I3FLOAT 1st Open Call
Interregional Innovation Investments · Cascade funding
Summary
A Polish company can use this call for R&D.
Funds SMEs developing near-commercial floating offshore wind innovations addressing project challenges, with up to €60,000 per beneficiary.
- Who can apply
- Companies can lead: SME.
- Amount
- €60K per projectTotal budget €2,520,000
- Deadline
- 10 Nov 2026 18:00 CETin 17 days
- Status
- Openopened 7 Sept 2026
Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source.
Description
The scope of the I3FLOAT 1st Open Call is to fund SMEs with proposed innovations in the field of Floating Offshore Wind and proposing a technological solution to one of the challenges posed by the I3FLOAT project. The support scheme aims to fund projects that are relatively close to commercialisation. The expected current TRLs for projects funded under the support scheme are TRL 6-8.
Applicants to the 1st Open Call should propose a project that is in line with the different challenges the I3FLOAT project has identified. These challenges can be Open Challenges, which means solutions that are aligned with any of the innovation lines prioritised in the Strategic Innovation Agenda, or Specific Challenges, more concrete and defined by a Challenge Owner.
Open Challenges refers to innovations that are aligned with the 44 prioritised innovation lines identified in the Floating Wind Strategic Innovation Agenda in areas such as Floating substructures, mooring systems and dynamic cables; Electrical infrastructure and grid connection; Wind turbine, tower or alternative supporting structures and FOW-specific control; Industrialisation; Logistics and offshore installation; Operation, Maintenance and Decommissioning. Further detail is available in the Annex 1 of the Submission Toolkit.
Specific Challenges are related to specific sectoral needs proposed by so-called Challenge Owners. Examples would be the challenge "Single-pass welding outside for local FOWT serial assembly" proposed by I3FLOAT partner Eolink or "Logistic optimization on the transport of offshore wind structures" proposed by I3 Board member Navantia Seanergies. The list of the 11 Specific Challenges is available in Annex 2 of the Submission Toolkit.
• Project website
• Submission toolkit
• I3FLOAT Floating Offshore Wind Strategic Innovation Agenda
• Specific Challenges
Who can apply, in detail
- Applicant types
- SME
- Purpose
- Research and innovation
- R&D relevance
- 3 of 3
- Poland eligible
- Yes
- Country limit
- —
- Region
- Any
- Consortium
- Unclear
- Readiness level (TRL)
- 6-8
- Per project
- €60K
- Topics
- Floating offshore wind
- Floating substructures
- Mooring systems
- Dynamic cables
Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source. 23 Oct 2026
Conditions
Typed facts extracted from the source documents by Scindu's grant-data review. Each value keeps its own conditions. Unknown means unstated, not zero or unlimited.
- Other condition
- Current official I3FLOAT page lists the 1st Open Call application deadline as 10 November 2026 at 17:00 CET.
- Other condition
- Up to €60,000 per SME; lump sums paid 30% after contract signature, 30% after mid-project monitoring, and 40% after final report/meeting validation.
- Other condition
- Funded project duration is up to 12 months; only costs generated from contract signature through project end are eligible.
- Other condition
- External subcontracting is limited to 30% of each applicant budget; travel is limited to 15%.
Amounts and costs
- Indicative budget
- €2,520,000
Topic budget as stated in the portal's budget table. Lump-sum and per-project limits are in the call conditions.
- Funding per beneficiary, maximum
- €60,000
Maximum financial support available to each SME under I3FLOAT. This is a per-beneficiary ceiling, not the overall call allocation or a guaranteed award amount.
- Eligible cost
- Eligible direct personnel costs are beneficiary staff hours dedicated to actual project work; project-budgeted personnel hours must be justified, and records such as timesheets/contracts/invoices retained for audit.
Personnel and services
Other role
Staff cost the grant can fund
Source documents
Call facts
- Opens
- 7 Sept 2026
- Deadline model
- Single-stage
- Programme
- Interregional Innovation Investments · 2021 - 2027
- Call
- I3FLOAT 1st Open Call
- Types of action
- —
- Source
- ec.europa.eu
- Checked
- 23 Oct 2026
- Portal updated
- 11 Sept 2026
- Review status
- Partial review
- Reviewed
- 23 Oct 2026
This is a summary of the source page, not the official text. Eligibility, conditions and the submission system are at the source.