Are you a Startup or SME that's looking for financial support? This record of a FundingBox webinar might be useful for you! It provides an overview of European public funding opportunities and other private initiatives available for startups and SMEs. Discover Open Calls of the different projects we are leading or participating in at FundingBox, and a few more as well. The available funding and resources are delivered throughout specific industry initiatives that include acceleration programmes for startups or pilots for adopting and testing new technologies. These projects include access to public equity-free or private funding and services like mentoring, training, participation in public and private events, internationalization or access to technologies. About FundingBox FundingBox provides access to funding opportunities, knowledge and connections through specialised communities that are related to specific tech initiatives: Smart Mobility, Robotics, Decentralised Technologies, Circular Economy, Next Generation Internet, Industry 4.0, etc. Communities are accessible within an open-culture platform thanks to which stakeholders from startups, SMEs, Research & Technology Centres and a variety of other organisations meet, interact and collaborate. In this way, these 25,000 makers, entrepreneurs, innovators and experts can build meaningful connections and access public equity-free and private funding that can together boost their growth.

2. Introduction
David Seoane
Programme Manager at FundingBox with over 11
years of experience on Fundraising in EU
programmes, including proposal preparation and
evaluation, partner search and networking in
INNOVATION funding programmes: H2020,
INTERREG, ERASMUS+, and LIFE Experience, among
others.
Managing several EU funded projects under
different initiatives: Next Generation Internet
(NGI4ALL, eSSIF-Lab, NGI POINTER), Smart
connectivity, Smart manufacturing and Smart grids
(INTERCONNECT, DIMOFAC, INTEGRADDE).
https://spaces.fundingbox.com/@davidseoanefbox

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4. FundingBox: mission and purpose

5. FundingBox: mission and purpose

6. We are growth catalysts
FundingBox is the constant
guide for every entrepreneur in
the quest for growth.
We provide access to public
and private funding
opportunities, knowledge and
connections.
Mission-driven innovation,
collaboration, less bureaucracy
and smarter funding.

7. Team and location
and Czech Republic
Czech Republic

8. Proof of work
Community building & growth
hacking
25,200 innovators
www.fundingbox.com
Acceleration services
● Leveraging Private Funding
(10x more funding received
compared to initial public funding)
● Corporate engagement
(33% in average)
● Survival rate (64%)
Main references:
● I4MS Community
● FIWARE Community
● Impact Connected Car
Community
*(Ref. Jan 12, 2020)
IMPACT GROWTH Accelerator,
Top 10 global Accelerators
Gust’s Global Accelerator
Report 2016
Open calls management
& communication
● 175,4 M EUR of public funds
attracted (Total Grants; 68 M
FSTP)
● 24 EU Projects, 9 as
coordinator
● 27 full life-cycle Open Calls

9. Cascade Funding
A new mechanism to distribute grants:
Provides millions of euros of “bulk funding”
to platforms and accelerators, which in
turn distribute smaller tickets of funding to
those scale ups aligned with the European
Commission’s innovation strategy.
Pilots and experiments & Accelerators

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3rd
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3rd
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3rd
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European
Commission
European
Commission Projects
Third parties:
SME’s startups, etc
How does cascade funding work?

11. Funding Opportunities by
Robotics
RIMA
Automatica
Manufacturing
WeldGalaxy
ADMA
L4MS
Integradde
DIMOFAC
BOWI
SHOP4CF
Tetramax
NGI
NGI LEDGER
ESSIF-Lab
NGI Pointer
Token
Energy
InterConnect
Artificial Intelligence
AI4EU
Circular Economy
C-VoUCHER
Digital Innovation Hubs
DIHNET.EU
Startups Acceleration
Impact Poland
Ed Tech
IMPACT Ed Tech
Construction
Tech Match

12. Ongoing and forthcoming by
Open Call running from 16th
March to 29th
May
Bilateral Open Call will run from 31st
January to 30th
April
Adopter SME 2nd
Open Call to be
open in August 2020
Open Call to be open soon
Call for startups is open
until 24th April 2020
Open Call will run from April 2020
with cut-off dates: next June 2020
1st
Open Call will be
running from March 2020
Open Call for startups
is open until 15th April
Open call to be
launched in April
Tech Match
Open Call closes 14th
April
1st Open Call will be running
from March 2020

13. Funding opportunities at FundingBox

14. Artificial Intelligence

15. About the AI4EU Open Calls
Involving 82 partners, covering 21 countries, the €20m project
kicked off in January 2019 will run for three years.
Open Call for Challenges is addressed to European which would
like to address an AI Challenge, especially:
● SMEs
● Corporates
● EU Projects
● Non-profit organizations
● AI4EU Partners
Challenge proposers have to propose the AI challenges in one of
pre-defined areas to be addressed under the Calls for Solutions.
The selected Challenges will be addressed for free by
beneficiaries under the AI4EU Support Program.
Open Call for Challenges will be launched in February 2020
Open Call for Solutions will be launched in 2Q 2020
(in pre-defined areas)
AI4EU
The Open Call process
will include:
www.ai4eu.eu

16. Circular Economy

17. C-Voucher
About the C-Voucher Open Calls
• 2nd
open call for Adopters is planned for summer 2020, where
24 SMEs will be selected for the Circularity Value Replication
Programme
• 3 months programme aims at Adopter SMEs willing to
incorporate or get inspired by the Circularity Solutions
developed.
• It offers designers-in-residence professional services to define
their own road map and incorporate those solutions in their
processes
It will support 66 SMEs in their transition from linear value chains (cradle to
waste) towards circular models (cradle to cradle) with a total value of €4.2
million.
www.c-voucher.com

18. Construction

19. About the Tech Match Open Call
Digital transformation of the Construction Industry
1st
OPEN CALL
• Open from the 28 February 2020 ending 14th
April 2020 (18h CET)
• Get to work with an established player in the Danish construction
industry on a “real world need based” Technology Challenge
• Eligibility: Must be FSTP beneficiary from current or future program
• Will provide funding of €100K for each of the 15 projects - €50K for pm
compensation for Danish SME and €50K for procurement of materials,
technology, SW etc.
• Milestone based LABS with industry experts and business mentors,
Mentor check-in (if needed), industry networking, and access to experts
Tech Match (Realdania)
https://techmatch.fundingbox.com/

20. Educational Technology

21. IMPACT EdTech
up to € 195.300
First Open Call to be launched in April 2020
https://fundingbox.com/c/community-Impact-edtech

22. Next Generation Internet

23. eSSIF- Lab aims to advance the broad uptake of SSI as a
next generation, open and trusted digital identity
solution for faster and safer electronic transactions via
the Internet, as well as in real life.
1. Infrastructure-oriented open call targeting (20) technical
enhancements and extensions of the SSI framework (up to 155K€)
2. Business-oriented open calls targeting (42) SSI business and social
innovations and applications (up to 106K€)
Available 5.6 M€
funding
62
solutions
2 types of
open calls
(Business and Tech)
eSSIF - Lab
https://essif-lab.eu/
Just launched!

24. NGI POINTER
● One continuous Open Call, with at least 2 main cut-off dates
● Open from April 2020 with cut-off dates starting from June
Who can apply?
NGI-Architects:
European-based SMEs, including startups , researchers, developers, hackers, internet
activists, that have expertise on defining internet protocols and architectures:
8 target application areas:
Privacy-by-design; Internet of Things; Network optimization; Virtualization and
isolation; Limitations in the TCP/IP protocol suite; eCommerce security; Autonomous
Network operations and control; Energy Efficiency
General info about the Open Call:
Available 5,6 M€
funding
1 open call with
2 cut-off dates
Apply (soon) at ngipointer.ngi.eu
Up to 200K€ per
project

25. Startups

26. Impact Poland
Open Calls:
The current OC runs from February 24th until April 15th 2020;
Calling Startups/SMEs that:
• Create innovative Smart City, AI, AR, IoT and other solutions in energy, chemistry,
automotive, construction, medical or IT industries;
• Have at least working prototype (or are able to deploy the solution within a few
months);
• Start their business activity - ie. they operate for a maximum of 5 years from the
date of registration;
• Not listed on the stock exchange.
Selected startups will get: up to 6 months of the Acceleration program, 200k zł
equity-free, opportunity to cooperate with large industry-leading companies, 4000
hours of mentoring, post-acceleration
Apply: www.impactpoland.pl

27. OPEN CALL for Startups: the second cut-off date
FundingBox will find and select at least 30 startups who will be an exhibitor
on Startup Arena and 10 Startups to participate in the Pitch Competition
Call for startups is open until 24th of April 2020 (17:00 CET)
We are looking for startups with technologies & solutions "ready to market"
and working in any of the following sectors:
● robotics and automation for manufacturing;
● IoT, AR, Al, Big Data, blockchain and software for automation solutions;
● solutions for the digital transformation in manufacturing, optimized
with Big Data;
● safety technology and robots,
● service robotics.
Exhibitor fee for startup is € 1.452,40 plus VAT for the whole event (4 days)
Pitch Competition: startups can participate in the Pitch Competition and take
the stage to get the special attention of investors, media, potential partners and
talent (apply by the 24th of April 2020 following this link).
APPLY here: https://automatica.fundingbox.com/apply
Startup Arena@automatica

28. Manufacturing Industry 4.0

29. TETRAMAX
Technology Transfer Experiments that connect SMEs with
international academics, resulting in low-risk adoption of novel
computing technologies
4th open call for Bilateral Technology Transfer Experiments
Technology provider
(academics)
Technology receiver
(industry)
Specialized market
CLE
C
Apply at https://bilateral4-tetramax.fundingbox.com/ before 30/04/20, at 23:59 CET
Financial support between
€20K - €50K per TTX
(around €38K per TTX is
preferred)

30. 3rd open call on Entrepreneurial Technology Transfer
Experiments
Aims at mobilising, challenging and training small teams of potential
entrepreneurs in the Customised Low Energy Computing (CLEC) space
Financial support between €20K and €30K per experiment (around €22.5 preferred).
Financial support will be granted to the applicant’s organization only.
The call will be launched on 30th of April , 2020
Principal researcher (CTO)
“Door opener” for
business contacts.
Entrepreneurial lead (CEO)
Research commercial interest
of technical innovation
Mentor. Business-oriented.
Experienced in “tech-to-market”
Additional team member
(if needed)
Map the business
model
CANVA
Hypothesis
testing process Investor-ready
business plan
Refine hypothesis
TETRAMAX

31. WeldGalaxy
About WeldGalaxy Open Calls
• OC will run from 16th
March until 29th
May
• Calling any innovators in welding
• 2.5M€ available with 100K€ / project
The platform will enable:
• Transparency of product features, capabilities, resource use, associated
add-on services and price
• Customer feedback, real-time use feedback (anonymised as needed)
and associated options
• Scalability with respect to technological development and
manufacturing application domains
• Information about standards and regulatory compliance (e.g. the
facilitation of re- and de-manufacturing) as well as security
requirements
www.weldgalaxy.eu

32. SMART4ALL
About SMART4ALL Open Calls
PAE Type
2020 2021 2022
Call 1 Call 2 Call 3
Knowledge Transfer Experiments
(KTE)
Mar 2020 Mar 21 Mar 22
Focused Technology Transfer
Experiments(FTTE)
Jun 20 Jun 21 Jun 22
Cross Domain Technology Transfer
Experiments (CTTE)
Dec 20 Sept 21 Sept 22
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33. Other funding opportunities

34. Agrofood
DIVA
S3FOOD
SmartAgriHubs
DEMETER
ATLAS
Robotics
DIH2
RIMA
DIH-Hero
Eurobench
AgROBOfood
Manufacturing
eFactory
ZDMP
MARKET 4.0
Data Market Services
QU4LITY
SmartX
DIGIFED
Smart Homes
InterConnect
GATEKEEPER
Healthy ageing
PHArA-ON
SMART BEAR
Circular Economy
BioVoice
NGI
NGI Zero
NGI Explorers
NGI DAPSI
DLT /Blockchain
Block.IS
Blockchers
Blockpool
Biosensing
DIGI-B-CUBE
ArtTech
Re-FREAM
DesignScapes
Upcoming casdade funding

35. BioVoice
Open Innovation Challenges
programme
• BioVoice accelerates the transition to a
sustainable economy
• The PNO Group, a multinational
innovation and grant consultant, is
BioVoice’s official advisor in scouting
solution providers
• 9 circular and bio-based innovation
challenges NOW OPEN
• Reward: Pilot project + €10.000 vouchers
• Customized support, access to test facilities
and networks in the Southwest Netherlands
region
• Vouchers of € 10,000 to be spent in the
regional ecosystem
# Owner Challenge
1 DOW How can we ecologically prevent the macro-pollution (mussels
and oysters) in our seawater cooling system?
2 DOW How can we reduce chromium levels in salt/brine?
3 Cargill Which industrial applications are there for wheat protein?
4 Cargill Phosphate recovery from a semi-dry wheat product stream
5 CAPI
Europe
Who has a biobased alternative for the raw material of our
design flower pots?
6 SABIC A sustainable application for hydrogen that will ultimately yield
more than burning it as an alternative to natural gas.
7 Cargill How can we clean and reuse 100% of our wastewater?
8 Cosun How can we make the most of the pectine in sugar beet pulp?
9 Lamb
Weston
How can we counteract the grey discolouration of our potato
products in a more environmentally friendly way?
Contact PNO Group for info & tips!

36. Horizon 2020 - EIC Accelerator

37. EIC Fast Track to Innovation

38. Where to find the funding?
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39. FundingBox Services for Growth

40. We are experts in public funding
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41. How can we help?
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42. Our services
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43. Our services
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44. Our services
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45. Our services
CONTACT
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