Canada and Germany 2024/2025 Co-Chairs of the Eureka Network

From 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025, Canada and Germany will co-chair Eureka following the Turkish chairmanship. This marks a significant milestone in Eureka's nearly 40-year history, as it will be the first time that two countries jointly lead the world’s largest network for technological innovation.

Based on its European roots, Eureka has developed into a global cooperation platform for technology development and its application. In their Co-Chair programme, Canada and Germany emphasize the need to work together with trusted global partners to enhance innovation collaboration to find solutions that address the challenges of today and tomorrow. The Co-Chair focusses on three priorities: an international initiative to promote R&I policy and funding on cir cular value creation, increasing the synergies of Eureka with European and international innovation ecosystems, and ensuring a sustainable strategy and governance on the Eureka network.

The Canadian-German Eureka Co-Chair is a collaborative initiative jointly managed by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the National Research Council of Canada (NRC).

In this context the BMBF and the NRC will host three major meetings in December 2024, March 2025, and June 2025. Additionally, the Global Innovation Summit 2025 will take place on 1-2 April at the Hannover Messe in Germany,with participation from companies across Eureka member countries.

For more information visit the cochair's website www.eureka2024-25.com.