Funding to foster collaboration between academia and the industry
Are you interested in developing a collaborative R&D project? The annual call for thematic projects from innoviris.brussels encourages collaboration between academia and industry. It enables companies to integrate the latest innovations and researchers to encounter practical cases to which they can apply their discoveries.
The procedure in 3 steps
- Submit your project outline, using the form below before October 27th, 2025 at 2 PM and send it to funding-request@innoviris.brussels and jduplicy@innoviris.brussels.
- If your project is selected, you will be invited to submit a full proposal before February 6th, 2026 at 2 PM by sending it to funding-request@innoviris.brussels and jduplicy@innoviris.brussels).
- Your full proposal will be evaluated by a jury of experts. That evaluation will be based on the submitted documents and on a live jury session, according to the criteria defined in the documents.
Other information
Project duration must be between 1,5 and 3 years.
The financial contribution is awarded in the form of a grant and covers :
- 40% of the costs for large enterprises;
- 50% of the costs for medium enterprises;
- 60% of the costs for micro and small enterprises;
- 100% of the costs for research organisations.