Innovation Programmes
Lithuania call for projects 2025
The Research Council of Lithuania (RCL) has allocated funding for organisations collaborating on international R&D projects.
Countries
About this call
Areas funded
Your project themes must align with the thematic fields of the three research, development, and innovation (R&D&I) priority areas defined in Lithuania’s Smart Strategy:
Health technologies, biotechnologies, and safe food
- Molecular technologies for medicine and biopharmaceuticals
- Advanced applied technologies for personal and public health
- Advanced medical engineering for early diagnosis and treatment
- Safe food and sustainable agrobiological resources
New production processes, materials, and energy efficiency
- Photonic and laser technologies
- Advanced materials and constructions
- Flexible product development, production and process management technologies
- Strengthening energy efficiency and smart energy solutions
- Use of renewable energy sources
ICT, inclusive and creative society
- Artificial intelligence, big and distributed data, multidisciplinary analysis, processing and implementation
- The Internet of Things
- Cybersecurity
- Financial technologies and block chains
- Audiovisual media, design technologies and social innovation
- Smart transport systems
Timeline
- Apply from: 29 May 2025
- Deadline: 31 July 2025
- Funding decision: 31 January 2026
- Projects can start: 1 March 2026
Who can apply for this call
Eureka has eligibility criteria for organisations participating in a Network Projects R&D project:
- Your project idea must represent international cooperation in the form of a specific project.
- You must direct your project towards researching or developing an innovative product, process or service with the goal of commercialising your project results.
- Your project must have a civilian purpose.
- Your consortium must include organisations based in at least two Eureka countries or regions.
- No single organisation or country can be responsible for more than 70% of the project budget.
Lithuania has additional eligibility criteria for this call for projects:
- The duration of your project may not exceed 36 months.
- Your project consortium must have at least one company.
- Your project, process, or service must be innovative and there must me a technological risk involved.
- The main partner/lead applicant must be a Lithuanian university, higher education institution/college (HEI), or research centre.
- The project partner should be a Lithuanian SME, collaborating with a research institution to develop a new product, process, or service with market potential.
- It is mandatory to have an international partner, which must be an enterprise from another Eureka country.
Country information
Lithuania 🇱🇹
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Lithuanian funding agency, RCL, has a budget of 4 million euro for this call for projects.
Participants from Lithuania can receive a grant of up to 300,000 euro. The percentage of eligible project costs that can be funded depends on the type of organisation, the type of R&D activities, and on effective collaboration:
| Type of organisation | Amount of funding available |
|---|---|
| Micro or small-sized enterprise | Up to 80% for industrial research Up to 60% for development work |
| Medium-sized enterprise | Up to 75% for industrial research Up to 50% for development work |
| Large company | There is no funding for large companies in this call for projects. |
| University or research organisation | Up to 100% of eligible project costs |
Additional criteria for applications from Lithuania
Eligible costs are:
- Personnel costs: salaries, social security, and other taxes paid by the company
- Business trip costs: for up to two trips
- Materials and similar current asset costs: less than 20%
- R&D services acquisition costs: less than 15%
- Equipment, devices, and similar fixed asset costs or depreciation: less than 20%
- Patenting services
- Certification of the R&D product costs
- Indirect costs (overhead): 3%
The project must start at Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 5 and must reach TRL 7 to 9 by the end of the project.
The mandatory applicant is a Lithuanian university or another higher education institution/research organisation, and the Lithuanian SME is a partner. The international consortium may be led either by the SME or by the university or research organisation.
Lithuanian applicants must first submit their international Eureka project application (in English), on the Eureka Smart Simple system. During the national call, Lithuanian participants must submit a national project application (in Lithuanian) to the Research Council of Lithuania, along with the international Eureka project application and other documents specified in the national rules.
The higher education institution or research organisation is required to provide justification for its non-economic activities, specifically independent research and development (R&D) activities. A signed consortium agreement is required upon approval before the actual start of the project. It should include, amongst others, the ownership and use of know-how and intellectual property rights (IPR) settlements.
Additional evaluation steps for applications from Lithuania
Lithuania has additional evaluation criteria for this call for projects:
- The project applications will be evaluated by national R&D experts of RCL. The evaluation for funding, which includes financial and legal eligibility as well as compliance with state aid rules is conducted by another state agency.
Application process
How to apply for this call
- 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 project) and select the funding opportunity you want to apply to.
- Use the portal and complete one application form per consortium (in English). Invite other partners to fill out a partner form.
- Submit a GANTT chart, a signed co-signature form (available to download on the portal) and any other required attachments.
- We will check your application is complete and eligible before evaluating it. If successful, your project will receive a Eureka label.
- We evaluate project applications to determine if your ministry or funding agency should grant funding. Your 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.
How applications will be evaluated
We will review your R&D project application according to our evaluation criteria.
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, geographic 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 would you use new knowledge?
- 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.
