A services and business incubator for geospatial open-source developments
Funds a business incubation hub that hands 45-60% of its EU budget on as seed grants to help European open-source geospatial software projects become sustainable businesses.
Seed funding to individual open-source projects is capped at EUR 60,000 per third party, though the hub can justify a higher figure in the proposal if the topic's goals would otherwise be impossible or overly difficult to reach. Both the hub's own EU contribution and the onward seed grants are paid as lump sums rather than reimbursed cost by cost. The hub is expected to work directly with establis…
This call wants a single-entry business incubation and support hub for Europe's open-source geospatial software community — projects like GDAL, QGIS and the Pangeo stack — that already have users and product-market fit but lack business support. It wants the hub to map European market demand for open-source geospatial software, and offer business mentoring, IP and licensing advice, and investor matchmaking, including pathways to EIC Transition and Accelerator support.
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