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Are you developing innovative technology, materials, or products in the raw or advanced materials sector? Then this call could be for you
KAVA Call 13 – Upscaling aims to accelerate the launch of promising new technologies, products, and services in the raw materials industry. It targets projects with validated technologies that require additional steps - such as testing, demonstration, proof of concept, and scaling - before being market-ready.
This call is open to innovation projects in mining, materials processing, and recycling involving consortia with at least two partners from Horizon Europe-eligible countries.
Are you developing innovative technology, materials, or products in the raw or advanced materials sector? Then this call could be for you
KAVA Call 13 – Upscaling aims to accelerate the launch of promising new technologies, products, and services in the raw materials industry. It targets projects with validated technologies that require additional steps - such as testing, demonstration, proof of concept, and scaling - before being market-ready.
This call is open to innovation projects in mining, materials processing, and recycling involving consortia with at least two partners from Horizon Europe-eligible countries.
Start Date08 Jan 2025 End Date28 Nov 2025 Funding AmountUpto EUR 2.5mn Funding Resource TypeGrant
Funding ProviderEIT RawMaterials
Grant
EIT RawMaterials
Building a strong, sustainable raw materials sector in Europe
For the EIT Regional Innovation Scheme (RIS)1 activities, EIT RawMaterials regards the RIS regions as areas where there are opportunities to make an impact in line with our objectives and the overall aim of increasing the innovation level of RIS countries
To secure Europe’s future, we want build a resilient, sustainable supply chain for critical raw materials and advanced materials within Europe. Innovation in mining, materials processing, and recycling is essential to Europe’s industrial independence and underpins high-quality job creation and economic growth, and the vision of the green transition.
For the EIT Regional Innovation Scheme (RIS)1 activities, EIT RawMaterials regards the RIS regions as areas where there are opportunities to make an impact in line with our objectives and the overall aim of increasing the innovation level of RIS countries
To secure Europe’s future, we want build a resilient, sustainable supply chain for critical raw materials and advanced materials within Europe. Innovation in mining, materials processing, and recycling is essential to Europe’s industrial independence and underpins high-quality job creation and economic growth, and the vision of the green transition.
Start Date08 Jan 2025 End Date28 Nov 2025 Funding AmountUpto EUR 1mn Funding Resource TypeGrant
Funding ProviderEIT RawMaterials
Grant
EIT RawMaterials
Foundation S 2025 Climate Action & Health Resilience Grants Programme will support innovative, community-led solutions to strengthen resilience against the health effects of extreme heat and air pollution in LMICs. The programme prioritises projects rooted in local communities, led by women and young people, and designed to benefit the most vulnerable, notably women and children. Eligible initiatives may include strengthening community health
systems, embedding innovative approaches such as AI or early warning systems, and applying scientific research to scalable, evidence-based solutions.
The Objective of the 2025 Climate Action & Health Resilience grants programme is to support the development and implementation of innovative approaches that have a strong potential to strengthen local community health systems to the most challenging impacts of extreme heat and air pollution in selected low- and middle-income countries, with a particular focus on women and young people-led initiatives and meeting the needs of the most vulnerable such as women and children.
systems, embedding innovative approaches such as AI or early warning systems, and applying scientific research to scalable, evidence-based solutions.
The Objective of the 2025 Climate Action & Health Resilience grants programme is to support the development and implementation of innovative approaches that have a strong potential to strengthen local community health systems to the most challenging impacts of extreme heat and air pollution in selected low- and middle-income countries, with a particular focus on women and young people-led initiatives and meeting the needs of the most vulnerable such as women and children.
Start Date30 Oct 2025 End Date28 Nov 2025 Funding AmountEUR 50k to 100k Funding Resource TypeGrant
Funding ProviderFoundation S
Grant
Foundation S
The Lush Prize rewards initiatives across science and campaigning that work to end or replace animal testing, particularly in the area of toxicology research.
End Date28 Nov 2025 Funding AmountUpto GBP 250k Funding Resource TypeInnovation Award
Funding ProviderLush Prize
Innovation Award
Lush Prize
The SOILCRATES project is launching a Request for Applications to foster a collective dialogue on soil health between academia and local actors. This initiative will support at least 40 local projects across France, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Spain, each lasting 1 to 2 years as part of the 4 SOILCRATES Living Labs.
End Date30 Nov 2025 Funding AmountUpto EUR 60k Funding Resource TypeGrant
Funding ProviderSOILCRATES EU
Grant
SOILCRATES EU
Hello Tomorrow is the largest and widest Deep Tech network as well as helping Deep Tech startups and corporations build new solutions to accelerate radical solutions to improve human and planetary health.
End Date30 Nov 2025 Funding AmountN/A Funding Resource TypeAccelerator
Funding ProviderHello Tomorrow
Accelerator
Hello Tomorrow
The FERRO grants support three selected associated regions in developing a two-year action plan to transfer, adapt and implement FERRO restoration solutions. The process involves co-creating and tailoring solutions to local conditions, with the broader goal of scaling nutrient recovery and reuse efforts to combat eutrophication. Remotely-sensed water quality information for the associated lakes shall be made available through a dedicated dashboard during the FERRO project’s lifetime.
End Date30 Nov 2025 Funding AmountEUR 100k Funding Resource TypeGrant
Funding ProviderFERRO Project
Grant
FERRO Project
LowCarbon.Earth Accelerator 2025, a UNEP-backed program led by the Massive Earth Foundation supporting early-stage climate-tech startups from across India and the Asia-Pacific region.
The accelerator offers a 12-week, equity free virtual program designed to help startups build capacity, strengthen investment readiness, and scale their impact through expert-led mentorship, global exposure, and access to leading investors and corporates
The accelerator offers a 12-week, equity free virtual program designed to help startups build capacity, strengthen investment readiness, and scale their impact through expert-led mentorship, global exposure, and access to leading investors and corporates
End Date30 Nov 2025 Funding AmountUnspecified Funding Resource TypeAccelerator
Funding ProviderLowCarbon.Earth,UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
Accelerator
LowCarbon.Earth,UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
The project serves as a catalyst for collaboration between EU and partner countries on ICT standardization, building bridges and fostering capacity building in Digital areas. It helps EU and partners understand each other's regulatory frameworks and standardization models while promoting inclusive and cooperative processes for developing global ICT standards that support and embed EU values.
End Date30 Nov 2025 Funding AmountUpto EUR 50k Funding Resource TypeGrant
Funding ProviderIndico Global
Grant
Indico Global
EIT Food facilitates corporate innovation by connecting world-leading industry with impactful agrifood startups. The purpose of the PoC Co-Financing Instrument is to financially de-risk the commercial activities of agrifood startups that will ultimately result in impactful technologies, products, and services reaching the market and scaling further in the food sector.
Usually, the first step towards a long-term collaboration between a startup and a potential corporate customer is a proof-of concept or small-scale pilot project. Once this kind of experiment was deemed successful from both sides, it will ideally lead to a bigger scale pilot project or the start of commercial activities. The extra support that EIT Food can offer at this stage is to financially de-risk startup-corporate experiments in an attempt to promote the commercial success of their solutions.
EIT Food is looking to de-risk startup corporate collaborations. In this context, EIT Food targets proof-of-concepts and small-scale pilot projects between startups and prospective corporate clients with less than €100k in project costs. Proposed projects must exhibit a clear pathway towards commercial success. Project activities should therefore be strictly related to deliver on the proof-of-concept or pilot project proposed together with the corporate client. Example projects include but are not limited to: Sample creation, field trials, functionality and property tests, & efficiency assessments.
Usually, the first step towards a long-term collaboration between a startup and a potential corporate customer is a proof-of concept or small-scale pilot project. Once this kind of experiment was deemed successful from both sides, it will ideally lead to a bigger scale pilot project or the start of commercial activities. The extra support that EIT Food can offer at this stage is to financially de-risk startup-corporate experiments in an attempt to promote the commercial success of their solutions.
EIT Food is looking to de-risk startup corporate collaborations. In this context, EIT Food targets proof-of-concepts and small-scale pilot projects between startups and prospective corporate clients with less than €100k in project costs. Proposed projects must exhibit a clear pathway towards commercial success. Project activities should therefore be strictly related to deliver on the proof-of-concept or pilot project proposed together with the corporate client. Example projects include but are not limited to: Sample creation, field trials, functionality and property tests, & efficiency assessments.
End Date30 Nov 2025 Funding AmountUpto EUR 100k Funding Resource TypeCorporate Partnership
Funding ProviderEIT Food
Corporate Partnership
EIT Food
MCV’s AI for Financial Resilience initiative leverages AI, blockchain, and emerging technologies to close financial service gaps for unbanked, underbanked, and climate-vulnerable populations in emerging markets, primarily in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and Asia. The initiative pilots and scales solutions such as AI-driven insurance, parametric credit, savings via bond tokenization, and anticipatory cash transfers and remittances, aiming to improve financial access, economic resilience, and trust in digital finance.
Start Date04 Nov 2025 End Date01 Dec 2025 Funding AmountUpto USD 50k Funding Resource TypeGrant
Funding ProviderMercy Corps Ventures
Grant
Mercy Corps Ventures
Proof of Concept funding is for young researcher and have an idea for developing results into a social or commercial innovation. The funding helps for the opportunity to test and refine the idea.
End Date01 Dec 2025 Funding AmountUpto CHF 130k Funding Resource TypeResearch Grant
Funding ProviderBRIDGE Funding Programme
Research Grant
BRIDGE Funding Programme
A global challenge connecting innovators and changemakers to tackle real-world problems in health, agriculture, and climate resilience. Join a global open-source GenAI community of practice, learn about public sector use cases for generative AI, hear from public sector stakeholders and development partners, leverage the GENIE.AI framework to develop cost-efficient and scalable solutions, build and test functional prototypes, and get feedback and guidance from practitioners, public sector stakeholders, and development partners.
End Date01 Dec 2025 Funding AmountUpto USD 25k Funding Resource TypeInnovation Award
Funding ProviderInternational Telecommunication Union,IEEE
Innovation Award
International Telecommunication Union,IEEE
The EIT Urban Mobility is thrilled to launch the fourth edition of the SME Market Expansion Call. The Call is designed to promote business growth and market expansion, encouraging the replication and scaling of successful solutions in new regions or sectors. It offers a strategic platform for SMEs with ambitions to scale by opening subsidiaries or expanding into new markets.
The SME Market Expansion Open Call 2026 focuses on accelerating the market uptake of impactful innovations by reducing the risk of development and deployment. EIT Urban Mobility aims to support solutions with a clear path to market, helping cities and businesses confidently procure and scale proven innovations. Through collaboration with an end-client, SMEs can validate their offering in a real-world setting, while gaining visibility and credibility in the European market.
The SME Market Expansion Open Call 2026 focuses on accelerating the market uptake of impactful innovations by reducing the risk of development and deployment. EIT Urban Mobility aims to support solutions with a clear path to market, helping cities and businesses confidently procure and scale proven innovations. Through collaboration with an end-client, SMEs can validate their offering in a real-world setting, while gaining visibility and credibility in the European market.
End Date01 Dec 2025 Funding AmountUpto EUR 600k Funding Resource TypeGrant
Funding ProviderEIT Urban Mobility
Grant
EIT Urban Mobility
GAMIC is a global competition and accelerator that helps early-stage mobility startups break into the North American market. Startups don’t just need funding — they need access, credibility, and connections to decision-makers. GAMIC provides all three, at no cost and with no equity required.
End Date01 Dec 2025 Funding AmountUpto USD 400k (in-kind) Funding Resource TypeAccelerator
Funding ProviderGAMIC - Global Automotive & Mobility Innovation Challenge
Accelerator
GAMIC - Global Automotive & Mobility Innovation Challenge
The Ideas Powered for business SME Fund is a grant scheme designed to help EU-based small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) protect their intellectual property (IP) rights. The SME Fund can help you protect many different assets, including trade marks, designs, patents and plant varieties.
The SME Fund offers different vouchers that can be used to claim reimbursement for various IP-related activities. These include applications for trade marks, designs, patents, and plant varieties, and IP Scan services. You could save as much as 75% on IP right applications and 90% on an IP Scan, depending on your country or region.
The SME Fund offers different vouchers that can be used to claim reimbursement for various IP-related activities. These include applications for trade marks, designs, patents, and plant varieties, and IP Scan services. You could save as much as 75% on IP right applications and 90% on an IP Scan, depending on your country or region.
Start Date03 Feb 2025 End Date03 Dec 2025 Funding AmountUpto EUR 1,500 Funding Resource TypeVoucher
Funding ProviderEuropean Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
Voucher
European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
The F. M. Kirby Prize for Scaling Impact is an annual global prize of USD $150,000 in unrestricted funds that amplifies and accelerates the work of an enterprise working to scale its impact on social or environmental problems around the world.
The Kirby Prize recognizes enterprises pursuing strategic pathways to impact at scale, who are close to the challenges at hand, who center the voice and experience of the populations they serve, who have demonstrated traction, and who embody courageous and collaborative leadership. This prize is open to any legal form, geographic location, and any social or environmental impact area.
The Kirby Prize recognizes enterprises pursuing strategic pathways to impact at scale, who are close to the challenges at hand, who center the voice and experience of the populations they serve, who have demonstrated traction, and who embody courageous and collaborative leadership. This prize is open to any legal form, geographic location, and any social or environmental impact area.
End Date03 Dec 2025 Funding AmountUpto USD 150k Funding Resource TypeInnovation Prize
Funding ProviderCASE at Duke
Innovation Prize
CASE at Duke
The Ideas Powered for business SME Fund is a grant scheme designed to help EU-based small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) protect their intellectual property (IP) rights.
Grants are awarded in the form of vouchers that the beneficiary can use to claim a reimbursement. Reimbursement is always transferred directly to the SME’s bank account.
Grants are awarded in the form of vouchers that the beneficiary can use to claim a reimbursement. Reimbursement is always transferred directly to the SME’s bank account.
Start Date03 Feb 2025 End Date05 Dec 2025 Funding AmountUpto EUR 1,350 Funding Resource TypeVoucher
Funding ProviderEUIPO - European Union Intellectual Property Office
Voucher
EUIPO - European Union Intellectual Property Office
The SDG Impact Finance Initiative (SIFI) is pleased to announce the launch of its fifth Call for Proposals under the Innovation Window, focused on “Financial Innovation for Climate Adaptation and Resilience Solutions”.
End Date11 Dec 2025 Funding AmountUpto CHF 500k Funding Resource TypeGrant
Funding ProviderSDG Impact Finance Initiative
Grant
SDG Impact Finance Initiative
Hosted by Welthungerhilfe (WHH) and funded by the Seeding The Future Foundation (STF), the Challenge is intended to recognize and support breakthrough innovations that can spark transformations of our food systems, with a particular focus on addressing critical challenges in the Global South.
Welthungerhilfe and the Seeding The Future Foundation are calling on all scientists, engineers, innovators, entrepreneurs, and multidisciplinary teams from non-governmental organizations (NGOs), non-profits, social enterprises, universities, research institutions and small/emerging for-profit enterprise to submit game-changing innovations that will help transform food systems.
Welthungerhilfe and the Seeding The Future Foundation are calling on all scientists, engineers, innovators, entrepreneurs, and multidisciplinary teams from non-governmental organizations (NGOs), non-profits, social enterprises, universities, research institutions and small/emerging for-profit enterprise to submit game-changing innovations that will help transform food systems.
