How Businesses in Ukraine Can Unlock EU Funding Opportunities

Access to European Union (EU) funding offers organisations and businesses in Ukraine the means to scale and grow, effectively and sustainably. Various grant programmes have recently become available for Ukrainian companies interested in exploring new opportunities while strengthening their regional ties.

Focus on key segments like research, development, infrastructure, and sustainability means that these programmes can help your business to accelerate growth, drive innovation, and foster greater resilience. Navigating the complex landscape of accessing these EU grants, however, requires strategic planning.

The EU offers several flagship programmes that Ukrainian companies can leverage to realise opportunity:

• Horizon Europe
  The EU’s leading research and innovation programme, intended to increase collaboration between academia, industry, and public institutions in order to promote livability by creating a greener, healthier Europe.
• Connecting Europe Facility (Transport, Energy)
  The Connecting Europe Facility offers funding instruments for strategic investments to finance critical infrastructure projects under the Trans-European Networks framework for transport (TEN-T) and energy (TEN-E), with the goal of improving logistics and cross-border transport corridors, as well as energy connectivity.
• LIFE Programme
  Dedicated to green, climate, and energy objectives, the LIFE programme provides local solutions to global issues by co-financing projects in the environmental sector and the circular economy via resource recovery, as well as sustainable energy projects through the Clean Energy Transition sub-programme.
• Digital Europe Programme (DIGITAL)
  Focused on deploying advanced digital technologies in business and public administrations, the DIGITAL Programme includes assistance in implementing AI, cybersecurity, advanced digital skills, and supercomputing solutions.
• Innovation Fund
  One of the world’s largest programmes supporting low-carbon industrial technologies for the deployment of net-zero technologies (Ukrainian companies may participate through European subsidiaries).

If you want to know more about the grant programmes available and the steps in applying and reporting for grants, get in touch with us.