5th Innowwide call for market feasibility projects – Autumn 2026
Eureka Network
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.
Di cosa tratta questo bando?
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.
Cosa finanzia questo bando?
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.
Quali sono i dati principali?
- Tasso di finanziamento
- fino al 70%
- Programma
- 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
Chi può candidarsi a questo bando?
- 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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Quando scade il bando?
1 December 2026, 14:00 CET
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