Opportunities

The SAB Foundation Tholoana Enterprise Programme is an 18-month business growth programme supporting South African entrepreneurs who have already established commercially viable businesses and are ready to strengthen their operations and pursue further growth.

The programme provides tailored business

MANTRA 2nd Open Call – Support for Manufacturing SMEs

Overview

The MANTRA (Sustainable and Innovative Manufacturing by Ensuring Digital, Green, and Social SME Transformation) 2nd Open Call supports European manufacturing SMEs undertaking practical green, digital and social transformation projects.

The

The AGRIFOOD4FUTURE Open Innovation & Challenge-Based Programme, supported through the Erasmus+ AGRIFOOD4FUTURE project, connects agrifood companies facing real operational, technological and sustainability challenges with startups and research groups offering innovative solutions.

The programme

EIT Culture & Creativity is inviting startups and scaleups in the Cultural and Creative Sectors and Industries (CCSI) to apply for financial support through its Shape Acceleration Programme and Scale Post-Acceleration Programme.

The call is designed for technology-enabled, market-driven and IP

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Uganda is inviting eligible national Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and Community-Based Organisations (CBOs) to submit information for potential partnership in delivering enterprise development and capacity

The ICC TradeRoots Africa Programme, led by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Centre of Entrepreneurship, is designed to help African SMEs build the knowledge, tools, connections and capabilities needed to expand into African markets under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)

The Green Economy Accelerator, powered by Nedbank and delivered by Innovate Durban, is an 18-month enterprise development programme designed to support and scale green businesses operating in KwaZulu-Natal.

The programme is aimed at enterprises that have moved beyond the early idea stage and have

The FORTIS Open Call #2 is inviting universities, research organisations, SMEs, start-ups and mid-caps to develop, integrate and validate technologies that advance Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), collaborative robotics, AI and digital environments.

The call provides access to the 10-month FORTIS

The European Cluster for Drone Innovation (ECDI) is inviting applications from manufacturing SMEs in the drone sector for the Dual-Use Drones Innovative Programme.

The programme supports SMEs that already operate in the dual-use drone market and want to advance their technologies while strengthening

BluoVerda Deutschland e.V. is inviting applications for an online course focused on agroforestry, climate resilience and sustainable landscapes.

The course explores how agroforestry approaches can contribute to more resilient, biodiverse and sustainable landscapes, while providing participants with

The PtX Grant Competition, launched by GIZ South Africa, Lesotho & eSwatini, provides grant funding for tangible, operating demonstrations of green hydrogen and Power-to-X (PtX) applications in South Africa.

The competition is focused on projects that can contribute to job creation, skills

The KijaniSpace Innovation Program is an innovation support programme under the Horizon Europe project “Empowering Climate-Smart Agriculture with Copernicus and IoT Innovations for Smallholder Farmers in Africa.”

The programme aims to support innovative SMEs and start-ups in the Lake Victoria region