
Browse published project cooperation opportunities on the marketplace and send meeting requests to those you want to meet.

4) Send & receive meeting requests
When requesting a meeting, you can choose the length of the meeting (15, 30, 45 or 60 minutes) and choose any time slot you want.

5) Join the meeting
Access your meetings in My Agenda or Meetings, where you have your complete schedule for the event and the list of your meetings. Check your camera and microphone and don't be late!

Happy matchmaking!

For detailed information please consult the Eureka call website which includes a link to the official call text:

• Multilateral Eureka Lightweighting Call 2025

Contact your national funding body to discuss your project idea, financial viability, eligibility and national procedures.

1. Create an account on our SmartSimple application portal (one per consortium) and select the funding opportunity you want to apply to. (Applicant guidelines can be found in SmartSimple after login).

2. Using the portal, complete one application form per consortium (in English) and invite other consortium partners to fill in a partner form. 

3. Upload a GANTT chart (one per consortium), the signed and completed co-signature forms (which can be downloaded from the platform) and any additional required annexes.

4. Your project application must be completed online by 23 October 2025 17:00 CEST.

5. Your application will be checked for completeness and eligibility before being reviewed using a standard evaluation procedure. If successful, your project will receive a Eureka label.

6. If required by your national funding body, you must submit a related national funding application – taking into account all relevant national procedures and submission rules. Submission deadlines might differ between the participating national funding bodies.

7. Your national funding body may carry out a further evaluation (performed by the National Project Coordinator and technical experts) according to national rules before allocating funds to successful applicants.

8. The final step is to complete and sign a consortium agreement (CA). We recommend that you seek legal advice when drafting your CA.