RIVCircular Open Call for Innovation Projects
Funds circular-economy consortia across eight European regions with grants up to €2 million.
The funding rate isn't a flat 50% for every company -- it steps up by size: up to 50% for large corporations, 60% for medium-sized enterprises, 70% for small enterprises, and up to 100% for research and knowledge-dissemination organisations, with variations by region. Some regions provide no pre-financing at all, so the beneficiary has to cover project costs itself until an interim or final paymen…
The call backs interregional consortia developing and deploying circular-economy technologies at TRL 6-8 across five topics: construction and demolition waste, circular energy integration, EV battery recycling and reuse, textile-industry circularity, and digital solutions for the circular economy. Applicants must come from one of eight eligible regions — Madrid, Innlandet, Košice, Hauts-de-France, Kyiv, Extremadura, Greece and Vienna — and can only work within the topics open to their own region.
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