IH-MIE readiness intake

Our question, not the portal's. EU Member State or EEA country only. Nowhere else qualifies, not even through a subsidiary.

This decides eligibility. Our question, not the portal's. Under 250 staff, and either turnover up to €50M or a balance sheet total up to €43M, counting partner and linked enterprises. Unsure is a fine answer; we check it.

This decides eligibility. Our question, not the portal's. TRL 6 at the time of application is a hard entry condition. Below that the proposal is inadmissible however good the technology is.

This decides eligibility. Our question, not the portal's. The same activities cannot be funded twice. Having had EU funding before is not a problem; funding the same work twice is.

Our question, not the portal's. At least €800,000 of the €1.8M budget is reserved for SMEs in Less Developed Regions, awarded automatically on the facts. Unsure whether your region counts? Say so and we check the official list.

Our question, not the portal's. Two sub-criteria are awarded automatically rather than assessed: a female-led SME, and a workforce that is more than half female.

Required in the portal.

Required in the portal.

This decides eligibility. Required in the portal. Six challenges, nothing outside them. This is hydrogen mobility specifically, not clean technology in general — by far the most common reason a strong company turns out to be out of scope.

Required in the portal. Portal limit: 200 words. Projects run a fixed twelve months, 1 January to 31 December 2027, with no extension.

Required in the portal. A single SME is fine and needs no partners. A team of up to three SMEs may apply together at up to €60,000 each.

Optional in the portal, but worth doing: publishing your idea can earn up to 2 bonus points. The portal wants the URL of your published idea, not its title — something like b2match.com/e/ihmie/opportunities/… If you have not published yet, say so and we will flag it.

Required in the portal. Portal limit: 2000 words.

Required in the portal. Portal limit: 2000 words. Two things: your current TRL with the evidence supporting it, and how the TRL is expected to evolve during the project, with the main development steps and validation activities. Evaluators judge the evidence for your declared starting level, not the number — a claimed TRL without proof is the most common way a good proposal still fails.

Required in the portal. Portal limit: 2000 words. How the solution contributes to at least one of the six challenges, plus any potential synergies with the IH-MIE Pioneer partner reference.

Required in the portal. The portal asks for this as a table; one of its columns is named "Task description". Payments are tied to the completion of achievements, so this is where the proposal is won or lost. Per task: what it delivers, in which months, and the deliverable in one of the portal's formats — REPORT, DEM (demonstrator, pilot, prototype, plan designs), DEC (website, patent filing, press, video) or DATA. There is a mandatory interim review in June 2027 and a final review between 15 November and 1 December 2027. Applying as a team? Name the SME responsible for each task.

11 · Risk management — the portal asks for this as a table with four columns and room for four risks, of which the first two are required. Fill in the two that matter most; anything further can go in the last box.

Required in the portal. Portal limit: 2000 words. Economic, environmental and market impact of the solution.

Multiple choice, optional. These shape the free support you receive, not whether you are funded.

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.