Funding Opportunities for CRP Partners

25th April 2025 / Posted by Fiona Coull

As part of CRP’s ongoing fundraising activities, we continue to review live and upcoming funding opportunities. Here are a few we thought may be of interest to our partners: 

EIT – Culture, Shape & Scale Programmes 

  • Shape Funding Programme has €330,000 available 
  • Scale Funding Programme has €660,000 available 
  • Consequently the maximum EIT funding for prizes in this call is €990,000. 
  • Applicable to SME’s 
  • Projects must tackle challenges in at least one of EIT Culture & Creativity’s priority areas: audio-visual media, fashion, architecture, gaming or cultural heritage. 
  • Link to funding call here 👈 

Horizon Europe – ELIAS – European Lighthouse of AI 

  • €240,000 available   
  • Application deadline of 30 April 2025 23:59 (Brussels time) 
  • Applicable to SME, startups and NGO’s 
  • ELIAS is focused on 3 research spheres but applications are not limited to them if the proposals will address high-impact societal and economic challenges using machine learning. 
  • Use Cases include: AI for Building Optimization; AI for Monitoring the Virtual Infrastructure; AI for Forecasting of Vegetation State 
  • Link for further information found here 👈