EUR 5 million available for Bulgarian SMEs and large enterprises via the ‘Business Development, Innovations and SMEs’ Programme of the EEA & Norway grants, focus area: Welfare Technology (WT). The programme is operated by Innovation Norway and aims at contributing to the reduction of economic and social disparities in the EEA as well as at strengthening the bilateral relations between Norway,...

[updated on 31 January 2020]

EUR 23 million is available for Estonian organisations via the Green ICT Programme, consisting of 3 focus areas. The programme will be open for applications from 1 February 2020, with the following budget per focus area for the current calls:

EUR 6 million is available for research and development institutions from Estonia under the Baltic Research Programme. The call for proposals is currently open for applications for collaborative research projects in the areas of fundamental and applied sciences. 

[updated on 7 April 2020]

At Winnovart, we want to make sure we’re offering our clients and partners what they need. Therefore, we had recently launched a survey to see if SMEs and large enterprises still needed consultants for funding applications. The survey has provided us with insights revealing how significant the support of consultants in the preparation of funding applications is.

In Bulgaria 80 projects have been submitted to compete in the first call for proposals under the Business Development, Innovation and SMEs programme, focus area: Green Industry Innovation. The funding for this call was EUR 18 million focused on green innovation projects on the Bulgarian market.

EUR 27.1 million will be available for SMEs and Large enterprises via the Energy Programme in Romania, focus area Renewable Energy. The objective of the Energy Programme is “Less carbon intensive energy and increased security of supply”. The Programme focuses on stimulating and developing the long-term cooperation between Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Romania.

[updated on 30 June 2020] – after the online launch event provided by the Fund Operator.

EUR 22 million will be available to SMEs on the Croatian market via the Business Development, Innovation and SMEs programme aiming to increase the value creation and sustainable growth in the Croatian business sector. The programme is to be operated by Innovation Norway, with the programme partner being the...

EUR 21.5 million will be available to SMEs on the Greek market via the Business Development, Innovation and SMEs programme aiming to increase the value creation and sustainable growth in the Greek business sector. The programme is to be operated by Innovation Norway, with the programme partner being the Hellenic Fund for Entrepreneurship and Development S.A. (ETEAN), Athens. As part of the Norway...

At Winnovart, we want to make sure we’re offering our clients and partners what they need. We recently launched a feedback survey to see if the quality of our newsletters has been where it should be, and we are pleased to report we received very positive feedback.  

At Winnovart, during the past 10 years, we have helped companies raise over €75 million in grants-based funding. Do YOU still NEED us?

Slovenia will get EUR 40 million under the EEA & Norway Grants 2014 – 2021, being one of the 15 Beneficiary States across the EU in this new funding cycle, to have signed the Memorandum of Understanding with the Donor States (Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein). 

Lithuania will get EUR 122 million under the EEA & Norway Grants 2014 – 2021, being one of the 15 Beneficiary States across the EU in this new funding cycle, to have signed the Memorandum of Understanding with the Donor States (Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein).

Croatia will get EUR 104.5 million under the EEA & Norway Grants 2014 – 2021, being one of the 15 Beneficiary States across the EU in this new funding cycle, to have signed the Memorandum of Understanding with the Donor States (Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein).

EUR 18 million for implementing green innovation projects on the Bulgarian market under the ‘Business Development, Innovations and SMEs’ Programme, operated by Innovation Norway. The Programme is divided into 2 funding streams:

EUR 21 million will be available to SMEs, Large enterprises via the SME Growth Programme in Romania, to be operated by Innovation Norway. 3 focus areas: Green Industry Innovation (EUR 9.7 million), Blue Growth (EUR 6.5 million), ICT (EUR 4.8 million).

At Winnovart we care about GDPR. 

Only 20% of UK small and medium enterprises eligible to receive tax refunds for innovation apply. These 20% received £1.3 billion in the 2015-2016 tax year alone. Altogether, SMEs and large enterprises have received nearly £3 billion in this period. For more information on the R&D Tax Credits you could also read our summary of the statistics on the R&D Tax Credits in the UK pulished by HMRC,...

At Winnovart, our focus has always been grants-based funding programmes, such as the ones from Innovate UK, EC/ Horizon 2020 or similar. Although under different terms, the Reaserch & Develpment (R&D) Tax Credit scheme offered by HMRC represents a way faster and less competitive alternative for R&D performing / innovative companies in the UK to receive a “funding-type” support. Or, for those...

Bulgaria will get approximately EUR 210 million under the EEA & Norway grants 2014-2021 out of which EUR 56.5 million will bededicated to the business sector via 2 programme areas and first calls expected to open during 2018:

EUR 11.5 million was allocated to 32 projects for greening of businesses in Bulgaria during the previous cycle of the Norwegian Financial Mechanism 2009-2014, Innovation Norway’s programme for Green Industry Innovation. With 110 Bulgarian projects submitted for the 3 calls of the Green Industry Innovation programme 2009-2014, out of which 32 were funded, the EEA & Norway grants offer a good...

Winnovart has recently offered a practical workshop on how to get access to the EEA & Norway grants on the Romanian market.

Latvia will get EUR 102.1 million under the EEA & Norway Grants 2014 – 2021, being one of the 15 Beneficiary States across the EU in this new funding cycle, to have signed the Memorandum of Understanding with the Donor States (Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein).

Poland will get EUR 809.3 million under the EEA & Norway Grants 2014 – 202, being one of the 15 Beneficiary States across the EU in this new funding cycle, to have signed the Memorandum of Understanding with the Donor States (Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein).

At the beginning of 2018, our special funding recommendation was …  the EEA & Norway grants across Northern, Central, Eastern and Southern Europe.

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The new Fund for Regional Cooperation is the latest funding opportunity for international projects under the EEA & Norway grants 2014-2021.

We hope you had a happy Christmas and a great start in the New Year.