Digital Innovation

Are you a cluster or SME in innovation? The European Commission is looking to further develop the potential of innovation in public procurement across the EU. In order to achieve this, the Commission has launched an open call to increase innovation in public procurement strategies. The call aims to...

The PITCCH project aims to create a pan-European Open Innovation network to facilitate collaboration between big companies and SMEs or start-ups who can provide new technologies. The project has launched its 3rd open call for corporate challenges. Big corporations can submit their Corporate...

Since 2019, the EU and Japan have been working together through the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA). Together, with a more general Strategic Partnership Agreement, the partnership has become the cornerstone of an enhanced relationship between the EU and Japan. On 28 September, Commissioner...

The newly adopted Recovery and Resilience Facility has earmarked €134 billion for the EU’s digital transition. Part of this budget will enable the EU to become a global leader in cutting-edge, trustworthy AI. The European approach to artificial intelligence (AI) should help to build a resilient...

Thirty semi-finalists have been announced in this year’s European Social Innovation Competition. The announcement was made by the European Commission and the European Innovation Council and SME Executive Agency (EISMEA). In total, the competition received 565 applications – from this high number...

DigCirc brings companies together with the goal of making the economy more sustainable. Supported by the EU, the project includes clusters, business experts, circular professors, tech developers, consultants, and designers. As well as open calls, an accelerator programme, and events, the DigiCirc...

Basic information about the call Following the activities carried out during the implementation phase of the project, such as the mapping of the ecosystems, reporting on SMEs needs and opportunities, LEVIATAD has identified specific investment priorities: autonomous ships and drones communication...

The second window of the call for Financial Support To Individual Services of ELBE EUROCLUSTER is now open! The budget of this call is €240.000, which will be spent in two windows. For this second window, a minimum of 13 individual services will be supported (up to €10.000 each). Types of services...

Strengths and weaknesses of different innovation ecosystems to find and propose solutions for improvement and better coordination in Europe

Through the call for Financial Support To Innovation (FSTI), ELBE EUROCLUSTER is funding 7 projects that will respond to the challenges posed by the Challenge Owners. The following table shows the results of the call, i.e. the winners of each challenge. For all the projects, the grant amount is of...

The EU-funded project SERMAS just launched its first open call - DEVELOP with up to €100 000 per sub-project for innovators developing technologies in the field of XR. We look for solutions in different topics like privacy-preserving facial recognition, avatar generator runtime, multilingual speech...

We are thrilled to announce the preliminary data about our two open calls - one focused on innovation, training, and business transformation, and the other focused on internationalisation actions!👏 A total of 58 applications from 48 SMEs from 8 different countries were selected for funding. The...