Note the deadline date for submitting an application for participation in the HE call for the European Partnership on Innovative SME

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Horizon Europe Office in Ukraine, NRFU, reminds that the deadline date for submitting an application for participation in the call for the European Partnership on Innovative SME (HORIZON-EIE-2025-01-INNOVSMES-01) is June 19, 2025, 17:00:00 Brussels time. The call was announced as part of the Horizon Europe European Innovation Ecosystems of the Pillar III Innovative Europe.

Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

  • Improved knowledge transfer in the European innovative Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) ecosystem, through increased and sustained collaboration between SMEs, public research partners and academia;
  • Mitigation of difficulties in access to finance for European innovative SMEs and thus contribute to enhanced growth and expansion of European innovative SMEs;
  • Improved European innovative SME access to new international markets or value chains thus leading to improved market share and sales for European innovative SMEs increasing their employment capacity;
  • Identify and better exploit existing or emerging opportunities in the global markets and establish win-win international innovation partnerships, such as networks of incubators and accelerators with the help of the Innowwide instrument and other existing support mechanisms.

Please note that due to a technical issue, during the first days of publication of this call, the topic page did not display the description of the corresponding destination. This problem is now solved. In addition to the information published in the topic page, you can always find a full description of the destination “INNOVSMES – Partnership on Innovative SMEs” in the Work Programme 2025 part for “European Innovation Ecosystems”. Please select from the work programme the destination relevant to your topic and take into account the description and expected impacts of that destination for the preparation of your proposal.