EIT Regional Innovation Booster

• A for-profit SME (small or medium-sized enterprise) as defined by the EU.
• A registered legal entity in Poland, operating before the call opens.
• Not a sole trader (sole entrepreneurs can’t apply).
• Applying individually – not part of a consortium.

• Your solution should have a Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of 7 or higher, meaning it’s close to market launch.
• It must have real potential to scale and succeed commercially.
• You must own or have full rights to the intellectual property (IP) of the solution.

• Your company should have at least 2 full-time employees when you apply.
• Your CEO must be engaged full-time in the company.
• A maximum of two team members can join the EIT Regional Innovation Booster programme (more may be allowed in special cases).

Your company must operate in one of these sectors:

Place-Based Transformations (Climate KIC):
Driving climate action locally through planning, mapping, analyzing, engaging, designing, testing, and investing in solutions across cities, bioregions, and value chains.
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Digital Innovation (EIT Digital):
Accelerating market uptake of deep tech in Digital Tech, Cities, Industry, Wellbeing, and Finance to address Europe’s societal challenges.
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Energy & Renewables (InnoEnergy):
Reducing costs and emissions, improving system performance, promoting circular economy solutions, and innovating in green hydrogen, solar, storage, and sustainable industrial energy use.
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Food & Agritech (EIT Food):
Boosting sustainability and efficiency across the food chain, developing personalized nutrition, ensuring traceability, and building consumer trust through digital and sensor technologies.
Goals: Healthier lives, net-zero food systems, and resilient, transparent food supply chains.
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Metals, Minerals & Industrial Side Streams (EIT RawMaterials):
Innovating mineral exploration, digital monitoring, smart or targeting, safer and sustainable mining, efficient materials processing, and reducing emissions and resource use.
Advancing recycling, secondary raw materials, waste valorization, circular economy business models, and traceability across raw material value chains.
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Smart Cities & Mobility (EIT Urban Mobility):
Focusing on active mobility, sustainable logistics, future mobility solutions, clean transport energy, and smart infrastructure such as autonomous and demand-responsive transport.Open to all urban mobility innovations.
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Note: Your innovation can also be at the intersection of one of the aforementioned topics.

We support companies that:

• Are creating innovative solutions, services, products, or business models that address real societal challenges.
• Want to grow their business – expand their team, increase revenue, and enter new markets.
• Are ready to scale to Germany, Spain and the Nordic countries.
• Focus on deep tech – advanced technologies solving big problems like climate change, health, or energy.

Deep Tech refers to businesses using advanced science or engineering to solve major challenges. These companies often need more time and funding to develop but have high societal impact and strong long-term potential.

• Solutions that can be used for both civilian and non-offensive defence purposes are allowed.
• Purely military technologies are not eligible.

You should be able to show at least one of the following:

• • Interest from customers in Poland – ideally Letters of Intent or similar agreements.
  • Funding already raised from public or private sources for your solution.

No connections to Russia or Belarus are allowed (this includes founders, shareholders, or partners).

• Your team should reflect gender balance, especially in leadership roles.
• This is part of the evaluation process, in line with Horizon Europe and EIT’s commitment to inclusive innovation.

• All applications must be submitted in English.
• All documents must be clear and easy to read.
• If you submit attachments in another EU language, we may ask for a translation into English.