{"id":2047,"date":"2026-03-10T10:14:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T09:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.laidebeur.com\/?p=2047"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:27:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T11:27:15","slug":"the-sme-fund-2026-is-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laidebeur.com\/en\/the-sme-fund-2026-is-open\/","title":{"rendered":"The SME Fund 2026 is open!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great news for EU-based small and medium-sized enterprises: the <strong>Ideas Powered for Business SME Fund<\/strong> has reopened several of its <strong>voucher schemes<\/strong> following new funding availability.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Voucher 1<\/strong> \u2013 IP Scan (IP pre-diagnostic service) and IP Scan Enforcement<br \/>\n<strong>Voucher 2<\/strong> \u2013 Trade Marks and Designs<br \/>\n<strong>Voucher 3<\/strong> \u2013 Patents<\/p>\n<p>This European Commission initiative, implemented by the <strong>EUIPO<\/strong>, helps SMEs protect and manage their <strong>intellectual property (IP)<\/strong> more effectively.<\/p>\n<p>Applications can be submitted by a business owner, employee, or authorized external representative.<br \/>\nThe vouchers can be used to claim <strong>reimbursements<\/strong>, transferred directly to the SME\u2019s bank account.<\/p>\n<p>Since its launch in 2021, the SME Fund has already supported <strong>over 95,000 SMEs across the EU<\/strong> \u2014 helping them strengthen their innovation and competitiveness through IP protection.<\/p>\n<p>More information and applications available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euipo.europa.eu\/fr\/sme-corner\/sme-fund\/2026\">SME Fund website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great news for EU-based small and medium-sized enterprises: the Ideas Powered for Business SME Fund has reopened several of its voucher schemes following new funding availability. Voucher 1 \u2013 IP Scan (IP pre-diagnostic service) and IP Scan Enforcement Voucher 2 \u2013 Trade Marks and Designs Voucher 3 \u2013 Patents This European Commission initiative, implemented by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laidebeur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laidebeur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laidebeur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laidebeur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laidebeur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2047"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.laidebeur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2057,"href":"https:\/\/www.laidebeur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047\/revisions\/2057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laidebeur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laidebeur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laidebeur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}