Open calls for projects and proposals
Calls for proposals and projects relating to the circular economy
This call supports industrial symbiosis, waste prevention, recycling, reuse and recovery.
It is intended for Lombardy-based SMEs, including innovative start-ups, and the key areas are plastics, tyres, polymers, textiles, electronics and WEEE (including solar panels), batteries and accumulators, and the recovery of phosphorus and other CRMs.
Apply from 6 October to 5 November
The EIT Regional Innovation Scheme is an EU programme that supports countries and regions with lower innovation performance. KAVA Call 14 - RIS Innovation is looking for projects developing new technologies, products, services or business models in the raw materials value chain.
The projects must focus on exploration, sustainable mining, processing, circularity, recycling or substitution.
Cut-off dates:
13.00 CEST on 16 October for cut-off 2
This EU Innovation Open Call is looking for SMEs in the agri-food production and/or processing sector, SMEs in other sectors that give value to biomass/by-products/side-streams from the agri-food sector and SMEs offering solutions and/or technology for the use of these materials.
Cut-off 2: 20 October
The region of Tuscany is offering financing for Tuscan SMEs interested in setting up or developing industrial systems for recovering and processing waste.
They are looking for waste recovery facilities, systems for monitoring and tracking waste flows, technologies for reducing rejects, and industrial symbiosis.
Deadline: 23 October
This open call is looking for startups, scale-ups and SMEs in fashion, architecture and audiovisual media.
The projects should be at TRL 7 to TRL 9, and focus on circular textile technologies, bio-based building materials or responsible AI for content creation.
Deadline: 30 October
Third-sector association Fondazione LGH is looking for Italian R&D projects in the agrifood and cosmetics industries which want to turn ideas into impact.
The goal is to transfer skills and knowledge, support innovation and make Italy more competitive. Relevant areas include the circular economy.
Deadline: 30 November
This Horizon Europe call is looking for ways to extend the life of buildings, reduce their environmental impact and facilitate the use of predictive maintenance.
Proposals should develop a tool for predictive maintenance and repair and a package of maintenance and repair measures.
Deadline: 1 December
ORMAT2026 is an annual French funding programme that supports investment in sorting and preparation of waste for recycling, the production of recycled raw materials and their incorporation into products, as well as the repurposing, remanufacturing and reconditioning of batteries.
Businesses in the recycling value chain can apply.
Deadline: 31 December
This Horizon Europe call is looking for proposals for advanced materials designed with a view to circularity and resilient supply networks. The proposals should aim to take materials from TRL 4-5 to 6, accompanied by a circular business model.
Deadline: 2 February 2027
This Horizon Europe call is looking for factory-level technologies geared to de-manufacturing and re-manufacturing.
It includes predictive maintenance, automated processes for de-manufacturing products, CAD data and digital twins, on-site repair, and planning operations based on the products to be re-manufactured.
Deadline: 2 February 2027