RENEW-BOOSTER — Eurocluster Call 2 (PV, offshore wind, energy grids)
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RENEW-BOOSTER
Free RENEW-BOOSTER intakeRENEW-BOOSTER is a Eurocluster under the EU Single Market Programme. Its second call funds SMEs whose innovations make the clean energy supply chain more resilient: photovoltaics, offshore wind (floating offshore wind in particular) and energy grids. There are two strands. Strand A answers one of four challenges set by industrial challenge owners; Strand B is an open call. Either way the SME puts in its own money: co-funding is mandatory and cannot be staff time.
- Funding
- Strand A: three SMEs per challenge each receive €10,000 with at least 20% private co-funding for a demonstration of about three weeks; one of the three, chosen on a final pitch and results, then receives €50,000 with 40% private co-funding for twelve weeks. Strand B: grants of €10,000, €30,000 or €60,000 for a project of three to six months, each with a minimum private co-funding. At the €60,000 tier you put in as much as the grant. Co-funding must be your own money or a loan; personnel costs and other in-kind contributions do not count. Each SME can receive at most €60,000 across all RENEW-BOOSTER calls.
- Who can apply
- SMEs under the EU definition (fewer than 250 staff, turnover up to €50 million or balance sheet up to €43 million, with group figures where an enterprise is partner or linked), established in the EU-27 or a country participating in the Single Market Programme. Companies that received funding in RENEW-BOOSTER Call 1 cannot apply again. One application per strand per SME. Strand A is for single SMEs only; under Strand B a consortium of up to three SMEs may apply.
- Scope and maturity
- The project must fall under the photovoltaics, offshore wind or energy grids value chain and show its contribution to the Critical Raw Materials Act and/or the Net-Zero Industry Act. The call text expects projects at TRL 6 to 7. The four Strand A challenges: robotic painting of offshore foundations (EDF power solutions), cost-competitive suction anchors for floating offshore wind (Navacel), second-life use of industrial batteries (Estabanell Impulsa) and trusted positioning for offshore wind when GPS fails (PGE Baltica).
- Programme and selection
- Call budget €800,000. Deadline 30 November 2026 at 17:00 CET, through the EU Survey application form, in English. Three criteria, Excellence, Impact and Quality & efficiency of the implementation, each scored out of 10 with a threshold of 6. On a tie, Impact counts first. For Strand A the challenge owner sits on the evaluation panel. Results are expected in mid-January 2027.
- Deadline
- 30 Nov 2026— 57 days remaining
- Max grant
- €60,000
- Official source
- https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/RENEW_BOOSTER_2nd ↗
We read this call against its own application form, field by field. Three things decide it before the technology does: whether your company is an SME once group figures are counted, whether you can put in real money as co-funding, and whether your project sits squarely in PV, offshore wind or grids with a clear link to the Critical Raw Materials Act or the Net-Zero Industry Act. The organisers have not yet confirmed the exact co-funding for the €10,000 and €30,000 tiers, so we do not quote it until they do. The intake below takes about ten minutes, and every answer goes straight into the application.
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One structured intake, specific to this call. We confirm your fit, quote a fixed price, and only then decide together whether we write your RENEW-BOOSTER application. No obligation, no sales call.