European network for upscaling venture builders’ roles in research performing organisations (CSA)
Horizon Europe · Grant topic
Summary
A Polish company can use this call for R&D.
Supports a European network helping research organisations establish and expand venture-building roles to commercialise research results.
- Who can apply
- Companies can lead: SME, large company, startup, research org, university, NGO, public body, other.
- Amount
- €1,000,000Indicative budget
- Deadline
- 02 Feb 2027 01:00 CETin 101 days
- Status
- Openopened 13 Oct 2026
Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source.
Description
Expected Outcome:
Projects are expected to contribute to the following outcomes:
• Raised awareness of venture builders’ roles as part of the ecosystem of startup support in research performing organisations, including universities, Research and Technology Organisations and research and technology infrastructures;
• Upscaling or establishment of venture builders’ roles in research performing organisations; and
• Enhanced capacity for sharing resources supporting venture building, exchanging best practices and developing skills needed for successful venture building undertakings in research performing organisations, leading to increased commercialisation of research results (from lab to market).
Scope:
A variety of organisations across Europe support start up and spin off creation, including incubators, accelerators, innovation hubs, science parks and others. Within this ecosystem, venture builders emerge as playing a double role: on the one hand in building the start-up, drawing on innovative ideas and new technologies at very early stage and bringing together the founding team to create the start up; and on the other hand in providing the support needed to enable the start up to launch and grow in the market.
This action will support research performing organisations, such as universities, Research and Technology Organisations, and research and technology infrastructures, to upscale venture building functions and create venture builders’ roles of different types, depending on the their needs, while fully demonstrating a gender-sensitive approach that takes account of the different barriers faced by women innovators and entrepreneurs across the innovation ecosystem.
Who can apply, in detail
- Applicant types
- SME, Large company, Startup, Research org, University, NGO, Public body, Other
- Purpose
- Research and innovation
- R&D relevance
- 2 of 3
- Poland eligible
- Yes
- Country limit
- EU Member States and Horizon Europe Associated Countries, subject to applicable exceptions
- Region
- Any
- Consortium
- Optional
- Readiness level (TRL)
- —
- Topics
- Venture building
- Research commercialisation
- University spin-offs
- Innovation ecosystem networks
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.
- Applicant type
- A CSA proposal may be submitted by one or more legal entities. Beneficiaries (and affiliated entities) normally must be established in an EU Member State or Associated Country unless the topic provides otherwise; a non-associated third-country entity may participate as an associated partner unless excluded.
- Eligible project scope
- The action supports research-performing organisations (including universities, RTOs and research/technology infrastructures) to upscale venture-building functions and create venture-builder roles tailored to their needs, using a gender-sensitive approach. No number of hires, named job grade, qualifications, FTE, pay rate or hiring requirement is specified.
- Other condition
- The topic is in the single-stage INDUSTRY call opening 13 October 2026 and closing 2 February 2027 at 17:00 Brussels local time; the Horizon call footnote allows limited adjustment by the Director-General.
- Other condition
- Expected EU contribution is around EUR 1.00 million for one project, but different request amounts remain possible; this is not a hard cap.
Amounts and costs
- Indicative budget
- €1,000,000
Topic budget as stated in the portal's budget table. Lump-sum and per-project limits are in the call conditions.
- Eligible cost
- This is a Coordination and Support Action funded as a Horizon Europe lump-sum grant; the Work Programme explicitly states eligible costs take the lump-sum form.
- Topic allocation
- €1,000,000
Source documents
Call facts
- Opens
- 13 Oct 2026
- Deadline model
- Single-stage
- Programme
- Horizon Europe · 2021 - 2027
- Call
- HORIZON-CL4-2027-01 · INDUSTRY
- Types of action
- HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions
- Source
- ec.europa.eu
- Checked
- 24 Oct 2026
- Portal updated
- 14 Oct 2026
- Review status
- Partial review
- Reviewed
- 22 Oct 2026
This is a summary of the source page, not the official text. Eligibility, conditions and the submission system are at the source.