StartupsExchange by StartSmart CEE

Applicant types

SME, Startup

Purpose

Mobility and exchange

R&D relevance

1 of 3

Poland eligible

Yes

Country limit

Poland

Region

Any

Consortium

Single applicant

Readiness level (TRL)

—

Per project

€23.3K

Topics

• Startup exchange
• Startup support services

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 restriction

Polish-capital-company startup, micro or small enterprise, not publicly listed, within five years of KRS registration, no profit distribution or merger formation, eligible for de minimis support, unconnected to the operator/service provider, and with exclusive rights to the idea; detailed statutory exclusions also apply.

Other condition

Grant is generally paid as reimbursement; advances are exceptional and approved, with first advance capped at 40% of the grant and later advances conditional on full settlement of earlier advances.

Other condition

The cash grant is capped at 25% of services funded for that startup; it is not a 25% project-wide grant rate.

Other condition

National stage must provide at least 40 hours of preparation; foreign stage must last at least 7 days and involve two programme participants. The two participants are a participation condition, not an employee headcount or staffing quota.

Other condition

This distinct PARP schedule entry has an application window from 2027-09-07 through 2027-10-18. The official rendered PARP detail capture lists it as “7 Sep 2027–18 Oct 2027”; the operator regulation describes a programme of at least five rounds and places the first-round start and last-round end within its stated overall date envelope. These are intake dates, not a distinct budget allocation or additive award.

Project duration, maximum

4 months

Maximum acceleration period per IPA, with a possible justified one-time temporary suspension; this is not the calendar duration of the application round.

Catalogue budget

up to PLN 20,000

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.

Funding per beneficiary, maximum

PLN 20,000

Rendered PARP page states cash grant up to PLN 20,000; operator rules further constrain grant to maximum 25% of service value. Do not add this to another round as separate programme budget.

Funding per beneficiary, maximum

PLN 100,000

Combined cap includes services and grant, not a cash-only award; VAT excluded.

Funding per beneficiary, maximum

PLN 80,000

Operator-delivered service value cap per startup, not cash grant and not per-round allocation; VAT is paid by startup and excluded from programme support.

Eligible cost

Grant may cover remuneration of startup employees participating in implementing the Individual Acceleration Plan, including persons engaged under civil-law contracts; costs must be directly related to IPA activities and objectives.

Ineligible cost

VAT on operator-provided services is not covered as programme support and must be paid from the startup’s own funds.

• Other role

  Staff cost the grant can fund

  Only remuneration for startup employees participating in IPA implementation and directly linked to IPA activities/objectives is identified as potentially fundable; this does not itself establish a hiring requirement or automatic entitlement.

• StartupsExchange by StartSmart CEE - PARP - Centrum Rozwoju MŚP

  parp.gov.pl

• StartSmart CEE official current programme page (original HTML response bytes)

  startsmartcee.org

• StartupsExchange by StartSmart CEE accelerator rules, version 23 Sep 2026

  startsmartcee.org

Opens

7 Sept 2027

Provider

Fundusze Europejskie dla Nowoczesnej Gospodarki

Source

parp.gov.pl

Checked

24 Oct 2026

Review status

Partial review

Independent QA

No published hold

Reviewed

23 Oct 2026