Applications Invited for Partners for Water - PVW-IVWW Scheme

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The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) helps entrepreneurs and organisations to invest, develop and expand their businesses and projects both in the Netherlands and abroad. We are a government agency which is part of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs.

We support entrepreneurs, NGOs, knowledge institutes, policymakers and organisations. We improve collaborations and strengthen positions through our funding and networks. By sharing our know-how, we help you move forward doing business abroad.

About the Grant

Are you an international entrepreneur in the water sector? Would you like to use your innovative knowledge and expertise for water safety and security in deltas, delta cities, and river basins worldwide? If so, apply for a subsidy from the Partners for Water (PVW-IVWW) scheme.

Project aim:

Partners for Water (PVW-IVWW) aims to foster water safety and security abroad in deltas, delta cities or river basins. Water safety and security mean sustainable protection from too much, too little or too dirty water. To achieve this, you will use innovative Dutch knowledge and expertise. These must be innovative within the context in which they are being used. You must adapt your knowledge to local circumstances. This subsidy is not for financing or scaling up proven knowledge.

This scheme falls under the Partners for Water (PVW-IVWW) 2022-2027 programme. This is a programme from the Netherlands International Water Ambition (NIWA). NIWA aims to increase water safety and security for humans, plants and animals.

The PVW-IVWW subsidy scheme helps businesses, research organisations and NGOs that want to conduct a feasibility study or start a pilot project.

Feasibility study:

Before starting a pilot project, first, carry out a feasibility study. Your ultimate goal is to demonstrate locally to several parties that your technology, product, or service works and is effective and profitable.

In a feasibility study, you determine the project's strengths, weaknesses, risks, and opportunities. You investigate a problem that your method, technology or approach may solve. In preparation, you look at the project's financial and legal sides, potential partners, market prospects, and competition, among other things.

The feasibility study should show whether your solution has enough chance to be successful. If not, there is no need to invest in a pilot project. If so, it may be a reason to start the pilot project.

In the feasibility study, the applicant has:

• explored the market in advance;
• a possible recipient (beneficiary) in the country of application in mind; and
• a clear and realistic picture of the proposed pilot project at the start of the feasibility study.

Project size and subsidy percentages:

The maximum project size (eligible costs) of a feasibility study in 2025 ranges from €25,000 up to €250,000. The subsidy contribution is a maximum of 50-70% of €250,000. Check the overview of eligible costs in the Budget form on the Explanation tab. The subsidy percentage depends, among other things, on the size of your company or NGO, the type of business, and collaborations.

Pilot project:

For this subsidy scheme, your pilot project must solve a clearly defined problem in a local foreign situation.

Experimental development

A pilot project should always involve experimental development (testing and trying out). This involves obtaining, combining and using existing scientific, technological, business and other knowledge and skills. The knowledge and skills should be relevant to developing new or improved products, approaches or services. This development phase may include:

• prototyping: making a model to test its functionality;
• demonstration;
• pilot development;
• testing and approving new or improved activities.

Testing the solution in practice

A working prototype is mandatory. The purpose of a pilot project is to:

• test your solution in practice and adapt it to site conditions abroad on a small and feasible scale;
• make further technical improvements to products, procedures or services so that they work well in specific local conditions.
• This way, you can show your customer that your solution or method works. After the demonstration, the customer can make a decision more quickly.

A pilot project is not a knowledge enhancement project

The products, approaches or services within a pilot project use innovative Dutch knowledge and experience in water safety and security. Pilot projects are not aimed primarily at strengthening knowledge. Yet, knowledge enhancement such as capacity building, training, knowledge transfer or behavioural and cultural change can be part of a pilot project. In that case, they must contribute to ensuring that the project continues to meet the required quality standards.

Project size and grant percentages for pilot projects:

A pilot project's maximum size (eligible costs) ranges from €25,000 up to €600,000. The subsidy contribution is a maximum of 40-60% of the project size. You must clarify how you will finance the remaining 40 to 60% of the budget. Check the overview of eligible costs in the Budget form on the Explanation tab. The subsidy percentage depends, among other things, on the size and type of your enterprise, and collaborations.

How to Apply

The 2025 opening is from 14 February 2025, 12:00 CET, to 28 March 2025, 12:00 CET (tender 2025). 12:00 CET or CEST is noon Central European (Summer) Time.

If you want to apply for a subsidy, you must have applied for a mandatory online intake interview with our advisors before 28 February 2025. If you apply after this date, we will reject your application.

You can schedule a mandatory intake interview with us at any time. However, each subsidy opening round has a deadline for the intake interview. To apply for the 2025 subsidy round, you must have scheduled an intake interview before 28 February 2025. Complete the intake form (below) and email it to us to apply for an intake interview.

PVW Intake form 2025

After the mandatory intake interview with one of our advisors and their approval of your plans, you can apply for a subsidy from the Partners for Water (PVW-IVWW) subsidy scheme.

• To apply, upload the documents via eLoket. You need at least level 3 to apply.
• Complete all forms in English.
• Financial statements from Dutch cooperation partners may be submitted in Dutch. For any annual financial statements from foreign cooperation partners, at least the balance sheet and profit and loss statement must be in English.
• You can apply for a subsidy from 14 February 2025, 12:00 CET (noon) until 28 March 2025, 12:00 CET (noon).

Required documents:

• You must upload the completed application form and the attachments below.
• Complete all documents in English.
• Make sure to include the necessary signatures, including those of your partners.

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