🍁🧺 Your Q4 Funding Advantage

The year is winding down, but funding opportunities are heating up, especially in the fields of AI and arts! September and October are grant-heavy in all the other fields – check out our last newsletter edition.

🔥 Hottest Nov & Dec Grants

1. 🤖 AI Challenge 2025

   • Deadline: October 29, 2025

   • Perfect for: Startups and SMEs with AI-based solutions.

   • What: Opportunity to pitch AI-based solutions to challenge owners, with winner announcements in November 2025.

   • Apply: Relatively short, via an online form where you need to answer only six questions.

2. 🎭 EFFEA Call #4

   • Deadline: November 3, 2025

   • Perfect for: European festivals and artists looking to host residencies.

   • What: Supports residencies for artists, from January 1, 2026, to December 31, 2026.

   • Apply: Submit your application by the deadline. Info sessions and networking moments are available to assist applicants.

3. 🌱 Funding for SMEs and start-ups investing in innovation in the biofertilizers and biostimulants sector

   • Deadline: November 14, 2025 (17:00 CET)

   • Perfect for: SMEs and startups investing in innovation in the biofertilizers and biostimulants sector.

   • What: Financial support for innovative projects in the biofertilizers and biostimulants sector. Eligibility is restricted to specific regions.

   • Apply: Via email, with required documents from project website.

4. 🎬 European slate development

   • Deadline: December 3, 2025 (17:00 CET)

   • Perfect for: Companies in the creative industries, specifically for developing slates of European audiovisual works.

   • What: Funding for the development of European audiovisual works.

   • Apply: Standard application form available in the EU Funding & Tenders Portal Submission System.

5. 📺 TV and online content Animation/Fiction/Documentary projects

   • Deadline: December 3, 2025 (17:00 CET)

   • Perfect for: Media producers

   • What: Funding for the development of TV and online content projects in the fields of Animation, Fiction or Documentaries.

   • Apply: Via EU Funding & Tenders Portal Submission System.

6. 🔬 Unternehmensgründungen in den Quantentechnologien und der Photonik (Enabling Start-up)

   • Deadline: December 31, 2025 (23:59 CET)

   • Perfect for: Startups (less than 3 years old) in Germany with innovative quantum technologies and photonics, aiming for significant growth. Applicants must have an establishment in Germany at the time of disbursement.

   • What: Funding for startups developing quantum technologies and photonics.

   • Apply: Submit a project outline first, and later a full proposal.

🗓️ Event Pick

Meet-Up: Funding in times of Defunding (Workshop for transnational artists who are new in Berlin)

• Date/Time: Thu, October 9, 2025, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

• Location: ACUD Studio, Berlin

• Perfect for: Transnational artists, exiled, or displaced cultural practitioners new to Berlin.

• Why attend: Gain practical guidance and support on public and private funding opportunities for artists in Berlin and abroad. Learn strategies for navigating current funding cuts and connect with experts from touring artists and Kreativ Kultur Berlin. Share your experiences and discover new perspectives.

• Link/Register: Goethe-Institut Event Page

🗓️ Quick Win

Download the app EU Funding & Me: Your New Mobile Grant Companion 📱 The EU has launched a new mobile app, 'EU Funding & Me,' to make finding funding opportunities even easier! While applications still go through the Funding & Tenders Portal, this app lets you discover new calls and access your projects directly from your phone or tablet. Available on Android and iOS, it's a flexible way to stay on top of EU funding anytime, anywhere.

We're Looking for 20 Beta Testers 🎯 

We want you to be among the first to experience GrantHive: We need founders who are actively searching for EU grants RIGHT NOW and ready to dive in.

Here's what we've built for you:

• 🎯 AI-powered grant matching that actually understands your startup (not just keyword matching)

• 🤝 Direct and bite-sized connection to pre-vetted funding consultants when you need expert support

• 🔔 Smart alerts so you never miss suitable opportunities again

💬 As a beta tester, you'll:

• Test the platform in the last two weeks of October

• Give us brutally honest feedback (the kind that actually helps us improve)

• Get first access to the full platform before everyone else

• Real influence on features that matter to YOU

Ready to Join? 🚀 If you're actively searching for grants right now and want to be part of our beta group, simply reply to this email with:

• What type of grants you're currently searching for

• Your biggest funding challenge right now

We're selecting our beta group this week, so don't wait!

☕ If you enjoy this newsletter, forward it to that one person with whom you are chatting about your start-up over a cup of coffee – everything is easier together!

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Here's to your next funding breakthrough,

Your GrantHive team

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