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Nordic Innovators supports deep tech startups and innovative SMEs throughout their funding journey with tailored strategic advisory services on financing their R&D and innovation projects. We take the lead on the preparation and submission of a high-quality written application and our collaborative approach ensures timely delivery of a strong application. Our services also include:
Innovation Fund
The Innovation Fund is one of the world’s largest funding programmes for the demonstration of innovative low-carbon technologies. The Innovation Fund supports grants for projects aiming at commercial deployment of innovative low-carbon technologies, with the objective of bringing to the market industrial solutions to decarbonise Europe and support its transition to climate neutrality. In addition, the Fund has a technical assistance component which allows unsuccessful proposals that meet certain conditions to benefit from project development assistance (PDA) support by the European Investment Bank.
What technologies are supported?
- Production and use of renewable energy, including manufacturing plants for components
- Carbon capture use and storage
- Energy-intensive industries, including substitute products
- Energy storage, including manufacturing plants for components
Grant details
For Small-Scale Projects, applicants can get up to 60% of the total project capital expenditure. Project size needs to be higher than EUR 2.5 million and less than EUR 7.5 million. The budget is EUR 100 million per call. Below an illustration of the project timeline:
Evaluation criteria
EU Innovation Fund proposals are evaluated according to six criteria
- Degree of innovation
- GHG emission avoidance potential
- Project maturity
- Scalability
- Cost efficiency
- Quality and credibility of the cost calculation (New!)
Deadline 2023
Next call for small-scale project is expected in April 2023 and the deadline is then expected in September 2023.

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Why Choose Nordic Innovators to Advice you...
Because we are at the forefront of developing winning applications for Horizon Europe. Since 2014 we have developed +50 winning proposals and secured our clients over €70 million in funding from EIC Accelerator programme alone.
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