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Europe: funding calls and deadlines closing soon (week of 9 November 2026)

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SPRIND closes two challenges this month, Italy opens EUR 150 million in cloud and cyber vouchers on 10 November, and NLnet has reopened Restack until 3 January. EIC dates move into 2027.

About Europe: funding calls and deadlines closing soon (week of 9 November 2026)

Europe: funding calls and deadlines closing soon (week of 9 November 2026)

9 November 2026: Germany's SPRIND has two challenges closing this month with up to EUR 9.6 million per team on the chip design one, and Italy begins taking applications on 10 November for EUR 150 million of cloud and cybersecurity vouchers. Each call below was read on its own page for this edition.

Not yet independently verified. Bpifrance and FFG refused our requests and the EU Funding and Tenders portal did not answer, so calls in France and Austria and the Chips JU, EuroHPC and I3 dates we gave last week could not be confirmed and are left out. We did not reach Switzerland, Greece or Spain. We will update this when it can be confirmed, and remove this note.

Germany: SPRIND's chip design money closes on 30 November

AI-Native Chip Design (SPRIND with NADI) takes applications until 30 November 2026 at 11:00 CET. Teams get fixed-price contracts of up to EUR 9,600,000 over 20 months: up to EUR 2.6 million in an eight-month first stage and up to EUR 7.0 million in a twelve-month second stage. A webinar is listed for 17 November.

Engineering Microbial Consortia closes on 16 November 2026 at 11:00 CET, with up to EUR 4,300,000 per team across three stages lasting up to 38 months. It is biomanufacturing rather than software.

Measuring with Entanglement is shown on SPRIND's list with an apply-by date of today, 9 November.

Italy opens its voucher window on 10 November

The Voucher cloud e cybersecurity, run by MIMIT through Invitalia, accepts applications from 12:00 on 10 November 2026 until 12:00 on 20 January 2027, and evaluates them in order of submission, so early filing counts. The budget is EUR 150 million. Small and medium businesses and professionals across Italy can receive a non-repayable grant of up to 50% of eligible costs, never above EUR 20,000, and part of the money is reserved for the Mezzogiorno. Form-filling has been open since 20 October.

EU-wide: EIC dates roll into 2027, and Restack reopens

The EIT Urban Mobility SME Market Expansion Open Call 2027 closes on 1 December 2026 at 17:00 CET. Each SME, supported by an end client, receives a fixed lump sum of EUR 60,000, with about ten places and EUR 600,000 in total.

NLnet Restack has moved since last week's edition. A second call opened on 3 November with a deadline of 3 January 2027 at noon CET, offering proposals between EUR 5,000 and EUR 50,000 for open source software, hardware and standards, from EUR 7 million to be awarded by 2030.

The EIC Accelerator page now describes the 2027 programme. Short proposals can be sent at any time, and full proposals are batched at 17:00 Brussels time on 20 January, 17 March, 1 September and 4 November 2027, so no 2026 batch remains. Grants run up to EUR 2.5 million and investment from EUR 1 million to EUR 10 million, with EUR 428 million for Open and EUR 150 million for Challenges.

The EIC STEP Scale Up page says applicants can apply at any time, and still shows no 25 November cut-off.

The Commission's digital funding list also shows the EU AI Media Platform open to 16 February 2027 and new approaches to human-AI collaboration open to 2 February 2027. A tender for a study on trans-European digital networks closes on 13 November. The list gives no amounts or closing times.

Longer deadlines in Ireland and Luxembourg

Ireland's Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund, Call 8 closes on 3 February 2027 at 3pm Irish time, with EUR 40 million and a mandatory pre-eligibility check, so consortia should begin that step well before the date.

Luxembourg's Fit 4 programmes, including Fit 4 Cybersecurity, show no closing date, and aid is capped at EUR 100,000 per project. We covered the widened terms separately. The Startup Ireland AI Accelerator also had its own item.

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