EUREKA INNOWWIDE

Submission deadline: 30/11/2025

Project Type

Launched in 1985, the Eureka association aims to facilitate international cooperation in technological research and innovation, thereby strengthening the productivity and competitiveness of its member countries in advanced technologies. Innowwide, a component of Eureka, seeks to support innovative SMEs in conducting feasibility studies for projects outside Europe.

Project duration: 6 months

Project Themes

Innowwide is a Eureka program funded by the European Union, enabling innovative SMEs to secure a 60,000 euro grant to finance a feasibility study for an innovative solution in a non-European country. There is one Call for Proposals annually, and the next one is anticipated to run from September to the end of November 2025 (dates are expected to be published by Eureka shortly).

ELIGIBLE ENTITIES

• Innovative SME
• To undertake a six-month market feasibility study project in a country located in Africa, Asia, the Americas, or Oceania (excluding Iceland, Israel, Norway, Switzerland, Turkey, or the United Kingdom). The project must encompass a combination of activities (technical, commercial, promotional).
• To engage a main and local subcontractor in the target country.

FUNDING

To incur total eligible costs of at least 86,000 euros, with subcontracting costs exceeding 0€. Eligible costs comprise: personnel costs, subcontracting, purchasing costs – including travel and subsistence expenses, equipment depreciation, other goods, works, and services, and indirect costs (automatically calculated as a flat rate of 25% of total eligible direct costs, excluding subcontracting).

TYPES OF AID

Le programme Innowwide dispose d’un budget de 4,2 millions d’euros pour financer 70 projets
lauréats de cette 4ème édition.
Les 70 PME lauréates reçoivent chacune une subvention fixe de 60 000 euros, versée en 2 tranches :
• 42 000 euros, versés au début de la mise en place du projet
• 18 000 euros versés à la fin du projet, après remise d’un rapport final validé par l’équipe Innowwide
d’Eureka

Characteristics of Supported Projects

• To be an innovative SME from an EU member country (or from Iceland, Israel, Norway, Switzerland, Turkey, or the United Kingdom)
• To engage a main subcontractor in a non-European country (Africa, the Americas, Asia, Oceania, with the exception of Iceland, Israel, Norway, Switzerland, Turkey, or the United Kingdom), where you intend to develop and validate your innovative solution.
• To conduct a market feasibility study project with this subcontractor, the outcome of which must have a significant impact on the targeted country.
• To utilize, where relevant, frugal innovation.