The 2nd call for proposals is now open, offering a total of 540,000€ in funding for three grants: the xBUILD-EU Innovate grant, the xBUILD-Green and Digital grant, and the xBUILD-Global grant. 

This second call for proposals from xBUILD-EU project includes three financial instruments with a total budget of 540.000€ as lump-sum support for SMEs.

Innovate grant is aimed at supporting the innovation for SMEs to become more resilient with an increased portfolio of new-to-firm products and services to adapt to VUCA environment, increasing their capacity to respond and adapt easily in case of value chain disruptions. The main goal is to identify and bring to market new-to-firm products and/or services to make SMEs more resilient against value chain disruptions.  For the second call, xBUILD-EU will support companies, each with 20k€ lump-sum.

Green and digital grant is aimed at the adoption of processes and technologies by SMEs to become more competitive and resilient with focus on green and digital transition to ensure the sustainability and connectivity of the value chain. While this grant will not fund technology acquisition, the goal is to raise awareness with small pilots to test and adapt business processes to facilitate the twin transition, particularly technologies that can drive both simultaneously. The main goal of this instrument is to assess technologies and adopt business processes to enable the green and digital transition to make SMEs more competitive, ready for a resilient future and for global growth. For the second call, xBUILD-EU will support consortia of 2 SMEs, each project with 50k€ lump-sum.

Global grant is aimed at facilitating the internationalization of SMEs to become more resilient and globally competitive with facilitated access to third markets to ensure supply and production with a broader customer portfolio to facilitate overcoming regional value chain disruptions. SMEs must targe one of the prioritized target countries by xBUILD-EU from the Middle-East with the goal of facilitating their internationalization. For the second call, xBUILD-EU will support companies, each with 25k€ lump-sum.

All three instruments are now accepting applications until October 2nd 2024 at 17h CEST. 

Submission will be done exclusively through: https://euroclusters.grantplatform.com/

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About xBUILD-EU 

The xBUILD-EU partnership is led by Tèxtils.CAT in Catalonia with the participation of 2 additional clusters in the textile field: The Portuguese textile Cluster from Portugal, and  ATEVAL from Valencia, a construction cluster CCS from Slovenia, and the advanced manufacturing cluster IDEAM from Ireland (part of the Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest). xBUILD-EU main objective is to support the adaptation of green and digital transition through cross-sectoral collaboration. xBUILD-EU will launch a series of open calls with total funding of 1.05M€ in 2023 and 2024 to support innovation, adoption of green and digital technologies and to go international.