Skills for innovative SMEs
Establishment of an SME support scheme through the Enterprise Europe Network, which delivers transnational skills-matching, recruitment support, and innovation management services to innovative SMEs across Europe. This support scheme has the following expected outcomes: Innovative SMEs have reduced labour and skill shortages through a transnational mobility scheme, which allows them to recruit and train highly…
Funding and competition
- 1grant expected (official)
- €30MEU contribution per project
- €1.5Mmedian EU grant of the most similar funded projects
Very few grants: expect strong competition. Only proposals well above threshold are funded, so a clearly differentiated idea and a complete consortium are essential.
Success rates vary widely between topics (often from below 5% to above 30%). Ask us for the success-rate history of this topic before you commit to a proposal.
Organisations with a track record in this topic
Organisations that took part in the EU-funded projects most similar to this call (Horizon Europe and Horizon 2020), ranked by how close those projects are to the call, how recent they are and whether the organisation coordinated them. Being listed does not mean an organisation is looking for partners: use the list to target your outreach.
Spanish organisations with experience in this field
The Spanish organisations that appear most often in the closest funded projects.
| Organisation | Country | Type | Similar EU projects | As coordinator | Examples (CORDIS) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fundacion Espanola Para La Cienciay La Tecnologia, F.S.P., Fecyt Alcobendas | Spain | Other | 6 | 0 | EURAXIND, Net4MobilityPlus, EURAXESS TOP III |
| Fundacion Para El Conocimiento Madrimasd Madrid | Spain | Other | 4 | 2 | RADIANCE, INNMADRIMASD 3, MSCA-NET |
| Instituto Valenciano De La Competitividad Empresarial Valencia | Spain | Public body | 2 | 2 | INNOVACCION, INNOVACTION 2020-21 |
| Centro Nacional De Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos Iii (F.S.P.) Madrid | Spain | Research organisation | 1 | 1 | CURE HEARTandBRAIN |
| Agencia Per A La Competitivitat De La Empresa Barcelona | Spain | Public body | 2 | 1 | TECNIOspring PLUS, GO - SME |
| Universidad De Alicante Alicante | Spain | University | 2 | 0 | INNOVACCION, INNOVACTION 2020-21 |
| Consejo De Camaras Oficiales De Comercio, Industria Y Navigacion De La Comunidad Valenciana Valencia | Spain | Public body | 2 | 0 | INNOVACCION, INNOVACTION 2020-21 |
| Red De Institutos Tecnologicos De La Comunidad Valenciana Redit Asociacion Paterna | Spain | Other | 2 | 0 | INNOVACCION, INNOVACTION 2020-21 |
What a typical winning consortium looks like
- 8partners (median)
- 5countries (median)
- 10%of partners are SMEs
Based on the 25 funded projects closest to this call. Use it as a benchmark, not a rule: always check the call conditions for the minimum consortium.
Most similar funded projects
Read their CORDIS pages to see the full consortium, results and deliverables.
- RADIANCE – Research Advisors in action, NCP cooperation for excellence (HORIZON · 2025 · HORIZON-MSCA-2024-NCP-01-01)
- EURAXIND – EURAXESS for Industry (H2020 · 2016 · SEAC-4-2015)
- Net4MobilityPlus – Network of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action National Contact Points for the mobile scientific and innovation community (H2020 · 2018 · MSCA-NCP-2017)
- SKILLS4JUSTICE – Skill partnerships for sustainable and just migration patterns (HORIZON · 2023 · HORIZON-CL2-2023-TRANSFORMATIONS-01-03)
- Net4Mobility – Net4Mobility: Network of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions National Contact Points (H2020 · 2015 · MSCA-NCP-2014)
- TECNIOspring PLUS – ACCIÓ programme to foster mobility of researchers with a focus in applied research and technology transfer (H2020 · 2016 · MSCA-COFUND-2015-FP)
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- 10 Nov 2026 · European Research and Innovation Days 2026 (Brussels and online)
- 1 Dec 2026 · Interdisciplinary Pathways towards Green and Resilient Societies (Online)
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Track-record data: CORDIS open data (European Commission), organisation level only, refreshed weekly. Rankings are calculated automatically by Ullswater Investments from text similarity between the call and funded projects; they are indicative.