How to search the right opportunities for you

Some funding opportunities and some of the most popular tags are already featured for you in the homepage of the OnePass Hub, but there are many more opportunities that might interest you. You can use the search feature to filter them and identify those that fit best to your needs.

Which are the search criteria?

There are different search options that can help you find funding opportunities that might fit your interests:

• Text to retrieve opportunities that include that word(s) in their name.

• Funding type: filter the opportunities by the nature of the funding they offer:

  • Public / Equity-free funding: under this category you will find “cascade funding” (aka Financial Support for Third Parties -FSTP-). This is the funding opportunities that granted projects by the EC offer to third parties to support innovation, uptake of new technologies, develop pilots or experiments, etc.
  • Acceleration / Incubation programmes: here you will find traditional acceleration programmes (those which may take some equity in exchange for acceleration) and incubation services (those which offer knowledge or services to support the creation of new ventures) that are sponsored or managed by public bodies.
  • Other opportunities: these are referring to opportunities that may not offer funding but are related to them, e.g., open calls to select early adopters willing to uptake funded technology development, calls for expression of interest to support funded projects with innovation services, calls for experts, etc.
  • Private funds: under this category you may find initiatives promoted by private entities, including those from corporates, technology funds, etc.

• Status: select opportunities as per their application submission period:

  • Open for applications: these are opportunities whose application period is active (i.e., those can still be applied for).
  • Coming soon: this is forthcoming opportunities (those which have not launched yet, but will do it soon).
  • Closed: application period is over. It’s a log of past opportunities that can help you understand, e.g., which other topics or projects were funded before to understand the state-of-the-art.
  • Always open: this is used for opportunities that will be active for a long period (e.g., as long as the programme sponsoring them is active) and/or will be assessed and granted on a “first come, first served” basis.

• Beneficiary type and size: use these criteria to find opportunities that a specific type of organization can apply for. The possibilities are:

  • Individuals, for natural persons, be it an expert, an ambassador, a researcher or an entrepreneur.
  • Self-employed and Sole proprietorships, is referring to those one-person companies, which are carrying out business activity but might not be registered as a company and might not have employees.
  • Private companies, this means all privately held companies of any size, as soon as they are registered as a legal entity.
  • Non-profit organizations, including associations, federations, civil society organizations… any whose activity is not oriented to obtaining economic benefits.
  • Research and technology organizations are private or public research centres or technology transfer/promotion organizations, in any thematic subdomain.
  • Academia, this is particularly addressing universities, colleges and any other secondary or tertiary higher learning institution for the teaching, studying, and scientific work.
  • Public Company is used for organizations which are partially or totally sustained by public funds.
  • Government agency refers to public bodies which are part of a national, regional or local government. Docs of these could be: a regional development agency or a public organization for the promotion of a given technology.
  • Consortia is group of companies that apply together to a scheme. This is not a legal person and, hence, is usually represented by a coordinator
  • Partnerships are legal arrangements that allows two or more organizations to share responsibility for a project or business.
  • Other.

  A note: in those cases of compounded entities (e.g., consortia or partnerships), the requirements related to their composition (if any) to apply for a particular opportunity will be detailed in the opportunity description. The size criteria can be used to filter the applicants targeted by the opportunity in case they include restrictions with this regard (e.g. those targeted to SMEs, midcaps, etc.)

• Industries and technologies: you can use these to identify those opportunities which are targeting a specific sector (i.e. activity area or subarea) or promoting the use of a specific technology. They are tag-based criteria: this means, you can select one or more from the list shown or you can start typing (in English!) to get suggestions of the closest existing tags to the word you want to use.

Creating a search

You can use these criteria individually or combine them in a search:

• Navigate to the “Find funding ” section in the homepage.
• In the text box, type a text string (a part of a word, a complete word or a group of them) to retrieve the opportunities that contain those characters in its name or tagline and / or,
• Simply click on the check box of the categories that you want to select, for the rest of the filters.

On the right of each category, you can find the number of opportunities linked to it. This number will be dynamically adapting to the combination of criteria as you search.

You can remove a tag from your combination by unmarking the category in the corresponding list of filters or by clicking the cross in the tag at the begining of the list. On the contrary, if you want to remove a text string, you will need to delete it manually. It is also possible to remove all your search criteria in one click: simply click the reset filters button on the right just above the first result of the list.

Setting up notifications

If you found the right mix of search criteria to get the list of opportunities that best fit your interest, you can create an alert. Find out how

Results list

In the case of the funding opportunities, each item in the results list will be shown as a card including:

• the title of the opportunity,
• a tagline,
• the initial lines of its overview,
• the industry or technology tags assigned and
• the deadline before which application must be submitted.

You will see the number of opportunities retrieved just above the list and you can sort them by relevance, opening date or deadline by selecting one of those options in the drop-down box above the first result of the list. You can review a summary of each opportunity just by clicking on the “Know more” button in the bottom right corner of each result or, simply, on the title.

Learn

Which are the search criteria?

• Text search will identify the training opportunities that include a string of characters in the name or tagline of a course.

• For the training type, in OnePass, you can find individual training units (named “Courses”) or group of courses around a topic (named “Learning pathways”). Some times, the courses with a pathway can be taken individually and, some other, they will need to be taken entirely. This will be explained in the summary of the opportunity.

• The level filter is referred to the level of knowledge (e.g. basic, intermediate…) required to achieve the learning objectives of the training.

• The technology criterium will help you filter the available training by the technology that the training is addresing

• With typology, you will be able to identify training depending on the educational structure they have, e.g: MOOCS, programme modules, short learning programmes, educational programmes, etc.

• “Activities” will help you filter the training depending of the type of activities that a course includes (e.g. webinar, workshop, trainer-led course, practice coursework, simulation…)

Results list

In the case of the training opportunities, each training in the results list will include in its card:

• the name of the training,
• the initial lines of the overview,
• tags on the type and level of the training and
• the flag “Certication” if it’s linked to any.
• Additionally, if the training is a learning pathway, you will see the number of courses that it’s composed of.