Donor partnerships
The contracts and reporting that turn public funding into published windows with published criteria.
All countries
Coordinating office
Belgium
Brussels — headquarters, EU coordination and donor partnerships.
- Coordination
- HQ
- Liaison office
- EU
- Established
- 2004
- Country programmes
- 3
The programme
What the fund does in Belgium
Brussels is where the fund is designed, contracted and accounted for. The headquarters holds the donor relationships, the compliance and reporting obligations that come with public money, and the European liaison work that opens buyer markets for grantees.
No grants are awarded to Belgian businesses. The office exists so that the three country programmes can spend their time on the businesses in front of them rather than on Brussels.
Priorities
Where support is aimed
Set by the country team, from what businesses here are actually blocked on.
EU market access
Introductions, trade fairs and buyer matchmaking that put a grantee in front of a European customer.
Assurance
One standard of due diligence, monitoring and evaluation applied across all three countries.
Funding
Open to businesses in Belgium
No window is open here right now
Windows are announced country by country. The requirements rarely change between rounds, so preparing now is not wasted work.
Portfolio
Businesses funded here
The first stories from here are being written
Grantees are reported back through their own businesses once the first results are in.