New Ventures in Creative Tech (Spark)
EIT (European Institute of Innovation and Technology) · EIT · Can apply alone · 45 eligible countries
What this scheme funds
This call funds early stage founders building tech driven creative ventures, offering up to thirty thousand euros per team plus a nine month venture creation programme that starts with an in person bootcamp and continues with online coaching, mentoring and workshops. The first cohort targets ventures in materials and built environment, including fashion, architecture and advanced or circular materials. The goal is to help founders turn an early stage concept into a viable, scalable, for profit business.
creative-cultural · sustainable-materials · sme-scaleup · deep-tech
Do you qualify for this scheme?
Tell us your website and we'll check this scheme's own conditions against what your company does.
Only the website is required.
Who it is for
An individual founder or small multidisciplinary team without a registered company who already has an innovative, tech centric creative concept in areas like fashion, architecture or advanced and circular materials and wants to build a scalable business around it.
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
- 16 Nov 2026
- Applicant type
- Not required. You can apply solo.
- Eligible applicants
- startup
- Submission
- Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
- Support to third parties
- Up to €30,000 per team through the venture creation programme.
- Also required
- Applicants must be individuals or small teams with no registered company, based in an EU Member State or a Horizon Europe associated country.