Cross-border grants

LIOF has an extensive and strong network. Not only in Limburg, but also across the border. Examples include grant programmes such as Interreg and Hyperregion. This gives us access to a wide range of financing options.

Funding from Europe and the Euroregion

Are you committed to cleaner, quieter, and cheaper transport within the Euroregion? Or do you want to grow food products responsibly? With these and other challenges, you can strengthen your innovative power with the help of companies or knowledge institutions from across the border.

LIOF works closely together with grant programmes that focus on individual entrepreneurs and on structurally reinforcing initiatives within the logistics, industry, and agri-food sectors.

We can give you access to:

SYNERGY
eGLM
Innovation2Market
Digipro
FOOD2020
Eurostars.

SYN-ERGIE

Sustainable transport pilot

SYN-ERGIE is taking the next step in the development towards sustainable goods transport between the east and west of the border region, i.e. the axis West-Flanders-Antwerp-Limburg (NL). Based on a targeted market survey, LIOF, together with the POM West Flanders, plans to form shippers' communities with 'early believers’ in order to create a competitive and sustainable multimodal offer together with suitable logistics service providers in the next phase. A pilot is planned for both rail and inland waterway transport.

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eGLM

Sharing electric trucks

The INTERREG project 'electric Green Last Mile' (eGLM) plans to take an important step towards making the transport sector more sustainable. Fully electric trucks are used with the corresponding quick chargers for short trips (max. 150 km) in the Venlo and Duisburg region. The aim is to minimize CO₂ production, air pollution and noise. Taking take part in this project will improve your competitiveness.

The project centres on achieving optimal usage and – accordingly – a higher truck occupancy rate through truck sharing. Investments in electric trucks are relatively high, and truck sharing could remove this barrier.

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Innovation2Market

Entering new markets together

Do you have an innovative product or idea, and are you looking for a partner across the border to consider how this idea or product can be marketed? The experts at Innovation2Market will place you in contact with partners in the Euroregion: SMEs, large companies, or knowledge institutions. As well as matchmaking, Innovation2Market offers various grant options.

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Springboard for Smart Industry

As an industrial SME, new technologies and digital transformation present you with new challenges. Digipro supports you with product and process innovations and promotes cooperation and knowledge transfer across borders. It is a springboard to the creation of intelligent products, production processes and business models. DigiPro offers grant opportunities, an extensive network within Smart Industry and experts who can help you further: from concept to prototype development.

Future offensive in the food sector

FOOD2020 prepares the food sector in the Dutch-German border region for the year 2020. They support you in developing concrete solutions to the challenges facing the food sector. The aim is to bridge the gap between research and the market. After all, it is only if research results are translated into market-oriented products that the region's innovative power can lead its competitive position being strengthened within Europe.

FOOD2020 offers grant opportunities for innovation projects in which you as an entrepreneur develop new products, processes, and services together with knowledge institutions.

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Eurostars

Research leads to every day life innovations

Eurostars supports international innovative projects led by research and development- performing small- and medium-sized enterprises. With its bottom-up approach, Eurostars supports the development of rapidly marketable innovative products, processes and services that help improve the daily lives of people around the world. Eurostars has been carefully developed to meet the specific needs of SMEs. It is an ideal first step in international cooperation, enabling small businesses to combine and share expertise and benefit from working beyond national borders.

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The next call (13) will close on February 13th 2020/20.00 hours.

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Need some help?

Want to know more? Feel free to call us and we’ll be pleased to refer you to one of our project managers who can help you on your way.

Your advisor:
Wendy Willems
+31 6 21 35 54 45
wendy.willems@liof.nl

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