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Get ready for an exciting ride into the first month of 2024 with a treasure trove of Cascade Funding opportunities waiting for you! January kicks off with a bang, offering up 20 fantastic funding opportunities designed for SMEs, startups, university researchers, and regional authorities.
These opportunities are tailor-made to fuel your passion for innovation and research. It’s the perfect way to start the year on a high note and make significant strides in your field. So, gear up, dive into the possibilities, and kickstart your journey toward success and achievement in the world of research and innovation!
StandICT.eu 2026: Financial Support for your activities on ICT Standards.
StandICT.eu 2026’s principal goal is to strengthen its global reach in the European ICT Standardisation Ecosystem. StandICT.eu will provide € 2,925,000 of crucial funding to support the participation of European standardisation specialists in key international and global SDOs. Through nine open calls this funding will enable the specialists to contribute to and help create a fully integrated European Standardisation Ecosystem, thereby strengthening Europe’s position in global standardisation initiatives.
Max.Funding: 10.000€
Deadline: 09/01/2024
Website: LINK
NEPHELE: Calling for Industrial SMEs and Mid-caps to develop a set of Virtual Objects, composite Virtual Objects and Digital Twins, as well as extensions in the software stack in the form of generic functions.
The overarching objective of NEPHELE is to conceive and construct a software stack for virtual objects (VOStack) with a focus on addressing challenges related to IoT interoperability and convergence within the broader compute continuum. Additionally, NEPHELE aims to create harmonious orchestration mechanisms capable of overseeing distributed applications throughout this continuum.
The 1st Open Call objective is: The expansion of the Virtual Object Stack (VOStack) involves the creation of Virtual Objects (VOs), Composite Virtual Objects (cVOs), and Digital Twins (DTs) intended to serve up to 8 SMEs/Mid-caps. These entities are designed to facilitate the development of Virtual Objects, composite Virtual Objects (including the Digital Twin concept), and generic IoT enablers, all in alignment with the provided software stack.
Max.Funding: 76.000€
Deadline: 10/01/2024
Website: LINK
S3E START: Call for research teams and tech transfer offices.
S3E Start call is open to research teams from Southern European countries with deep tech projects, grounded in a scientific discovery or meaningful engineering innovation, that want to explore the path from the lab to the market. Projects in the following scientific fields will be considered: agricultural sciences, engineering and technology, medical and health sciences, and natural sciences.
The S3E Start call helps its applicants through a practical training program to explore the potential social and economic impact of their scientific activity.
The 1st Open Call objective is: The expansion of the Virtual Object Stack (VOStack) involves the creation of Virtual Objects (VOs), Composite Virtual Objects (cVOs), and Digital Twins (DTs) intended to serve up to 8 SMEs/Mid-caps. These entities are designed to facilitate the development of Virtual Objects, composite Virtual Objects (including the Digital Twin concept), and generic IoT enablers, all in alignment with the provided software stack.
Max.Funding: Services
Deadline: 12/01/2024
Website: LINK
FRIEND CCI: 2nd Open Call for project proposals dedicated to SMEs to reinforce innovation and internationalisation in Cultural and Creative Industries.
The project FRIEND CCI aims at contributing to an improved resilience of the European Industrial Ecosystem of Creative and Cultural Industries (CCI) and to its green and digital transformation, by supporting the SMEs by offering them financial support in the form of grants, directed to the development and implementation of cross-sectoral projects aimed to bring innovation both at the level of products and at the level of processes/ technologies, with a specific eye on the needs linked to the twin transition.The S3E Start call helps its applicants through a practical training program to explore the potential social and economic impact of their scientific activity.
Max.Funding: 50,000€
Deadline: 14/01/2024
Website: LINK
FORWARDS: Pilots of long-term climate impact forest monitoring sites.
FORWARDS is a Horizon Europe project that will prototype the ForestWard Observatory, a pan-European monitoring and evaluation tool that will help in demonstrating the impact of climate change on forests, guiding decision-making for practical forest management. As part of its activities, FORWARDS will establish a network of pilot monitoring plots/sites to assess the long-term impact of climate change on forest ecosystems. These pilot plots/sites need to be linked to existing forest monitoring networks and provide spatial representativeness.
With this call, FORWARDS aims to compile an exhaustive open-access European forest disturbance reference dataset. Such a dataset will allow for (i) producing statistically rigorous estimates of disturbances in Europe, (ii) developing new methods for the near real-time forest disturbance mapping using remote sensing data, and (iii) analyzing the effects of different types of disturbances over different forest types across Europe.
Max.Funding: 145,000€
Deadline: 15/01/2024
Website: LINK
AIRISE.EU: Open Call for Experiments on AI-in-Manufacturing.
The call aims to support European SMEs and midcaps to create and deploy AI applications that support their manufacturing lines in being more sustainable with less waste and energy consumption, being more agile secure and resilient to changes and being more attractive for employees to mitigate effects from age, gender, or social and cultural background.
Max.Funding: 40,000€
Deadline: 15/01/2024
Website: LINK
EU DigiTour: Calling for traditional tourism SMEs in Italy, Germany, Slovenia, and Croatia, to participate in EU DigiTOUR Hackathon!
EU DigiTOUR is calling for traditional tourism SMEs who are eager to embark on a journey, implementing digital technologies (AR/VR; IoT; Big Data; and AI) to elevate their business.
The Hackathon events will be celebrated in person in Croatia, Italy, and Germany. The events will be celebrated in a hybrid way (in presence at local level + online). 45 tourism SMEs will team-up and compete for 30 vouchers (10,000€) to be assigned at the end of the Hackathons. The Hackathons are designed as an open events and will be open to any EU member’s citizens to encourage multi-cultural, cross-industry collaboration that breeds creativity.
Max.Funding: Vouchers
Deadline: 15/01/2024
Website: LINK
ERA4Health_NutriBrain: Modulation of brain ageing through nutrition and healthy lifestyle
The aim of the call is to support transnational research projects that focus on the improvement of cognitive brain ageing through nutrition and other lifestyle factors. Thereby it enables scientists from different countries to build a valuable collaboration on interdisciplinary research projects based on complementarities and sharing of expertise in the field of brain ageing, its related disorders, nutrition and lifestyle factors.
At least one of the following lifestyle factors should be investigated: nutrition (particularly improvements in dietary pattern), physical activity, sleep pattern (quantity, quality and timing), social interaction and stress.
Project partners will be funded by their relevant national/regional funding organisations.
Max.Funding: 500,000 €
Deadline: 15/01/2024
Website: LINK
AIBC EUROCLUSTER: Open Call for Digitalisation Services and Product Development.
This Open Call supports European companies (SMEs) in their digitalisation planning activities related to activating Services and support in Product Development to further support their twin transition (digital and green). It is targeted at European SMEs from the manufacturing, mobility, logistics and energy sectors, working on the AI & BC technologies and/or interested in adopting AI & BC solutions to become more digital, resilient and green.At least one of the following lifestyle factors should be investigated: nutrition (particularly improvements in dietary pattern), physical activity, sleep pattern (quantity, quality and timing), social interaction and stress.
Project partners will be funded by their relevant national/regional funding organisations.
Max.Funding: 15,000 €
Deadline: 16/01/2024
Website: LINK
ICAERUS: PULL Open Call for Farming, Forestry and Rural Challenges.
This Open Call supports European companies (SMEs) in their digitalisation planning activities related to activating Services and support in Product Development to further support their twin transition (digital and green). It is targeted at European SMEs from the manufacturing, mobility, logistics and energy sectors, working on the AI & BC technologies and/or interested in adopting AI & BC solutions to become more digital, resilient and green.At least one of the following lifestyle factors should be investigated: nutrition (particularly improvements in dietary pattern), physical activity, sleep pattern (quantity, quality and timing), social interaction and stress.
Project partners will be funded by their relevant national/regional funding organisations.
Max.Funding: 50,000 €
Deadline: 16/01/2024
Website: LINK
CORTEX²: Cooperative Real-Time experiences with Extended reality.
The mission of CORTEX² is to democratize access to the remote collaboration offered by next-generation XR experiences across a wide range of industries and SMEs.
The objective is to investigate, advance and demonstrate the technical features offered by CORTEX². The project wants to engage representatives in the ‘Lab-To-Market’ stage to support the Technology Transfer towards the ‘Industrial Ecosystem’, bridging the Open Innovation gap. Project partners will be funded by their relevant national/regional funding organisations.
Max.Funding: 200,000 €
Deadline: 16/01/2024
Website: LINK
ADMA TranS4MErs: Supporting Manufacturing SMEs to become Factories of the Future.
ADMA TranS4MErs second Open Call runs from 3 April 2023, until 17 January 2024, and aims to assist small and medium enterprises in the European Union to implement innovative and advanced manufacturing solution. The ADMA TranS4MErs Transformation Programme offers vouchers to design and implement your Digital Transformation Plan and boost your journey towards becoming a Factory of the Future in two stages: Design and Revamp.
Only manufacturing SMEs operating in the Advanced Manufacturing domain, acting as technology or service adopters, are eligible to be funded by the programme.
Max.Funding: 5,000 €
Deadline: 17/01/2024
Website: LINK
Ventures Thrive: Get funded and accelerate your business.
Ventures Thrive (VT) aims to support deeptech startups in their path to the market. VT provide equity free funding through a curated growth programme, which will connect startups with additional investment and corporates to test their developments in real world scenarios.
Max.Funding: up to 100,000 €
Deadline: 17/01/2024
Website: LINK
DTO-BioFlow: Call for marine biodiversity data holders.
Open Call for marine biodiversity data holders who can contribute to the DTO-BioFlow project by establishing ingestion pipelines to the EU DTO and thereby increasing the flow of relevant biodiversity data. This Financial Support to Third Parties (FSTP) grant can provide support to do so, by funding resources as well as facilitating a data training workshop for the selected applicants.
Max.Funding: 60,000 €
Deadline: 17/01/2024
Website: LINK
TrialsNet: TRials Supported By Smart Networks Beyond 5G.
TrialsNet invites European third parties such as verticals, companies (including SMEs), research centers or any other relevant entity, as well as facilities and infrastructure owners, to participate in its large-scale trials activities through the implementation of additional, diversified, and heterogeneous vertical use cases.
TrialsNet is giving the opportunity to the applicants of the Open Call to participate through two different options:
Option 1: a) New use case(s) and field trials supported by one or more TrialsNet infrastructures in terms of platforms and network solutions, or b) improvement of its use case(s) by the integration of software applications, features, devices, new users, and datasets.
Option 2: New use case(s) leveraging on new additional field trial infrastructures such as experimental, private, and/or commercial network deployments.
Max.Funding: 300,000 €
Deadline: 19/01/2024
Website: LINK
INNOBUYER: Call for Solvers.
InnoBuyer offers a programme that brings together Challengers (public entities with unmet innovation needs) and Solvers (Innovative SMEs), to jointly co-create new solutions, applying a demand-driven approach, and speeding-up the process leading to a concrete innovation procurement.
The InnoBuyer Call for Solvers aims to select and fund 15 innovative companies (Solvers), to co-create pilots addressing the specific innovation needs (Challenges) of public organisations (Challengers).
Max.Funding: 58,500 €
Deadline: 24/01/2024
Website: LINK
ERA4Health_NANOTECMEC: Nano and advanced technologies for disease prevention, diagnostic and therapy.
The aims of the call is to support translational research projects that combine innovative approaches in the field of nanomedicine.
Project proposals will address multidisciplinary and translational research. The applications must cover at least one of the following nanomedicine areas that are of equal relevance for this call:
a) Regenerative medicine
b) Diagnostics
c) Nanotherapy
Project partners will be funded by their relevant national/regional funding organisations. Eligible costs and funding rules vary between the respective funding organisations.
Max.Funding: 400,000 €
Deadline: 30/01/2024
Website: LINK
REINFORCING: supports organizations and institutions in Europe to transition to a new paradigm where responsibility and openness drive research and innovation processes.
REINFORCING has ring-fenced funding for 96 grants – between 20,000 and 60,000 euros- to invite institutions from around Europe to develop projects aiming at implementing new modes of doing R&I that drive more just transitions.
Two kinds of grants will be delivered by REINFORCING: ORRI booster (small) grants and ORRI incubators (large) grants. The specific objectives and targets of the calls will be defined throughout the duration of the project.
Max.Funding: 60,000 €
Deadline: 30/01/2024
Website: LINK
ERA TALENT: Call for Multiplying the Impact of EURAXESS Hubs.
The ERA TALENT project aims at further developing the services provided by the EURAXESS network, through the reforming of its structure, with the aim to support the career development of researchers in Europe, expanding the career trajectories for them in academia, industry, business, the public and the non-governmental sectors.
The ERA TALENT Call for Multiplying the Impact of EURAXESS Hubs will offer distinct, targeted financial support to parties that are EURAXESS members but do not directly participate in the ERA TALENT project as beneficiaries.
Max.Funding: 23,780 €
Deadline: 31/01/2024
Website: LINK
aerOS: Autonomous, scalablE, tRustworthy, intelligent European meta Operating System for the IoT edge-cloud continuum.
aerOS aims to establish a common meta Operating System that follows a collaborative IoT-Edge–Cloud architecture supporting flexible deployments (e.g., federated or hierarchical), enabling the distribution of intelligence and computation – including AI, ML, and Big Data analytics – to achieve an optimal solution while satisfying the given constraints.
aerOS Open Call focuses on 2 main key points:
-extension of functionalities delivered by aerOS,
-expansion of application of aerOS in the five use case verticals considered in the project.
Max.Funding: 60,000 €
Deadline: 31/01/2024
Website: LINK
As a researcher, innovator, SME, startup, or mid-cap company, you can tap into public funds to adopt or develop digital technologies, all while streamlining administrative processes and getting faster access to finance. With Cascade Funding (also known as financial support to third parties (FSTP), you’ll have the tools and financial support you need to take your business to the next level and make a lasting impact in the R&D world.
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