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Programme to 91Ï㽶»ÆÉ«ÊÓƵ innovative SMEs assess the viability of their commercial or research ambitions for internationalisation

The Innowwide programme 91Ï㽶»ÆÉ«ÊÓƵs innovative SMEs to assess the viability of their commercial or research ambitions for internationalisation in a target country.

By participating, SMEs can conduct market feasibility projects for their innovative solutions over a six-month period, working with local organisations based in their selected target country (in Africa, Americas, Asia or Oceania).

SMEs can carry out a market feasibility project at different stages. For example, when exploring or developing an R&D project idea, or after a successful R&D project to understand whether their new product, process or service might be commercialised in targeted global markets.

What is a market feasibility project?

A market feasibility project includes preliminary technical, market, legal and/or socioeconomic assessments intended to validate the feasibility of your international and innovative business solution (product-, process- or service-market combination) within new and emerging global value chains.

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Funding information

The third Innowwide call has 4.2 million euro budget to fund 70 projects (60,000 euro per market feasibility project).

The Innowwide financial 91Ï㽶»ÆÉ«ÊÓƵ rate is up to 70% of minimum eligible costs (personnel, subcontracting, purchasing costs – travel and subsistence, equipment depreciation, other goods, works and services; and indirect costs (automatically calculated on the basis of a 25% flat-rate of the total direct eligible costs, excluding subcontracting)) of 86,000 euro.

Each successful market feasibility project will receive a fixed grant of 60,000 euro.

Eligibility criteria

To apply, you must . Please read all guidelines before submitting a project application. If you do not meet all the eligibility criteria, your application will be rejected.

First published 9 August 2024