Non-repayable financial assistance for Slovak SME R&D and innovation projects.
- Provider:
- Slovak Innovation and Energy Agency
- Referral needed:
- No
Why this could be a strong fit
Useful for teams standardizing on Slovak Innovation and Energy Agency who want to offset general costs during the early build-out phase.
What you need to qualify
- Applicant is a natural or legal person doing business with its registered seat in Slovakia.
- Applicant is a micro, small or medium enterprise.
- Applicant has not already been paid an innovation voucher under another call of the ZIVSE2 national project, and has not already received a voucher under the same call.
- Applicant funds at least 15 percent of the eligible project cost, because the aid intensity is capped at 85 percent.
- For the patents and certification call, at most two vouchers per applicant, with a minimum gap of 12 months between them.
- For the EIC Accelerator call only: the company received a positive GO evaluation in the short proposal phase of the EIC Accelerator after 1 January 2024.
Eligibility
- Eligible stages
- Pre-seed, Seed
- Countries
- Global, subject to the provider’s eligibility and approval
How to apply
- 1
Choose the open call that matches your project
The scheme runs as separate calls with their own scope and ceiling: patents and certification (IP_PC_124, 2,000 to 15,000 EUR), progressive technologies and materials for dual use (IP_PTM_226, 3,000 to 30,000 EUR), robotisation and automation in industry (IP_RAP_126, 3,000 to 30,000 EUR) and EIC Accelerator proposal support (IP_EICA_225, 2,000 to 20,000 EUR).
- 2
Register on the INOWA portal
Applications exist only inside SIEA's INOWA portal at inowa.siea.sk. Create the account before you start, because the calls page publishes no email or paper route.
- 3
Submit the application while the call is running
Each call has a fixed indicative budget split between the Bratislava region and the rest of Slovakia, for example 1,500,000 EUR for patents and certification and 2,000,000 EUR for robotisation and automation, so a late application competes for what is left.
- 4
Deliver the project and claim the voucher
The voucher covers a maximum of 85 percent of the eligible costs of the innovation work, so budget the remaining share yourself.