Anna Lackner, Author at Nexuswelt | EU Funding & Innovation Agency

EU grants versus venture capital for startups and deep-tech companies

21 Sep 26

EU Grants vs Venture Capital: Which Fits Your Startup, and Can You Combine Them?

Anna Lackner

Munich, 21 September 2026 · Nexuswelt Group Founders usually frame this as a choice, and investors sometimes encourage that framing. It is the wrong frame. Grants and venture capital are not substitutes – they buy different things, arrive on different timelines and carry different costs, and the strongest deep-tech companies…

FP10 Horizon Europe 2028–2034 and European Competitiveness Fund strategy

18 Sep 26

FP10: What the Next EU Framework Programme Means for Your Long-Term Strategy

Anna Lackner

Munich, 18 September 2026 · Nexuswelt Group The next Framework Programme starts on 1 January 2028. That sounds distant until you work backwards: consortia for the first calls will form during 2027, positioning for those consortia happens in 2026, and the strategic decisions that determine whether you are in the…

Coordinator running a multi-partner EU project consortium meeting

16 Sep 26

Managing a Multi-Partner Consortium: What Coordinators Get Wrong in Year One

Anna Lackner

Munich, 16 September 2026 · Nexuswelt Group Almost every problem that surfaces at a mid-term review was created in the first twelve months. Not by anything dramatic – by a cadence that never got established, a partner who went quiet in month four, a consortium agreement nobody read after signing,…

Technology Readiness Levels TRL 1–9 from basic research to proven operation

14 Sep 26

Technology Readiness Levels Explained: TRL 1–9 with Real Examples

Anna Lackner

Munich, 14 September 2026 · Nexuswelt Group TRL is the coordinate the whole European funding system runs on. It determines which instruments are open to you, how a call topic is scoped, and what an evaluator expects to see as evidence. Get it right and the shortlist of relevant instruments…

Ukrainian deep-tech startup team preparing an EIC funding application

11 Sep 26

How Ukrainian Startups Can Access EU Funding

Anna Lackner

Most guidance on EU funding for Ukraine is written for universities and research institutes, and a startup reading it concludes — reasonably — that this is a system built for someone else. It is not, and Ukrainian startups have one structural advantage that startups in Canada, South Korea, New Zealand…

09 Sep 26

Horizon Europe Partner Profile: How to Introduce Your Company to a Coordinator

Anna Lackner

Munich, 9 September 2026 · Nexuswelt Group A Horizon Europe partner profile is the one document that does most of the work when a consortium is forming. It gets forwarded, pasted into partner-search platforms, attached to introductions, and circulated inside organisations you will never speak to directly. Most organisations do…

Founder comparing single-applicant and consortium routes into Horizon Europe

07 Sep 26

Can a Startup Apply for Horizon Europe Without a Consortium

Anna Lackner

Munich, 7 September 2026 · Nexuswelt Group Yes — a startup can apply for Horizon Europe without a consortium, but only through a small number of specific routes. This is the question that decides whether a founder spends the next three months writing a proposal or building a network, so…

Horizon Europe for South Korean companies and European consortium partnerships

04 Sep 26

Horizon Europe for South Korean Companies: Closing the Consortium Trust Gap

Anna Lackner

Munich, 4 September 2026 · Nexuswelt Group Horizon Europe for South Korean companies is now a practical participation opportunity, not simply an eligibility question. Korea’s access to Horizon Europe has been settled for more than a year. The support structures exist, the national agencies are running information sessions, and the…

Stakeholders co-creating results in an EU-funded project workshop

02 Sep 26

Stakeholder Engagement in EU Projects: Turning Results into Uptake

Anna Lackner

Munich, 2 September 2026 · Nexuswelt Group A project can finish every deliverable, publish well, hold every planned workshop, and produce nothing that anybody outside the consortium uses. This is the most common form of failure in EU-funded work, and it does not appear in any report as a failure.…

Map of EuroHPC AI Factories and Antennas across Europe

28 Aug 26

Digital Europe Programme 2026: AI Factories and Data Spaces for Manufacturing

Anna Lackner

Munich, 28 August 2026 · Nexuswelt Group Europe’s AI infrastructure programme is usually reported as a sequence of budget announcements: a number, a list of countries, a photograph. Read that way, it looks like something happening to other organisations – national supercomputing centres and large industrial groups. That reading misses…