Skills for innovative SMEs

In short

This is a Coordination and Support Action under Horizon Europe. The budget is €30 million for about 1 grant of €30 million each. It is paid as a lump sum, so you report results instead of costs. Submission opens on 1 December 2026. Deadline: 3 March 2027.

What the call wants to achieve

• Establishment of an SME support scheme through the Enterprise Europe Network, which delivers transnational skills-matching, recruitment support, and innovation management services to innovative SMEs across Europe.
• This support scheme has the following expected outcomes: Innovative SMEs have reduced labour and skill shortages through a transnational mobility scheme, which allows them to recruit and train highly skilled researchers from abroad
• SMEs have improved innovation capacity to support research and innovation (R&I) projects and increased participation of highly skilled staff employed in R&I through recruitment and training
• Researchers gain new knowledge and skills in industrial innovation and business management, through employment and training in innovative companies.

Source: EU Funding & Tenders Portal, © European Union, CC BY 4.0, summarised. The official call text and its annexes decide eligibility, budget and deadlines.

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