Why Canadian Companies Shouldn’t Miss the Eureka Canada–Chile 2025 Call

What You Need to Know

If you are a Canadian company with an innovative solution in mining, clean energy, or sustainable construction, there’s a major opportunity on the table.

Eureka, the world’s largest public network for international R&D collaboration, has launched the Canada–Chile 2025 Network Projects call—a program designed to help companies in both countries co-develop and commercialize cutting-edge technologies.

This initiative supports civilian R&D projects involving at least two independent partners—one based in Canada and one in Chile. It offers companies a valuable opportunity to test and adapt their technologies in the Chilean market, leveraging the funding to validate performance and fine-tune solutions in real-world conditions. 

Whether you are exploring new materials, energy systems, or digital tools for mining, this is a chance to access funding, international expertise, and faster pathways to market through the Eureka Canada–Chile 2025 program.

What Is the Eureka Canada–Chile 2025 Program?

The Eureka Canada–Chile 2025 Network Projects call is a government-backed initiative that helps companies in both countries collaborate on innovative R&D projects. If you’re developing technology in areas like sustainable mining, clean energy, or construction, this program is designed to support and accelerate your efforts.

Each country funds its own participants:

• In Canada, funding is provided through NRC IRAP, covering up to 50% of eligible costs (up to CAD$500,000 per project).
• In Chile, funding is available through CORFO, with support reaching up to CAD$322,000, depending on company size.

The program encourages cross-border partnerships and is ideal for companies that want to lower the cost and risk of innovation, while validating their technologies in real-world conditions. Projects are expected to be market-ready within two years of completion, making this a powerful tool for companies looking to scale into new markets—especially in Chile.

What Kind of Projects Are Eligible?

Projects submitted under this call should aim to develop new or significantly improved products, processes, or services. These can range from early-stage ideas to near-market solutions and may include:

• Prototyping
• Pilot projects
• Product validation
• Demonstrations in real-world environments

The expected technology readiness level (TRL) for most projects falls between TRL 3 and 7, meaning your innovation should be past the conceptual stage and moving toward commercialization

Examples of projects within the scope of this call include:

• Sustainable Mining: resilient supply chain of critical minerals, sustainable development of minerals and metals, lithium, green mining, digitalization, artificial intelligence, drilling, low-profile loading equipment, Off-the-Road (OTR) tyres, energy efficiency, automation.
• Clean Energy: technologies, new or improved photovoltaic panel materials, electrochemical energy storage, such as lithium batteries,   sustainable fuels, geothermal and ocean energy.
• Sustainable Construction: building information modelling methodology; seismic isolation/damper technologies; resilient architectural designs; advanced building materials and technologies (e.g., fire resistance, water resistance, shock resistance, non-toxic); durability-increasing adaptations e.g., for buildings on weak soils or floodplains, prevention of wildfires, enhancement of construction materials, wood advanced manufacture. Projects on this field must be within a sustainable framework.

Other Criteria

• Projects must target at least one industry described above and have at least one clear and specific project application.
• Projects should aim to develop a product, process or service for commercialisation and the implementation of project results (such as market launch) should aim to occur no later than 24 months after project completion.
• Projects may develop fundamentally new innovations, or adapt, re-engineer and re-purpose existing innovations currently used or envisaged for different application areas. From a technology readiness starting point, it is expected that projects will start no lower than a finalized TRL 3 or on the very early stages of TRL level 4 at least.

How to Apply

Check out Ureka Website for details on how to apply. 

https://eurekanetwork.org/opencalls/network-projects-canada-chile-2025/#apply

Conclusion 

The Eureka Canada–Chile 2025 program offers companies a unique opportunity to test and adapt their technologies directly in the Chilean market, using real-world conditions to validate performance and product–market fit. Whether it’s piloting software to maximize solar energy plants or trialing mining technologies in a copper mine, the program enables businesses to use the funding to bring a solution to market. This can allow companies to fast-track their entry into Chile, launch a locally validated solution, and build credibility with industry partners, opening the door to new clients, partnerships, and scale-up opportunities.

Ax Legal helps industrial technology, engineering, and service companies to navigate the legal and commercial aspects of operating their business in Latin America. With deep knowledge of the industrial and natural resource sectors, we provide actionable and practical advice to help streamline our clients’ entries into Latin America, improve how they operate in the region, and to protect their interests.

Over the years, our team of legal and commercial advisors have developed a track record of working with companies of all sizes from Australia, Canada, the U.S., and Europe. The one common factor that connects our clients is that they are leaders in their field, providing innovative technologies and services to the industrial sectors.

To better understand how we can support you in the Region, please contact Cody Mcfarlane at cmm@ax.legal