Announcement
1st December 2025
Summary
NACHIP Consortium announces its first Open Call for proposals to SMEs for filling-in the gaps in the emerging hydrogen value chains: manufacturing, urban areas, and mobility.
The submission deadline for applications is 3rd February 2026.
The Call supports projects, proposing innovative solutions in line with the overarching goals of NACHIP, showing high Technology Readiness Level (TRL>7). SMEs can join the NACHIP Consortium in bringing innovative solutions to towards the industrialisation and enhancing their investment attractiveness. Technology developers and component suppliers, hydrogen-related solution providers as well as digital and data technology solutions providers and industrial integrators residing in one of the eligible cohesion regions of the EU can apply individually or as a consortium. Specifically, applicants are eligible from NACHIP partner countries: Slovenia: Croatia and Italy (Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Veneto, Lazio, Umbria) as well as from the selected regions of other EU member states.
Applicants will be selected on a basis of the evaluation of their project proposals and will be granted upon the fulfilment of their project action plan, participation in the capacity-building activities and results dissemination.
Each applicant entity may receive up to €60,000, based on the scope needs of the proposed project and the evaluation of the strategic and technical fit with the target hydrogen value chains, which are evolving around NACHIP’s five pilot projects.
Selected project proposals will be funded by 100% of declared eligible costs by the FSTP.
The total budget available for the 1st Open Call is €540.000,00.
The 2nd Open Call will be launched in Q4, 2026.
More information: https://www.nachip.eu/open-calls/
NACHIP partner responsible for the Open Call: META Group
For any clarification and/or information please contact: nachip@meta-group.com