CELTIC-NEXT call for projects

Deadline: Apr 8, 2019  
CALL EXPIRED

Do you want to access new ICT or vertical markets, technologies, and skills? Do you want to work with partners beyond national borders, on pre-competitive research and development, gain international recognition and develop new products or services ?, or work?

Then CELTIC-NEXT is for you!

CELTIC-NEXT is an industry-driven European research initiative to define, perform and finance through public and private funding, common R&D projects in the area of telecommunications, new media, future Internet, and applications & services focusing on a new “Smart Connected World” paradigm.

Participation in CELTIC-NEXT calls offers proposers several unique benefits on top of the public funding :

• Proposers are free to define the content of their project proposal according to their own research interests and priorities. All ICT and vertical R&D subjects are eligible at any call..
• CELTIC-NEXT projects are close to the market and have a track record of fast exploitation results after the end of the project. So far the projects have led to more than 1000 new or improved products and services.
• High-quality proposals have an excellent chance of receiving funding, with an average success rate of 60 %.

Eligibility criteria

CELTIC-NEXT projects are open to :

• any type of company, large industry as well as small companies,including companies outside the EUREKA countries.
• Research organisations and universities and, 

Funding details

CELTIC-NEXT projects:

• Receive public funding, depending on the national funding decisions, Have a total budget ranging from 1 M€ up to more than 70 M€ in total project budget.
• include from 2 to over 50 partners
• Typical project durations are between 24 and 36 months

Contact your National Public Authority or the CELTIC Office for more information on funding.

Get in contact with the CELTIC Community

• Come to our Proposers Day and pitch your project idea in front of the CELTIC-NEXT community
• Meet us at the CELTIC-NEXT Event 
• Find out about newly pitched Proposal Ideas from CELTIC Proposers Days on our website and do not hesitate to contact the proposers
• In some cases you may also join CELTIC-NEXT projects in set-up or running phase.

Interact with us on Social Media

• Follow us on Twitter @CelticNext; (the hashtag we use for our Proposers Day is #CelticPropDay and the hashtag for our CELTIC-NEXT Events is #CelticEvent.)
• Join our CELTIC-NEXT Group and follow and discuss with us on LinkedIn