EIT Culture & Creativity is inviting proposals for high-impact, close-to-market innovations that can progress from Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 7 to TRL 9 and full market deployment across the Architecture, Audio-Visual Media and Fashion sectors. The call uses a two-stage process combining concept validation, commercialisation planning and project implementation.

The opportunity is designed for innovations that are sufficiently mature for market deployment and demonstrate a clear pathway to commercialisation, revenue generation and scalable impact.

The VICTAM Foundation Call for Funding 2027 is inviting researchers, organisations, innovators and eligible commercial companies to submit proposals for projects that contribute to the development of the animal feed and flour milling industries.

The Foundation supports innovative projects that advance technology, sustainability, efficiency, animal nutrition and knowledge development across the global feed and flour milling sectors.

Funding Available

The Just Energy Transition (JET) Funding Platform is inviting Expressions of Interest for community-led agriculture and food-system projects with an integrated circular economy dimension.

Window 4 aims to support projects that create sustainable livelihoods and jobs in communities affected by South Africa’s Just Energy Transition, while strengthening agricultural value chains and embedding practical waste-to-value solutions.

GIZ South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini, together with the New Energy Vehicles (NEV) Portfolio – South Africa JET IP, is inviting qualified firms and consortia to submit Expressions of Interest for strategic advisory services supporting the development of a Movement Brand for South Africa’s New Energy Vehicle (NEV) Transition under the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP).

The Chips Joint Undertaking (Chips JU) is supporting the development of European AI chip demonstrators that can move advanced chip designs closer to integration into real European compute infrastructure.

The call is the first stream under the AI Chips and Systems for EU Compute Infrastructure initiative and focuses on bringing cutting-edge European AI chip designs to the demonstrator stage, with functional silicon hardware integrated with system partners and prepared for infrastructure-level evaluation.

Funding Available

The Chips Joint Undertaking (Chips JU) has opened a joint call for international collaboration between Europe and Japan on semiconductors, focusing on the development of a strong chiplet ecosystem for AI and advanced semiconductor process technologies for nodes beyond 2nm.

The call is designed to bring together European and Japanese organisations to advance semiconductor technologies, strengthen industrial cooperation and support the development of next-generation chip architectures.

Funding Available

The International Climate Finance Accelerator (ICFA) is a multi-year programme supporting emerging investment managers to launch and develop climate-focused impact investment funds and mobilise capital towards sustainable development.

The programme is designed for fund management or fund advisory companies raising their first or second institutional impact investment vehicle, with a strong focus on climate change mitigation and climate change adaptation.

Financial & Technical Support

The Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) Pre-Seed Fund 2026, implemented by Propella Business Incubator in the Eastern Cape, provides funding support for entrepreneurs and SMMEs developing early-stage technologies with potential for commercialisation and further growth.

The fund is intended to help innovators move their technologies beyond early development by supporting activities such as proof-of-concept development, prototype development, technology validation, technical feasibility studies and relevant market research.

Funding Available