Grants

Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs is a mobility scheme that allows potential or newly established entrepreneurs to spend a period of time collaborating with experienced entrepreneurs in other participating countries. Its aims are to enhance entrepreneurship, support the creation of start-ups, strengthen networking and business relationships, and promote internationalisation of SMEs across circa 35 participating countries. The scheme matches new and experienced entrepreneurs, helps new entrepreneurs build managerial skills and business knowledge, and supports host entrepreneurs in researching, developing, and testing new business concepts, products, or services.

The grant supports research and innovation projects that advance the European Green Deal and Just Transition Mechanism goals in the coal sector. Projects are expected to quantify emission reductions and positive environmental effects, demonstrate positive health and safety impacts, outline a scalability plan with a viable business case, disseminate results, and contribute to regional skill development and job creation. Proposals must address at least one of the following areas: supporting just transition in the coal sector, improving health and safety, minimising environmental impacts of coal mines in transition, repurposing coal mines and infrastructure, materials and waste reuse, land monitoring and restoration, methane emission processing, or mine water management/treatment. Eligible activities include pilot or demonstration projects achieving TRL 7-8 and contributing to the revitalisation of former coal mining regions, with potential for reskilling and upskilling programmes.

This grant supports innovation and competitiveness in the steel sector as part of the European Green Deal and the Steel and Metals Action Plan. Projects are expected to contribute to full decarbonisation of the steel sector, facilitate the adoption of novel low-carbon technologies, produce steel of at least current quality using innovative processes, and demonstrate positive environmental, health, and safety effects. The grant encourages large-scale pilot or demonstration projects that achieve TRL 7-8, develop viable business models, and outline industrial integration strategies for outcomes. Dissemination of results, skills development, and job creation/conversion are also expected impacts.

This grant aims to support innovation and competitiveness in the steel sector for full decarbonisation, progress towards the European Green Deal and Clean Industrial Deal, and strengthening the European industrial base. Projects are expected to contribute to CO2 reduction, achieve positive environmental effects, enable novel technologies to produce steel products with equal or better quality, demonstrate health and safety benefits, outline scalable deployment plans, and support job creation. Objectives include advancement of recycling technologies, residue valorization, digitalization for scrap management, innovation in secondary carbon carriers, circularity management, and use of bio-based processes in the steel industry.

This EU grant aims to enhance emergency response capacities and the resilience of backbone telecommunications networks by funding the development and deployment of adaptable repair modules for swift emergency repair operations. Focusing on the Baltic Sea area, the call supports public entities in increasing operational repair capacity for submarine cables, enabling quick responses to incidents that could severely affect the EU or its Member States. The supported solutions must ensure rapid restoration of cable services in emergency situations and reinforce European digital sovereignty.

This grant funds projects to develop, test, and demonstrate practical, scalable solutions—including agroecology and nature-based strategies—to improve soil resilience to extreme weather events and support food security. Activities are expected to enhance soil monitoring, support adoption of tailored soil management practices, promote sustainable farming, and strengthen agricultural resilience at farm and landscape level. Proposals must include integrated frameworks for replication, an assessment methodology for soil ecosystem services under stress, strong stakeholder involvement, and mechanisms for knowledge transfer and collaboration with the EU Soil Observatory and the SoilWise project.

The Knowledge for Action in Prevention and Preparedness (KAPP) grant aims to identify projects that contribute to strengthening cooperation among Union Civil Protection Mechanism (UCPM) countries and between the UCPM and third parties in preventing natural and human-induced disasters. The grant also seeks to enhance institutional preparedness and individual capacity initiatives, thus supporting the systemic relevance of the UCPM and the implementation of the Union disaster resilience goals and the Preparedness Union Strategy. Themes include increasing risk awareness, advancing early warning systems, and enhancing institutional capacity for disaster risk management.

This grant aims to provide sustainable, attractive and passenger-centred solutions for regional and suburban rail services by developing lightweight and cost-efficient rolling stock and automated Multi-Modal Mobility-Systems with 'moving infrastructures'. Building upon previous EU rail research, the initiative targets innovations such as modular regional vehicles suitable for different categories of regional lines, and the further design of automated multi-modal carrier systems for both rail and road. Objectives include significant reductions in both capital and operational expenditures (CAPEX/OPEX), improved mechanical and electrical architecture for vehicles, and new technical concepts for integrated, interoperable transport units. The project covers both virtual and physical prototyping, validation of new designs, and tests for energy-efficient powertrains as well as digital mobility management systems.

This grant aims to develop safety requirements, methods, and guidelines for the hyperloop system, validate key safety components, and identify certification processes to be applied across Europe. The objectives include producing harmonised safety and performance requirements, defining regulatory frameworks and certification procedures, and validating the compliance of critical hyperloop technologies, all with the aim of supporting future European standardisation, public acceptance, and regulatory frameworks for safe and reliable hyperloop transport systems.