EU Funding Programmes
Ideal Opportunities for Innovative Companies
Horizon Europe is EU's ambitious EUR 100 billion research and innovation programme that aims to boost the economy, create jobs and improve lives. It funds ground-breaking research and innovation within the industries of cities, agriculture, digital, energy and oceans - the green transition plays a major role!
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Having an innovative idea that addresses one or more focus areas of the EC policies is an indispensable condition for being successful in the grant application process. The many programmes aim to turn Europe into an innovation union. Over the last 30 years, EU has invested more than EUR 200 billion in research and innovation across Europe so innovative companies can "de-risk" and attract private investors.
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Great Success with EU Programmes
CaseTada Medical has successfully received grants from the three major EU funding programmes. A great achievement as the competition for grants is intense and only a handful SMEs accomplish this!
Read the case story about Tada MedicalThe Most popular EU funding programmes

EIC Accelerator
Provides 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 that aims to increase support for innovations, products, services or business models, with the potential to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.
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EU Innovation Fund
This fund focuses on innovative low-carbon technologies and processes in energy intensive industries, including products substituting carbon intensive ones incl. carbon capture and utilisation, innovative renewable energy generation and storage. It has a special programme for small-scale projects with total capital costs under €7.5 million.
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Eurostars
Aimed for international projects that boost rapidly marketable innovative products. Eurostars is an ideal first step enabling SMEs to combine and share expertise beyond national borders. The consortium must have partners based in at least two different Eurostars countries. Funding on average is in the range of 50-75% of project costs.
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EIC Pathfinder
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.
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EIC Transition
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.
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