Funding opportunities

As member of our Time Machine network you are warmly invited to get in touch with our Project Scouting Service team in case any of the below-mentioned funding opportunities spark your interest!

Also note the easy to use interactive search tool for funding opportunities recently published by the European Commission to “find the right funding opportunity for you, based on the sector you are working in, type of organisation and the support you are looking for.”

Project ideas

If you have an idea for a project matching a funding opportunity feel free to register it from within the individual funding opportunity detail pages. To directly browse all currently open ideas, please visit the project ideas page.

Current open calls

  • Opening date: 11 February 2025
  • Closing time: 11 March 2025 17:00 (Europe/Brussels)
  • Budget per project: € 59 500 of total € 595 000
  • Official website

EIT Culture & Creativity invites you to submit proposals for the 2025 Short Innovation Projects, supporting high-impact initiatives that address pressing challenges in the Cultural[…]

  • Opening date: 10 January 2025
  • Closing time: 13 March 2025 14:00 (Europe/Brussels)
  • Total budget: € 70 963 833
  • Official website

Eurostars is part of the European Partnership on Innovative SMEs. The partnership is co-funded by the European Union through Horizon Europe. Eurostars is a funding instrument[…]

  • Opening date: 15 January 2025
  • Closing time: 17 March 2025 17:00 (Europe/Brussels)
  • Budget per project: € 75 000 of total € 3 000 000
  • Official website

The Women Tech EU programme’s main goal is to empower women founders and entrepreneurs who lead deep tech start-ups in Europe, helping them become tomorrow’s[…]

  • Opening date: 17 February 2025
  • Closing time: 17 March 2025 23:59 (Europe/Brussels)
  • Budget: N/A
  • Official website

Interreg Aurora is a Programme in the European Union Interreg community for cross-border cooperation in 2021-2027. The Programme offers great opportunities and enables new and[…]

  • Opening date: 21 February 2025
  • Closing time: 3 April 2025 14:00 (Europe/Brussels)
  • Budget per project: € 400 000
  • Official website

To ‘open up’ something is associated with the curiosity to take the first step into something new and unknown. In this sense, we are looking[…]

  • Opening date: 11 February 2025
  • Closing time: 11 April 2025 17:00 (Europe/Brussels)
  • Budget per project: € 120 000 of total € 2 640 000
  • Official website

EIT Culture & Creativity invites you to submit proposals for the 2025 Short Innovation Projects, supporting high-impact initiatives that address pressing challenges in the Cultural[…]

  • Opening date: 11 February 2025
  • Closing time: 11 April 2025 17:00 (Europe/Brussels)
  • Budget per project: € 350 000 of total € 7 000 000
  • Official website

EIT Culture & Creativity invites you to submit proposals for the 2025 Innovation Programme, aimed at supporting cutting-edge projects that address key challenges in the[…]

  • Opening date: 11 February 2025
  • Closing time: 11 April 2025 17:00 (Europe/Brussels)
  • Budget per project: € 150 000 of total € 2 250 000
  • Official website

EIT Culture & Creativity invites you to submit proposals for 2025 continuous professional development (CPD) courses, designed to upskill professionals in the cultural and creative[…]

  • Opening date: 1 February 2025
  • Closing time: 1 June 2025 23:59 (Europe/Brussels)
  • Total budget: € 500 000
  • Official website

Visegrad Strategic Grants is a grant program run and financed by the International Visegrad Fund aimed at fostering cooperation among the Visegrad Group (V4) countries[…]

  • Opening date: 1 February 2025
  • Closing time: 1 June 2025 23:59 (Europe/Brussels)
  • Total budget: € 4 500 000
  • Official website

Visegrad Grants is a grant program run and financed by the International Visegrad Fund, aimed at fostering cooperation between the V4 countries (Czechia, Hungary, Poland,[…]

  • Opening date: 31 March 2023
  • Closing time: 1 August 2025 23:59 (Europe/Brussels)
  • Budget: N/A
  • Official website

This Call for Expression of Interest is directed towards companies and entities, including training centres and advisors, that are interested in providing services to the[…]

  • Opening date: 1 November 2024
  • Closing time: 31 May 2026 23:59 (Europe/Brussels)
  • Budget per project: € 60 000 of total € 3 450 000
  • Official website

EIC ACCESS+ provides co-funding of up to 50% of the costs for deep-tech startups to access essential business services from the EIC Service Catalogue. Startups[…]