Innowwide

The Innowwide programme provides grant funding to SMEs and startups so that they can run market feasibility projects in cooperation with local actors in the selected target country.

Market feasibility projects allow SMEs to gain a deep understanding of the business environment in a specific target country. Some key outcomes from the project include:

• Understanding the technical feasibility of your product, process, or service in that market
• Understanding the viability of your business model
• Identifying key local legal, financial, political, cultural, and behavioural characteristics that could affect the deployment of your solution
• Identifying ideal ways to exploit your solution, including further research and innovation

Funded projects receive a grant of 60,000 euro to assess the practical, technical, and economic feasibility of an innovative solution in a new market during a 6-month timeframe.

Projects must come from an SME or startup in an EU Member State, Iceland, Israel, Norway, Switzerland, Türkiye, or the United Kingdom. They must be directed towards a target country in: Africa, the Americas, Asia, or Oceania.

You can apply if you are an SME or startups from an EU Member State, Iceland, Israel, Norway, Switzerland, Türkiye or the United Kingdom.

Applications to Innowwide must include an independent subcontractor that is established in the target country.

Innowwide funding is awarded to one actor, specifically to the applicant SME. The partner entity is the main subcontractor for the market feasibility project.

A call for projects in the Innowwide programme is launched once a year. When a call is open for applications, it will be on our open calls page. If no call is open, you can check back here later or subscribe to our newsletter to stay informed.

We engage independent experts to evaluate applications submitted to Eureka network programmes (e.g. Eurostars, Innowwide, and the Fast Track to the EIC Accelerator scheme) and other national-level research and development programmes. If you are an expert and wish to join our growing community, register below. Your technical and market expertise is invaluable to the success of our innovative projects.