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Looking to apply for an MIT grant in 2025? The project must align with the mission-driven topsector policy. Alongside the topsectors, that policy centres on key technologies, societal challenges and societal earning capacity, expressed in 4 themes subdivided into 25 missions.

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Facts up front

Target audience

Businesses

Budget

€3.36 mln // €7.84 mln

Deadline

15.09.2026

Location

National

MIT grant – the key facts at a glance

Looking to apply for an MIT grant? The project must align with the mission-driven topsector policy. Alongside the topsectors, that policy centres on key technologies, societal challenges and societal earning capacity, expressed in 4 themes subdivided into 25 missions.

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Target audience

SMEs in the Netherlands with an innovative project
Applicants for an R&D collaboration project (research and development)
Applicants for a feasibility project via a regional desk
Two or more independent SMEs for R&D collaboration
SMEs engaging a knowledge institution (knowledge voucher)

Conditions

Alignment with one of the 25 missions of the topsector policy
A duration of no more than 2 years for R&D collaboration
Subsidy of at least €50,000 and at most €350,000 per R&D project
Subsidy per participant of €25,000 to €175,000 (R&D collaboration)
State aid within the GBER (General Block Exemption Regulation)

Eligible costs

Industrial research within an R&D collaboration project (35%)
Experimental development within an R&D collaboration project (35%)
Only costs incurred by the participating SMEs
A feasibility study into technical and economic risks
A knowledge question put to a knowledge institution (up to 50% via a knowledge voucher)

Details about the MIT grant

Thanks to our 25 years of experience, we can optimise your funding process and take it almost entirely off your hands. What kind of activities might that involve?

  • Assessing whether your project is eligible for an MIT grant.
  • If so, you get support with writing and submitting.
  • Submitting the grant application to the funding body on time and in line with the latest funding legislation and conditions.
  • Answering the funding body’s questions about the application.
  • If required: setting up the project administration and supporting you in maintaining the grant records.
  • Mapping additional funding options and/or the next phase of the project

What does a funding advisor do?

A funding advisor is an expert who guides companies through the complex process of applying for public funding and secures the best funding for their projects – from selecting the right programmes through the application to the final report.

At Ignite we work success-driven: we only make you an offer when we are convinced your project is eligible. You are supported comprehensively throughout the process while you concentrate on your core business – we take on the time-consuming part.

Our services as funding advisors

Analysis and identification

  • Assess company & project
  • Find the right programmes
  • Aimed at maximum grants

Strategy development

  • Tailor-made strategy
  • Aligned with your goals
  • Combine programmes

Application and documentation

  • Complete application drafting
  • Documents complete & correct
  • Higher approval chances

Communication with funding bodies

  • Contact with authorities
  • Coordination with funding bodies
  • Representing your interests

Project support and aftercare

  • Support across the project term
  • Meeting funding conditions
  • Disbursement & final report

The advantages of our funding advisory

Time saved

  • Focus on your core business
  • The workload sits with us
  • A faster application

Access to hidden funding opportunities

  • Lesser-known programmes
  • Clever combinations
  • Full funding potential

A higher success rate

  • Expertise from many applications
  • Better approval chances
  • Fewer rejections

Maximising the funding amount

  • The highest possible funding
  • Every lever used
  • More from every project

Legal certainty

  • All requirements met
  • Audit-proof evidence
  • No clawback risk

Numbers you can hold us to

15,000+

Funding applications in the last five years

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Frequently asked questions about MIT grant

It is the Dutch acronym for the Act for the Promotion of Research and Development Work. The scheme reduces the payroll tax you remit for staff working on R&D.

A maximum of four times per calendar year: one first application plus up to three supplements. Every application runs until December and supplements the earlier ones. The last supplement has to cover at least three months, which in practice means September at the latest.

Yes. The benefit runs through payroll tax rather than profit tax. The condition is that you have your own staff on the payroll. Hired-in workers do not count.

From the moment you have the R&D declaration, you can offset the reduction in the remaining tax return periods. You set the pace yourself: in one go where there is enough payroll tax space, or spread across several periods. What you do not use in one period can be offset in a later one, as long as that period ends within the validity of the declaration.

RVO announces an audit in advance and visits to verify that the reported activities actually took place and that all requirements are met. The focus is on the time records and the project administration. Contact us when an audit is announced and we prepare it with you.

Seven years, so that RVO can inspect it in a later audit.

Is your project eligible for funding?

Active in research and development, with development and production in the last 4 years? Get in touch now and benefit!

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