Source of Funding: Xjenza Malta

Xjenza Malta is receiving proposals under the Horizon Internationalisation Partnership Award Scheme (HIPAS). The Scheme will support Maltese eligible entities intending to submit a Horizon Europe proposal (including Partnerships indicated in the Scheme Rules), as a Coordinator entity to engage a service provider (local or foreign) who will be supporting the applicant entity through proposal writing and submission. The support is limited to € 8,000. More details can be seen the rules.

Interested Applicants are to submit their application form electronically to horizon.malta@gov.mt keeping Lili Kankaya lili.vasileva@gov.mt in copy with “HIPAS – Application 2025” as a subject heading. The call will be open throughout the year (until 7th November 2025) with the following cut offs:

• 15 April 2025
• 27 June 2025
• 7 November 2025 (final deadline)

Visit the below link to download application forms and guidelines.

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Source of Funding: Cascade Funding Hub

Visit the below link to view the 21 funding opportunities on Cascade Funding portal, an instrument by the European Commission. 

Please note that these calls have different deadlines within the month of January 2025.

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Xjenza Malta is receiving proposals under the European Innovation Council Support Scheme.  The aim of the scheme is to support applicants applying to Open and Challenges calls and who will apply for the cut-off dates as stated in the Horizon Europe EIC work programme.

The European Innovation Council Programmes are:

• EIC Pathfinder
• Transition and
• Accelerator

The scheme is exclusively available to sole applicants and consortium coordinators.

Applicants may apply for Option A and/or Option B, and/or Option C depending on the EIC programme applied to and the stage of their EIC application. Applicants may apply to:

• Option A – Proposal Development Grant: this grant allows the recipient to be reimbursed up to 10,000 Euros to cover the costs of a grant writing support consultant. The consultant will provide a full and comprehensive support during the whole process of proposal development. This grant is applicable for the following EIC programs: EIC Pathfinder and EIC Transition first stage proposals (the Maltese applicant must be project coordinator to qualify for this grant), and  EIC Accelerator stage 2.
• Option B – Business Coach Grant: this grant allows the recipient to be reimbursed up to 5,000 Euros to cover the costs of a business coach. The option is exclusively available for EIC Accelerator stage1 applicants. The coach will provide their services to support the development of a slideshow and preparation for the interview, as well as providing coaching services to improve the quality of the business case and increase chances of success.
• Option C – Pitch Coach Grant: this grant allows the recipient to be reimbursed up to 2,000 Euros to cover the costs of a pitch coach. The pitch coach will support the person(s) who will make the business case pitch to improve their presentation skills and preparedness during the interview. This option is available for EIC Transition 2nd stage and EIC Accelerator 1st stage.

Interested Applicants are to submit their application form electronically to eicscheme.xjenzamalta@gov.mt with “EIC Support Scheme – NAME OF LEGAL ENTITY + Application” as a subject heading.

For further enquiry on the programme please contact jean.pace@gov.mt.

Call deadline: ongoing scheme

Visit the below link to download application forms and guidelines.

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Source of Funding: European Research Council (ERC)

Xjenza Malta is receiving proposals under the ERC Support Scheme. The Scheme aims to strengthen the opportunities for talented researchers to obtain grants from the ERC (European Research Council) for excellent and ground-breaking research based on researchers’ own ideas within all areas of research. The Scheme is divided into two options. Applicants are to fill in the appropriate sections of the form; they may select either Option A or Option B, or both:

• Option A: Mentoring initiative

The mentoring initiative will support potential ERC applicants by helping to identify international experts to provide coaching and advice.

Applicants interested to benefit from the ERC Mentoring Initiative are to indicate their interest and detail the mentoring activities they require. An expected workload and envisaged compensations for the mentors are to be specified.

The maximum cost for Option A should be up to €5000 (inclusive of VAT). The Mentors are to be selected by a list of Mentors which will be provided by Xjenza Malta.

• Option B: Proposal writing trainings.

The objective of this activity is to raise the capabilities of potential ERC candidates to prepare successful ERC grant applications through attending ERC proposal writing trainings.

The training activities may take place in any EU Member State or Associated Country physically or online. The trainers must have extensive experience and proven track record in running ERC workshops and helping successful ERC grantees. The duration of the physical trainings should be of minimum 1 day and maximum 5 days. No restrictions apply for the online trainings.

Interested Applicants are to submit their application form electronically to horizon.malta@gov.mt keeping Lili Kankaya lili.vasileva@gov.mt in copy with “ERC Support Scheme 2025” as a subject heading. The call will be open throughout the year (until 26th September 2025) with the following cut offs:

• 28 March 2025
• 20 June 2025
• 26 September 2025 (final deadline)

Visit the below link to download the application forms and guidelines.

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Source of Funding: EU Emissions Trading System

What will the Innovation Fund 2024 General Call finance?

Budget: 2.4 billion EUR

Small-scale projects call window: budget 100 000 000 EUR

‘small-scale project’ means a project with a total capital expenditure not exceeding EUR 20 000 000 but larger than EUR 2 500 000

Link: EU Funding & Tenders Portal | EU Funding & Tenders Portal

Medium-scale projects call window budget: 200 000 000 EUR

‘medium-scale project’ means a project with a total capital expenditure above EUR 20 000 000 and not exceeding 100 000 000

 Link: EU Funding & Tenders Portal | EU Funding & Tenders Portal

Large-scale projects call window budget: 1 200 000 000 EUR

‘large-scale project’ refers to a project with a total capital expenditure above 100 000 000 EUR

Link: EU Funding & Tenders Portal | EU Funding & Tenders Portal

Clean tech manufacturing call window budget 700 000 000 EUR

The capital expenditure for such projects must be greater than 2 500 000 EUR

Link: EU Funding & Tenders Portal

Pilot projects call window budget 200 000 000 EUR

The capital expenditure for such projects must be greater than 2 500 000 EUR

Link: EU Funding & Tenders Portal

Activities that can be financed under the large-, medium-, and small-scale projects topics:

• activities supporting innovation in low-carbon technologies and processes in sectors listed in Annex I and Annex III to the EU ETS Directive 2003/87 , including environmentally safe carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) that contributes substantially to mitigating climate change, in particular for unavoidable process emissions, as well as products substituting carbon-intensive ones produced in sectors listed in Annex I to the EU ETS Directive
• activities helping stimulate the construction and operation of projects that aim at the environmentally safe capture and geological storage of CO2 (CCS)
• activities helping the construction and operation of innovative renewable energy and energy storage technologies

The clean-tech manufacturing topic finances the manufacturing of innovative clean-tech components for hydrogen production/consumption, renewable energy and energy storage.

The pilot projects topics financing the construction and operation of pilot projects that focus on validating, testing and optimising highly innovative, deep decarbonisation solutions in all sectors eligible for Innovation Fund support.

 (sectors listed in Annex I and Annex III to the EU ETS Directive 2003/87, including environmentally safe carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) that contributes substantially to mitigating climate change, as well as products substituting carbon-intensive ones produced in sectors listed in Annex I to the EU ETS Directive or construction and operation of innovative energy storage or construction and operation of CO2 storage solutions or construction and operation renewable energy installations (in photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, onshore and offshore wind power, ocean energy, geothermal, solar thermal, and others), including innovative systems aspects such as connection to the electricity/heat grid)

 A 1 billion EUR call has also been dedicated to the manufacturing of batteries for Electric Vehicles (innovation can be in chemicals, life cycle, sustainability, et cetera). The project CAPEX must be greater than 2 500 000 EUR.

 Link: EU Funding & Tenders Portal | EU Funding & Tenders Portal.  

The Innovation Fund grant must not exceed 60% of the relevant costs. Relevant costs refers to the net extra costs, calculated as the difference between the best estimate of (i) the economic costs (covering investment and operation) and (ii) the economic revenues and operational benefits– known as the ‘No Reference Plant Methodology’ (taken as default).

More specifically, the Relevant Costs shall be calculated using the best estimate of the undiscounted total eligible Project capital expenditure (CAPEX) and the Net Present Value (NPV) 1 of the eligible Project Revenues, Operational Benefits, Maintenance CAPEX, and Operational Costs (OPEX), arising over the first ten years of the Project’s operation. This is the default methodology for all Projects

There is also the fall-back option of ‘Reference Plant Methodology’.

 Link: relevant-cost-methodology_innovfund_en.pdf

Eligibility

In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:

• be legal entities (public or private bodies)
• be established in one of the eligible countries: any country in the world

Projects must be located in EU Member States or EEA countries (i.e. Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein).

Projects may also be located in Northern Ireland on the condition that they concern the generation, transmission, distribution or supply of electricity.

For maritime sector project, please refer to the call text.

Examples of Innovation Fund successful projects: Innovation Fund projects per country - European Commission

Funds and Programmes Division (FPD) as the National Contact Point urges interested applicants to thoroughly read the respective call text.

Recordings of information sessions can be found here: Innovation Fund 2024 Call and Battery Info Day - European Commission

Information source: FPD

Source of Funding: BlueMissionMed

In In the framework of the EU Mission “Restore our Ocean and Waters by 2030”, the EU funded project BlueMissionMed, in collaboration with the European Commission (EC), announces the “Blue Rivers and Lakes” Award to celebrate the initiatives to protect and restore small/medium scale basins and therefore contributing to the Mission’s objectives. 

The EU Mission “Restore our Ocean and Waters by 2030” aims to eliminate pollution and make the blue economy carbon-neutral and circular. The Mission supports regional engagement and cooperation through area-based “Lighthouses” in major sea/river basins. Mission Lighthouses are sites to pilot, demonstrate, develop and deploy the Mission activities across EU seas and river basins. 

The award represents an opportunity to witness the commitments of the EU basins community of actors towards the Mission and to present the actions and initiatives which contribute to the Mission Ocean’s objectives.  

The purpose of this award is to highlights projects where impactful interventions can be more directly observed and replicated in smaller, more localized aquatic systems. 

The “Blue Rivers and Lakes” will award 3 actions engaging local rivers and lakes communities in protecting Ocean and Waters in the following three categories: 

• Category 1: small/medium rivers/lakes – Governance 
• Category 2: small/medium rivers/lakes – Innovation 
• Category 3: small/medium rivers/lakes – Restoration 

Don’t miss the chance! Read the full call here.

The deadline for the submission of the actions is January 29, 2025.

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Source of Funding: Transforming Health and Care Systems (THCS)

The Transforming Health and Care Systems (THCS) Partnership is a multilateral strategic initiative under Horizon Europe, aimed at fostering the transition towards more sustainable, efficient, resilient, inclusive, innovative and high-quality people-centred health and care systems equally accessible to all.

Xjenza Malta together with other Research Funding Organisations from 20 countries, has launched the 3rd Joint Transnational Call to financially support R&I projects. Entities based in Malta are eligible to apply for up to € 500,000 in funding, enabling them to join a consortium and submit a proposal for this Call (N.B. if multiple national partners are included in a single consortium, the total funding for all Maltese participants combined cannot exceed the €500,000 cap).

This Call for proposals, entitled “Better care closer to home: Enhancing primary and community care”, aims to strengthen primary and community health and care systems and to provide policymakers and decision-makers with the necessary knowledge and tools to govern the transitions needed in the primary and community care sector.

Proposals are expected to address one of two sub-topics:

• Sub-topic 1: Strengthening the primary and community health and care system – This involves reducing reliance on institutionalized treatment in favour of seamless care pathways and different forms of primary and community care through organizational innovations, operational improvements, and innovative models of service delivery.
• Sub-topic 2: Systemic approaches to modernizing the primary and community care sector – This involves providing evidence-based knowledge to support policy development and strategic planning for the modernization of the primary and community care sector, leveraging multidisciplinary and transnational perspectives.

For further information on this year’s call, kindly refer to the Call Text, National Application Form, as well as the National Rules for participation for State Aid and Non-State Aid. Download the Annexes now. 

To apply, the below need to be submitted by the pre-proposal deadline:

• The project coordinator needs to submit the project pre-proposal on the THCS Electronic Submission Tool by the 30th of January 2025 at 14:00 CET.
• Each National applicant shall be required to submit a National Application Form to xjenzamalta@gov.mt by the 30th of January 2025 at 23:59 CET.

SAVE THE DATE

The THCS Joint Call Secretariat will be hosting an online information event on December 17, 2024, from 14:00 to 16:00 CET. Register for the info session.

For further information, please contact us on eusubmissions.xjenzamalta@gov.mt / +356 23602152

Visit THCS website.

Funded by the European Union Framework programme – Grant Agreement N. 101095654. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HADEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

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Source of Funding: Xjenza Malta

Xjenza Malta is providing additional financial support to Malta-based entities collaborating with the Italian National Research Council (CNR) for access to ship time aboard the Research Vessel Gaia Blu.

The R/V Gaia Blu offers a platform for conducting advanced marine research, varying from oceanographic surveys, environmental monitoring, long-term data collection, and educational or outreach-focused cruises. Researchers can propose a variety of projects on several research fields as is highlighted in the CNR Application Form. This ship time opportunity enables multidisciplinary studies that contribute to a deeper understanding of the Mediterranean’s marine environment, supporting a wide range of scientific and environmental goals. The deadline to submit proposals to CNR by the Principal Investigator is November 30, 2024, and selected projects will be able to conduct their research activities in the Mediterranean Sea between March and December 2025.

To participate, projects need to include a Principal Investigator (PI) or Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) from CNR, however further collaborations with Italian and international researchers is encouraged. Researchers with a project idea are encouraged to contact previous collaborators or reach out to potential new partners who may be interested in this call. For those seeking assistance in identifying a suitable CNR collaborator, Xjenza Malta can facilitate by sharing relevant information with CNR. To request this support, please complete the attached expression of interest form and submit it to francesca.grillo@gov.mt.

For full details on how to apply and to access the guidelines and additional documentation visit the official CNR webpage: CNR Gaia Blu Call.

Xjenza Malta’s additional funding is aimed to facilitate the active participation of Malta-based researchers in this international collaboration. Up to €6,000 per researcher is available to cover travel and other operating expenses that are not funded by CNR, within the scope of the Malta-based researchers’ involvement. To access these funds, Malta-based entities are requested to send to Xjenza Malta the attached national application form for financial assistance from Xjenza Malta, together with a copy of the submitted application form to CNR by the Principal Investigator. Malta-based entities collaborating with CNR must submit the attached application form to Xjenza Malta by 4th December 2024, 23:59 CET at international.xjenzamalta@gov.mt.

Additional information can be found in the below link:

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The applications for our much-anticipated Cohort 4.0 are now open in Malta! This is your chance to accelerate your journey with an equity-free program designed to elevate your project within the EdTech sector.

Why Malta?
Malta offers a thriving ecosystem backed by strong EU funding opportunities and an innovative community that supports growth and development.

Join Our Strong EdTech Ecosystem
Become a part of a vibrant network that fosters collaboration and innovation.

EU Backed Funding Opportunities
Access to exclusive funding opportunities supported by EU initiatives to help fuel your growth.

Team Expansion Grants
Receive grants aimed at helping you scale your team and expand your operations efficiently.

R&D Packages
Take advantage of tailored R&D packages designed to boost your product development and research capabilities.

The application process takes approximately 30 minutes.

You can either:

1. Start the application now
*You can complete it within 7 days using the same browser

2. Filling in the short form to register your interest link

Application Deadline: 09th December, 2024
Interviews: Ongoing
Programme Start: April, 2025

SuperCharger's application is a competitive process. If you are not selected, you will also hear from us on how our ecosystem can help you.

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Source of Funding: https://xjenzamalta.mt/2024/11/14/technology-development-programme-tdp-2024/

Xjenza Malta is receiving proposals under the Technology Development Programme (TDP).

The Technology Development Programme is a national funding programme which enables the drastic improvement of a product or service via extensive collaboration in consortia composed of public entities and industry players. 

TDP provides financial support up to €500,000 for research, development, and innovation, within the SMART Specialisation Areas:

• Aviation and Aerospace
• Future Digital Technology
• Health and Wellbeing
• Marine and Maritime Technology
• Smart Manufacturing
• Sustainable Use of Resources

To apply for this funding programme, the technology must be at Technology Readiness level (TRL) 4 and must increase to TRL 7 by the end of the project. The Technology Development Programme cover a time span between 24 to 36 months, and it builds on the outcome of the two stages feasibility study (the Commercialisation Voucher Programme or CVP) conducted within the project:

• Intellectual Property Check (identification of novel elements of the technology)
• Commercial Viability Test (assessment on market research and economic impact)

Projects in which the CVP is required can receive an additional funding up to €14,000 and perform CVP activities prior to the start of the TDP project.

All projects are evaluated by a selection board set up by Xjenza Malta on the basis of evaluation criteria outlined in call text. Interested Applicants are to submit their application form electronically to rtdi.xjenzamalta@gov.mt keeping in copy Dr. Alessandra Loria at alessandra.loria@gov.mt with “TDP 2024 – Application” as subject heading. The deadline for submission is Friday 31st January 2025 at 11.59pm. The application must be dated and signed by the applicant and the legal representative. All received applications shall be acknowledged by email. Late or incomplete applications will not be considered.

An online information session with more details on the TDP 2024 call will be held on Thursday, 28th November 2024 at 10.00am. Click here to register for this info session. Additional information can be accessed from the link below. Alternatively, interested parties may contact Dr. Alessandra Loria on 23602111.

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