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Grants

i-Nov Innovation Competition

i-Nov - Concours d'innovation

Status

Status not published

Successive waves (vagues) with fixed closing dates, generally one to two per year.

Check with the funder

Amount

Not published

Grant and repayable advance for single-company innovation projects. Aid intensity depends on company size and project category.

Funder

Bpifrance et ADEME pour l'Etat (France 2030)

public · national

Deadline: annual_call — Successive waves (vagues) with fixed closing dates, generally one to two per year.

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

moderate

Moderate — a form and supporting documents.

Who can apply

Up to 2000 employees
small enterprises
Sectors: deeptech, health, climate, energy, mobility, space, ai
Stage: seed, series_a
R&D activity required
Locally registered entity required

Single-company projects only (no consortium).

How to apply

Check the current wave and its thematic strands — link
Submit the dossier before the wave closing date

What you will need

Technical and financial dossier
Business plan

Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://www.bpifrance.fr/nos-appels-a-projets-concours — checked 2026-08-14 · not human-checked