Hardware grants in Poland

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Funds city and regional authorities running circular-economy demonstrations across at least two sectors, with private-sector and start-up involvement.

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Funds deep-tech SMEs and start-ups scaling breakthrough innovations, combining EUR 0.5-12.5 million of funding with business coaching and investor support.

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Funds any deep-tech start-up or SME through the open, bottom-up strand of the EIC Accelerator 2025 call, with no fixed technology theme.

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Funds interdisciplinary research consortia pursuing high-risk, high-gain early-stage deep-tech breakthroughs with EU contributions of EUR 1 million to 4 million.

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Pays deep-tech SMEs in Horizon Europe Widening countries to mature their technology from TRL4 to TRL5/6 and get investment-ready.

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Awards EUR50,000 to a top woman leader from the EIT Community, plus EUR30,000 and EUR20,000 to two runners-up.

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Pays a postdoctoral researcher's fellowship at a host organisation in an EU Widening country to help those countries attract and keep research talent.

Pays established research leaders up to EUR 2.5 million over five years to pursue ground-breaking, high-risk frontier research.

Pays established research leaders up to EUR 2.5 million over five years to pursue ground-breaking, high-risk frontier research.

Pays researchers consolidating their own independent lab up to EUR 2 million over five years for frontier research.

Pays outstanding researchers up to EUR 7 million for a major scientific challenge a regular ERC grant couldn't fund.

Pays existing ERC grant holders a EUR 150,000 lump sum to test the commercial or social potential of their funded research.

Awards ERC grant holders up to EUR 10,000 for outstanding public engagement with their ERC-funded research.

Pays early-career researchers up to EUR 1.5 million over five years to launch their own independent research team.

Pays a group of two to four Principal Investigators up to EUR 10 million to jointly tackle a research problem none of them could solve alone.

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Funds EURES organisations to place and support around 4,000 mobile jobseekers and apprentices across the EU and EEA.

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Pays a share of a EUR 100,000 prize to women under 35 who have founded breakthrough European innovation companies.

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Pays a share of a EUR 220,000 prize to women founders of breakthrough European innovations, with no age limit.

Pays a share of a EUR 100,000 prize to women founders with a direct link to the EIT Community who lead breakthrough European innovations.

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Funds European Researchers' Night events and Researchers at Schools visits that bring researchers face to face with the public and pupils across Europe.

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Funds international R&D and innovation projects led by an SME through each country's own national funding body.

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Reimburses up to EUR 60,000 in EIC Ecosystem Partner service costs — R&D infrastructure, prototyping, IP/legal support and more — to companies that already hold an EIC award.

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Pays one European coordination project up to EUR 3 million to map European science diplomacy players and launch a shared platform for the field.

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Funds research projects worth EUR 3.4 million each that test practices increasing the autonomy of persons with disabilities.