Horizon Europe European Innovation Ecosystems, CONNECT strand

Coordination and Support Actions plus Innovation Actions connecting regional innovation ecosystems. Project budgets typically EUR 1-6 million per topic. Several CONNECT projects run cascade funding (financial support to third parties) that re-grants to start-ups, commonly in the EUR 10,000-60,000 range per company.

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European Commission (EISMEA), Horizon Europe Part 10

public · supranational

Deadline: annual_call — Annual calls under the EIE work programme. The 2026 call (HORIZON-EIE-2026-01) includes topics such as Expanding Investment Ecosystems (CONNECT-02) and Scaling up deep tech ecosystems (CONNECT-03).

This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.

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