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FFI ASP - Accelerated Startup Partnership: increased innovation collaboration between startups and need owner - autumn 2026

Opportunity overview

Are you a knowledge-intensive start-up company and a need owner who want to enter into goal-oriented and mutually beneficial innovation partnerships together? Within this call for proposals Vinnova can finance innovation collaborations that focus on increased commercialization fo

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Is this worth the team's time?

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Source language: EnglishConfidence: Medium

Competition

4/ 5

Lower Competition

5 means a narrower, more approachable field. 1 means heavy competition.

Application Effort

3/ 5

Moderate Effort

1 is straightforward. 5 means a demanding application with heavier coordination or compliance.

Why competition looks like this

Confidence: Medium

The call looks specialized, which can narrow the field of credible applicants.
TRL requirements and cross-border consortium specifications restrict eligible applicant pools.
Budget allocations indicate high proposal success probabilities for specialised applicants.

Why effort looks like this

Confidence: High

Coordinating a consortium raises the delivery and application burden.
Submission dossier requires multi-partner budget synchronization and work package signoffs.
Administrative guidelines impose formal SME compliance declarations and financial audits.

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Consortium

Likely needed

Co-funding

Not clearly indicated

Documentation

Low

Deadline pressure

Critical

Eligibility scope

Narrow

Technical depth

Low

Eligibility

Startup

Application deadline

29/10/2026

Closes in 6 days

Key information

Sector: Research & Innovation
Country: SE
Funder: Vinnova

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Tracked by EU Fund Portal since 08/10/2026

Last checked 23/10/2026

Before you apply

Taken from the official programme page, in its original wording, last read 23 Oct 2026. Always confirm on the official page before applying.

Who can apply

The call for proposals is aimed at collaborative projects between knowledge-intensive startups, Swedish or foreign, and established need owner. Only the startup can be the beneficiary.

Funding rate

Maximum funding is SEK 500,000 for Validation Projects and SEK 750,000 for Implementation Projects. Co-financing of at least 25% at project level is an eligibility requirement. The total budget of the call is SEK 22 million.

Deadline and timing

2026-06-15: Opens for application 2026-08-28: Information meeting 2026-10-29: Last application date 2026-11-24: Decision given

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