INGENIOUS Internationalisation Grant for SMEs

The Eurocluster INGENIOUS supports Europe's industry to gain sovereignty, to drive competitive sustainability, to be the world’s first climate-neutral continent by 2050, and to shape Europe’s digital future. INGENIOUS has a special focus on SME support as they are the backbone of the economy and will support them with the new steps on building resilience and on the green and digital transition.

The INGENIOUS project serves as a lever for the companies to implement highly innovative solutions via three financial instruments.

INGENIOUS seeks gender balance. Therefore, applicants are invited to take all measures to promote equal opportunities between men and women in the implementation of the action. They must aim for a gender balance at all levels of personnel assigned to the action, including supervisory and managerial levels to the extent possible.

Funding Information

• The applicants can apply only for one Internationalisation Grant (one grant worth € 2500) keeping in mind that the total maximum funding will be € 60.000 per SME including all financial support to third parties (Innovation grants and Training grants) within the INGENIOUS project.

Target Countries

• Africa
  • Cape Verde
  • Mosambik
  • South African Republic
  • Senegal
  • Guinea
  • Maroco
• Asia
  • Vietnam
  • China
  • Japan
  • South Korea
  •  Singapur
  • India
• North America
  • Canada
• Latin America
  • Chile
  • Mexico
  • Brasil
  • Argentina
  • Peru
  • Bolivia

Eligibility Criteria

Main requirements for applicants

• The Internationalisation Grants address small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) that will choose any country from the main target.
• Applicants need to submit their application via the INGENIOUS website using the application form
• Internationalisation grants – INGENIOUS (ingenious-eurocluster.eu)
• A motivation letter (not exceeding two DIN A4 page) needs to be filled-in in the template from INGENIOUS
• To be eligible for Internationalisation Grants, any submitted application should meet the following conditions:
  • Internationalisation activities should meet one of the above mentioned main target destinations (Africa, Asia, North and Latin America)
  • Applications must be written in English (applications partially written in another language are not eligible)
  • Applicants must be a SME
  • Applicants must be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
    • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)) and Ukraine
    • EEA countries and countries associated to the COSME part of the Single Market
    • Programme or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature
    • Applicants can apply only for one INGENIOUS Internationalisation Grant, however, a total maximum funding of € 60.000 per applicant applies
    • All required fields in the template needs to be filled-in (applications with not all filledin fields are not eligible)
    • Only given templates from the INGENIOUS website will be eligible (all other documents will not be eligible)
    • Applicants will have to demonstrate the need for the mission to target country in a motivation letter, evaluated and approved by the INGENIOUS responsible
    • Members of the cluster organisations participating in the project are eligible to apply, but project partners are not.

For more information, visit INGENIOUS.