Source of Funding: Xjenza Malta

The Go To Market Accelerator Programme is designed to support the final stages of Technology Readiness Level (TRL) advancements, helping innovators deploy their product or service into operational environments. This grant facilitates optimization, verification, and validation activities, ensuring that prototype-stage innovations are ready for real-world applications.

Programme Overview

• Target TRL: From TRL 5-6 to TRL 7-8
• Funding: Up to €150,000
• Project Duration: 24 months

The programme supports projects that build on previous development efforts to complete the innovation’s development cycle.

Eligibility & Requirements

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Source of Funding: Women TechEU

Women TechEU is a 2-year EU-funded project supporting women leading deep tech startup companies from Europe.

Our mission is to create a more gender-balanced entrepreneurship ecosystem. We believe that diversity drives innovation, and we are here to provide women in deep tech with more opportunities, resources, and support to thrive.

The project consortium is launching 4 calls for applications over the span of 2 years which, following a rigorous evaluation process, will result in a total of 160 beneficiaries. Each beneficiary will receive €75k grants (non-dilutive finance) as well as a personalised business development programme which includes mentoring, coaching and targeted training among other options.

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Source of Funding: Xjenza Malta

Xjenza Malta is receiving proposals under the PRIMA Networking Support Scheme (NET2PRIMA). This initiative is designed to strengthen networking opportunities and foster collaboration in the Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area (PRIMA), and thus to support R&I in the areas of water management, farming systems and agro-food value chain.

PRIMA is a joint EU program uniting 20 Euro-Mediterranean countries, including:

• 12 EU Member States: Croatia, Cyprus, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Portugal, Slovenia, and Spain.
• 8 non-EU countries: Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, and Turkey.

The NET2PRIMA Scheme provides…

Source of Funding: Xjenza Malta

Are you seeking funding to enhance your training and mobility activities? The PRIMA Training and Mobility Award 2025 is open for applications, offering an excellent opportunity to establish collaborative links with foreign counterparts from any of the 20 PRIMA Participating States.

Funding Opportunities:

• In-person short training and/or placements for local researchers in foreign entities,
• Strategic and targeted visits by local applicants to foreign entities,
• Knowledge-transfer and/or dissemination seminars or workshops in Malta, on specific PRIMA R&I thematic areas (water management, sustainable farming systems, and agro-food value chain).

Applicants must demonstrate that the proposed activities will:

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Source of Funding: Xjenza Malta

Xjenza Malta is receiving proposals under the Horizon Internationalisation Partnership Award Scheme (HIPAS). The Scheme will support Maltese eligible entities intending to submit a Horizon Europe proposal (including Partnerships indicated in the Scheme Rules), as a Coordinator entity to engage a service provider (local or foreign) who will be supporting the applicant entity through proposal writing and submission. The support is limited to € 8,000. More details can be seen the rules.

Interested Applicants are to submit their application form electronically to horizon.malta@gov.mt keeping Lili Kankaya lili.vasileva@gov.mt in copy with “HIPAS – Application 2025” as a subject heading. The call will be open throughout the year (until 7th November 2025) with…

Source of Funding: Cascade Funding Hub

Visit the below link to view the 21 funding opportunities on Cascade Funding portal, an instrument by the European Commission. 

Please note that these calls have different deadlines within the month of January 2025.

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Xjenza Malta is receiving proposals under the European Innovation Council Support Scheme.  The aim of the scheme is to support applicants applying to Open and Challenges calls and who will apply for the cut-off dates as stated in the Horizon Europe EIC work programme.

The European Innovation Council Programmes are:

• EIC Pathfinder
• Transition and
• Accelerator

The scheme is exclusively available to sole applicants and consortium coordinators.

Applicants may apply for Option A and/or Option B, and/or Option C depending on the EIC programme applied to and the stage of their EIC application. Applicants may apply to:

• Option A…

Source of Funding: European Research Council (ERC)

Xjenza Malta is receiving proposals under the ERC Support Scheme. The Scheme aims to strengthen the opportunities for talented researchers to obtain grants from the ERC (European Research Council) for excellent and ground-breaking research based on researchers’ own ideas within all areas of research. The Scheme is divided into two options. Applicants are to fill in the appropriate sections of the form; they may select either Option A or Option B, or both:

• Option A: Mentoring initiative

The mentoring initiative will support potential ERC applicants by helping to identify international experts to provide coaching and advice.

Applicants interested to benefit from the ERC Mentoring Initiative…

Source of Funding: EU Emissions Trading System

What will the Innovation Fund 2024 General Call finance?

Budget: 2.4 billion EUR

 

Small-scale projects call window: budget 100 000 000 EUR

‘small-scale project’ means a project with a total capital expenditure not exceeding EUR 20 000 000 but larger than EUR 2 500 000

Link: EU Funding & Tenders Portal | EU Funding & Tenders Portal

 

Medium-scale projects call window budget: 200 000 000 EUR

‘medium-scale project’ means a project with a total capital expenditure…

Source of Funding: BlueMissionMed

In In the framework of the EU Mission “Restore our Ocean and Waters by 2030”, the EU funded project BlueMissionMed, in collaboration with the European Commission (EC), announces the “Blue Rivers and Lakes” Award to celebrate the initiatives to protect and restore small/medium scale basins and therefore contributing to the Mission’s objectives. 

The EU Mission “Restore our Ocean and Waters by 2030” aims to eliminate pollution and make the blue economy carbon-neutral and circular. The Mission supports regional engagement and cooperation through area-based “Lighthouses” in major sea/river…