Women Tech.EU initiative
Funds one consortium up to EUR 15 million to run the Women TechEU scheme, which itself re-grants up to EUR 75,000 to individual women-led deep-tech startups.
The consortium is expected to run the scheme end-to-end: designing and managing it for continuity, running the evaluation using EIC Accelerator-style criteria, linking selected companies into the EIC Community Platform and the Business Acceleration Services' Women Leadership Programme, and reporting application, evaluation and demographic data back to the European Commission. Each sub-grant call t…
This call selects and pays a single consortium to design, run and promote the EU's Women TechEU support scheme for early-stage, women-led deep-tech startups across all technology domains. It is not itself a startup-facing application — it funds the organisation that will run the onward sub-grant calls, evaluations and awards, at least twice a year.
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