FIERCE 2nd Open Call for the Financial Support Programme
Run by FIERCE · Can apply alone
What this call funds
This programme gives SMEs money to pay external service providers who help them build, scale, or sell space based green solutions. Beneficiaries do not receive cash directly. Instead up to 50,000 euros per company is spent on approved service providers to develop products using satellite data like Earth observation for environmental benefit.
space technologies · environmental monitoring · circular economy · sme scaleup · sustainable materials · climate adaptation
Who wins this
A small or micro enterprise, including startups and scale ups, that wants to use satellite or Earth observation data to build or scale a sustainability focused product and needs funded expert services rather than a direct grant.
Could you win this call?
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The call in detail
- Indicative grant size
- €50k
- Submission
- Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
- Type of action
- Cascade funding
- Partners
- Not required. You can apply on your own.
- Eligible applicants
- self-employed individual, micro enterprise, SME, startup, scale-up
- Funding rate
- 100% paid directly to External Service Providers, no additional costs reimbursed
- Support to third parties
- Up to 50,000 euros per beneficiary spent on External Service Providers, split by project type: up to 25,000 euros for Ideation projects, up to 50,000 euros for Scale-Up projects, and up to 25,000 euros for Commercialisation projects.
- Also required
- Applicants must be legally registered in an EU Member State, its Overseas Countries and Territories, or a Horizon Europe Associated Country, and beneficiaries from the First Open Call may reapply as long as total support stays within the 50,000 euro cap.
- Sectors
- AI/ML · Deep Tech · Manufacturing · Aerospace
- Eligible countries (45)
- Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Israel, Türkiye, Ukraine, Serbia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Georgia, Armenia, Moldova, Tunisia, New Zealand
Who has won calls like this
Organisations that most often win this call family · 209 past winners