Fully Funded Opportunity: Pitch Your Innovation at the 2025 Innovation Fair in Brussels, Belgium

Applications are now open for visionary entrepreneurs, researchers, and innovators from Africa, Europe, and the Mediterranean to showcase their game-changing solutions at the 2025 Innovation Fair in Brussels, Belgium.

Event Date: Thursday, 23 October 2025
Theme: Enabling That Step Forward

This exclusive, fully funded opportunity invites start-ups, SMEs, and university spin-offs to present innovations addressing the world’s most urgent challenges. The fair brings together investors, policymakers, corporate leaders, researchers, and collaborators, creating a unique platform to turn great ideas into impactful realities.

Why Apply?

The Innovation Fair celebrates international collaboration, showing how cross-border partnerships can accelerate progress.
Selected innovators will:

Deliver a two-minute high-impact pitch to an influential audience.
Gain exposure to potential investors, industry leaders, and global networks.
Compete in key categories:
- Public Health
- Food & Nutrition Security / Sustainable Agriculture
- Renewable Energy & Climate Change
- Innovation & Technology
- Capacities for Science
Showcase solutions that bring tangible benefits across Europe, Africa, and the Mediterranean, in alignment with AU–EU and EU–Mediterranean cooperation priorities.

Funding & Support

If selected, you will receive:

Full sponsorship to attend the Brussels event (travel, accommodation, participation costs covered).
Tailored prizes to strengthen and scale your innovation, such as:
- Intellectual property protection
- Business and market launch strategies
- Marketing campaign funding
- Support for scaling research, development, and manufacturing
A certificate of participation and enhanced global visibility.

Eligibility

Applicants must be from Africa, any European country, or a Mediterranean nation.
Solutions must address one of the challenge categories and demonstrate measurable impact.

Key Dates