EU Funding - Ideal for Innovative Companies
The EU fuels innovation through diverse funding opportunities, turning visionary ideas into reality.
Horizon Europe is EU's ambitious EUR 100 billion R&D&I programme committed to support innovation and research excellence. It emphasizes on disruptive innovations, breakthrough technologies, and high-impact solutions addressing global challenges within industries such as cities, agriculture, digital, energy and oceans!
CINEA (European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency) manages various European funding programmes and initiatives dedicated to promote sustainability, climate resilience and green infrastructure. CINEA serves as a catalyst for channelling financial resources and expertise to projects that have a lasting impact on our environment and society.
EUREKA Clusters are industry-driven, thematic programmes supporting international cooperation in research, development, and innovation across more than 45 countries. Funding for these clusters comes from national sources, but projects may align with EU priorities and receive indirect EU support from Horizon Europe.
Popular EU Funding Programmes
Aimed for international projects that accelerate marketable innovative products. It is entry point enabling SMEs to merge and share expertise across borders. The consortium must have partners based in at least two different Eurostars countries. Funding average ranges of 50-75% of project costs.
The European Defence Fund allocates €1.065 billion to boost defence innovation in 33 call topics across 7 thematic and 2 non-thematic areas. EDF also aims to strengthen EU-wide R&D, build partnerships, maximize defence spending in the EU, and foster competitiveness, disruptive tech, and resilience in Europe.
It gives grants and equity funding to innovative startups and SMEs with high impact/risk products or services. A unique combination of funding from €0.5 to 17.5 million to support innovative, products, services or business models that can create new markets or disrupt existing ones. New application process - 3 main stages.
The programme consists of a combination of both open and challenge driven funding. It supports the exploration of bold ideas for radically new technologies and welcomes the high-risk and interdisciplinary cutting-edge science collaborations that underpin technological breakthroughs.
This programme gives funding to turn research results into innovation opportunities. The goal is to help mature the technologies and develop business cases for the future commercialization. This can be in any field of science/technology and deal with specific challenges in various strategic fields.
The dedicated STEP Scale Up call supports fast-growing SMEs and small mid-caps in transforming breakthrough prototypes into globally competitive industrial leaders. The focus is on quantum technologies, advanced semiconductors and other critical deep-tech enablers. You can also apply as an investor or PLC.
The European Chips Act will unlock unprecedented funding to support the semiconductor sector across Europe. As of the recent global chips shortage, the European Chips Act will mobilise up to EUR 43 billion of public and private investments through 2030 to bolster Europe’s research, technology and industry in semiconductors.
The EUROGIA2030 programme is part of the EUREKA network, which supports international R&D collaborations to tackle energy challenges. Through its 5Ds Strategy, it promotes low-carbon technologies to help achieve EU climate neutrality by 2050. It is a two-step application process.
Xecs is a EUREKA Cluster call focused on collaborative and innovative projects in electronic components and systems (ECS). The focus is on sustainable digital transformation, and the call gives extensive opportunity to generate project ideas, build collaborative consortia, and carry out projects.