Discover 20 Cascade Funding Opportunities for your December 2024 success!
Get ready to supercharge your innovative ideas with Cascade Funding, the game-changing instrument of the European Commission! December 2024 is packed with 20 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 - DECEMBER 2024
NGI Fediversity Open Call 2 Creating the hosting stack of the future
The NLnet Foundation invites project proposals aligned with the Next Generation Internet (NGI) vision, focusing on research and development to enhance internet-based services. Open to individuals and organizations, proposals should be concise, have a European dimension, and aim to deliver breakthrough contributions to NGI Fediversity’s objectives, including easy-to-use, secure cloud services.
Max Funding: €50,000
Deadline: 01/12
NGI Zero Commons Funds 2024 Call 4 Create, mature and grow internet commons
The goal of this new fund is to help deliver, mature and scale new internet commons across the whole technology spectrum, from libre silicon to middleware, from P2P infrastructure to convenient end user applications.
Max Funding: €50,000
Deadline: 01/12
OpenAgri Open Call Making digital farming accessible through customized open-source and open-hardware solutions.
Max Funding: €100,000
Deadline: 02/12
EmpoWomen 2024 Call 2 Acceleration Programme empowering women-led deep tech startups in Widening Area countries
The purpose of EmpoWomen OC#2 is to actively involve women-led deep tech early-stage startups in the widening areas. This call seeks to identify and choose promising startups to participate in a customized acceleration programme. The overarching goal is to offer support that nurtures the development and investment potential of these startups, with the ultimate aim of cultivating them into leading female figures in deep tech innovation within Europe.
Deadline: 02/12
EBRAINS 2.0 2024 Open Call Integrating vascular architecture into the EBRAINS Human Brain Atlas
This call invites the scientific and research community to integrate brain vascular tree models with the EBRAINS human brain atlas. It encourages submissions of 3D reconstructions of vascular trees from images that can be aligned with EBRAINS reference templates. The goal is to enhance the usability of vasculature models for neuroscientific research and increase the clinical relevance of the EBRAINS atlas. The focus is on integrating existing data, not acquiring new data, although some datasets may require curation and metadata adaptation. Only one proposal will be selected for funding.
Total Funding:€60,000
Deadline: 02/12
SME Market Expansion Open Call 2025 The SME Market Expansion Call funds SMEs with urban mobility innovations, fostering partnerships and collaboration within the EIT Urban Mobility network.
The SME Market Expansion Call supports small and medium enterprises (SMEs) with innovative urban mobility solutions, encouraging applications with an end-client (public or private) ready to test these innovations. The initiative seeks to build partnerships and ease collaboration within the EIT Urban Mobility network.
Proposals must fit into one of the following five topics:
- Public Transport
- Urban Logistics
- Electrification of transport and alternative fuels
- Mobility Data Management
- Health and mobility
Max Funding:€60,000
Deadline: 02/12
IMAGINE-B5G 3rd Open Call Open call to test and validate novel vertical applications through pilots and trials on the IMAGINE-B5G facilities
IMAGINE-B5G`s third open call targets novel services to be run on the IMAGINE-B5G facilities for up to 6 months with a maximum budget of €60.000 per project. The main aim is to engage third-party stakeholders towards the conceptualization, development, experimentation, testing and validation of novel vertical applications through pilots and trials.
Max Funding:€60,000
Deadline: 02/12
TALOS 2024 Open Call Robotic solutions for solar photovoltaic
If you’re working on robotics, AI, and data technologies and aim to enhance innovative operations and maintenance in photovoltaic (PV) plants, this is your chance.
The Open Call is available to entities providing solutions that address the challenges defined for the TALOS Pilots, including:
- BVLOS aerial inspections, fire detection systems
- Autonomous detection of defects in underwater and underground high-voltage cables
- Prevention of algae growth and biofouling
- AI-driven microclimate monitoring for agricultural PV
Inspection and maintenance of platform anchorages and mooring lines.
Max Funding:€200,000
Deadline: 03/12
UP-RISE 2024 Open Call Open Call for fermented food processors.
The UP-RISE international project supports the African Food Safety strategy and the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals by fostering research and innovation to reduce hunger, enhance food security, and promote sustainable agriculture in Africa. It focuses on preventing mycotoxin contamination to improve food safety and lower the risk of food-borne diseases. This call seeks processors working with traditional fermented foods to participate as case studies (two per country) across Benin, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa, strengthening local food safety systems in these regions.
Max Funding:€60,000
Deadline: 07/12
FIDAL 2024 Call 2 Field Trials Beyond 5G
FIDAL invites European third parties such as companies, research centers or any other relevant entity as well as facilities and infrastructure owners, to undertake a set of new or complementary 5G use cases to further enrich the main areas of interest and to perform related large-scale trials.
The proposed use cases should address one of the main areas identified by the project:
- Media
- Entertainment
- Emergency Services
- Time critical applications and services
Max Funding:€250,000
Deadline: 10/12
EIT HEI Initiative 2024 Call This call for proposals enables higher education institutions and businesses in Europe to collaborate on projects, fostering innovation and entrepreneurship
The EIT HEI Initiative Call for Proposals 2024 will fund up to 42 projects to enhance innovation, research, and entrepreneurship at European HEIs. Each project, with a total budget of EUR 1.34 million, will span 25 months across two phases: EUR 540,000 for Phase 1 (April–December 2025) and EUR 800,000 for Phase 2 (2026–2027), pending successful Phase 1 completion. Applicants can choose between building innovation capacity at HEIs or enhancing Deep Tech. The application deadline is 12 December 2024.
Max Funding: €1,340,000
Deadline: 12/12
AI REDGIO 5.0 2023 Call 2 Regions and (E)DIHs alliance for AI-at-the-Edge adoption by European Industry 5.0 Manufacturing SMEs
The objective for the second open call of AI REDGIO 5.0 project is to select up to 10 SME-driven experiments focused on the implementation of AI at the Edge and Industry 5.0 systems with the aim of improving existing solutions, products or processes in the manufacturing area. Additionally, the open call will contribute to extend the domains of AI REDGIO 5.0 and benefit directly manufacturing SMEs and small mid-caps.
TOPIC 1: AI at the Edge applications and edge-to-cloud continuum
TOPIC 2: Industry 5.0 and human-centric, resilient and sustainable manufacturing
Max Funding:€60,000
Deadline: 16/12
EUCF 2024 Call 7 Call for European City Facility Beneficiaries
The European City Facility (EUCF) aims to support municipalities and local authorities in developing Investment Concepts related to the implementation of actions identified in their climate and energy action plans. The ultimate objective of the EUCF is to build a substantial pipeline of sustainable energy investment projects across municipalities in Europe.
Max Funding:€60,000
Deadline: 18/12
SPIRIT 2024 Call 2 Scalable Platform for Innovations on Real-time Immersive Telepresence
The first SPIRIT Open Call (OC2) is now open to a wide range of third-party contributors to validate and test their applications on the SPIRIT platform, Europe’s first multi-site and interconnected platform for real-time immersive telepresence applications.
Max Funding:€100,000
Deadline: 19/12
RESIST: Networking Open Call Resilience through Sustainable processes and production for the European automotive Industry
This call provides financial support to European SMEs, startups, and micro-businesses in the Mobility, Transport, and Automotive (MTA) sector to participate in international networking and marketing activities within the EU. Funding covers up to €500 for networking and €250 for marketing, aimed at enhancing their visibility and connections in the industry.
Max Funding:€5,000
Deadline: 20/12
RESIST: Internationalisation Open Call RESIST: Internationalisation Open Call
This call provides financial support to European SMEs, start-ups and very-small businesses (VSBs) working in the Mobility, Transport and Automotive (MTA) ecosystem, so they can participate in internationalisation acceleration activities organised in non-EU third countries.
Max Funding:€2,000
Deadline: 20/12
6G-BRICKS 2024 Call 2 Building Reusable testbed Infrastructures for validating Cloud-to-device breakthrough technologies
6G-BRICKS aims to deliver a new 6G experimentation facility, building on the baseline of mature ICT-52 platforms, that bring breakthrough cell-free and RIS technologies, which have shown promise in beyond 5G networks. Moreover, novel unified control paradigms based on Explainable AI and Machine Reasoning are explored.
The objective of the Open Calls is to validate the capabilities, functionalities and performance of the 6GBRICKS experimental facility in extended domains which will complement those of the internal Use Cases.
Max Funding:€120,000
Deadline: 23/12
XR2LEARN Open Call 2 2024 Leveraging the EU XR industry technologies to empower immersive learning
XR2Learn is focused on delivering human-centric XR applications in education.
In these Open Calls, consortia of up to three partners consisting of XR-application user/adopters and of XR-applications developers or single partners are eligible for applying.
Open Call 2 is aimed at application development for the manufacturing domain. Besides the stated benefits, the participants will be supported in the validation of their application in the lab environment.
Max Funding:€300,000
Deadline: 27/12
GEMSTONE EUROCLUSTER 2024 Call Train Support manufacturing SMEs in their green transition initiatives. Financial support for Training
GEMSTONE call – financial support for Training (TRAIN) aims to facilitate the connexion between training providers and SMEs and to support the SMEs capacity building. The call is open to manufacturing, technology and solution providers SMEs, and in particular industrial equipment and tool providers, willing to gain knowledge on solutions offered by Green Manufacturing
Max Funding:€2,000
Deadline: 31/12
GEMSTONE EUROCLUSTER 2024 Call Explore Support manufacturing SMEs in their green transition initiatives. Financial support for Exploration
GEMSTONE call – financial support for Exploration (EXPLORE) aims to facilitate SMEs internationalisation strategy by supporting their participation to business fairs and other international event deemed interesting for their activities, in targeted countries and in relation to Green Manufacturing.
Max Funding:€1,500
Deadline: 31/12
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