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The next evolution of cheese alternatives has arrived: Bold, delicious, and anything but ordinary. Lidl in Germany, in partnership with ProVeg Incubator, is on a mission to discover exceptional cheese alternatives in Europe and other eligible regions!
Do you have a product or technology that will make a mark and become the new consumer favourite? If so, you could win the chance to have your product listed in selected Lidl stores in Germany under Lidl's Vemondo brand, bringing your creation to thousands of customers.
Do you have a product or technology that will make a mark and become the new consumer favourite? If so, you could win the chance to have your product listed in selected Lidl stores in Germany under Lidl's Vemondo brand, bringing your creation to thousands of customers.
Start Date17 Mar 2025 End Date27 Apr 2025 Funding AmountN/A Funding Resource TypePartnerships
Funding ProviderLidl Germany,ProVeg Incubator
Partnerships
Lidl Germany,ProVeg Incubator
Clean Air Fund is seeking opportunities to support a pilot implementation project with a focus on reducing black carbon emissions through promotion of sustainable space heating solutions in rural and urban areas of the Himalayan, Andes and/or other vulnerable Cryosphere regions. Interested implementation agencies, grassroot organisations, research institutes, civil society/non-governmental organisations and consortia are encouraged to submit an expression of interest for this funding.
End Date27 Apr 2025 Funding AmountUpto USD 500k Funding Resource TypeRequest for Proposal (RFP)
Funding ProviderClean Air Fund
Request for Proposal (RFP)
Clean Air Fund
RDA Europe, under the umbrella of the RDA TIGER project, is currently running an open call for Cascading Grant proposals. Cascading Grants are a European Commission mechanism that aims to distribute public funding to assist beneficiaries in the uptake or development of innovative outputs. With these grants, RDA Europe hopes to enhance the activities of RDA Working Groups through the adoption and further development of Working Group outputs. With a focus on outputs that lead to impact on the Open Science landscape, the Cascading Grants will ultimately contribute to the interoperability of Open Science solutions within the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).
End Date27 Apr 2025 Funding AmountUSD 10k to 16k Funding Resource TypeGrant
Funding ProviderResearch Data Alliance (RDA)
Grant
Research Data Alliance (RDA)
This Challenge calls for innovative solutions that enable multigenerational financial resilience, equitable healthy ageing and fulfilment across longer multi-stage lives in Asia.
Start Date26 Mar 2025 End Date28 Apr 2025 Funding AmountUpto CAD 200k Funding Resource TypeGrant
Funding ProviderWEF uplink and partners
Grant
WEF uplink and partners
The GovTech Innovation Exchange enables the Federal Administration to look for innovative solutions to the current challenges of digital transformation. Various Federal Administration offices have submitted examples of such challenges (see below). The Federal Chancellery is looking for start-ups that are developing solutions to these challenges.
The Federal Administration can test new ideas by developing prototypes or carrying out pilot tests. For their part, start-ups offer innovative approaches but have less market visibility than traditional providers.
To enable start-ups and Federal Administration offices to develop innovative solutions together, the DTI Sector of the Federal Chancellery is organising another Innovation Exchange in 2025. By doing so, the Federal Administration is responding to a request from Parliament to examine innovative ideas and implement them quickly where appropriate.
The Innovation Exchange offers start-ups the opportunity to engage in dialogue with offices of the Federal Administration. In return, this dialogue provides participating offices with an overview of highly innovative solutions available on the market. The ideas developed during the Innovation Exchange may then lead to concrete implementation orders.
The Federal Administration can test new ideas by developing prototypes or carrying out pilot tests. For their part, start-ups offer innovative approaches but have less market visibility than traditional providers.
To enable start-ups and Federal Administration offices to develop innovative solutions together, the DTI Sector of the Federal Chancellery is organising another Innovation Exchange in 2025. By doing so, the Federal Administration is responding to a request from Parliament to examine innovative ideas and implement them quickly where appropriate.
The Innovation Exchange offers start-ups the opportunity to engage in dialogue with offices of the Federal Administration. In return, this dialogue provides participating offices with an overview of highly innovative solutions available on the market. The ideas developed during the Innovation Exchange may then lead to concrete implementation orders.
End Date28 Apr 2025 Funding AmountVaries Funding Resource TypePartnerships
Funding ProviderBundeskanzlei BK,Digital Switzerland,Venturelab
Partnerships
Bundeskanzlei BK,Digital Switzerland,Venturelab
ValNAM is aimed at the validation/qualification of existing animal-free, human-relevant innovations in a regulatory context.
This call aims to fund the validation of new approach methods in a regulatory context, with the ultimate goal to implement new animal-free, human relevant methods as OECD guidelines or establish qualified methods to be used in efficacy testings for new pharmaceuticals.
In this regard, projects are expected to increase in technology readiness level (TRL) during the duration of the project, thus enabling them to prepare documentation for a timely regulatory evaluation and approval, if feasible.
This call aims to fund the validation of new approach methods in a regulatory context, with the ultimate goal to implement new animal-free, human relevant methods as OECD guidelines or establish qualified methods to be used in efficacy testings for new pharmaceuticals.
In this regard, projects are expected to increase in technology readiness level (TRL) during the duration of the project, thus enabling them to prepare documentation for a timely regulatory evaluation and approval, if feasible.
End Date28 Apr 2025 Funding AmountUpto EUR 600k Funding Resource TypeGrant
Funding ProviderZonMw
Grant
ZonMw
Piloting access to shared Research Infrastructures at pan-European scale to reinforce capacities and support the transformation of the blue economy
The Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership is launching the first call for access to Research Infrastructures [2025 TA Call to RIs], enabling applicants from the pan-European blue economy community to submit a proposal for utilising the Research Infrastructures (RIs) made available by providers partners of the Partnership. The call aims to implement the Partnership’s Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) by addressing key intervention areas, supporting internationalisation, and promoting Open Data and Open Science. It seeks to enhance innovation, align national investments with EU strategies, and improve operational efficiency by optimising the use and sharing of RIs.
The Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership is launching the first call for access to Research Infrastructures [2025 TA Call to RIs], enabling applicants from the pan-European blue economy community to submit a proposal for utilising the Research Infrastructures (RIs) made available by providers partners of the Partnership. The call aims to implement the Partnership’s Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) by addressing key intervention areas, supporting internationalisation, and promoting Open Data and Open Science. It seeks to enhance innovation, align national investments with EU strategies, and improve operational efficiency by optimising the use and sharing of RIs.
End Date29 Apr 2025 Funding AmountUnknown Funding Resource TypeResearch Grant
Funding ProviderSustainable Blue Economy Partnership
Research Grant
Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership
Unlocking urgent climate action by making the health effects of climate change visible.
The aim of this scheme is to make the impacts of climate change on physical and mental health visible to drive urgent climate policy action at scale. We will fund transdisciplinary teams to deliver short-term, high-impact projects that maximise policy outcomes by combining evidence generation with influencing and engagement strategies.
The aim of this scheme is to make the impacts of climate change on physical and mental health visible to drive urgent climate policy action at scale. We will fund transdisciplinary teams to deliver short-term, high-impact projects that maximise policy outcomes by combining evidence generation with influencing and engagement strategies.
Start Date06 Feb 2025 End Date30 Apr 2025 Funding AmountUpto GBP 2.5mn Funding Resource TypeResearch Grant
Funding ProviderWellcome
Research Grant
Wellcome
The Luxury Innovation Awards are the global stage for visionary brands and innovators transforming the luxury industry. Launched in 2020, it has grown into a prestigious platform connecting creativity, innovation, and sustainability with the evolving needs of luxury.
Held annually in Geneva, Switzerland, the Awards bring together global leaders, investors, and innovators to recognize groundbreaking solutions in sustainability, digital transformation, craftsmanship, and customer experience. Finalists compete live at the Luxury Innovation Summit, presenting their ideas to an influential jury of industry pioneers.
Held annually in Geneva, Switzerland, the Awards bring together global leaders, investors, and innovators to recognize groundbreaking solutions in sustainability, digital transformation, craftsmanship, and customer experience. Finalists compete live at the Luxury Innovation Summit, presenting their ideas to an influential jury of industry pioneers.
Start Date06 Feb 2025 End Date30 Apr 2025 Funding AmountN/A Funding Resource TypeVisibility
Funding ProviderLuxury Innovation Summit & Awards
Visibility
Luxury Innovation Summit & Awards
The goal of this new fund is to help deliver, mature and scale new internet commons across the whole technology spectrum, from libre silicon to middleware, from P2P infrastructure to convenient end user applications. We have a holistic, full-stack approach, simply because there is no other way. If we want to reclaim the public nature of the internet and yield the full benefits from technology as a society, we need to have full coverage — period.
Start Date01 Mar 2025 End Date30 Apr 2025 Funding AmountEUR 5k to 50k Funding Resource TypeGrant
Funding ProviderNLnet foundation
Grant
NLnet foundation
Mobifree is a pilot programme designed to push beyond the status quo of mobile software, and create a virtuous cycle of innovation through free and open source software, libre hardware and open standards. It has brought together a number of the "movers and shakers" of the open mobile ecosystem, in order to deliver a comprehensive development effort and advance a number of important free and open source technologies.
Start Date01 Mar 2025 End Date30 Apr 2025 Funding AmountEUR 5k to 50k Funding Resource TypeGrant
Funding ProviderNLnet foundation
Grant
NLnet foundation
Falling Walls fosters discussion on research and innovation and promotes the latest scientific findings among a broad audience from all parts of society. We look forward to honouring the people who are finding solutions to these challenges at the Falling Walls Science Summit 2025.
Start Date03 Mar 2025 End Date30 Apr 2025 Funding AmountN/A Funding Resource TypeVisibility
Funding ProviderFalling Walls
Visibility
Falling Walls
Giga is excited to announce our inaugural competition with the theme "The Joy of Connection".
Giga is a partnership between UNICEF and ITU that aims to connect every school in the world to the Internet. At Giga, we understand that photography, when coupled with the internet, is a powerful tool of connecting us with the world.
This is why we aim to launch the Giga Photo Contest, based in Geneva, on the theme, "The Joy of Connection", to highlight the role internet connectivity plays in providing information, opportunity, and choice.
Giga is a partnership between UNICEF and ITU that aims to connect every school in the world to the Internet. At Giga, we understand that photography, when coupled with the internet, is a powerful tool of connecting us with the world.
This is why we aim to launch the Giga Photo Contest, based in Geneva, on the theme, "The Joy of Connection", to highlight the role internet connectivity plays in providing information, opportunity, and choice.
Start Date01 Apr 2025 End Date30 Apr 2025 Funding AmountUSD 500 to 3k Funding Resource TypeAward
Funding ProviderGiga,UNICEF,ITU
Award
Giga,UNICEF,ITU
ELIAS is looking for projects based on AI applications that engage with the network in the categories “Methodology”, “Software/Tools”, “Benchmarks” relevant but not limited to the use cases of ELIAS (see list below) in the scope of AI for Sustainability. ELIAS is focused on 3 research spheres but applications are not limited to them as long as the proposals will address high-impact societal and economic challenges using machine learning.
The European Lighthouse of AI for Sustainability (ELIAS) unites top artificial intelligence researchers and innovators to tackle some of the most pressing challenges of our time, including climate and societal changes and the energy crisis. Recognizing AI as both a powerful tool and a discipline with profound ethical and societal implications, ELIAS is committed to advancing responsible AI research and applications.
The European Lighthouse of AI for Sustainability (ELIAS) unites top artificial intelligence researchers and innovators to tackle some of the most pressing challenges of our time, including climate and societal changes and the energy crisis. Recognizing AI as both a powerful tool and a discipline with profound ethical and societal implications, ELIAS is committed to advancing responsible AI research and applications.
End Date30 Apr 2025 Funding AmountUpto EUR 60k Funding Resource TypeGrant
Funding ProviderELIAS - European Lighthouse of AI for Sustainability
Grant
ELIAS - European Lighthouse of AI for Sustainability
Transforming well-being and creating equal opportunities together. Connecting mission-driven startups to the knowledge, networks, and resources they need to scale.
NN Social Innovation Startup Award returns during The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam on June 19. Finalists will pitch their ventures live on stage and receive tailored support to scale their impact.
https://thenextweb.com/
We’re not just hosting a pitch event. We’re building a community of founders, investors and partners committed to reshaping access to well-being. Together, we’re closing the gap—startup by startup.
NN Social Innovation Startup Award returns during The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam on June 19. Finalists will pitch their ventures live on stage and receive tailored support to scale their impact.
https://thenextweb.com/
We’re not just hosting a pitch event. We’re building a community of founders, investors and partners committed to reshaping access to well-being. Together, we’re closing the gap—startup by startup.
End Date30 Apr 2025 Funding AmountEUR 100k Funding Resource TypeAward
Funding ProviderRubio Impact Ventures
Award
Rubio Impact Ventures
CICE has launched Canada’s first CDR funding opportunity, with $3 million in non-dilutive investment available to Canadian-based innovators driving early-stage, hard-tech carbon dioxide removal solutions to decarbonize B.C. and Canada.
Through this call, CICE invites Canadian-based climate tech companies focused on the development of engineered and hybrid CDR projects in Canada to apply.
Through this call, CICE invites Canadian-based climate tech companies focused on the development of engineered and hybrid CDR projects in Canada to apply.
End Date30 Apr 2025 Funding AmountUpto USD 3mn Funding Resource TypeGrant
Funding ProviderB.C. Centre for Innovation and Clean Energy (CICE)
Grant
B.C. Centre for Innovation and Clean Energy (CICE)
AI Discovery by Nebius is an annual award for startups that are leveraging AI to revolutionize drug discovery, biotechnology, genomics and healthtech.
Our mission is to spotlight new technologies, foster collaboration between startups and potential investors and propel the next generation of breakthroughs in healthcare.
Apply till 30.04.2025 and compete for $100 000 in cloud credits.
Our mission is to spotlight new technologies, foster collaboration between startups and potential investors and propel the next generation of breakthroughs in healthcare.
Apply till 30.04.2025 and compete for $100 000 in cloud credits.
End Date30 Apr 2025 Funding AmountUSD 30k to 100k Funding Resource TypeCloud Credits
Funding ProviderNebius
Cloud Credits
Nebius
TATA Social Enterprise Challenge, is a joint initiative by the TATA Sons and the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM Calcutta), a National Level challenge to find India’s most promising social enterprises. Also aimed at raising awareness about Social Entrepreneurship, TATA Social Enterprise Challenge aims to encourage the youth to step up to be the next generation of social entrepreneurs.
End Date30 Apr 2025 Funding AmountINR 25 Lakh Funding Resource TypeGrant
Funding ProviderTata Sons
Grant
Tata Sons
This challenge is dedicated to supporting groundbreaking ideas that enhance the physical and emotional well-being of patients while improving their relationships with family, medical staff, and fellow patients. The competition focuses on fostering emerging concepts rather than established technologies, with the ultimate goal of enriching patients' quality of life.
End Date30 Apr 2025 Funding AmountUpto CHF 25k Funding Resource TypeInnovation Award
Funding ProviderDebiopharm,Inartis,La Solution.ch
Innovation Award
Debiopharm,Inartis,La Solution.ch
EIT Food, through AMPLE programme, is distributing (30) Boost Vouchers of €2,300 to agrifood SMEs and startups to help businesses improve their businesses to ensure a healthier, fairer and a more sustainable food industry. APPLICATIONS BEFORE 30 APRIL 2025, 23:59 PM CEST.
In line with EIT Food’s mission, Healthier Lives Through Food, EIT Food, through the AMPLE programme, offers 30 grants of €2,300 for agrifood SMEs and startups with economic activity in Madrid. Beneficiaries must use these funds to address the issue of food insecurity, such as improving their production processes or innovating the properties of a food product.
In line with EIT Food’s mission, Healthier Lives Through Food, EIT Food, through the AMPLE programme, offers 30 grants of €2,300 for agrifood SMEs and startups with economic activity in Madrid. Beneficiaries must use these funds to address the issue of food insecurity, such as improving their production processes or innovating the properties of a food product.
