ESA funding is not limited to satellite development. Through ESA Business Applications and Space Solutions, companies and research organisations can receive funding and business support for commercially viable services that use space technologies to solve challenges on Earth. Current opportunities cover areas such as education, water-sector digitalisation, Arctic resilience, and road and traffic safety. The latest open ESA calls are now available on KETMarket, helping organisations compare opportunities and identify suitable funding routes for their projects.

KETMarket has added 16 new EU semiconductor funding calls from the Chips Joint Undertaking to its platform. The calls offer more than €300 million for research, innovation, skills and infrastructure projects across Europe’s electronic components and systems ecosystem. They cover ECS R&I and the Chips for Europe Initiative, including power electronics, photonics, health technologies, 6G, AI chip demonstrators, compute infrastructure, supply-chain resilience, autonomous driving, international cooperation and semiconductor skills. Submission deadlines run from 16 to 30 September 2026, depending on the call.

Since 7 July 2026, a temporary application freeze has been in place for Germany’s Central Innovation Programme for SMEs, known as ZIM. For companies with planned R&D and technology projects, this means that the funding route must be reassessed — but the innovation project itself should not be stopped. KETMarket supports companies in identifying alternative regional, national and European funding programmes, finding suitable technology and business partners, and strategically developing their projects further. In this way, funding search, financing, partnerships, technology access and market access are combined into a resilient innovation strategy.

KETMarket has launched the public beta of the AI Navigator, an AI-powered chat tool designed to help R&D teams, innovation managers, technology providers and research organisations find funding calls, project partners, technologies and research insights faster. With direct access to KETMarket data, the AI Navigator supports smarter innovation search from one conversation. Professional members can use it after login to explore suitable funding programmes, discover collaboration opportunities, create first project concepts and increase the visibility of their published KETMarket content.

KETMarket is opening registration for the closed beta of its new mobile app for Android and iOS, starting in July 2026. The app is designed to help innovators turn conference conversations into funded R&D projects by finding current funding calls, accessing summaries from more than 15,000 R&D reports, publishing partner searches and building consortia. The three-month beta is limited to 100 participants, with Professional features available free during the test phase and the chance to win a one-year Professional membership worth €699.

KETMarket’s latest article in PT Magazin highlights a familiar challenge for many SMEs: strong inventions do not automatically become market success. Too often, promising technologies fail because there is no clear commercialisation route, limited access to the right partners, long development cycles or weak market positioning. KETMarket addresses this gap by helping SMEs structure their innovation process, connect with relevant industry partners and focus on practical economic value from the beginning. By combining network access, technology transfer expertise and market-oriented guidance, KETMarket supports companies that want to move beyond research results and build real business opportunities. The goal is simple: reduce time-to-market and give strong technologies a better chance of reaching customers, investors and industrial applications across Europe faster and more efficiently.