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Issue: February 2026 | No. 1 / 2026
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Thank you for your interest in the IraSME network and its latest news! Please also visit the IraSME website for your information needs or send us an e-mail to info@ira-sme.net for a more personal consultation. If you do not wish to receive this newsletter anymore, please follow the link at the bottom in order to cancel your subscription.
Kind regards,
the IraSME Coordination Team
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Reminder: 37th IraSME Call for Proposals CLOSING SOON!
We would like to kindly remind you that the current IraSME call is still open until 25 March 2026. This means NOW is the time to make sure, you have all the partners and all the information you need in order to start filling in your national applications.
The following countries/regions are taking part in this call: Brazil, Czech Republic, Flanders (Belgium), Germany, Luxembourg, Türkiye, and Wallonia (Belgium).
All applicants should make sure they are familiar with their own country's or region's funding rules, as those do differ from one another! You may find an extract of the rules sets and each local IraSME representative with their contact details in the Countries/Regions section of the IraSME website.
Do you have any last-minute questions regarding the current call? Feel free to make use of our new online IraSME Consultation Hour on 26 February 2026 at 2 p.m. CET using this Webex meeting link.
For more information on the current IraSME call and relevant documents, please click on the button below.
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New Format: IraSME Consultation Hour
⇒ 26 February 2026, 10:00 - 11:00 (Brasilia) / 14:00-15:00 (Berlin) / 16:00-17:00 (Ankara)
⇒ More information on the IraSME website
Next Thursday, 26 February 2026 at 2 p.m. CET, we are offering you an informal and open-to-all video chat with our IraSME coordination team. Please feel invited to log into our Webex meeting room and ask your last minute questions regarding the current 37th IraSME call, or any general questions you may have concerning IraSME and your applications.
We will be joined by experts from AiF and TÜBITAK, the German and Turkish funding agencies involved in IraSME, who will be happy to advise you on the national application rules in Germany and Türkiye.
There is no need to register beforehand. You may simply join the Consultation Hour by clicking on the meeting link available on the IraSME website and through the button below.
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IraSME & CORNET Partnering Event 2025/26 - Still Available!
⇒ 1 December 2025 until 31 May 2026 via b2match
⇒ Event link: www.b2match.com/e/irasme-cornet-partnering-2025
We continue to invite interested parties who are looking for potential IraSME or CORNET project partners to sign up for our latest edition of our joint virtual IraSME & CORNET Partnering Event 2025/26. Currently, almost 200 researchers and SME representatives from ten different countries are registered and presenting their collaboration profiles.
Registration is free and still possible until 31 May 2026. Until then, all registered participants may use the integrated 1:1 video chat and/or messaging tool to meet with potential R&D project partners or to consult with some of the representatives of IraSME and CORNET member agencies.
Learn more about this matchmaking opportunity by clicking on the button below!
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Save the Date: BMWE's SME Innovation Day 2026 in Berlin
⇒ 11 June 2026, 10:00-16:00 in Berlin/Germany
⇒ Free of charge, no registration necessary
⇒ Event link: innovationstag-mittelstand-bmwe.de
Innovative. Strong. Mittelstand! This is this year's motto under which small and medium-sized enterprises (and their research partners) will present their innovative projects, new technologies and creative ideas at the SME Innovation Day of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE) on AiF's premises in Berlin.
Save the date - 11 June 2026 - and feel warmly invited to visit this annual open-air event, and discover live numerous future trends! Approx. 300 exhibitors will showcase their ground-breaking developments which were supported by BMWE's open-topic innovation funding programmes.
The IraSME and CORNET coordination teams will be present and welcome you at their joint information booth for a chat and to answer your questions.
For further information on the complete event agenda and list of exhibitors, please visit the Innovation Day website (in German only), which is being constantly updated during the months to come.
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IraSME Coordination Office Tel. +49 30 48163 525 info@ira-sme.netwww.ira-sme.netAiF Projekt GmbH Project Management Agency of BMWE Tschaikowskistr. 49 13156 Berlin (DE) Deutschland CEO: Frank Kreller, Clemens Schumacher Register: Berlin-Charlottenburg HRB 128333 Tax ID: DE 272835496 |
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