The Innovation Fund programme was introduced in 2021 to boost the decarbonization of the European industry as part of the European Green Deal. The programme has been funding very large projects especially within the energy field and has hugely popular. Maybe because the scheme is funding actual realization of building concrete industrial facilities and not test or demo sites.

Of course The Grant needs to present this initiative. And I have picked one of the best to take us all through it. Irene Larroy is a Partner in EY within European Innovation Programmes and shje has deep experience working with the Innovation Fund both in developing and evaluating proposals. This is a double episode.

In the first episode we dig into why the EU Commission established this initiative, the structure of the programme and the target group and stakeholders. Very instructive for everybody who is approaching the funding scheme.

Time codes:

00:01:50 Introduction

00:07:44 Fly in on Innovation Fund

00:09:26 EU background for the funding scheme

00:14:25 Structure of the programme

00:50:56 Structure of the programme