Can your promising collaborative initiative keep the region's economic engine running and strengthen it? Then it pays to submit a project proposal to the Stimulation Fund. Entrepreneurs, knowledge institutions and governments can receive subsidies for, for example, a feasibility study, working out a business case, setting up a pilot or developing a prototype. As long as it is about cooperation, innovation and strengthening the regional economy in Southeast Brabant. The Stimulation Fund has been providing grants for years and in the meantime very successful enterprises have emerged from it.

Principles in brief

• The Incentive Fund distinguishes between "booster projects" (studies, explorations, preparations and pilots) and "implementation projects.
• Booster projects can receive support for up to 50% of total eligible costs, implementation projects for up to 15%;
• An absolute maximum grant amount of €50,000 applies to booster projects;
• Up to 50% of the eligible project costs may consist of the project partners' own hours. Government hours are not eligible;
• The hourly rate for the project partners' own time commitment is €50 (with the exception of students and interns, for whom an hourly rate of €20 applies).

Read more about (applying for) this scheme on the Eindhoven Metropolitan Area website.