Deep Tech Talent Initiative Call for Training Proposals 2025
Funds consortia that expand deep-tech training programmes across the EU and associated countries.
The call funds consortia that expand or improve existing deep-tech training rather than create a new programme from a blank slate: proposals can add digital delivery, improve accessibility, scale up an existing course, localise it into other languages, build new academia-industry-NGO-government partnerships, or set more ambitious targets for an existing offering. Work happens in two phases, first …
The call wants consortia of at least two organisations that enhance or expand existing deep-tech training for higher-education students and adult learners, in one of the Initiative's 15 named deep-tech areas. It favours proposals reaching underrepresented groups and EIT RIS-eligible countries.
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