Funding for verifying the relevance, viability and suitability of your socially innovative project
Whatever your mission, find out how you could benefit from a subsidy covering 100% of your budget. Innoviris allocates a total budget of € 1 000 000 for the PYSI programme for the Brussels region. Furthermore you will also be able to test and discuss your working hypotheses with experts in the field.
Social innovators develop solutions to the challenges of our society, with a positive impact on the well-being and prosperity of both citizens and the community. With PYSI, Innoviris finances social innovation projects in Brussels facing some unknown factors or risks, and with the potential to address a major societal challenge more effectively than what is already applied. The selected PYSI projects have a chance to receive up to €100,000 funding per project per company, covering up to 100% of your costs. Are you a social entrepreneur looking for a different approach and developing an innovative product, process or service that is not yet in use or commercialised ?
Apply before 28 November 2025.
Info session with CoopCity : the 1st of October at 5pm (Rue Coenraets 72, Saint-Gilles). Registration here.
Are you eligible to apply?
- Your company develops all or part of its activities in the Brussels Capital Region
- You are a social and democratic enterprise
- Your project aims at validating the feasibility of a new socially innovative product/process/service, its economic viability as well as its potential to meet a social need. Your project is likely to have a favourable impact on the Region from a social, environmental and/or ecosystemic point of view
- You can demonstrate that the funding will have a stimulating effect on the implementation of your work programme
- You have fulfilled your obligations in the context of previous support initiatives granted by the Region
The conditions of eligibility are detailed in the regulation below.
The procedure in 3 steps
- Download the application form.
- Submit your application by mail, using the form.
- If your application meets all the eligibility criteria, you will be invited to pitch your project to a jury for evaluation.
The procedure is explained in the application form.
Good to know
- 100% financing rate in the form of de minimis aid.
- After submitting your grant application, you will receive confirmation. If you do not receive such confirmation, you must contact us in any case.
Questions?
The funding programme Prove your Social Innovation is part of the concept Innovation Journey.