Horizon Cluster 4: Digital, Industry and Space
Capital-intensive projects, where own contribution is the real gate.
Manufacturing, advanced materials and space projects need equipment, facilities and long timelines. The grant is rarely the constraint; finding the co-financed share is.
Specific to this sector
Own contribution is largest exactly where budgets are
A grant covering a share of eligible costs on a multi-million capital project leaves a co-financing gap most companies at this scale cannot fund from cash flow. That gap disqualifies more projects than eligibility does, and it is knowable from the call before anyone starts writing, which is why it belongs in the screening result rather than in a conversation with a bank three months later.
Where the money is
The programmes that fund this sector, European and national. Each is screened against your organisation rather than listed for you to read.
- Horizon Europe Cluster 4
- Manufacturing, materials, space
- ESA programmes
- Separate from the EU framework, different rules and route
- EIC Accelerator
- Hardware-heavy deeptech, grant plus equity component
- National industrial and investment funds
- Usually where the capital expenditure sits
- Regional development funds
- Frequently fund the facility rather than the research
Alongside more than ten national funding sources. Most competitors cover one country at a time.
Who this covers
Eligibility in this sector depends as much on what kind of organisation you are as on what you are building.
- Manufacturing and industrial companies
- Advanced materials and processes
- Space technology and downstream services
- Semiconductor and hardware companies
- Engineering research institutes
What kind of organisation are you?
The funding is the same. The argument for using us is not; it depends on whether you currently apply at all, pay somebody to, or answer for a whole territory.
See what Industry & Space funding you qualify for
Upload a project description and the platform screens it against every open programme in this sector, European and national.