I3FLOAT 1st Open Call · ~15 minutes

Check your fit for the I3FLOAT floating wind call.

Up to €60,000 per SME as a lump sum, with no own contribution, for solutions in floating offshore wind. Deadline 10 November 2026, 17:00 CET, through the GoodGrants platform. Every question below maps to an eligibility rule or a section of the official application form, and each field tells you which one, so nothing you write here is wasted. We come back within 2 working days with a written eligibility and fit assessment.

Fill this in in your own language. The application must be written entirely in English; we write it, so you only need to be able to read it. Answer the eligibility questions first: if one of them rules the call out, the form tells you on the spot.

Your company

Your name *

Work email *

Official company name *

Company website *

Country of your headquarters *

Where your company is registered.

Eligibility: the knock-out rules

In which listed region is your headquarters or an affiliated entity established? *

In the application: Eligibility criteria, toolkit section 4 + Annex 4 · eligibility knock-out

The list is Annex 4 of the toolkit. Pest county (Pest megye) is listed as a Less Developed Region; Budapest is not on the list. Mainland Netherlands and Germany are not on it either; Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba and Sint Eustatius are. A Less Developed Region also earns the application 5 bonus points.

Is that your headquarters or an affiliated entity? *

The toolkit accepts your headquarters or an affiliated entity in a consortium region, or being established in a Less Developed, outermost or overseas region.

Is your company a member of one of the I3FLOAT partner clusters? *

In the application: Eligibility criteria, toolkit section 4 (cluster route) · eligibility knock-out

This is the alternative route for companies outside the listed regions. Membership had to exist by June 2026: the FAQ confirms that joining in September 2026 does not count.

Is your company an SME according to the European definition of SMEs? *

In the application: Eligibility criteria, toolkit section 4 (SME self-assessment) · eligibility knock-out

Fewer than 250 employees and a turnover of at most €50M or a balance sheet of at most €43M, counting partner and linked enterprises. The application needs the EC SME self-assessment.

Can your company pass the financial capacity check? *

In the application: Eligibility criteria, toolkit section 4 + 7.3.1 (financial capacity self-assessment) · eligibility knock-out

"Yes" means none of these applies: bankrupt or being wound up, affairs administered by a court, an arrangement with creditors, suspended business activities, or proceedings about any of these; your taxes and social security contributions are paid; and your company has no conflict of interest in connection with the grant. The application needs a financial capacity self-assessment.

How many closed financial years does your company have? *

In the application: Financial capacity, toolkit section 7.3.1 (documents after selection)

After selection you can be asked for the profit and loss account and balance sheet of the last two closed years. Without a financial history, a business plan for the current year may be required.

Does your company have any ownership connection with a partner in the I3FLOAT consortium? *

In the application: Eligibility criteria, toolkit section 4 · eligibility knock-out

The consortium partners include the clusters, floating foundation developers and suppliers listed as evaluators in section 6.1 of the toolkit: BASQUENERGY, BIG, CLANER, Cluster Marítimo de Canarias, De Blauwe Cluster, Maritime Cluster Bulgaria, Pôle Mer Méditerranée, Wind Industry Hub, EnerOcean, Eolink, Multi Engineering, Saitec, 24Sea, Aventa, CoreMarine, EonSea, France Energies Marines, Geodis, Ghenova, Haedes, IngZero, Océanides and Tetrace. Advisory Board members are not consortium partners.

Is your company, alone or with a partner, already part of another I3FLOAT 1st Open Call application? *

In the application: Eligibility criteria, toolkit sections 4 and 5 · eligibility knock-out

Only one application per SME is accepted. If an SME appears in more than one proposal, alone or in a pair, only the last one submitted is admissible.

Which challenge

Does your project answer a Specific Challenge or an Open Challenge? *

In the application: Eligibility criteria, toolkit section 4 + Annex 1 / Annex 2 · eligibility knock-out

The selection differs. For a Specific Challenge there is a ranking per challenge and only the highest-scoring proposal is funded; the challenge owner is one of the three evaluators. The Open Challenges share one ranking list, funded in order until the budget is spent, up to 10 projects. Not sure? Pick that, and we will propose the challenge.

Can your project be written around this one challenge alone? *

In the application: Eligibility criteria, toolkit section 4 · eligibility knock-out

The toolkit: "If an application addresses more than one challenges, it will be declared not eligible."

Is your solution for floating offshore wind, or for bottom-fixed? *

In the application: Scope of the Open Call, toolkit section 3 · scope condition

The call funds innovations in the field of floating offshore wind. A solution from bottom-fixed wind can fit if the project adapts it to floating.

Current TRL of the solution you would develop in the project *

In the application: Scope of the Open Call, toolkit section 3 (TRL 6-8) · scope condition

The toolkit expects a current TRL of 6 to 8 for funded projects. Some challenge owners add their own expectation in their fact sheet.

What shows that TRL today? (optional)

For example test reports, a pilot, a demonstrator, certification steps or deployments.

0 / 800

Project set-up

Do you apply alone or with another SME? *

In the application: Scope, toolkit section 3 (max. two SMEs) + bonus points: Cross-regional collaboration +5, Regional development (LDR) +5

Two SMEs from two different eligible regions can apply together for up to €120,000, €60,000 each, and earn 5 bonus points. Two SMEs from the same region earn no bonus. An application has at most two SMEs.

Can the project be completed within 12 months? *

In the application: Payment terms, toolkit section 7.2 (maximum 12 months) · scope condition

Funded projects last at most 12 months. Payment: 30% after signature, 30% halfway, 40% after the final report.

Is any of this work already funded, or applied for, under another grant? *

In the application: Eligible costs, toolkit section 7.1 (no double funding) · scope condition

The toolkit: "The selected project should not be subject to double funding."

The three sections of the application

Describe your solution and the technology behind it *

In the application: Excellence: Scientific and technical quality · weighted 20 of 110 points · portal limit not published before registration · our limit 2000 characters

What it is, how it works and what you have already built or tested. A few concrete paragraphs are enough.

0 / 2000

What is new compared with what exists today? *

In the application: Excellence: Innovation potential · weighted 20 of 110 points · portal limit not published before registration · our limit 1500 characters

The state of the art, and what your solution does better or differently.

0 / 1500

How does the project answer the challenge you selected? *

In the application: Impact: Adequacy to the challenge addressed · weighted 5 of 110 points · portal limit not published before registration · our limit 1500 characters

Use the wording of the challenge. For a Specific Challenge, its owner helps score this.

0 / 1500

Who will buy or use the result, and how will you bring it to market? *

In the application: Impact: Exploitation of results and market potential · weighted 30 of 110 points · portal limit not published before registration · our limit 1500 characters

Customers, market size if you know it, your route to market and what you would do with the result after the project. This is the heaviest-weighted part of the score.

0 / 1500

Who does the work? Team, roles and, with a partner, the split of tasks *

In the application: Quality and efficiency of the implementation: Quality, complementarity and appropriateness of work allocation · weighted 10 of 110 points · portal limit not published before registration · our limit 1000 characters

Names or roles, relevant experience, and who does what.

0 / 1000

The 12-month plan: main steps, deliverables and what you can show at the end *

In the application: Quality and efficiency of the implementation: Coherence and effectiveness of the work plan · weighted 10 of 110 points · portal limit not published before registration · our limit 1500 characters

Two or three work packages are enough for now. Payments depend on a mid-term and a final report.

0 / 1500

The main risks and how you would handle them (optional)

In the application: Quality and efficiency of the implementation: Risk management · weighted 5 of 110 points · portal limit not published before registration · our limit 1000 characters

Technical, commercial or practical risks, and your plan B.

0 / 1000

Budget

Funding you would request (in euro) *

In the application: Budget proposal, toolkit section 7.1 (max. €60,000 per SME)

At most €60,000 per SME. The grant is 100% of the eligible budget, so a €60,000 budget gives a €60,000 grant.

Rough split of that amount (optional)

Staff, external services (at most 30% of each applicant's budget), travel (at most 15%), and other goods and services.

0 / 800

Last questions

Any evaluator organisation you would want to exclude? (optional)

In the application: Evaluator exclusion, toolkit section 6.1 · portal limit not published before registration · our limit 500 characters

The application form lets you exclude evaluator organisations, for example a direct competitor, from the list in section 6.1.

0 / 500

How much capital do you want to raise over the next three years? *

Everything together: grants, equity and debt. Above €1M there is usually a second route worth knowing about, and we will say so in your report.

Anything else we should know? (optional)

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