16/10/2026
Period covered: 2 to 16 October 2026
The edition turns to public procurement: the public procurement chapter of the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement, provisionally applied since 01/05/2026, seeks reciprocal access to EU and Mercosur tenders for the contracts and bodies covered by the annexes. Also added are the ICE Investment Attraction Desk in São Paulo, a direct channel for Brazilian investors, and the timetable for Brevetti+, Marchi+ and Disegni+ (€32 million, opening on 25/11, 03/12 and 17/12), open to Italian subsidiaries of Brazilian groups. Investimenti Sostenibili 4.0 closed to applications on 07/10, one day after opening; the Lombardy call remains open until 25/11.
01/10/2026
Period covered: 17 September to 1 October 2026
This fortnight's news is on the side of Italian capital directed at Brazil: SIMEST announced a €200 million allocation for start-ups and innovative SMEs, operated with CDP Venture SGR, with the possibility of investing in foreign companies, and the Latin America Measure, with €500 million for Italian companies in the region, including stakes in local companies and joint ventures. The CDP Venture Capital Accelerator Network invests €70 thousand to €200 thousand at pre-seed and €200 thousand to €500 thousand at follow-on. The Lombardy call for innovative start-ups is open until 25/11 and Investimenti Sostenibili 4.0 accepts applications from 06/10.
16/09/2026
Period covered: 2 to 16 September 2026
The Regione Lombardia call for the technological development of innovative startups stops being a forecast and becomes a concrete opportunity: €15.6 million, with a non-repayable grant covering 80% of costs and explicit admission of companies not yet resident in Italy, with a window from 28/09 to 25/11/2026. Investimenti Sostenibili 4.0, from MIMIT and Invitalia, also opens, with €447.6 million for SMEs in southern Italy. From this edition onwards, a section of its own maps the instruments through which Italian investors put money into Brazilian companies operating in Brazil, early stage included and with no requirement to export to Italy.
01/09/2026
Period covered: 16 August to 1 September 2026
The main news is RAMP, the Raw Materials Partnership (Joint Transnational Call 2026): the first European call in which a Brazilian body can be funded inside a European consortium without a base in the EU, because Brazil comes in as a funding country through CONFAP and EMBRAPII, with the pre-proposal due on 22 September. Also entering is the Bando Sviluppo Tecnologico Startup Innovative of Regione Lombardia, worth €15.6 million in non-repayable grants, open to companies not yet resident in Italy.
16/08/2026
Period covered: 1 to 16 August 2026
Stable core: Smart&Start Italia, Contratto di Sviluppo, Invest in Italy / ZES Unica and SIMEST Fondo 394 remain open on unchanged terms. Correction this round: the Bando Regionale Lazio (Invest in Lazio Grant Facility), previously listed as open with a deadline to be confirmed, in fact closed on 05/03/2026 and has been moved to the closed list.
01/08/2026
Period covered: 1 to 15 August 2026
Smart&Start Italia, Invest in Italy / ZES Unica, Contratto di Sviluppo and SIMEST Fondo 394 remain open unchanged. New this round: the Lazio regional call to attract productive investment, with grants of up to €10 million and explicit mention that foreign companies opening or expanding production sites in the region are eligible. The next EIC Accelerator cut-off is confirmed for 2 September.
16/07/2026
Period covered: 16 July to 13 August 2026
The EIC Accelerator cut-off of 08/07 and the Eureka Network bilateral window have both closed; the next EIC cut-off is 2 September. The Invest in Italy / ZES Unica channel (MIMIT) now has an entry of its own, with a tax credit of up to 70% in southern Italy (a €2.3 billion allocation for 2026) and the Sportello Unico Nazionale as a free institutional entry point for foreign investors.
01/07/2026
Period covered: 1 to 31 July 2026
Six European calls closed during the period (BioNetZero, GreenMantis, EIT Urban Mobility, EU-LAC Digital Accelerator, LIFE Circular Economy and the EUIPO IP Voucher). Three new national instruments enter the monitoring: Contratto di Sviluppo, ExTender/TED and Scoperta Imprenditoriale II. It is confirmed that Italian and European public tenders (TED) remain, as a rule, closed to suppliers from countries without a WTO GPA agreement, Brazil among them, except through an EU subsidiary or a consortium with a European partner.
