European Partnership on Innovative SMEs
Partnership on Innovative SMEs · HORIZON-COFUND · Needs partners
What this call funds
This call funds a single large coordination initiative that brings together national and regional funding bodies to run joint calls for cross border research and innovation projects led by innovative SMEs. It aims to help SMEs access new international markets, attract more public funding, and align national support programmes so SMEs can grow and compete globally. The money supports both direct SME research grants and coordination activities between national funding agencies.
sme scaleup · regional development · research excellence
Who wins this
This call suits a large consortium of national and regional funding bodies and implementation agencies aiming to jointly coordinate and co fund international SME research collaboration across Europe and beyond.
Could you win this call?
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The call in detail
- Indicative grant size
- €72.9M
- Funding model
- Budget-based. Reimbursement of actual eligible costs
- Submission
- Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
- Partners
- Required. The call asks for a consortium: from 2 countries.
- Eligible applicants
- public body, national funding body
- Funding rate
- 30% of eligible costs
- Support to third parties
- Beneficiaries may provide financial support to third parties in the form of grants, with no cap from the EUR 60,000 Financial Regulation threshold since this is a primary activity.
- Also required
- The granting authority can fund a maximum of one project, and a substantial majority of supported projects must involve at least two beneficiaries from Member States or Associated Countries.
- Eligible countries (45)
- Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Israel, Türkiye, Ukraine, Serbia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Georgia, Armenia, Moldova, Tunisia, New Zealand
Read the full conditions from the official call ›
General conditions General conditions 1. Admissibility conditions: described in Annex A and Annex E of the Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System 2. Eligible countries: described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide. 3. Other eligibility conditions: described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes 4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion: described in Annex C of the Work Programme General Annexes The granting authority can fund a maximum of one project. Award criteria, scoring and thresholds are described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes Submission and evaluation processes are described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes and the Online Manual Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement: described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes The starting date of grants awarded under this topic may be as of the submission date of the application. Applicants must justify the need for a retroactive starting date in their application. Costs incurred from the starting date of the action may be considered eligible. The funding rate is 30 % of the eligible costs. Beneficiaries may provide financial support to third parties. The support to third parties can only be provided in the form of grants. Financial support provided by the participants to third parties is one of the primary activities of this action in order to be able to achieve its objectives. The EUR 60 000 threshold provided for in Article 204(a) of the Financial Regulation No 2018/1046 does not apply. 6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants: described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes Specific conditions 7. Specific conditions: described in the specific topic of the Work Programme