Discover 16 Cascade Funding Opportunities for your August 2025 success!
Get ready to supercharge your innovative ideas with Cascade Funding, the game-changing instrument of the European Commission! August 2025 is packed with 16 funding opportunities that are tailor-made for SMEs, startups, universities, researchers and local authorities.
Don’t miss out on this chance to take your ideas to the next level and make a lasting impact on the world of research and innovation.
CASCADE FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES - AUGUST 2025
NGI Zero Commons Fund – Open Call. Create, mature and grow internet commons.
The NGI Zero Commons Fund Open Call 7, focuses on creating and scaling open internet solutions across all areas of technology, from hardware and infrastructure to end-user applications, while promoting public ownership and collaboration to tackle today’s digital challenges.
Max Funding: €50,000
Deadline: 01/08
NGI TALER – Open Call. Contributions to help reshape the state of play of digitial payment systems, to help create an open, trustworthy and reliable internet for all.
Call to select projects to deliver potential break-through contributions to the objectives of NGI TALER and the introduction of privacy-preserving and libre digital payment methods at internet scale.
Max Funding: €50,000
Deadline: 01/08
NGI Fediversity Open Call. Call for proposals that provide an idea that contributes to the vision of the Next Generation Internet.
Open call to search for projects to help reshape the state of play and create and open, trustworthy and reliable internet for all.
Max Funding: €50,000
Deadline: 01/08
Journalism Science Alliance – Call 1. Grants aim to forge new alliances between media and academia or research institutions, ramp up pertinent skills and operations, and deliver in-depth investigative reporting on topics of public interest, ranging from climate change and healthcare to emerging technologies and local governance.
Total Funding:€50,000
Deadline: 04/08
Women TechEU 2024 Call 4. Supporting women leading deep tech startups from Europe to grow into tomorrow’s tech leaders.
Women TechEU is a two-year EU-funded project funding and supporting women leading deep tech startup companies from Europe. Across the two years, the consortium will launch a total of four calls for applications. Applicant startups will undergo a rigorous evaluation and a total of 160 winner startups will receive €75k in non-dilutive grants as well as a personalised business development programme including mentoring, coaching and training.
Max Funding:€75,000
Deadline: 04/08
REINFORCING 5th Open Call (Incubators Call). Seeks to support the implementation of Open and Responsible Research and Innovation (ORRI) initiatives by funding projects that foster institutional change and engage newcomers in the ORRI approach.
The REINFORCING 5th Open Call (Incubators Call) is dedicated to supporting consortia that aim to implement projects under the Open and Responsible Research and Innovation (ORRI) approach. It focuses on encouraging newcomers in ORRI to lead projects and facilitate institutional change over a fixed 12-month project duration.
Max Funding:€60,000
Deadline: 05/08
EUDOROS Open Call 1. Aims to enhance cybersecurity preparedness and information sharing across the EU by providing cascade funding and access to the EUDOROS platform for entities prioritising cybersecurity improvements.
EUDOROS Open Call 1 invites applications for projects aimed at enhancing cybersecurity preparedness and information sharing within the European Union. This initiative offers financial support in the form of cascade funding to selected projects that align with the goals of improving cybersecurity resilience and preparedness.
Max Funding:€460,000
Deadline: 06/08
XR2Industry 3rd Open Call for use cases. Strives to foster European sovereignty in Extended Reality (XR) by supporting the development and testing of human-centric XR solutions for industrial use, enhancing technology structuration, standardisation, and data privacy.
Max Funding:€233,900
Deadline: 12/08
ADT4Blue Open Call 2. Support initiative for innovative individuals and teams in developing early-stage, digitally enabled solutions for sustainability and digitalisation challenges in the Blue Economy.
The ADT4Blue Open Call 2 (OC2) aims to accelerate the digitisation and sustainability of the Blue Economy by supporting up to 30 innovative ideas that address 11 defined sectoral challenges using Advanced Digital Technologies (ADTs). The call targets SMEs, startups, entrepreneurs, technologists, students, researchers, and experts based in the EU or Interreg Europe-associated countries.
Deadline: 13/08
UDENE- Open Call. Call to integrate UDENE tools into educational and business contexts in Serbia, Tunisia and Türkiye to expand Earth Observation (EO) data uptake for urban development challenges.
Max Funding: €10,000
Deadline: 16/08
Pathways2Resilience (P2R) Call 2. Supports European regions and communities in developing transformative adaptation strategies for climate resilience through systems innovation and capacity building.
Pathways2Resilience (P2R) Call 2 seeks to fund transformative climate adaptation projects across European regions and communities. The initiative, part of Horizon Europe, is designed to enhance regional resilience to climate change through systems innovation and capacity building.
Max Funding:€210,000
Deadline: 20/08
Open Horizons Open Call #1. Strives to foster the growth of women-led digital and deep-tech startups in Europe by offering a tailored open innovation programme to enhance their investment potential and scalability.
The Open Horizons Open Call #1 is a significant opportunity for women-led, digital, and deep-tech startups in Europe. This initiative aims to upscale innovative startups by providing structured pathways for investment and growth within the deep-tech ecosystem.
Max Funding:€55,000
Deadline: 21/08
FORWARDS Pilot of long-term climate impact forest monitoring sites. Seeks to enhance the assessment of climate change impacts on forests by establishing pilot monitoring sites that provide near real-time data on forest structure and function.
The open call “FORWARDS Pilot of long-term climate impact forest monitoring sites” invites applications for establishing and enhancing forest monitoring sites to assess the long-term impacts of climate change on forest ecosystems. This initiative is part of the Horizon Europe project, FORWARDS, aimed at developing a pan-European monitoring tool for understanding climate change’s effects on forests.
Max Funding:€145,000
Deadline: 24/08
FFPlus Open Call 2 for business experiments addressing the uptake of HPC by SMEs. Seeks to enhance the adoption of High-Performance Computing (HPC) by SMEs through innovative business experiments that demonstrate the technology’s potential to address specific business challenges and drive competitiveness across Europe.
FFPlus Open Call 2 for business experiments is a funding opportunity aimed at empowering SMEs with advanced computational capabilities using High-Performance Computing (HPC). This initiative seeks to drive innovation, enhance competitiveness, and address business challenges through the adoption of HPC technologies by SMEs across Europe.
Max Funding:€200,000
Deadline: 26/08
PhotonQBoost Open Call. PhotonQBoost Open Call for Matching Mission to Poland. The PhotonQBoost project supports European SMEs in adopting Photonics and Quantum technologies to enhance sustainability, resilience, and competitiveness across sectors. As part of this project, one of the key initiatives are the Cross-Border Matching Missions, designed to foster international collaboration.
Max Funding:€610
Deadline: 26/08
BioAgora Co-design of the SPSI Methodological Infrastructure of the Future Science Service for Biodiversity (SSBD). Strives to foster collaboration and innovation by co-designing the Science-Policy-Society Interface Methodological Infrastructure to enhance biodiversity decision-making processes.
The BioAgora open call, “Co-design of the SPSI Methodological Infrastructure of the Future Science Service for Biodiversity (SSBD),” is a strategic initiative aimed at bridging the gap between scientific research and policy-making in biodiversity. It seeks to develop a robust methodological framework to enhance the Science Service for Biodiversity (SSBD) by fostering collaboration among scientists, policy-makers, and other stakeholders.
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