EIT Culture & Creativity Innovation Projects Open Call
EIT (European Institute of Innovation and Technology) · EIT · Can apply alone · 45 eligible countries
What this scheme funds
This call funds startups, scale-ups and SMEs working in fashion, architecture or audiovisual media to take a validated innovation to market. It runs in two stages, a small grant to develop a business plan, followed by up to 900,000 euros to execute a full go to market and scaling plan over 18 months. Priority areas include circular textile technologies, bio based building materials and responsible AI for content creation.
creative-cultural · sustainable-materials · circular-economy · artificial-intelligence · construction-built-environment · sme-scaleup
Do you qualify for this scheme?
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Who it is for
A single company in the fashion, architecture or audiovisual media sector with a system prototype already demonstrated in an operational environment that is ready to validate, pilot and scale it commercially across Europe.
The scheme in detail
- Agency
- EIT (European Institute of Innovation and Technology)
- 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
- Funding
- Not published
- Deadline
- 30 Oct 2026
- Applicant type
- Not required. You can apply solo.
- Eligible applicants
- startup, scale-up, SME
- Technology readiness
- TRL 7 to 9
- Submission
- Two-stage submission (short outline first, full proposal if invited)
- Support to third parties
- Stage 1 provides 20,000 euros per selected applicant to develop a Business Development Plan; Stage 2 provides up to 900,000 euros per project for implementation.
- Also required
- Applicants must be legal entities established in a country eligible under Horizon Europe, and third countries must already be formally associated by the call launch time.