The project fits Eurostars 3: an SME-led, transnational, market-oriented R&D collaboration under three years. The partners apply together to a cut-off, and each is funded by its own national body. The German partner's eligible costs are dominated by its development and data engineering personnel, with project-related costs; at the German co-funding rate, its funded share comes to about EUR 420,000. The partner abroad is funded by its own country in parallel.
Eurostars runs on fixed cut-off dates. A consortium led by an R&D-performing SME, with at least two partners from at least two participating countries, submits one joint application covering the shared project, the work split and the market ambition. It is evaluated centrally, and on success each partner is funded through its own national body under that decision, at its own country's rate, for the German partner, around half of its eligible costs from the federal research ministry. Because the funding is national even though the project is international, it is worth planning the partner roles and the budget split so that each partner's national funding lines up cleanly before submission.
