Germany and Sweden are pleased to announce a call for proposals for joint R&D projects focusing on developing innovative products, processes, or technology-based services in all technological and application areas which have strong market potential.

Sweden’s innovation agency ​Vinnova and the ​German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE) will provide access to public funding for joint projects. In Germany funding is provided by BMWE’s Central Innovation Programme for SMEs (ZIM). Vinnova and BMWE (Coordinator: AiF Projekt GmbH) will provide all necessary assistance to project partners during project proposal, evaluation and monitoring phase.

Submission deadline for grant proposals: 13 October 2026.
For more information and access to the joint project proposal form,
please visit International calls/Sweden.

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It is highly recommended that each interested partner (companies and research institutes) contact their local funding agency before starting to fill in a project application (in Germany: AiF Projekt GmbH, ZIM project management agency on behalf of the BMWE).

To encourage partnerships between German and foreign companies, BMWE and several ministries and funding organizations from various countries have launched a number of bi- and multilateral funding agreements to support joint R&D projects. All project partners must submit a separate application to the relevant national funding scheme. German applicants, which are eligible for funding under ZIM, benefit from a maximum of 10% increase in funding when applying for a transnational cooperation project.