Useful links about subsidies

The Subsidies category focuses on government and institutional financial aid available to support the development of new therapies. This includes information on various subsidy programs, eligibility criteria, application processes, and deadlines. The goal is to help researchers, pharmaceutical companies, and healthcare institutions access public funds that can significantly reduce the financial burden of research and development.

Useful links subsidies

  • ZonMw (The Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development) provides public funding on various subjects like rational pharmacotherapy research and implementation (GGG), shared infrastructure and human capital (PharmaNL), animal free modeling. Please see the funding opportunities at the ZonMw website.

  • Health~Holland has funding available for public-private partnerships through instruments such as the MKB call: Funding Opportunities | Health~Holland

  • The Netherlands Enterprise Ageny (RVO) has financial support options for start-ups: Subsidy and Funding Guide. RVO has an address for advice. You can ask questions to the team MKB-Financiering (mkbfinanciering@rvo.nl) or call 088-0428600. This team can advice you on which rulings are suitable for your situation.

  • InvestNL has funding available for parties that have private cofinancing available. Invest-NL provides up to 50% of the venture capital, with an investment from Invest-NL between € 5 million - € 50 million, in principle. The investment needs to contribute to affordable and accessible healthcare, to the innovative capacity of the Netherlands. Please see the quickscan whether their financial instruments are applicable for your innovation.

European Subsidies

  • Access to EU Finance provides an entry point for biotech companies seeking EU funding. It offers information on funding sources in the EU, including grants, loans, microfinance and equity options.

  • The STEP Portal*consolidates all EU funding opportunities for biotechnologies and other critical technologies supported by the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (STEP).

  • The Funding & Tenders Portal centralises applications for EU-funded programs. Use it to search for the biotech or biomanufacturing related projects in the grants and funding section below

  • Additional European funding options can be found at this site: Biotech and biomanufacturing - Your Europe