Network Projects
Brazil and Norway call for R&D projects – June 2026
Countries and regions
About this call
Funding information
This call is open for all R&D projects within the following thematic areas:
- Petroleum – open for all topics relevant for the offshore petroleum industry (note that CCS is not included in the call)
- Environmentally friendly energy
- New renewable energy production based on solar, wind/ocean, hydropower or bioenergy/other thermal energy
- Hydrogen and other hydrogen-based energy carriers, as well as biofuels
- Green shipping
- Uptake and supply of low- and zero emission marine fuels
- Portside low- and zero emission infrastructure
- Route and navigational technology
- Digitalisation and efficiency adaptation
- Newbuilds, vessel design, energy usage and adjacent functionality
- Operational innovation and low- and zero emission commercial and compliance modelling
Your project should:
- address at least one of these fields (projects with interdisciplinary/cross-sectoral scope are also welcome)
- show the potential to research or develop a product, process or service that you can commercialise.
Applications will be accepted from research institutions, and your project consortium must include:
- at least one eligible Brazilian research institution
- at least one Brazilian company
- at least one eligible Norwegian research institution
- at least one Norwegian company
The parties listed above must be unrelated parties (i.e. no direct, indirect, beneficial or constructive ownership interest between these parties.) and ensure no conflicting interests are present. The team should be led by a research institution (main applicant) in the respective countries.
The project must present collaboration elements between Brazilian and Norwegian institutions. There should be a balance between these institutions regarding potential intellectual property rights (IPR) emerging from the project. This balance shall be clear in the project presentation, since it will be considered during the process of analysis and evaluation of the proposal.
The project should be led by a research institution in either Norway or Brazil, which should submit the application on behalf of the whole consortium through the Eureka platform.
The duration of each bilateral project should be between 2 and 4 years.
Only research institutions can receive funding from the joint call, and they can receive up to 100% of their eligible costs.
The industrial partners must cover their own costs and contribute with in-kind and/or cash contributions to the project. The consortium should seek to have a good balance between in-kind and cash contributions.
The total amount of support from FINEP and RCN cannot exceed 4 times the funding from the industry partners.
The tasks in the project should be clearly assigned to each partner as well as the allocated resources and the required resources to implement the project.
The project must be balanced between participants and be significant for both countries.
FINEP and RCN will use their own financial instruments to support the participants in the project, according to their norms, which can be found at on the FINEP website and the RCN website.
The funding from FINEP and RCN will be in the form of grants. FINEP will fund the Brazilian applicants and the Brazilian project partners eligible for public support. Likewise, the RCN will fund the Norwegian applicants and the Norwegian project partners eligible for public support.
Each funding agency will fund organisations according to local laws, rules, procedures, and available budget. Eligible costs and expenses may vary according to the regulations in Brazil and Norway. Applicants must read the regulations as posted on the FINEP and the RCN websites or contact the respective national contact points in Brazil and Norway for information.
The number of funded projects will strongly depend on the number and quality of the submitted applications and the available funds.
Timeline
- Apply from: 3 June 2026
- Submission deadline: 9 September 2026, 17:00 CET
- National evaluation: From September-October 2026
- Consensus meeting of funding agencies: November 2026
- Eureka label and funding decision: From consensus meeting onwards
- Projects can begin (expected): From January 2027
Who can apply
To apply, you must meet several eligibility criteria:
- Your project idea must represent international cooperation in the form of a specific project.
- The project must be directed at researching or developing an innovative product, process or service with the goal of commercialisation.
- The project must have a civilian purpose.
- Your consortium must include at least two independent legal entities from a minimum of two Eureka Call participating countries. Please note, that organisations from non-participating countries are welcome to join if (public or self-) funding is secured by the call deadline.
- Your consortium must include organisations based in Brazil and Norway.
- No single organisation or country can be responsible for more than 70% of the project budget.
Country information
Brazil 🇧🇷
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Brazilian funding agency, FINEP, funds R&D costs for research organisations and universities participating in this call. The maximum funding per project is 3 million Brazilian reals.
FINEP will allocate up to 15 million Brazilian reals for this joint call, tentatively split between the thematic areas as follows:
- Petroleum: 5 million Brazilian reals
- Environmentally friendly energy: 5 million Brazilian reals
- Green shipping: 5 million Brazilian reals
The Brazilian institutions (both research institutions and companies) participating in the proposal must be previously registered on the SISGON platform, available on the FINEP website. The segments “Basic Registration of Legal Entities” and “Institutional Documents” must be completed and sent.
Access to fill out the proposal for the Notice is subject to the analysis and approval by FINEP of the registration.
FINEP will analyse the registration only when the segments “Basic Registration of Legal Entities” and “Institutional Documents” have been sent, returning through the system if adjustments are necessary.
The conclusion of the registration evaluation by FINEP and, consequently, the possibility of submitting proposals, is only ensured for cases in which the complete registration data and any requested adjustments are forwarded at least 72 hours before the end of the deadline for electronic submission of the proposal, established in Item 1.3 of the Notice.
Research Organisations or Universities
The participating Brazilian Scientific, Technological and Innovation Institution (STI), as defined by the Brazilian Law 10.973, from December 2nd, 2004 (definition updated by Law 13.243, from January 11th 2016) will be the Executive Institution, responsible for coordination and technical execution of the part of the project that will take place in Brazil.
In the event of more than one executing institution, the Main Executive Institution shall be responsible for the technical coordination of the project. The general coordinator of the project must belong to the permanent staff of the Main Executive Institution.
The Proponent Institution, responsible for the managing and financial execution of the part of the project that will take place in Brazil, may be the STI itself or an STI Support Foundation. After the signature of the Brazilian financing instrument, the proponent institution will be referred to as Covenant Institution.
The non-profit private law institutions will only be able to participate as proponents on the present Joint Public Call if they present a declaration of regular operation during the last three years issued in the year of 2026, according to what is explained on article 72, subsection VII, from the law 13.473, published on August 08th 2017 – LDO 2018, having as a reference the predicted date for the publishing of this Joint Public Call final results.
Federal institutions must integrate the Integrated Administration System of the Federal Government (Portuguese acronym – SIAFI).
Definitions:
Scientific, Technological and Innovation Institution (ICT) is every direct or indirect public administration organ or entity or a non-profit legal entity of private law, constituted under Brazilian laws, with headquarters and forum in the country, that includes in its institutional mission or in its social or statutory objective the basic or applied research for scientific or technological purposes or the development of new products, services or processes.
Support Foundation is the foundation created with the purpose of giving support to research, educational and extension projects, institutional, scientific and technological development projects and projects that stimulate innovation, registered and accredited in the Ministry of Education and in the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, pursuant to Law No. 8.958 from December 1994 and other pertinent legislation at the state, district and municipal levels.
Companies
Brazilian companies are not the target to receive support in this call. Nevertheless, any Brazilian company participating in consortia (which will be referred to as a co-financing intervener institution) must:
- Contribute with in-kind and/or cash contribution to the project, which will be subject to FINEP’s analysis, according to its criteria
- Be interested in implementing or using the project results
- Have had some operational activity during 2025
In a complimentary basis, FINEP can provide funds to Brazilian companies participating in the consortia, through:
- Credit support: information and conditions (in Portuguese) are available on this page and this page of the FINEP website.
- Subvention: information and conditions (in Portuguese) are available on this page and this page of the FINEP website.
Norway 🇳🇴
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Norwegian funding agency, the Research Council of Norway (RCN), funds R&D costs for research organisations and universities participating in this call. The maximum funding per project is 10 million Norwegian krone.
RCN will allocate up to 63 million Norwegian krone for this joint call, tentatively split between the thematic areas as follows:
- Petroleum: 15 million Norwegian krone
- Environmentally friendly energy: 20 million Norwegian krone
- Green shipping: 20 million Norwegian krone
The remaining 8 million Norwegian krone will be split between the areas depending on demand.
Company
Any participating Norwegian company must:
- Contribute with in-kind and/or cash contribution to the project
- Document that the knowledge acquired from the project will be important to its future production or development of products or services
- Play an active role in the management of the project
RCN does not award state aid under this call. This means that funding from the Research Council of Norway can only finance the research organisations’ project costs.
Research organisation or university
The participating Norwegian research institutions must be a university, university college or a research institute, according to the RCN’s definition. A list of approved research institutions can be found on the RCN website.
For more information, please visit the website of the Research Council of Norway.
How to apply
Application process
- Contact your ministry or funding agency through Eureka’s website to discuss your project idea, finances, eligibility and procedures.
- Create an account on our application portal (one per consortium) and select the funding opportunity you want to apply to.
- To apply, use the portal and complete one application form per consortium in English. Additionally, request that other partners fill out a partner form.
- Submit a GANTT chart, a signed co-signature form (available for download on the platform), and any other required attachments.
- We will check your application for completeness and eligibility before reviewing it using a standard evaluation procedure. If successful, your project will receive a Eureka label.
- Your country or region’s ministry or funding agency may conduct another evaluation performed by experts and based on national regulations.
- The final step is to complete and sign a consortium agreement. We recommend that you seek legal advice when drafting your consortium agreement.
Important: Your national or regional funding body may need you to complete additional steps to apply to this Network Projects call. If you do not provide the information required by your national or regional funding body, you may render yourself ineligible to receive public funding.
Evaluation process
1. Impact
- Is the market properly addressed (i.e., size, access and risks)?
- Is the value creation properly addressed (i.e., employment opportunities and environmental and societal benefits)?
- What are the competitive advantages of your project (i.e., strategic importance, enhanced capabilities and visibility)?
- Are your commercialisation plans clear and realistic (i.e., return on investment, geographical and sectoral impact)?
2. Excellence
- What is the degree of innovation? (i.e., is the proposed product, process or service state-of-the-art? Is there sufficient technological maturity and risk)?
- How is new knowledge going to be used?
- Is your project scientifically and technically challenging for consortium partners?
- Is the technical achievability and risk properly addressed?
3. Quality and efficiency of implementation
- What is the quality of your consortium (i.e., balance of the partnership and technological, managerial and financial capabilities of each partner)?
- Is there added value through international cooperation?
- Is your project management and planning realistic and clearly defined (i.e., methodology, planning approach, milestones and deliverables)?
- Is your cost structure reasonable (i.e., costs and financial commitment for each consortium partner)?
4. Overall perception
- Experts will list three positive and negative points about your application and state whether they recommend your project for public funding. Your ministry or funding agency may carry out a further evaluation according to national/regional rules before allocating funding to organisations.