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EIT HEI Initiative: Innovation Capacity Building for Higher Education

EIT HEI Initiative

Status

Usually opens in October and February

Projected from the months this call usually opens — not a date the funder has confirmed.

Closed

Projected from the pattern of past calls — confirm on the funder's page before planning around it.

Amount
€1,200,000

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.

Funder

EIT (implemented by EIT RawMaterials on behalf of the EIT Community)

ppp · supranational

Deadline: One call a year — Annual call for HEI consortia.

Your odds
Not published

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.

Effort
quick

Quick — mostly identity and bank details.

Who can apply

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.

Related reading: How grant deadlines actually work

Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://eit-hei.eu/ · not human-checked

Verified on 14 August 2026

Source: funder's homepage — the programme page was not found

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