Open calls

Beneficiaries will be awarded with direct funding of maximum €50,000 to deploy their Industry 5.0 Transition Plan. In phase 2 of the Acceleration Programme, up to 36 SMEs will receive this funding. Financial support may be used and may cover different types of expenses:

• Procurement of external advance technology, consulting and coaching services that are not available within the consortium. External service providers with expertise in one or several of the industry 5.0 principles will be available in the Catalogue of Complementary Service Providers. Nonetheless, SME will have the possibility to suggest the inclusion of other service providers in the Catalogue.
• Personnel, consumables, equipment, and other costs necessary to set up a feasibility study, a pilot testing, or the building of a prototype/demonstrator to implement Industry 5.0 transformation, with or without supervision by consortium partners.

No. It is mandatory that all SMEs that want to access project financing complete their self-assessment and apply to Phase 1 of the Open Call. Only SMEs benefiting from Phase 1 will be able to apply to Phase 2 and therefore access financing.

The SURE5.0 projects accepts Open Call applications from SMEs that intend to use the support provided for enhancing the production and manufacturing procedures of the products they sell, based on the Industry 5.0 principles.

Nevertheless, companies that can be considered as service providers can still be selected if:

• They have a hardware production (even if offered at the end as a service).
• The focus of the application is on the production stage and not on the services they are offering
• The SURE5.0 support will be limited to their production stage

In case your company is interested in providing a technology or tool that helps others to evolve towards Industry 5.0, then you can join our SURE5.0 Catalogue of Complementary Service Providers as external entity complementing the services delivered by consortium members for the deployment of the SMEs Industry 5.0 Transition Plan in Phase 2. Costs incurred with contracting services listed in the Catalogue will be fully eligible in the budget of SMEs receiving FSTP.

SMEs cannot be a service adopter and a service provider at the same time. This means that the companies that apply to be in the SURE5.0 Catalogue of Complementary Service Providers cannot apply to the Open Call.

For more information about the Open Call eligibility criteria, go to Open Call 2 Guide for Applicants.

For more information (and registration) about the Catalogue, continue here

Applicants eligible to receive funding through this Open Call are a legal entity established and based in the European Union or EU Associated Countries only, which means that SURE5.0 Acceleration Programme 1 also accepts applications from:

1. Albania
2. Armenia
3. Bosnia and Herzegovina
4. Faroe Islands
5. Georgia
6. Iceland
7. Israel
8. Kosovo
9. Moldova
10. Montenegro
11. North Macedonia
12. Norway
13. Serbia
14. Tunisia
15. Turkey
16. Ukraine

SURE5.0 Phase 1 tailored services are delivered in the following manner:

• Investment Readiness Assessment.
• Support on Social Innovation and Human Centricity (advanced training programme).
• Advanced training programme for the industry 5.0 transition (Mandatory training module on industry 5.0.).

SURE5.0 Phase 2 beneficiaries will be provided the following services:

• Investment Readiness Support – business consultancy services to support the implementation of the Industry 5.0 Transition Plan.
• Service provisioning for SMEs uptake of advanced technologies (individual technological assessments and/or and/or proof-of-concept testing).
• Advanced training programme for the industry 5.0 transition (customizable modules for the upskilling and reskilling of employees).

To read the full description of the offered support, go to Open Call 1 Guide for Applicants – Section 2.3 Support provided.

If you were not selected in the phase 1 of the Acceleration Programme 1, you can try it again applying to the phase 1 of the second acceleration programme. However, it is mandatory to flag that this is a resubmission.

If you already were a beneficiary both in the phases 1 and 2 of the Acceleration Programme 1, you wouldn’t be eligible to apply to the second acceleration programme.

If you were a beneficiary in the phase 1 of the Acceleration programme 1, but you weren’t successful to enter in the phase 2 (despite your application being scored above threshold), you have a new opportunity to access to the funding applying directly to the phase 2 of the second acceleration programme. For this aim, you should submit an updated and improved transformation plan.

No, you cannot apply.

SMEs that applied and were not selected for phase 1 in the first cut-offs and scoring above threshold, will be qualified for the following cut-offs without the need to reapply. If they so desire, they can request to re-open the application and resubmit. The new application will need to be flagged as a re-application which will be scored independently from the previous application.