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Editor’s pick AI in grant applications: what funders allow and prohibit in 2026 We compare the rules of ten funders on generative AI in applications: Horizon Europe, the ERC, Erasmus+, UKRI, Wellcome, NIH, NSF, the NRFU, Ukraine's MES and the UCF. What is allowed, what must be disclosed, what is prohibited, a safe-use protocol and a disclosure statement template. Read the article -
About Grants How evaluators score proposals: where applications lose points before they are even submitted Horizon Europe, Erasmus+, the UCF and the NRFU score proposals on different scales, but points are lost in the same places. We break down thresholds, rankings, ten typical weaknesses and a self-evaluation sheet for checking Your proposal before submission. -
About Grants Veteran businesses and veteran NGOs in 2026–2027: who actually provides funding, how much and on what terms An analytical map of funding for veterans, their families and veteran organisations in Ukraine: Ukrainian Veterans Fund results, the Own Business 2.0 bonus, IREX calls and the 2027 budget. -
About Grants No one to hire: how the Ukrainian state reimburses employers for hiring, training and workplace adaptation in 2026 The labour shortage is breaking records, and the state pays extra for hiring veterans, internally displaced persons, young people and people with disabilities. We go through seven programmes, calculate what they give a company and explain the main mistake that costs employers their compensation. -
About Grants EU grants for cybersecurity and AI: where Ukrainian companies should apply in 2026–2027, and where they should not The €96 million Digital Europe cybersecurity call is not available to Ukrainian companies, not even as subcontractors. We explain why and show where to apply instead, including the €71.8 million Horizon Europe call in 2027. -
About Grants EU money for Ukraine’s defence industry: EDIP, Ukraine Support Instrument, BraveTech EU and EDF in 2026–2027 The €300 million Ukraine Support Instrument has made a Ukrainian participant mandatory in EU calls for joint production. We break down EDIP, BraveTech EU, EDF, EIC STEP Scale Up Defence and SAFE: amounts, deadlines and what to prepare right now. -
About Grants Arms exports and Defence City: what really changed for Ukrainian defence manufacturers in 2026 The mechanism for exporting Ukrainian weapons to Drone Deal countries has been in force since July, but not a single permit has been issued under it. We look at why this happened, what Defence City status gives and how to build a defence manufacturer's financial model for 2027. -
About Grants The AI Act for Ukrainian IT companies: what applies from 2 August 2026 and what was postponed to 2027 The EU did not postpone the AI Act, it stretched it out over time. We explain when the regulation applies to a company from Ukraine, what has to be done right now under Article 50, what was moved to 2027 and where to look for support. -
About Grants Grant Navigator 2026: 15 official platforms where to look for funding 15 official funder platforms for business, science, culture and civil society organisations in Ukraine: budgets, Ukraine's status, grant sizes and confirmed dates until spring 2027. Data checked on 13 October 2026. -
About Grants Grantoid: how the GetGrant AI assistant works and why it never makes answers up The red fox in the corner of getgrant.ua answers questions about the service, searches the whole site for explanations and runs a two-minute diagnostics of a grant project. We show Grantoid at work and explain why it generates no text. -
About Grants eRobota in 2026–2027: what changed in Ukraine’s state business grants and what the budget sets aside We break down the new Vlasna Sprava model with its UAH 2.5 million ceiling: how bonuses are calculated, how much tax must be paid for the grant depending on the term, the 30 October deadline for processing grants and what the draft 2027 budget really sets aside for business. -
About Grants Grant or a 5-7-9 loan for energy independence: what pays off for homeowner associations and businesses in Ukraine in 2026 Which instruments for financing solar plants, storage and generators are actually available to homeowner associations and businesses in Ukraine in October 2026: a loan with 70% reimbursement for associations, SvitloDIM, the paused GreenDIM, the 0% Energy Loan, 5-7-9 loans and EBRD grants. A timeline of the year, three calculations and typical reasons for refusal. -
About Grants Grants for farmers and agribusiness in Ukraine 2026: state programmes, the DAR, FAO and donors. What actually gets paid We assess farm support programmes in Ukraine in 2026 by budget execution, average payout and application windows: grants for orchards, greenhouses, processing and storage, machinery reimbursement, subsidies, the FAO and EU cycle through the State Agrarian Registry, 5-7-9 loans and donors. Plus the 15 October deadline for orchard and greenhouse grants and the draft 2027… -
About Grants Grant or a 5-7-9 loan for business in 2026: which costs a Ukrainian company less We compare the cost of three ways to finance an investment in Ukraine in 2026: a grant, an Affordable Loans 5-7-9% loan, and a loan from an EBRD partner bank with a grant reimbursement. Limits and rates after the June changes, programme statistics, three interest calculations and typical reasons for refusal. -
About Grants Who can apply: the status of Ukraine in EU programmes The costliest mistake in grant work happens before the writing starts. A team picks a programme, spends a month assembling a consortium, drafts the methodology and the budget, and then the proposal drops out at the first formal check, because an organisation from Ukraine has no right to apply under that scheme. In fact the… -
About Grants Brave1 Grants 2026: All Programmes for Defence Tech Developers Ukrainian defence tech developers can receive between UAH 500,000 and UAH 8 million for a single development, and up to UAH 75–100 million per project through competitions tied to specific technical requirements. Brave1 grants in 2026 are four separate instruments inside one programme, each running on its own rules. In June 2026 the Supervisory Board… -
About Grants Application rejected: how to read donor feedback Everything has been written about how to submit an application. Almost nothing about what to do with a rejection. Yet rejection is the standard outcome, because most calls approve a minority of what they receive, so a team that cannot work with feedback spends years repeating the same mistakes. The volume of feedback differs by… -
About Grants Gender Equality Plan: the Horizon Europe eligibility rule A Ukrainian team clears the Horizon Europe evaluation, scores above threshold and lands on the funding list. Then the project office opens a message from grant preparation: please confirm that your institution has a Gender Equality Plan. Nobody wrote one, so the signature of the grant agreement stops there. The Gender Equality Plan, or GEP,… -
About Grants Japan joins Horizon Europe: what it means for Ukraine On 30 July 2026 in Brussels, Japan signed its association agreement with Horizon Europe. This is the largest economy ever to join a European research framework programme, and the world's third largest economy now plays by the same rules as a Ukrainian university. For the Ukrainian research community this is not an abstract item of… -
Horizon Europe Program Grant reporting in Horizon Europe: how to manage deliverables, budget and deadlines The results letter arrives on a Thursday evening. So the team celebrates, partners exchange congratulations in the shared chat, and management drafts an announcement for the website. Then, within two weeks, the first practical questions appear: who collects documents for the first reporting period, when is the first deliverable due, who tracks partner spending, and… -
About Grants Ukrainian defence tech funding map 2026-2027 Ukrainian defence tech has grown more than twentyfold in funding volume over two years. In 2025, the country's startups raised up to $526 million in venture capital, produced their first defence unicorn (UForce) and their first Nasdaq-listed defence company (Swarmer). Alongside private money, an entire grant system took shape, so today it runs from the… -
About Grants Last-Night Syndrome: Why Rushing Ruins Grant Applications Many grant applications get written in a single night before the deadline. The team submits at 23:50, the budget is thrown together in a hurry, and half of the required attachments turn up an hour before the call closes. Three months later a rejection arrives over a formal issue that could have been fixed in… -
About Grants Interreg NEXT and Europe: grants for Ukraine Over 20 years of cooperation along the Polish-Ukrainian border, partners from both countries delivered 293 joint projects: new roads, hospitals, water treatment plants and nature protection. In one 2023 call alone, the programme selected 64 projects worth 121.8 million euros. So that is just one programme out of seven where Ukrainian organisations can already take… -
About Grants Ukraine updates research funding competition rules for 2026 Ukraine's Ministry of Education and Science has approved updated requirements for competitive selection of research projects. The new rules set out how the state budget will select and fund fundamental and applied research in 2026. Almost everything has changed: who can apply, how many points a project needs, how much winners receive, and what now… -
Horizon Europe Program Work Packages in Horizon Europe: WPs, Deliverables and Milestones Preliminary 2025 data from Science|Business puts the overall Horizon Europe success rate at around 12%. One in eight proposals gets funded; the rest comes back with reviewer comments. Read through enough Evaluation Summary Reports and a pattern emerges: a weak Implementation Section, and specifically, poorly constructed Work Packages. There's a second dimension that receives less… -
About Grants EU Grants for Ukraine: Practical Guide to All Programmes €200 billion. That's the EU's total support to Ukraine since February 2022. But if you're looking for a grant for your organisation, that number tells you almost nothing: it includes defence aid, humanitarian supplies, macro-financial assistance to the government and concessional loans. Behind those macro figures sits a wide set of competitive grant programmes open… -
About Grants How to write a winning grant application: 3 lessons for businesses from the GetGrant founder On 22–23 May 2026, I had the honour of being an invited panel speaker at Summit Grant Fest 2026. Two days at Voevodyno Resort in Zakarpattia, 120+ participants from Ukraine and abroad, 25+ experts, four panel discussions. Reflecting on everything I heard and the new connections I made with experts and practitioners in project management… -
About Grants Ukraine launches National Researchers System (NRS) aUkraine's Ministry of Education and Science is launching what the research community has been waiting for: a support system for scientists based on actual results rather than seniority or rank. From June 2026, registration opens for the National Researchers System (NRS), a new digital mechanism that will rank scientists and pay state scholarships to the… -
About Grants The art of the consortium: how a Ukrainian organisation becomes an indispensable partner in Horizon Europe and Interreg grants The Department of Electronics at Lviv Polytechnic National University coordinates the Horizon Europe project HELIOS on white-emitting organic lighting systems together with partners from Europe. They didn't join someone else's consortium – they led it. The grant runs to several million euros. This isn't an exceptional story. But getting there requires understanding one fundamental point:… -
About Grants EU updates AI research guidelines May 2026: hidden prompts, third-party AI and what it means for grant applicants On 8 May 2026, the European Commission published an update to the ERA Living Guidelines on the Responsible Use of Generative AI in Research – the third revision since the document first appeared. The guidelines are non-binding, but in practice they set the standard for anyone seeking EU research funding: Horizon Europe, MSCA, ERC, and… -
About Grants How AI Is Changing Grant Search: What It Means for You in 2026 $264.8 billion – that's the total international donor commitments to Ukraine accumulated from February 2022 to the end of 2025, according to Ukraine Donor Platform. More than Hungary's GDP for the same period. Most of this funding flows through government channels and large infrastructure programs. A significant portion, however, moves through competitive grant programs where…
