Imminent closure of calls for proposals
We offer you our selection of cascade funding calls that will soon close. There is still time left to participate.
XR2Industry
The XR2Industry first open call for hardware enablers will select up to seven developers of XR components aimed at integrating emerging technologies (such as 5G/6G, IoT, data, artificial intelligence, edge and cloud computing, and microelectronics) to enable possibilities of XR experiences.
Maximum funding request per proposal: €500,000 (fixed lump sum).
Eligibility and consortia: a single SME or midcap registered as a legal entity before 18th June 2024.
Deadline: 17th September 2024.
6G-Sandbox
Experimenters to use the 6G-Sandbox experimental facilities to deploy and test broad scope of applications, e.g., coming from various vertical sectors, tailored for the future 6G communications: first option, New infrastructures and functionalities (enlarge and make the 6G-Sandbox experimental infrastructure ready for advanced experimentation in upcoming project open calls for experimentation; new 6G features and functionalities should be integrated into the 6G-Sanbox infrastructure); second option, Innovative experiments (initiate first funded innovative experiments on the 6G-Sandbox infrastructure; innovative 6G use cases and KPI measurements are expected to use the 6G-Sandbox infrastructure).
Maximum funding request per proposal: €180,000.
Eligibility and consortia: industry, SMEs, research institutions, and academia. Option 1: €60,000 (if justified, the proposer can request higher amounts) up to €180,000 when composed of three or more participants. Option 2: €20,000 plus maximum of €10,000 reserved budget for equipment or software purchase. A consortium of two organizations can request up to €40,000 plus €10,000 for equipment, if it is composed of a technology provider and a vertical/customer.
Deadline: 19th September 2024.
Wasabi
Call to address advanced functionalities on the implementation of digital assistance solutions, such as: human machine interface for complex processes; agile onboarding of new employees in complex manufacturing systems; conversation AI facilitating data access in different thematic areas; conversation guided maintenance operations.
Maximum funding request per proposal: €125,000.
Eligibility and consortia: single SME.
Deadline: 20th September 2024.
Women TechEU
Programme of support for women founders and entrepreneurs leading deep tech start-ups from Europe to grow into tomorrow’s tech leaders and to put women at the forefront of deep tech in Europe.
Maximum funding request per proposal: €75,000.
Eligibility and consortia: early-stage deep tech start-ups founded, or co-founded, by women holding a top management position (CEO, CTO or equivalent). Women should hold at least 25% of the shares in the company at the time of submission. The company must be registered and established in an EU Member State or a Horizon Europe Associated Country for at least six months at the time of opening of the call and a maximum of eight years.
Deadline: 30th September 2024.
ICOS
Technology providers, particularly SMEs or midcaps, to test and refine their applications and services using the ICOS infrastructure. These projects aim to enhance services in pilot sectors by leveraging ICOS technology, contributing to the development of a seamless IoT, edge, and cloud computing continuum.
Maximum funding request per proposal: €60,000.
Eligibility and consortia: at least two organizations (technology providers SME/midcap).
Deadline: 30th September 2024.
Forwards
Supported projects must establish new or existing European field trials to test forest management and restoration practices addressing climate change mitigation, resilience to disturbances, or biodiversity restoration.
Maximum funding request per proposal: €140,000.
Eligibility and consortia: one legal entity or a consortium of legal entities.
Deadline: 30th September 2024.
Offerr
Proposals within all disciplines and topics of research, development and innovation in the following areas: 1) light water reactor sustainability; 2) advanced fission reactor concepts; 3) waste and decommissioning; 4) nuclear science applications; 5) advanced nuclear fuels; and 6) innovation in nuclear instrumentation.
Maximum funding request per proposal: two types of applications are possible: Fast-track project, €500,000; Complex project, €1 million.
Eligibility and consortia: research and technology organizations. It is mandatory to be a consortium composed of a user and an infrastructure provider.
Deadline: 30th September 2024.
Futural
Selected consortia will receive funding for developing and applying their own original digital smart solution within one of the five following domains: circular bioeconomy, biodiversity and ecosystem management; resilience to shocks; citizen engagement and quality of life; lifelong education and training; climate adaptation and mitigation.
Maximum funding request per proposal: minimum €60,000 and maximum €120,000 (minimum €30,000 euro and maximum €60,000 per each third party).
Eligibility and consortia: small consortia consisting of two to four parties, involving at least one technical party (e.g., SMEs, startups, research organisations) and at least one rural community (e.g., Municipalities, Regional authorities, Development agencies, NGOs etc).
Deadline: 30th September 2024.
PQ-React
To design, develop and validate a framework for a faster and smoother transition from classical to quantum resistant solutions for a wide variety of contexts and usage domains. This framework will include PQC migration paths and cryptographic agility methods and will develop a portfolio of tools (including an actual quantum computer) for validation of post quantum cryptographic systems, that will allow users to switch to quantum resistant cryptography, taking under consideration their individualities and various contexts. This first open call is designed to develop and provide innovative solutions to address the specific challenges of PQ-React use cases in terms of PQC computational complexity and energy efficiency.
Maximum funding request per proposal: €50,000.
Eligibility and consortia: single applicant: start-ups and SMEs; universities and research centers; NGOs and foundations; non-profit organizations and foundations with experience in post-quantum cryptography.
Deadline: 30th September 2024.
aerOS
aerOS aims to establish a common meta operating system that follows a collaborative IoT-edge-cloud architecture supporting flexible deployments (e.g., federated or hierarchical), enabling the distribution of intelligence and computation – including AI, ML, and Big Data analytics – to achieve an optimal solution while satisfying the given constraints. aerOS open call focuses on two main key points: extension of functionalities delivered by aerOS; expansion of application of aerOS in the five use case verticals considered in the project (manufacturing, renewable energy, agriculture, ports, smart buildings).
Maximum funding request per proposal: €60,000.
Eligibility and consortia: single applications of SMEs, universities, research centres (RTOs).
Deadline: 30th September 2024.
SEE Bridge
To strengthen the capacity of social economy, small and medium-sized enterprises operating in energy intensive industries, or in sectors that are part of upstream or downstream value chains in the energy-intensive industry ecosystem, such as aluminium, steel, iron and others, to transition to more resource efficient and energy saving processes and operations in adaptation to Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) legislation.
Maximum funding request per proposal: applicants can choose one or more of the four types of activities that are eligible for funding, within the funding limit (between €4,000 and €8,000): business support services; consulting services for certification or labelling assets (including intellectual property rights); events attendance on CBAM, digital and green transition topics; in-company training(s) on CBAM, and digital and green transition topics.
Eligibility and consortia: SMEs.
Deadline: 1st October 2024.
NGI Fediversity
The Fediversity project is a comprehensive effort to bring easy-to-use, hosted cloud services that have service portability and personal freedom at their core to everyone. The open call offers grants towards solutions that bring the next generation of social networks closer.
Maximum funding request per proposal: between €5,000 and €50,000.
Eligibility and consortia: any entity or individual.
Deadline: 1st October 2024.
NGI Zero Commons
To reclaim the public nature of the internet. It helps to deliver, mature and scale new and existing internet commons across the whole technology spectrum, from libre silicon to middleware, from P2P infrastructure to convenient end user applications.
Maximum funding request per proposal: between €5,000 and €50,000.
Eligibility and consortia: any entity or individual.
Deadline: 1st October 2024.
NGI Taler
Pilot programme with the very concrete objective to roll out a new, best-in-class electronic payment system. It builds on the strong foundations of GNU Taler — the privacy-preserving digital payment system developed by the GNU community and Taler Systems SA.
Maximum funding request per proposal: between €5,000 and €50,000.
Eligibility and consortia: any entity or individual.
Deadline: 1st October 2024.
NGI Mobifree
Pilot programme designed to push beyond the status quo of mobile software, and create a virtuous cycle of innovation through free and open source software, libre hardware and open standards. Funding is available for projects that contribute to the objectives of Mobifree.
Maximum funding request per proposal: between €5,000 and €50,000.
Eligibility and consortia: any entity or individual.
Deadline: 1st October 2024.
NGI Zero Core
It supports the development of free and open source software, libre hardware and open standards that improve the open internet architecture. For example, increasing the performance of the network, adapt it to new application requirements, improve quality of service, make it more resilient to security threats, more energy efficient and respectful of the environment (e.g. repairability, recyclability), and increasingly supportive of open and decentralized technologies and services.
Maximum funding request per proposal: between €5,000 and €50,000.
Eligibility and consortia: any entity or individual.
Deadline: 1st October 2024.
Climaax
To provide access to financial and practical support to carry out regional climate risk assessments. The call is open to applicants from regions and communities interested in assessing multiple climate risks using the Climaax methodological framework and toolbox. Selected projects are expected to involve specialized technical knowledge, where necessary from external services contracted by public authorities.
Maximum funding request per proposal: €300,000.
Eligibility and consortia: public bodies with a mandate to develop climate-related multi-risk assessments and risk management plans in a given region or community; non-profit legal entities.
Deadline: 15th October 2024.
Incaerus
To implement projects aiming to use drones and the services built around them for individual commercial needs and/or community-related issues.
Maximum funding request per proposal: €50,000.
Eligibility and consortia: agri-food producers, environmental monitoring entities and rural communities who are either SMEs or rural community/cooperative.
Deadline: 16th October 2024.
Resilmesh
Projects that can enhance the Resilmesh platform’s capabilities in key areas. The focus is on expanding Resilmesh into new domains and systems, improving its detection and interoperability functions. This includes developing novel OT/IT datasets, advancing asset management through new device integration, and creating innovative analytic algorithms and architectures. Projects that propose new approaches for user and entity behavior analytics, edge AI architectures, or real-time stream processing of security events are highly encouraged. Additionally, proposals that enhance security operations by introducing new mitigation strategies, software actuators for OT networks, or improved XDR (Extended Detection and Response) integration are sought.
Maximum funding request per proposal: €90,000.
Eligibility and consortia: startups, SMEs, and researchers.
Deadline: 16th October 2024.
Nephele
Nephele’s vision is to enable the efficient, reliable and secure end-to-end orchestration of hyper-distributed applications over programmable infrastructure that is spanning across the compute continuum from Cloud-to-Edge-to-IoT, removing existing openness and interoperability barriers in the convergence of IoT technologies against cloud and edge computing orchestration platforms, and introducing automation and decentralized intelligence mechanisms powered by 5G and distributed AI technologies. Applicants are intended to validate the proposed architectural approach and synergetic meta-orchestration framework implementation, based on the development of intelligent orchestration mechanisms and a set of use cases provided by partners outside of the Nephele Consortium in various vertical industries.
Maximum funding request per proposal: €110,000.
Eligibility and consortia: individual industrial entities, such as SMEs (including startups) and midcaps.
Deadline: 20th October 2024.
Inspire
Projects related to the deployment of technology and actions for detection, collection and prevention of litter, including macro- and microplastics, in European rivers.
Maximum funding request per proposal: €60,000-€100,000.
Eligibility and consortia: a local or regional authority.
Deadline: 29th November 2024.
Ready2Scale
Six-month long acceleration program that provides various training and financial support to 25 DDT startups with a focus on widening countries. Startups that have been selected to participate in the Acceleration Program, based on selection criteria developed by the project partners, will receive an individual development plan that meets their needs and helps them overcome specific challenges.
Maximum funding request per proposal: €60,000 euros.
Eligibility and consortia: be “digital and deep tech start-ups that have received support from the EIC for supporting their scaleup process in Europe”, or “digital and deep tech startups not yet supported by the EIC, that have already received private investment or EU funding (e.g., under Horizon Europe or the Digital Europe program)”.
Deadline: 30th November 2024.
Ingenious
Ingenious is offering 100 training grants, to help SMEs improve their digital skills, green transition, resilience preparedness and reskilling and upskilling of the workforce.
Maximum funding request per proposal: €60,000 per SME. Applicants can apply only for one training (worth €250).
Eligibility and consortia: individual SMEs.
Deadline: 14th February 2025.
Circuloos
The Circuloos expression of interest aims to involve supply chain actors from diverse manufacturing sectors in creating innovative circular supply chains. It will promote collaboration, enabling participants to form value chains and apply for future funding in upcoming open calls 2 (scheduled to launch in February 2025) and 3. Participants will also receive support through matchmaking and informational activities to help them secure up to €240,000 in funding per team.
Maximum funding request per proposal: €60,000 per partner (60% of the eligible costs for profit making entities).
Eligibility and consortia: consortia of two up to four entities.
Deadline: 31st March 2025.
EITUM-BP23-25
Call to address gaps in our innovation portfolio related to business plans and strategic agendas, as well as respond to external changes such as technological advancements, policies, and urgent events. The 2nd cut-off-related topics and requirements should be announced in October 2024 (two months prior to the deadline). Always, at least the following two mandatory tasks shall be included: to develop a new product/service/solution or significantly improve an existing product/service/solution, reaching full market readiness by the end of the project (TRL 8/9); to conduct a demonstration of the product/service/solution. Additional mandatory/optional tasks may be defined in relation to the different topics, as appropriate.
Maximum funding request per proposal: total EIT funding for this call: €4,2 million euros. A minimum co-funding rate of 33%. However, the co-funding rate may differ from one cut-off to the next. For applicants applying for topics addressing solely RIS countries, a co-funding rate of 20% may apply. Additional co-funding will be positively assessed.
Eligibility and consortia: organisations from Member States of the EU.
Deadline: 31st December 2025.