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Eurostars is a funding program by the eureka 
network and it aims to stimulate innovative

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sme's to grow and develop faster so it's really 
aimed at international collaboration between

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different partners from different eurostars 
countries and by collaborating internationally

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you can learn from each other you have 
each other's expertise and then you can

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really boost your development and innovation 
internationally and help them to grow faster.

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What my company does is we clean carbon dioxide 
from the air using a natural process turning

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carbon dioxide into limestone. We as a company 
make bio composite material and it's existing

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from nettle and pla and it doesn't contain any 
micro plastic so it's fully bio based material.

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I'm interested in eurostars because it makes 
me connect with other partners and makes the

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idea grow faster. Because we are looking for new 
partners and potential customers in our field

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and also we are thinking about applying 
for next year because now we're like a

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little bit too small so probably 
next year will be the best for us.

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Eurostars in the Netherlands is really 
interesting for high-tech startups as well.

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We notice in the Netherlands we are top 
performing in the number of startups.

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Last year we had 24 high-tech startups 
participating being able to work in

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projects worth 44 million in total. So eurostars is 
really their way to scale up internationally.