Business Experiments
The third Open Call for Business Experiments is scheduled to open in Summer 2026.
NOTIFICATION
2nd Tranche of FFplus Business Experiments to Commence
The FFplus project is delighted to announce that the 2nd tranche of business experiments has now been selected and will be commencing in May 2026.
The final selection of business experiments for this tranche follows an extensive evaluation period - which included the execution of well over 200 consensus meetings with external experts – and which arose from the incredibly high response to the 2nd open call for business experiments launched in summer 2025. With the available € 4M funding budget, we were only able to select the top 21 proposals for funding: while this means that only project with extremely high evaluation scores were selected, it also means that the success rate for the 309 eligible proposals submitted is below 7%. We would like to recognize that there are thus a great many proposers - from a total of 34 countries – who submitted high quality proposals but who could not be provided with FFplus financial support.
Focusing now on the selected proposals, the 21 new business experiments involve 25 SMEs and 17 other (supporting) organisations from a total of 14 countries. Continuing the trend seen with the first call for proposals, the use of a variety of AI technologies is prevalent, but also the “classical” simulation approaches like CFD or FEM and combinations of AI and simulation, for example within digital twins. There is an extremely broad spectrum of business fields and application scales: from molecules through beetles and ski boots to smart cities and the environment; from drug design and therapeutic solutions through manufacturing and engineering to enterprise knowledge management; …. And “all stations inbetween”! All of these exploiting HPC to create business impact.