Innovation Call: Short Innovation Projects 2025 (consortia)

  • Action type: EIT Culture & Creativity
  • Opening date: 11 February 2025
  • Closing time: 11 April 2025 17:00 (Europe/Brussels)
  • Budget per project: € 120 000 of total € 2 640 000
  • Estimated number of projects funded: 22
  • Project duration: 6 months
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Scope

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 and Creative Sectors and Industries (CCSI). This call focuses on fast-paced, results-driven innovation projects, delivering tangible and market-ready solutions within a short timeframe. 

With a strong emphasis on Fashion, Architecture, Cultural Heritage, Audio-Visual Media, and Gaming, this call seeks to accelerate commercialisation and market adoption of innovations that address the challenges of globalisation, digital transformation, emerging technologies (such as AI), and environmental sustainability. 

Proposals must be submitted by a consortium of two entities: 

  • One SME or micro enterprise (the innovation developer) as the project leader. 
  • One supporting entity (e.g., research organisation, technology provider, or business consultant) providing complementary expertise to support market readiness. 

The partners must be from two different EU Member States or HE-associated countries. The commercial partner role must always be held by an SME or micro enterprise. These projects advance technologies from TRL 7 to TRL 9, ensuring rapid commercialization. Priority sectors include all five EIT CC priority areas: Fashion, Cultural Heritage, Architecture, Gaming, and Audio-Visual Media. The expected outcome is a market-ready product, service, or business model, with a clear path to commercialization across multiple European markets. 

Optional KPIs: 

  • EITHE01.1 – Intellectual Property Rights (IPR): The proposal should aim to generate and apply for at least one IPR (patent, trademark, registered design, etc.) resulting from KIC activities. 
  • EITHE04.4 – Start-ups Created: The proposal should aim to establish a start-up based on the project’s outputs, with financial transactions of at least €10,000 for services/products sold to customers.

Beyond financial support, EIT Culture & Creativity may offer selected projects additional services to enhance long-term sustainability, such as market access support, investor pitch sessions, networking opportunities, and collaboration within the broader EIT ecosystem. 

Remarks

All proposals must have a minimum co-funding rate of 30% across the project. Partners within a consortium may have different individual co-funding rates, as long as the overall co-funding for the entire project meets the required minimum of 30%. 

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