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5th Innowwide call for market feasibility projects – Autumn 2026
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Fixed €60,000 grants for innovative European SMEs to run six-month market feasibility projects in a target country in Africa, the Americas, Asia or Oceania.
Quel est l’objet de cet appel ?
The call funds six-month market feasibility projects in which innovative SMEs assess the viability of their solution in a target country in Africa, the Americas, Asia or Oceania, working with a local subcontractor. It is open to established SMEs from EU Member States, Iceland, Israel, Norway, Switzerland, Türkiye and the United Kingdom.
Que finance cet appel ?
Scope
The call helps innovative SMEs test whether their commercial or research plans for internationalisation are viable in a target country in Africa, the Americas, Asia or Oceania. Each project lasts six months and is carried out with a local organisation in the chosen country. The call is bottom-up, so applicants choose the focus of their project.
What a market feasibility project covers
- Preliminary technical, market, legal and/or socioeconomic assessments to validate an international, innovative product-, process- or service-market combination
- Activities to identify the local technical and market conditions that may help or hinder deployment of the innovation
- One local partner in the target country (for example a supplier, customer, end user, research provider or complementary technology developer) acting as main subcontractor
- Frugal innovation should be considered where appropriate
- The innovation must be at least TRL 4 and no higher than TRL 8 in the target country; where further R&I is foreseen, TRL 7 is the indicative upper limit
Expected outcomes
The expected outcome must have a high impact in the target country. After the project, the SME should understand its target market better and be able to make informed business decisions. The project may serve as a preliminary phase for a future international R&I project with local counterparts.
Eligible costs
Personnel, subcontracting, travel and subsistence, equipment depreciation, other goods, works and services, and indirect costs calculated as a 25% flat rate of direct eligible costs excluding subcontracting.
Payment
Each funded project receives a fixed grant of €60,000: 70% (€42,000) as pre-financing at the start and 30% (€18,000) after the six-month project, once the final report is accepted. Since the maximum support rate is 70%, total eligible costs must be at least €86,000, and the SME covers costs above €60,000 itself.
Call budget
The fifth Innowwide call as a whole has a budget of €4,200,000 to fund 70 projects.
Quelles sont les informations clés ?
- Taux de financement
- jusqu’à 70 %
- Programme
- Eureka Network
- Funder
- European Union, as part of the European Partnership on Innovative SMEs
- Eligible applicants
- SMEs from EU Member States, Iceland, Israel, Norway, Switzerland, Türkiye or the United Kingdom
- Funding per project
- fixed grant of €60,000
- Duration
- six months
- Expected number of projects
- 70
Qui peut candidater à cet appel ?
- The applicant must be a legally constituted SME under EU Recommendation 2003/361, based in an EU Member State, Iceland, Israel, Norway, Switzerland, Türkiye or the United Kingdom
- The applicant must have been legally established for at least two years by the call deadline (for example, on or before 1 December 2024), regardless of any affiliated companies
- Single-beneficiary scheme: the project is led by one SME, with an independent local subcontractor in the target country, who is not a party to the grant agreement
- Companies that received funding in a previous Innowwide call (2022, 2023, 2024 or 2025) are excluded
- Organisations with convictions for fraudulent behaviour, other financial irregularities or unethical and illegal business practices, bankrupt organisations and undertakings in difficulty under the EU definition are excluded
- Only one application per company
- The project has an exclusive focus on civil applications, lasts six months, has minimum total eligible costs of €86,000, has subcontracting costs above zero and includes a combination of eligible activities
- The application is complete and in English, with the workplan annex in the template provided and all declarations, including the main subcontractor's commitment
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Quelle est la date limite ?
1 December 2026, 14:00 CET
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