Details
- Status
- Closed
- Reference
- HORIZON-EIC-2025-WOMENTECH
- Publication date
- 1 April 2025 in the EU Funding & tender opportunities portal
- Opening date
- Deadline model
- Single-stage
- Deadline date
- 2 September 2025, 17:00 (CEST)
Description
The Women TechEU initiative aims to enhance the competitiveness of women-led companies addressing critical societal challenges. By empowering women entrepreneurs, Women TechEU supports early stage deep-tech companies, paving the way for the participation of women-led start-ups in future EIC calls.
The selected consortium should consider a project duration of two (2) years, with a possibility to extend the grant for another year, subject to achieving the key milestones of the project. The consortium should foresee at least two calls for proposals per calendar year. The consideration of multiple cut-off dates is encouraged. Beyond providing funding to women-led deep tech start-ups, proposals under this topic should include a sound promotion and communication strategy of the programme (especially in underrepresented Member States), clearly brand the scheme as an EIC initiative, including but not limited to, through information and dissemination events, press and outreach events, or roadshows.
The consortium will provide financial support to the third parties in form of grants. The consortium must allocate at least 75% of the total proposed budget to financial support to third parties. The maximum amount to be granted to each third party is EUR 75 000. The grants aim to finance supporting activities of the selected companies such as evaluating and refining products/services, design, user experience, upgrading the business model, updating the business plan and growth strategy, finding partners and investors, market validation, etc.
Deadline: 2 September 2025, 17:00 CEST
Available budget: €15 million