EIT HEI Initiative: Innovation Capacity Building for Higher Education
EIT HEI Initiative
Usually opens in October and February
Projected from the months this call usually opens — not a date the funder has confirmed.
Projected from the pattern of past calls — confirm on the funder's page before planning around it.
Funding for consortia of higher education institutions to build entrepreneurship and innovation capacity, including spin-out support. Published figures have been up to around EUR 1.2 million per consortium over two phases. Not a direct start-up grant, but the route through which many EU university incubators are financed.
EIT (implemented by EIT RawMaterials on behalf of the EIT Community)
ppp · supranational
Deadline: annual_call — Annual call for HEI consortia.
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.
Quick — mostly identity and bank details.
Who can apply
- Stage: idea
- Locally registered entity required
Applicants are higher education institutions in consortia (min. 3 HEIs from 3 countries plus non-HEI partners). Start-ups benefit indirectly via university support services.
Source. https://eit-hei.eu/ — checked 2026-08-14 · not human-checked