European Partnership on Innovative SMEs/Innowwide CALL 5

Applicant types

SME

Purpose

Research and innovation

R&D relevance

2 of 3

Poland eligible

Yes

Country limit

Applicants: EU Member States, Iceland, Israel, Norway, Switzerland, Türkiye or United Kingdom; target markets: Africa, Americas, Asia or Oceania.

Region

Any

Consortium

Single applicant

Readiness level (TRL)

—

Per project

€60K

Topics

• SME innovation
• International market entry
• Overseas collaboration

Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source. 23 Oct 2026

Typed facts extracted from the source documents by Scindu's grant-data review. Each value keeps its own conditions. Unknown means unstated, not zero or unlimited.

Applicant restriction

Branches/offices without separate legal personality and natural persons carrying on self-employed activity are not eligible applicants; the FAQ clarifies a single-employee company may qualify if it is an eligible legal entity and meets SME/call conditions.

Applicant restriction

Mono-beneficiary applicant must be a legally constituted SME in an eligible Innowwide country (EU Member State, Iceland, Israel, Norway, Switzerland, Türkiye or United Kingdom); must have been legally established at least two years by 1 Dec 2026 and not have been funded under a prior Innowwide call in 2022–2025.

Eligible geography

Applicant SME must be in eligible programme countries and target a new market in Africa, Americas, Asia or Oceania. An independent legal entity in the eligible target country must participate as the main subcontractor; target-country entities benefit indirectly, not as grant beneficiaries. Countries where SMEs are eligible for Innowwide funding (including Israel and Türkiye) cannot be target countries.

Other condition

Call 5 opens 1 October 2026 and closes 1 December 2026 at 14:00 Brussels time.

Other condition

The selected applicant receives 70% pre-financing (EUR42,000) at project start and the remaining 30% (EUR18,000) after the six-month project and acceptance of a complete final report; insufficient reporting can lead to reduction or withdrawal/recovery.

Other condition

The current FAQ does not prescribe a personnel-cost calculation method or day rate; personnel estimates must approximate actual costs, align with normal practice, and be reasonable and necessary. Grant payment is linked to acceptance of work packages/deliverables; routine timesheets/pay-slips/invoices are not required for grant payment, but the beneficiary must keep regular bookkeeping.

Project duration, maximum

6

Project duration, minimum

6

Indicative budget

€4,200,000

Topic budget as stated in the portal's budget table. Lump-sum and per-project limits are in the call conditions.

Call allocation

€4,200,000

Programme-wide Call 5 pool across 70 projects; not a country-specific allocation.

Eligible cost

Eligible categories include personnel, subcontracting, travel/subsistence, equipment depreciation, other goods, works/services and indirect costs at a 25% flat rate on direct eligible costs excluding subcontracting; costs must be directly linked to eligible activities and incurred/implemented during the six-month period.

Eligible cost

A positive, reasonable main-subcontractor budget is mandatory; there is no specific maximum subcontracting budget. The applicant beneficiary remains responsible for subcontractor work and must choose providers for appropriate capability and best value for money.

Eligible cost limit

25

Indirect-cost flat rate is calculated against eligible direct costs excluding subcontracting; not 25% of total costs.

Eligible cost limit

20

Applies to the combined cost of additional minor subcontractors as a share of the total subcontracting budget; it is not a cap on the mandatory main subcontractor or total project budget.

Funding intensity

70

Maximum support rate; the fixed grant remains capped at EUR60,000.

Project cost, minimum

€86,000

Minimum total eligible cost implied by fixed EUR60,000 grant at max 70%; not a minimum grant.

Project funding, maximum

€60,000

Fixed grant per selected market feasibility project; mono-beneficiary grant goes to the applicant SME, with local counterpart engaged as subcontractor.

• Other role

  Staff cost the grant can fund

  Personnel costs may be included in the applicant SME budget when directly linked to eligible activities. Current FAQ says estimates must approximate actual costs, align with normal practices and be reasonable and necessary, but specifies no pay scale, day rate, job title, headcount/FTE minimum or employment form. Grant payment is deliverable-linked lump sum. The target-country counterpart is an independent subcontractor, not a grant beneficiary or an employee role.

• Eureka Innowwide Call 5 application form

  eurekanetwork.org

• Eureka Innowwide FAQ page (captured 23 Oct 2026)

  eurekanetwork.org

• Eureka Innowwide Call 5 Guidelines, version September 2026

  eurekanetwork.org

• Eureka Innowwide Call 5 operator page

  eurekanetwork.org

• Eureka Innowwide Call 5 workplan template

  eurekanetwork.org

Opens

1 Oct 2026

Deadline model

Single-stage

Programme

Horizon Europe · 2021 - 2027

Call

European Partnership on Innovative SMEs/Innowwide CALL 5

Types of action

—

Source

ec.europa.eu

Checked

23 Oct 2026

Portal updated

7 Aug 2026

Review status

Partial review

Reviewed

23 Oct 2026