There are plenty of open European calls for startups and businesses to submit your application at the moment.
The EU needs more entrepreneurs and innovators to realise their best ideas into products and services and create more jobs.
For that reason, Europe has been very keen on supporting entrepreneurship over the years and still is. Startups and businesses drive Europe’s growth, sustainability and inclusion.
Are you looking for EU funding calls for your startup or business? Then, you have come to the right place.
On EUcalls, you will find hundreds of open calls for startups and businesses from all European programmes to apply. It also has a community of more than 8,500 experienced EU partners with whom you can collaborate and form partnerships.
Let’s explore some of the open calls for startups and businesses that you can find in our directory.
6 open funding calls for your startup or business
Title: EIT RawMaterials - Booster Call for Startups and SMEs 2022
Description: Minerals, metals and advanced materials are key enablers to achieve the objectives of the European Green Deal. Today, only a fraction of the most relevant raw materials is produced in Europe. This can be changed through a circular economy approach, through innovation in recycling, substitution, processing, mining, and exploration. It is the objective of EIT RawMaterials to secure a sustainable raw materials supply by driving innovation, education, and entrepreneurship across European industrial ecosystems.
EIT RawMaterials provides a collaborative environment for disruptive and breakthrough innovations by connecting more than 140 core and associate partners and 150+ project partners from business with academia, research, and investment. It also invests in future generation of innovators for the raw materials sector through initiatives ranging from education of school students to higher qualifications for industry professionals.
The company is committed to supporting Europe’s transition towards a circular, green, and digital economy whilst strengthening its global competitiveness and securing employment. On this foundation, EIT RawMaterials has been mandated by the European Commission to lead and manage the European Raw Materials Alliance (ERMA). EIT RawMaterials is an Innovation Community within the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). There are six regional Innovation Hubs (CLCs) in Belgium, Finland, France, Italy, Poland and Sweden, that represent different regional ecosystems connecting industry, research and education. EIT RawMaterials aims to significantly enhance innovation in the raw materials sector by sharing knowledge, facilitating matchmaking activities, developing innovative technologies such as business logo makers for entrepreneurs and supporting business creation.
- to speed up a technology challenge resulting in a higher TRL, bringing the technology closer to the market.
- to accelerate market introduction by taking key measures to enable solid entry of a target market.
- to facilitate product portfolio diversification, enabling product adaption or new product features to address a concrete market need.
Deadline: 5/9/2022
Title: EIT Digital Challenge - Scale up your deep tech business
Description: The top 20 companies will be invited to an exclusive event to pitch in front of a panel of experts and investors as well as participate in the matchmaking sessions with invited corporates and investors.
The winners will receive waived entry into the 12-month Accelerator Program worth EUR 50 000. They will get dedicated services in international Access to Finance and Business Development by the EIT Digital Accelerator team.
We’re looking for fast-growing European ‘deep tech’ companies with a differentiating product offering that leverages sophisticated, hard-to-reproduce digital technologies.
The EIT Digital Challenge aims to identify the best European deep tech entrepreneurs and help them scale up internationally, supporting the European deep tech ecosystem.
Since its launch in 2014, the competition has attracted thousands of applications from more than 33 European countries. Many of the winning scale-ups have moved on to become internationally successful companies. Now it’s your turn to shine!
Deadline: 19/9/2022
Title: EIT Digital - Entrepreneurial Academy 2023
Description: Submit your proposal to the EIT Digital Entrepreneurial Academy 2023 to develop and deploy with us education programmes and courses in deep-tech technologies with business development-oriented components.
In 2023, EIT Digital is looking for education providers in Europe to jointly develop and deliver:
- One-week summer programmes that combine state-of-the-art excellence in key digital technologies and societal applications with expertise in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Short continuing education courses that address the upskilling and reskilling needs of European professionals in the context of the global digital transformation
The work programme is guided by the EIT Digital Strategic Innovation Agenda 2022-2024, which identifies the five focus areas of our strategy: Digital Tech, Digital Industry, Digital Cities, Digital Wellbeing and Digital Finance.
Selected education programmes will be included in EIT Digital’s portfolio of Summer School programmes and respectively Professional School courses, delivered in partnership with training providers from EIT Digital’s pan-European ecosystem of over 350 partners from research and academia, business and industry, investment, and the public sector.
Engage in the largest European digital education ecosystem and benefit from Entrepreneurial Academy 2023!
The EIT Digital Entrepreneurial Academy encourages the submission of the education proposals by European training providers such as universities, business, education and research organisations.
- Summer School proposals should present a one-week training programme for Master students, PhD students, young professionals and others who want to deep dive into emerging technologies, learn how to create new businesses using these technologies or upskill their careers. The programmes should be designed for a minimum capacity of 40 participants. A strong and impactful proposal should present evidence of the attractiveness of the topic based on market studies of learning needs, as well as an easily accessible location in Europe with the potential to attract many participants.
- Professional School proposals should present courses that provide a broad-based, practical introduction to the main concepts and practices in each field, combined with practical insights ready to be applied directly to the workplace. The courses should be delivered twice per year as open-enrolment courses and flexible in format to cater to in-company (B2B) delivery. Proposers must commit to an equal revenue share with EIT Digital and need to provide details on how they will support EIT Digital in the marketing and sales campaign.
If your proposal is selected, EIT Digital will co-invest in your plan to jointly develop and deploy education programmes and courses focused on deep-tech technologies and including business development-oriented components. Accepted proposals should be ready to start in January 2023.
Deadline: 19/9/2022
Description: A new call/invitation to submit a proposal under the Standardisation strand of the SMP was launched on 30 June 2022, with deadline for applications on 27 September 2022. A total budget of €4.9 million is available for 4 topics.
The Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council on European standardisation, adopted on 25 October 2012 (the Regulation) emphasises the importance of the participation of all relevant interested parties including SMEs and societal and social stakeholders in the European standardisation process.
Standards are important tools for the competitiveness of undertakings and especially SMEs, whose participation in the standardisation process is important for technological progress in the Union.
Furthermore, standards can have a broad impact on society, in particular on the safety and well-being of citizens, the efficiency of networks, the environment, workers’ safety and working conditions, accessibility and other public policy fields. However, standards are written by technical experts who represent the fields of activity of the companies which these experts work for. It is therefore important for the EU to facilitate and support the participation of experts representing background and interests of SMEs and societal and social stakeholders in the standardisation process, especially in the European context where European standards play a very important role in supporting EU legislations and EU policies.
Historically, the participation of SMEs and societal and social stakeholders had been supported by different EU programmes. The Regulation has put the inclusiveness of the European standardisation process as a priority and unified the legal basis for the role, the establishment and the financing of European stakeholder’s organisations in standardisation.
The following beneficiaries are identified for funding under this invitation to submit a proposal:
- Small Business Standards (SBS)
- The European Association for the Co-ordination of Consumer Representation in Standardisation (ANEC)
- The European Environmental Organisation for Standardisation (ECOS)
- The European Trade Union Confederation (CES ETUC)
Deadline: 27/9/2022
Title: Towards local community-driven business models: regenerative ocean farming
Description: This topic aims at supporting the development of sustainable locally-led initiatives for regenerative ocean farming, accelerating their uptake, anticipating and planning necessary future investments. Activities will focus on assessing the technical and operational feasibility as well as the economic viability of site-specific community-driven regenerative ocean farming initiatives.
The “community-driven” approach under this topic puts strong emphasis on skills and capacity of coastal communities and relevant actors to manage the natural resources they depend upon in a sustainable way, as well as on the establishment of partnerships and cooperation to build local expertise and enhance knowledge that will support the community. This, in turn, will contribute to preserve and protect marine and coastal habitats, build climate change resilience, develop livelihood opportunities and stimulate investments.
Activities under this topic will, therefore, contribute to the achievement of Mission Objective 3 “Making the blue economy sustainable, carbon neutral and circular” by fostering technological, socio-economic and human-centric transformations in “blue” sectors in Europe whilst protecting and preserving blue natural capital (Mission Objective 1).
Regenerative ocean farming is a form of mariculture that involves restoration and regeneration of seaweed forest habitats and/or other marine habitats in nearshore or offshore ocean environment, following sustainable mariculture principles such as marine permaculture, with zero feeds and fertilisers inputs in the system, with the effect of sequestration of carbon and nutrients and restoration of coastal and marine ecosystems.
Regenerative ocean farming may include seaweed and/or combinations of seaweed, shellfish and/or other low trophic organisms.
Deadline: 27/9/2022
Title: EIC Scale Up 100
Description: The EIC Scaleup 100 should help identify a cohort of 100 deep-tech companies from the portfolio of EIC supported startups as well as from similar programmes at EU level (such as the Digital Europe Programme and the EIT) and at Member State and Associated Country level, with the potential to scale up as global leaders or potential unicorns. Taking into account the diversity of national programmes, this action is also open to companies not being supported by national programmes as long as they meet the requirements for scaling up.
The initiative should provide a package of support including bespoke networking, access to finance, internationalisation and marketing to these potential European unicorns. It should also provide support to the selected companies regarding emerging scaling up issues in an agile way. For topics where acting at EU level would be required, it can contribute in an open, constructive and proactive way to the EIC Forum discussions and workshops. The iniative shoud leverage existing networks in the startup domain (such as the Startup Europe and the Europe Startup Nations Alliance)93 and capitalise on established methodologies. Links to national programmes and efforts to provide support for scaleup companies should be promoted, including through providing networking and best practice. The initiative should play a proactive role to help the EU to build growth, expertise and leadership in the field of scaling up companies. The number of 100 promising companies is targeted for ensuring a critical mass of companies having the potential to become Unicorns. The final aim is to have at least ten to twenty companies being on a sustainable path of reaching the status of a Unicorn at the end of the project.
Deadline: 05/10/2022
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