NRW Innovation Award 2026: Application phase started!
To mark the 50th anniversary of the “International Year of Women”, the competition is aimed exclusively at female innovators for the first time.
innovation & technology
Focus on research funding
The event highlighted central funding programs at federal level and showed how companies can receive targeted support for innovation projects.
CIRCO workshop series for mechanical and plant engineering
The workshop series of the Effizienz-Agentur NRW (efa) provides practical support for the NRW mechanical and plant engineering industry when entering into circular business models – this offers enormous potential even in times of crisis.
Innovation Award 2025 – prize for practice-oriented problem solutions
The Ministry of Economic Affairs, Industry, Climate Protection and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia is awarding the NRW Innovation Prize for the year 2025.
Call for funding “Circular Production NRW”
The “Circular Production NRW” funding call supports SMEs with 21 million euros for innovative projects for sustainable, resource-efficient and circular value creation.
Launch of the “CCU model regions NRW” funding competition
Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU) technology offers a promising opportunity to reduce unavoidable CO₂ quantities. This involves not only capturing carbon dioxide, but also reusing it as a valuable raw material in industry.
Call for funding: Produktives.NRW – Critical technologies for NRW
The “Produktives.NRW” competition call supports… Read More »Call for funding: Produktives.NRW – Critical technologies for NRW
Technology and knowledge transfer with innovation2business.nrw
The innvotion2business.nrw project, funded by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, helps companies to identify suitable technologies and cooperation partners.