First Open Call

Last update: Nov 12, 2026

Details

Location: Croatia, Italy, Slovenia

Funding Agency: European Commission Directorate-General for International Partnerships (EuropeAid HQ)

Contracting Authority: European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (formerly known as Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME))

Contracting Authority Type: Development Institution

Status: Open

Budget: EUR 600,000

Award ceiling: 180,000

Award floor: N/A

Sector: Research & Innovation

Eligible applicants: Private Sector

Eligible nationalities: Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain

Date posted: Nov 12, 2026

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Objectives:

Objectives

Purpose: Provide cascade funding to SMEs and start-ups that can develop, test, validate and demonstrate innovative renewable hydrogen sol...

Eligibility criteria:

Eligible applicants: SMEs, including start-ups, established individually or in consortia of up to three SMEs. All consortium members must meet the SME requirement.
Geographic and legal eligibility: Applicants must be legally established at submission in the listed eligible regions of Slovenia, Croatia, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Belgium, France, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Czechia, Lithuania or Latvia. The regions must be eligible under the call&...