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Open Call for New Ventures in Creative Tech (Spark)
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Run by EIT Culture & Creativity · Can apply alone
16 Nov 2026
Deadline
€30k
Per company
What this call funds
This call gives early-stage founders up to 30,000 euros to turn a validated business idea into a registered company. It focuses on tech-centric ideas in fashion and architecture within the materials and built environment space. Winners join a Startup Sprint and a 9 month incubation programme with coaching and mentorship, and must incorporate a new legal entity by month 3 to keep receiving funds.
creative cultural · sme scaleup · advanced materials · construction built environment
Who wins this
An individual founder or small multidisciplinary team with a tech-centric business concept in fashion or architecture who has not yet registered a company for that concept.
Could you win this call?
Only the website is required.
The call in detail
- Indicative grant size
- €30k
- Submission
- Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
- Type of action
- Cascade funding
- Partners
- Not required. You can apply on your own.
- Eligible applicants
- startup, individual founder
- Funding rate
- 100% of eligible actual costs
- Also required
- Applicants must not already have a registered company implementing the submitted business concept, and selected applicants must incorporate a new legal entity by month 3 to continue receiving funding.
- 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
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