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Proof of Concept & Technology Validation Call
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Run by EIT Food · TRL 4 to 9
18 Jan 2027
Deadline
€930k
Total for all companies
What this call funds
This call from EIT Food helps biotech start-ups move their technology closer to market. It offers two routes, one for earlier stage technologies that need validation, infrastructure access and industry partnerships, and one for more mature technologies that need larger scale demonstration and industrial co financing to reach commercial deployment. Your technology's current maturity level decides which route you can apply to, and you can only pick one.
biotechnology · bioeconomy · sme scaleup
Who wins this
A biotech start-up with a technology between TRL 4 and 9 looking to validate or demonstrate its solution with industry partners on the path to commercialisation.
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
- startup
- Also required
- The applicant's technology TRL at the call deadline determines whether it falls under the Validation route (TRL 4-6) or Demonstrator route (TRL 7-9), and the same technology cannot apply to both routes.
- 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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