Pitchfile.Updated 15 Nov 2026

EU grants for agencies and small businesses

Open EU funding a small company can apply for: cascade grants handed out by EU-funded projects, plus Creative Europe, Digital Europe and other calls. Research-consortium calls are left out.

78open grants
Closing within 30 days23
Cascade grants39
Programmes10
Total budgets, EUR€2.05bn

Grants by programme

Horizon Europe
34
Creative Europe
19
Digital Europe
12
Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values
7
EDF
1
Pilot Projects
1
Interregional Innovation Investments
1

What is on offer

Cascade grants
39
EU calls
39
Closing within 30 days
23
Not open yet
5
1 day left
EDF

BATTLEVERSE: Open Call for Cutting-Edge Defence Solutions

Cascade grant
EDF-2024-RA-SIMTRAIN-BRG-STEP
Total budget€1.2M
Opened14 Sep
Closes16 Nov
1 day left
Horizon Europe

SBEP: Building a sustainable and innovative Blue Economy: mastering digital opportunities and fostering resilience

Cascade grant
HORIZON-CL6-2022-GOVERNANCE-01-02
Total budget€37.7M
Opened14 Sep
Closes16 Nov
4 days left
Horizon Europe

GroundWork Open Call

Cascade grant
HORIZON-MISS-2024-SOIL-01-01
Total budget€891k
Opened01 Sep
Closes19 Nov
8 days left
Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values

CoPower: Comprehensive and inclusive support for women and girls' victims of GBV

Cascade grant
CERV-2025-DAPHNE
Total budget€900k
Opened18 Sep
Closes23 Nov
8 days left
Digital Europe

Govtech4all 2.0: Service request: 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘭 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 - 𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘴 - 𝘴𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳, 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘣𝘺 𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘴?

Cascade grant
DIGITAL-2024-GOVTECH-06-SGA
Total budget€70k
Opened29 Oct
Closes23 Nov
13 days left
Horizon Europe

Mission ocean in Slovenian seas — Call for proposals for the provision of financial support to third parties for the implementation of small-scale projects under the RISTANC project

Cascade grant
HORIZON-MISS-2024-CROSS-02-01
Total budget€60k
Opened28 Sep
Closes28 Nov
13 days left
Digital Europe

LLM-BRIDGE – Venture Incubation Programme - Open Call for Incubators – 2nd Call

Cascade grant
DIGITAL-2024-BESTUSE-07-MULTICOUNTRY
Total budget€60k
Opened28 Sep
Closes28 Nov
16 days left
Horizon Europe

InnovativeSMEs: European Partnership on Innovative SMEs/Innowwide CALL 5

Cascade grant
HORIZON-EIE-2021-INNOVSMES-01-01
Total budget€4.2M
Opened01 Oct
Closes01 Dec
16 days left
Horizon Europe

The European Prize for Women Innovators

EU call
HORIZON-EIC-2026-PRIZE-WIP
Total budget€220k
Opened02 Sep
Closes01 Dec
16 days left
Horizon Europe

Rising Innovators category

EU call
HORIZON-EIC-2026-PRIZE-WIP-RisingInnovators
Total budget€100k
Opened02 Sep
Closes01 Dec
16 days left
Creative Europe

European slate development

EU call
CREA-MEDIA-2027-DEVSLATE
Total budget€22.4M
Opened30 Sep
Closes01 Dec
16 days left
Digital Europe

AI compute evaluation and deployment platform for EU infrastructure

EU call
DIGITAL-JU-CHIPS-2026-AI-GFP
Total budget€70M
Opened07 Jul
Closes01 Dec
16 days left
Digital Europe

AI chip demonstrators for EU compute infrastructure

EU call
DIGITAL-JU-CHIPS-2026-AI1-SG
Total budget€10M
Opened07 Jul
Closes01 Dec
17 days left
Horizon Europe

ForestPathways – Building Knowledge and Solutions for Resilient Forests and Sustainable Forest-Based Futures

Cascade grant
HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-CIRCBIO-15
Total budget€40M
Opened15 Sep
Closes02 Dec
17 days left
Horizon Europe

NOSTRADAMUS - Open Call #1: Funding Digital Applications for Sustainable and Efficient Agriculture

Cascade grant
HORIZON-CL6-2023-GOVERNANCE-01-13
Total budget€250k
Opened29 Sep
Closes02 Dec
18 days left
Horizon Europe

SGA3-NZC: NetZeroCities ECT2: Enabling City Transformation 2

Cascade grant
HORIZON-MISS-2025-CIT-SGA
Total budget€8M
Opened31 Aug
Closes03 Dec
23 days left
Digital Europe

International collaboration EU and Japan on semiconductors

EU call
DIGITAL-JU-CHIPS-2026-SG-JAPAN
Total budget€5M
Opened07 Jul
Closes08 Dec
25 days left
Horizon Europe

UNITE Open Call 2 for Joint Interregional Projects

Cascade grant
HORIZON-EIE-2023-CONNECT-03-01
Total budget€6M
Opened10 Sep
Closes10 Dec
26 days left
Horizon Europe

SoS2LearnDBS 1st Open Call for Transition Agendas (OC-TAg1-SoS2LearnDBS-2026)

Cascade grant
HORIZON-MISS-2024-OCEAN-02-01
Total budget€1.12M
Opened09 Oct
Closes11 Dec
29 days left
Creative Europe

ZMINA.Resilience: ZMINA:Resilience. Rolling call for International Showcasing of co-creation projects

Cascade grant
CREA-CULT-2025-COOP-UA-1
Total budget€950k
Opened15 Jun
Closes14 Dec
29 days left
Horizon Europe

VALLEYS Open Call #1

Cascade grant
HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-06-ERA-01
Total budget€210k
Opened14 Oct
Closes14 Dec
29 days left
Horizon Europe

26-28 EntrEduSkills: EIT STEM Tech Talent Induction Call: Building Future-Ready STEM Talent

Cascade grant
HORIZON-EIT-2025-KIC-IBA-EntrEduSkills
Total budget€2M
Opened14 Oct
Closes14 Dec
30 days left
Horizon Europe

WoodStock Grants to support climate-smart wood construction solutions

Cascade grant
HORIZON-CL6-2024-CLIMATE-01-5
Total budget€200k
Opened15 Sep
Closes15 Dec
43 days left
Creative Europe

Cultural Horizons: Artistic Mobility

Cascade grant
CREA-CULT-2025-COOP-UA-2
Total budget€220k
Opened26 Oct
Closes28 Dec
46 days left
Horizon Europe

BIOECONOMY GIANTS Open Call for Scaling-up & Piloting (OC2)

Cascade grant
HORIZON-JU-CBE-2024-CSA-01
Total budget€280k
Opened01 Nov
Closes31 Dec
49 days left
Horizon Europe

Restack Open Call (2027-01R)

Cascade grant
HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DATA-11
Total budget€7M
Opened03 Nov
Closes03 Jan
52 days left
Digital Europe

AENAON Open Call 1

Cascade grant
DIGITAL-ECCC-2024-DEPLOY-CYBER-07-LARGEOPER
Total budget€4.32M
Opened26 Oct
Closes06 Jan
53 days left
Pilot Projects

Sport Supports - emergency sport actions for youth

EU call
PPPA-SPORT-2026-EMERGENCY-YOUTH
Total budget€1.92M
Opened10 Nov
Closes07 Jan
57 days left
Horizon Europe

RCH: Foundations for climate-resilient cultural heritage - Assessing and managing impact and risk, dealing with damage and loss

Cascade grant
HORIZON-CL2-2025-03-HERITAGE-01
Total budget€36.5M
Opened04 Nov
Closes11 Jan
59 days left
Horizon Europe

EIT Health 26-28: Innovation Validation Call 2027

Cascade grant
HORIZON-EIT-2025-KIC-IBA-H
Total budget€5.1M
Opened14 Oct
Closes13 Jan
59 days left
Horizon Europe

FutureFoodS: GETS - Getting Everyone Together for Sustainable food systems: empowered consumers, innovative sustainable products and trusted value chains

Cascade grant
HORIZON-CL6-2023-FARM2FORK-01-9
Total budget€44M
Opened03 Nov
Closes13 Jan
60 days left
Horizon Europe

Women TechEU 2 EIC: Women TechEU Open Call

Cascade grant
HORIZON-EIC-2025-WOMENTECH
Total budget€12M
Opened01 Jun
Closes14 Jan
60 days left
Digital Europe

Cybersecure tools, technologies and services relying on AI

EU call
DIGITAL-ECCC-2027-DEPLOY-CYBER-11-CYBERAI
Total budget€15M
Opened01 Sep
Closes14 Jan
60 days left
Digital Europe

Strengthening EU cybersecurity capacities & capabilities in line with legislative requirements

EU call
DIGITAL-ECCC-2027-DEPLOY-CYBER-11-EULEG
Total budget€20M
Opened01 Sep
Closes14 Jan
60 days left
Creative Europe

Innovative tools and business models

EU call
CREA-MEDIA-2027-INNOVBUSMOD
Total budget€14M
Opened30 Sep
Closes14 Jan
60 days left
Horizon Europe

O-CEI 2nd OPEN CALL FOR UPTAKE PROJECTS

Cascade grant
HORIZON-CL4-2024-DATA-01-03
Total budget€1.6M
Opened12 Nov
Closes14 Jan
60 days left
Digital Europe

Strengthening cybersecurity capacities of European SMEs with cybersecure AI-powered solutions

EU call
DIGITAL-ECCC-2027-DEPLOY-CYBER-11-AI4SME
Total budget€20M
Opened01 Sep
Closes14 Jan
60 days left
Digital Europe

Coordinated preparedness testing and other preparedness actions

EU call
DIGITAL-ECCC-2027-DEPLOY-CYBER-11-COORDPREP
Total budget€15M
Opened01 Sep
Closes14 Jan
60 days left
Digital Europe

Dual-use technologies

EU call
DIGITAL-ECCC-2027-DEPLOY-CYBER-11-DUALUSE
Total budget€10M
Opened01 Sep
Closes14 Jan
64 days left
Horizon Europe

EITFood BP26-28: Open Call for Implementing Participants of the Empowering Women in Agrifood (EWA) Programme 2027-2028

Cascade grant
HORIZON-EIT-2025-KIC-IBA-F
Total budget€930k
Opened06 Nov
Closes18 Jan
64 days left
Interregional Innovation Investments

NASCHA: First Open Call

Cascade grant
I3-2024-INV2a
Total budget€600k
Opened12 Nov
Closes18 Jan
65 days left
EU4Health

Call for proposals for operating grants in 2027 to non-governmental organisations: financial contribution to the functioning of health non-governmental organisations implementing one or more specific objectives of Regulation (EU) 2021/522 (OA-g-26-91 )

EU call
EU4H-2027-SANTE-OG
Total budget€1.8M
Opened04 Nov
Closes19 Jan
66 days left
Horizon Europe

EP PerMed: Cell and Gene Therapy for Personalised Medicine (CGT4PM2027)

Cascade grant
HORIZON-HLTH-2023-CARE-08-01
Total budget€37M
Opened04 Nov
Closes20 Jan
66 days left
Creative Europe

NEWS - Media Literacy

EU call
CREA-CROSS-2027-MEDIALITERACY
Total budget€3.5M
Opened22 Oct
Closes20 Jan
67 days left
Creative Europe

Films on the Move

EU call
CREA-MEDIA-2027-FILMOVE
Total budget€23.5M
Opened30 Sep
Closes21 Jan
73 days left
Creative Europe

Circulation of European literary works

EU call
CREA-CULT-2027-LIT
Total budget€5M
Opened21 Oct
Closes27 Jan
73 days left
Horizon Europe

AMALTEA 2nd Open Call - Call for SMEs & Start-ups: Innovative Solutions for Sustainable Construction

Cascade grant
HORIZON-CL4-2024-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-04
Total budget€2.5M
Opened04 Nov
Closes27 Jan
73 days left
Creative Europe

NEWS - Media Freedom Rapid Response Mechanism

EU call
CREA-CROSS-2027-MFP
Total budget€3M
Opened22 Oct
Closes27 Jan
75 days left
Horizon Europe

EDITO 2: INTEGRATION OF INNOVATIVE OCEAN SOLUTIONS INTO EDITO

Cascade grant
HORIZON-MISS-2024-OCEAN-IBA
Total budget€700k
Opened09 Nov
Closes29 Jan
79 days left
Creative Europe

European video games and immersive content

EU call
CREA-MEDIA-2027-DEVVGIM
Total budget€13.5M
Opened30 Sep
Closes02 Feb
80 days left
Horizon Europe

CodeSupply open call (2027-01Y)

Cascade grant
HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-HUMAN-16
Total budget€300k
Opened03 Nov
Closes03 Feb
81 days left
Creative Europe

NEWS - JOURNALISM PARTNERSHIPS - COLLABORATIONS

EU call
CREA-CROSS-2027-JOURPART-COLLABORATIONS
Total budget€7M
Opened22 Oct
Closes04 Feb
81 days left
Creative Europe

NEWS - JOURNALISM PARTNERSHIPS - PLURALISM

EU call
CREA-CROSS-2027-JOURPART-PLURALISM
Total budget€7M
Opened22 Oct
Closes04 Feb
87 days left
Creative Europe

TV and online content Animation projects

EU call
CREA-MEDIA-2027-TVONLINE-1
Total budget€23.3M
Opened30 Sep
Closes10 Feb
87 days left
Creative Europe

TV and online content Fiction projects

EU call
CREA-MEDIA-2027-TVONLINE-3
Total budget€23.3M
Opened30 Sep
Closes10 Feb
87 days left
Horizon Europe

GRAIL Open Call — Genesis (1st Open Call)

Cascade grant
HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DIGITAL-EMERGING-07
Total budget€1M
Opened09 Nov
Closes10 Feb
87 days left
Creative Europe

TV and online content Documentary projects

EU call
CREA-MEDIA-2027-TVONLINE-2
Total budget€23.3M
Opened30 Sep
Closes10 Feb
92 days left
Horizon Europe

RAMP Joint Transnational Call 2026

Cascade grant
HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-MATERIALS-64
Total budget€41M
Opened23 Jun
Closes15 Feb
101 days left
Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values

Remembering democratic transitions, the (re-)building of democratic institutions, and strengthening society based on the rule of law, democracy, and fundamental rights.

EU call
CERV-2026-CITIZENS-REM-TRANSITION
Total budget€28M
Opened21 Oct
Closes24 Feb
101 days left
Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values

Strengthening the remembrance of the Holocaust against Jewish people.

EU call
CERV-2026-CITIZENS-REM-HOLOCAUSTJEW
Total budget€28M
Opened21 Oct
Closes24 Feb
101 days left
Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values

Strengthening the remembrance of Roma victims

EU call
CERV-2026-CITIZENS-REM-GENCRIME-1
Total budget€28M
Opened21 Oct
Closes24 Feb
101 days left
Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values

Strengthening the remembrance of LGBTIQ+ victims and other victims

EU call
CERV-2026-CITIZENS-REM-GENCRIME-2
Total budget€28M
Opened21 Oct
Closes24 Feb
101 days left
Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values

Fostering remembrance of the legacy of colonialism, slavery, and migration, and their impact on contemporary multicultural European societies.

EU call
CERV-2026-CITIZENS-REM-HISTMIGRATION
Total budget€28M
Opened21 Oct
Closes24 Feb
Opens 25 Nov
Horizon Europe

HORIZON-EIC-2027-PATHFINDEROPEN-two-stage

EU call
HORIZON-EIC-2027-PATHFINDEROPEN-two-stage
Total budget€166M
Opened25 Nov
Closes25 Feb
107 days left
Creative Europe

European co-development

EU call
CREA-MEDIA-2027-CODEV
Total budget€12.5M
Opened30 Sep
Closes02 Mar
107 days left
Creative Europe

Audience Development and Film Education

EU call
CREA-MEDIA-2027-AUDFILMEDU
Total budget€7M
Opened30 Sep
Closes02 Mar
120 days left
Horizon Europe

BP26-28 EITCC: Open call for proposals Innovation projects

Cascade grant
HORIZON-EIT-2025-KIC-IBA-CC
Total budget€10.5M
Opened25 Sep
Closes15 Mar
Opens 03 Dec
Creative Europe

European Film Distribution

EU call
CREA-MEDIA-2027-FILMDIST
Total budget€38M
Opened03 Dec
Closes08 Apr
158 days left
Creative Europe

Creative Innovation Lab

EU call
CREA-CROSS-2027-INNOVLAB
Total budget€7.18M
Opened22 Oct
Closes22 Apr
166 days left
Horizon Europe

EIT Digital 2026-27: Co-Creation Accelerator 2026-2027

Cascade grant
HORIZON-EIT-2025-MOC-IBA
Total budget€3.2M
Opened01 Jul
Closes30 Apr
Opens 01 Dec
Horizon Europe

EIC STEP Defence

EU call
HORIZON-EIC-2027-DEFENCE-01
Total budget€100M
Opened01 Dec
Closes01 Jun
Opens 29 Apr
Creative Europe

European Film sales agent

EU call
CREA-MEDIA-2027-FILMSALES
Total budget€6M
Opened29 Apr
Closes17 Jun
229 days left
Digital Europe

NCCEE2: Innovation Funding for Estonian Cybersecurity Companies for developing innovative, high value-added products and services

Cascade grant
DIGITAL-ECCC-2024-DEPLOY-NCC-06-MS-COORDINATION
Total budget€1.08M
Opened12 May
Closes02 Jul
289 days left
Single Market Programme

RESIST II PROCESS INNOVATION OPEN CALL

Cascade grant
SMP-COSME-2024-CLUSTER-01
Total budget€100k
Opened03 Feb
Closes31 Aug
311 days left
JTM

Standalone projects

EU call
JTM-2026-PSLF-STANDALONE-PROJECTS
Total budget€630M
Opened23 Oct
Closes22 Sep
Opens 18 Nov
Horizon Europe

EIC STEP Scale Up

EU call
HORIZON-EIC-2027-STEP
Total budget€290M
Opened18 Nov
Closes24 Nov
396 days left
Horizon Europe

Short proposal

EU call
HORIZON-EIC-2027-ACCELERATOR-01
Total budget—
Opened10 Nov
Closes16 Dec
412 days left
Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values

BIRDS in BG - 2: ReAction – Rapid Response Grants

Cascade grant
CERV-2024-CITIZENS-VALUES
Total budget€100k
Opened05 Sep
Closes01 Jan

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