Ścieżka SMART – projekty realizowane w konsorcjach

Applicant types

SME, Large company, Research org, NGO

Purpose

Research and innovation

R&D relevance

3 of 3

Poland eligible

Yes

Country limit

Poland

Region

Any

Consortium

Required

Readiness level (TRL)

—

Per project

€33M

Topics

• Industrial research
• Experimental development
• Product innovation
• Production process innovation

Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source. 23 Oct 2026

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

Applicant is the consortium leader. Consortium may comprise enterprises, research organisations and NGOs; only an enterprise may lead, while research organisations and NGOs may participate only as consortium members.

Application restriction

Published application window was 7 August–16 October 2026. The period had elapsed by the review date; this captured rule set does not establish whether any later extension or reopening exists.

Eligible project scope

Funding is for R&D to create a product or business-process innovation in the production function of an enterprise; industrial research and development work or development work only are eligible. Each consortium member must carry at least one R&D task, and projects are located in Poland.

Other condition

Consortium partners must be selected before filing; the consortium agreement must be concluded before grant agreement signature and meet the RWP minimum content.

Other conditionExact identified application intake only; no change to programme lifetime, implementation or evaluation stages.

The exact NCBR call is in application evaluation. Its submission intake is closed; evaluation is not a further application stage. The old ministry-portal open label is retained as source disagreement.

Operator-source status adjudication, not automatic closure from elapsed dates; no claim of live signed-in portal acceptance.

Catalogue budget

PLN 350,000,000

Figure as listed by the provider. Whether it is the total allocation or a per-project cap is unverified unless a reviewed condition says so.

Call allocation

PLN 350,000,000

Call-level allocation, not an individual project grant ceiling.

Eligible cost

Project R&D personnel remuneration is eligible for researchers, technical staff and other auxiliary staff on employment contracts, civil-law contracts, or qualifying cooperation basis; only the time and scope engaged in R&D are eligible. Management, supervision and coordination remuneration is ineligible under the direct personnel category and instead treated as indirect costs.

Eligible cost limit

25 percent of qualifying direct costs

Flat-rate indirect costs are 25% of the eligible direct-cost base specified by the guide; this is not a wage or direct personnel cap.

Ineligible cost

Pay for staff performing project management, supervision or coordination is not eligible in the direct project-personnel category; it is allocated wholly to indirect costs.

Project cost, minimum

PLN 3,000,000

Minimum eligible costs for the R&D work package; not project funding. Other modules have separate rules and limits.

Project funding, maximum

PLN 140,000,000

RWP/cost guide project-wide maximum; not a typical grant and not the call allocation.

• NCBR eligible cost guide, SMART consortium call FENG.01.01-IP.01-003/26

  gov.pl

• NCBR current exact-call page

  gov.pl

• NCBR official current call-document listing: SMART consortium, FENG.01.01-IP.01-003/26

  gov.pl

• Official MFiPR route page: Ścieżka SMART consortium projects

  funduszeunijne.gov.pl

• NCBR RWP, SMART consortium call, version effective from 23 September 2026

  gov.pl

Opens

7 Aug 2026

Provider

FENG · NCBR

Source

funduszeunijne.gov.pl

Checked

24 Oct 2026

Review status

Partial review

Independent QA

No published hold

Reviewed

23 Oct 2026