Inno2Market – Empowering SMEs 2024

Description

The EIT Manufacturing's Inno2Market - Empowering SME 2024 call aims to ensure market adoption of innovations, accelerate go-to-market processes, and promote social and economic impact. It seeks to attract, select, and support SMEs willing to innovate their existing solutions to expand into new industrial contexts, applications, or sectors. Proposals are expected to: Bring existing solutions to new industrial contexts, applications, or sectors not already exploited but suitable to be a fertile playground. Applicants should balance between building on proven successes and fostering new ideas to achieve impactful and commercially viable results. The existing solution must be already commercialised with proven market traction in the reference sector. Applicants are expected to provide references from existing clients and quantify the revenues already generated. Fit at least one of the following topics: Optimising production processes and increasing resources efficiency through digital solutions Socially sustainable and human-centric manufacturing Environmentally sustainable manufacturing through circular business models and new technologies  The proposed solutions or activities contained in the application must take place in an EU Member State (including overseas countries and territories, OCTs) or in an Associated Country to Horizon Europe.

Beneficiary & submission

The overall aim of the EIT Manufacturing Inno2Market - Empowering SMEs 2024 call is to attract SMEs, including startups, willing to scaling up their business, solving industrial needs and creating a vibrant and competitive European manufacturing sector that paves the way to sustainable innovation. Interested applicants can have more information and submit a proposal through the following website: Empowering SMEs 2024 - EIT Manufacturing The submitted proposals will be checked against the eligibility and admissibility criteria. Admissible and eligible proposals will be evaluated by independent external experts to assess the proposal according to the criteria. Finally, the Inno2Market Director and the Director of Investment will carry out a strategic evaluation of the proposals. Proposals will be selected for funding based on the final ranking and available budget. High-quality proposals not selected due to budget constraints will be placed on a reserve list.

Further information

EIT Manufacturing is supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union, and it is one of nine innovation communities within EIT. EIT Manufacturing’s main goal is to bring European stakeholders focused on manufacturing together in innovation ecosystems that add unique value to European products, processes, and services and inspire the creation of globally competitive and sustainable manufacturing. For further information about EIT Manufacturing please visit the following website: https://www.eitmanufacturing.eu/what-we-do/ Email address for questions and helpdesk: support@eitmanufacturing.eu