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Skills for innovative SMEs

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Next cut-off
03 Mar '27
in 153 days
Per grant
€30M
the call's own average
Grants expected
1
projects that will be funded
Funding rate
100%
the full cost of the action

In context of Horizon Europe

This grant€30M
The track runs to the largest grant in Horizon Europe (€100M). The median across the 359 calls we publish is €5.8M, this one is above it.

What this call funds

Expected Outcome:

  • Establishment of an SME support scheme through the Enterprise Europe Network, which delivers transnational skills-matching, recruitment support, and innovation management services to innovative SMEs across Europe.
  • This support scheme has the following expected outcomes: Innovative SMEs have reduced labour and skill shortages through a transnational mobility scheme, which allows them to recruit and train highly skilled researchers from abroad;
  • SMEs have improved innovation capacity to support research and innovation (R&I) projects and increased participation of highly skilled staff employed in R&I through recruitment and training;
  • Researchers gain new knowledge and skills in industrial innovation and business management, through employment and training in innovative companies.

Scope:

Trimmed here, the full scope, expected outcomes and award criteria are on the official topic page ↗.

What applying costs you

ItemEstimateNote
Drafting effort6–8 weekssingle submission
Partner search4–8 weeksruns in parallel, and it is the part that slips
Time to first payment6–9 monthscut-off → evaluation → grant agreement

These are Bemzu's estimates from the call's structure (the number of stages and whether a consortium is required) not figures published by the Commission. Only the co-financing share is read from the call itself.

Where these conditions come from

Two kinds of row. Most are the sentence we read the condition from, quoted out of the call itself. Some say plainly that they are not a quotation but the programme's own rule for this type of action, the EU portal publishes a table of contents where the conditions should be, so for a Research and Innovation Action the rate comes from the rulebook rather than from the fiche.

ConditionQuoted from the call, or the rule behind it
Consortium sizeNot quoted from this call — Coordination and Support Actions under the Horizon Europe rules are at least one legal entity established in a Member State or Associated Country — a consortium is common but not required.
Funding rateNot quoted from this call — Coordination and Support Actions under the Horizon Europe rules are funded at 100% of eligible costs.

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