Ignite NEB Open Call for Hosts
Apply to Become a Local Host and Empower Changemakers!
What is Ignite NEB?
Ignite NEB supports local organisations to run a full innovation journey that helps people turn ideas into real projects, start-ups or initiatives, create their own jobs, and solve challenges in their own communities.
What Are We Looking for?
- We are looking for organising partners or consortia that:
- Can mobilise local communities
- Have an entrepreneurial network
- Can support teams through idea → prototype → real-world testing
- Have experience in NEB-related fields (sustainability, design, culture, social innovation)
- Can provide or connect to:
- mentors
- prototyping spaces
- local ecosystems (public, private, civil society)
- Have capacity for project, financial, and administrative management
What Do You Get?
- Up to €52 000 implementation budget per host
- Support from EIT Community NEB to deliver:
- Ignite NEB event
- peer group with other hosts across Europe
- support in event design and promotion
- Incubation programme
- EIT Community NEB mentors assigned to winning teams
- exchange with other programmes tapping into the pipeline of Ignite NEB winner projects
- In-person gathering with NEB Changemakers across Europe
- Ignite NEB event
Information Session
Join the info session on Thursday, 9 April 2026 to learn more about the Call.
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