Deadline Date: February 06, 2026
The LuxAid Demonstration Fund from the Luxembourg Development Cooperation invites mature enterprises in Kosovo to apply for funding to scale innovative solutions that address development challenges and contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals.
The focus areas, objectives, and priorities of the fund include supporting digital innovations such as ICT and digital transformation, AI, data analytics, software development, automation, fintech, e-commerce, cybersecurity, HealthTech, and skills-to-jobs initiatives; advancing green innovations including energy efficiency, clean-energy transition, circular economy, waste valorisation, sustainable agribusiness, low-carbon production, climate adaptation, and resource-security solutions; fostering measurable SDG impacts such as gainful employment creation and improved financial outcomes for end-users; enabling scale-up of proven commercial innovations; and prioritising systemic solutions that address root causes of structural development challenges.
The LuxAid Demonstration Fund targets well-established, commercially viable enterprises with proven innovative solutions. Selected projects will receive grants of up to EUR 350,000, covering up to 50% of total project costs. The program focuses on solutions that have already demonstrated impact on a smaller scale and have the potential to inspire changes across a value chain or market segment. Each project should have a clear commercialization plan, proof of client pipeline or interest, and the majority of revenue generated from the innovation proposed.
Eligible applicants are formally registered commercial or cooperative enterprises in Kosovo, established before 1 November 2022, with at least five legally employed individuals, annual turnover under EUR 50 million, and no more than EUR 500,000 in external funding received in the past three years. Proposed projects must have been tested on the market with at least one year of sales revenue, demonstrate commercial viability, and have a scale-up plan. Project duration should be 1 to 2 years, and applicants must co-finance at least 50% of total costs through internal funds, external investments, or sales revenue.
Projects will be evaluated by a selection committee based on innovation and cost-effectiveness, societal impact, scaling potential, project viability, financial sustainability, implementation capacity, and additionality. The fund aims to strengthen innovative and inclusive economic models that address poverty and improve access to essential socio-economic goods and services.
For more information, visit Luxembourg Development Cooperation.
