UA Seeds of Bravery Open Call

Seeds of Bravery is a €20 million project funded by the European Union under the European Innovation Council (EIC) to support Ukrainian tech startups bringing them closer to the EU.

Seeds of Bravery Project offers five different support programmes for the integration of Ukrainian innovative tech SMEs (start-ups and scale-ups) into the European Innovation Ecosystems, as well as their business continuity and/or the expansion of their businesses into European markets.

Project offers:

• Non-refundable grants (up to 60,000 EUR)
• Access to additional financing
• Female entrepreneurship & leadership programs
• Support the application of Ukrainian start-ups in EIC and other European funding calls
• Market Discovery and Fast track programmes and regular DemoDays with international investors and business angels
• Deep Tech business creation & acceleration, entrepreneurial education for scientists and innovators
• Matchmaking with investors, accelerators, innovation ecosystem stakeholders

Innovation Services Support Program  

Innovation Services is a first support program, offered by project. It’s open for everyone, who focuses on civil inventions, without any intent for military use.

To join the program, you have to:

• be registered in Ukraine or be relocated from Ukraine to one of the Member States of the European Union and its Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT) or Horizon Europe Associated Countries after 24.02.2022
• be registered in one of the Member States of the European Union and its Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT) or Horizon Europe Associated Countries after 24.02.2022
• have at least one founder or co-founder working full time for the company
• have at least one founder or co-founder, or top manager (CEO, CTO, COO or equivalent key position) holding Ukrainian citizenship