Women Leadership Category
Open
This is the status published by the official source.
Expected Impact:
The prize will boost public awareness of the potential, importance and contribution of women to the EU innovation ecosystem and create strong role models, inspiring more women to become innovators themselves.
- Status
- Open
- Deadline
- (time not stated)
- Opens
- Published
- Total budget
- €100,000
- Grant range
- €20,000 – €50,000
- Country
- European Union (EU-wide)
- Programme
- Horizon Europe (HORIZON)
- Funder
- European Commission
- Official page
- Open at the source portal
What applying involves
10 steps, all of them taken from this call's own documents.
Understand the call
- Read the call on the source portal and download its documents
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Write the proposal against the award criteria and thresholds
If admissible and eligible, the applications will be evaluated and ranked against the following award criteria : award criterion 1: Breakthrough innovation – the company or organisation founded or cofounded by the applicant is developing a breakthrough innovation focusing, among others, on Deeptech and Science Technology Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) fields. In presenting their innovation, the applicant should demonstrate what makes this innovation breakthrough in relation … — conditions §5a
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Check the grant's legal and financial set-up
standard for this programme
N/A Specific conditions described in the [specific topic of the Work Programme] Application and evaluation forms and model grant agreement (MGA): Application form templates Please use the application form that you will find in the Submission System. Guidance The Rules of the Contest will be published on the Prize's website - See section 'How to Apply' Additional documents: HE Main Work Programme 2026-2027 – — conditions §6
- Check the amount you plan to request against the call's range
Check you are eligible
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Check every partner is established in an eligible country
Residents in an EU Member State, including overseas countries and territories (OCTs) or a country associated to Horizon Europe; [1] [1] https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/common/guidance/list-3rd-country-participation_horizon-euratom_en.pdf — conditions §2
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Meet the call's other eligibility conditions
In order to be eligible, the applicants must: be a woman [1] ; apply as a natural person [2] ; be legally residing [3] in an EU Member State, including overseas countries and territories (OCTs) or a country associated to Horizon Europe; [4] be the founder or co-founder [5] of the company or organisation; [6] the company or organisation must be established in an EU Member State including overseas countries and territories, (OCTs) or a country associated to Horizon Europe [7] … — conditions §3
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Be able to show financial and operational capacity
Applicants which are subject to an EU exclusion decision or in one of the following exclusion situations that bar them from receiving EU funding can NOT participate [1] : bankruptcy, winding up, affairs administered by the courts, arrangement with creditors, suspended business activities or other similar procedures (including procedures for persons with unlimited liability for the applicant’s debts) in breach of social security or tax obligations (including if done by … — conditions §4
Prepare the documents
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Prepare the declaration of honour
standard for this programme
You may be asked at a later stage for further documents (for legal entity validation, bank account validation, ethics review, declaration of honour, etc) . — conditions
Submit
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Check the submission and evaluation process
Applications in each category will be subject to a formal evaluation by a jury . If there are more than 500 applications in one category, there will be a pre-selection in that category to select the best 500 applications to pass to jury review. Otherwise, all eligible applications will pass directly to jury review. The pre-selection panel and jury usually have a different composition, but jury members may participate in the pre-selection panel. The pre-selection panel and/or … — conditions §5b
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Submit before the closing date shown above
The source states the closing day but no closing time — check the portal before the last day. — calls.deadline
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All calls under this programme
Similar opportunities
- The European Prize for Women Innovators
- Rising Innovators category
- The European Capital of Innovation Award iCapital Category HORIZON-EIC-2026-ICAPITAL
- The European Capital of Innovation Award Rising Innovator Category HORIZON-EIC-2026-PRIZE-ICAPITAL
- The European Capital of Innovation Awards Rising 2023
- The European Capital of Innovation Awards iCapital 2023
Where this came from
- Source document
- https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/data/topicDetails/horizon-eit-2026-prize-wip-leadership.json
- Document fingerprint
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- First recorded here
What has changed
- status changed from forthcoming to open on
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Data source
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