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EIT Water (Knowledge and Innovation Community)

EIT Water

Status

Closed for now

EIT Water was formally launched in November 2025; its first start-up calls are expected as the community stands up its co-location centres. Watch eit.europa.eu and the EIT Water community site.

Opens soon
Amount
Not published

Newest EIT Innovation Community, designated in 2025 to address water resilience. Its start-up-facing instruments (acceleration, incubation, business creation calls) are being rolled out; funding amounts are not yet published as standing figures.

Funder

EIT Water / European Institute of Innovation and Technology

ppp · supranational

Deadline: One call a year — Business creation calls are expected to follow the standard EIT pattern of annual calls once the community's first business plan is in force.

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

Water resilience, water treatment, water reuse and water-in-industry innovators in the EU and Horizon Europe associated countries.

Related reading: How grant deadlines actually work

Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://www.eit.europa.eu/our-activities/call-for-eit-communities/eit-water

"EIT Water Launched: New Innovation Community to Tackle Europe's Water Challenges"

Verified on 14 August 2026

Source: www.eit.europa.eu

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