All open callsCASCADE FUNDING
Call for Proposals 2026
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Run by EIT HEI
13 Jan 2027
Deadline
€40M
Total for all companies
What this call funds
This call helps universities and higher education institutions build stronger entrepreneurship and innovation capacity. It supports connecting research and technology to the expertise, infrastructure, investment and markets needed to bring deep tech innovations toward commercialisation and industrial application. Projects run for 18 months.
deep tech · education skills · advanced manufacturing · research excellence
Who wins this
A higher education institution or consortium of institutions looking to strengthen entrepreneurial education and translate deep tech research into industrial and commercial outcomes.
Could you win this call?
Only the website is required.
The call in detail
- Submission
- Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
- Type of action
- Cascade funding
- Partners
- Not stated in the call.
- Eligible applicants
- higher education institution
- Also required
- Projects must run for 18 months and applications are submitted via the official EIT HEI portal in two parts, Technical Information and Narrative Content.
- 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
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