The Third FFplus Open Call for Business Experiments Webinars: Essential Insights and Information
A set of webinars will be offered to receive all the information for the third FFplus Open Call for Business Experiments.
SMEs and Start-ups: Are you interested in how to apply to the open call and what the call requirements are?
Research Organisations: Are you interested in how to properly support SMEs and Start-ups and build the consortia?
NCC members: Are you interested in how you can support industry in applying to the call and access to the EuroHPC JU HPC infrastructure, developing proposal ideas, or joining a consortium?
About the FFplus Open Call for Business Experiments
This announcement is the third call for proposals to address the uptake of HPC by SMEs in order to solve specific business challenges of SMEs that have had no prior use of, or experience with, HPC services.The resulting sub-projects will perform “business experiments” (also referred to below just as experiments) that should demonstrate to the broader European SME ecosystem that HPC uptake solves business challenges and leads to positive business impact (including but not limited to increased innovation potential and competitiveness) through the use and deployment of HPC-based computational methods (modelling and simulation, data analytics, AI, etc.).
Who can apply to the Open Call?
SMEs and startups from Europe and Horizon Europe-eligible countries.
Research organisations can be part of the consortium as supporting organisations to SMEs.
Consortia of 1–5 partners (including one SME and up to 4 supporting partners such as SMEs, larger organisations or public/research institutions).
Funding available: up to €200,000 per proposal (for consortium with supporting partners), up to €150,000 for the main participant SME.
Want to learn more? Join the webinar - choose the time slot that suits you best.
- Monday, 9 November 2026, at 10:00 CET REGISTER HERE
- Monday, 9 November 2026, at 14:00 CET REGISTER HERE
- Thursday, 12 November 2026, at 10:00 CET REGISTER HERE
- Thursday, 12 November 2026, at 14:00 CET REGISTER HERE
More information about the Open Call will be available soon.
Timeline
Proposal submission will be possible commencing on January 14th, 2027 at 10:00 Brussels local time. The call will be closed when either 200 proposals have been received, or on January 20th, 2027 at 17:00 Brussels local time, whichever point in time is earlier.
Expected duration of the business experiments: maximum 15 months with targeted commencement August 1st, 2027 at the latest.
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