Strategic Funding Architecture for Europe’s Next Innovation Cycle

The European funding landscape is undergoing a fundamental shift. With the funding period from 2028 to 2034, the European Union is moving away from convergence-oriented support toward a geostrategic investment logic focused on sovereignty, resilience, and technological competitiveness. Funding decisions are increasingly performance-based, requiring research and innovation projects to demonstrate clear pathways to industrial scaling and alignment with narrowly defined policy priorities.

This shift creates a transformation gap for many organizations. Projects often struggle to align with geopolitical and dual transition objectives embedded in national and regional partnership plans. Administrative complexity remains high, with demanding reporting requirements continuing to disadvantage universities and small and medium-sized enterprises. At the same time, a structural tension persists between scientific excellence and the expectation of market-ready scale-up within the new competitiveness-oriented funding instruments.

Grantivity addresses this gap through a design-led funding architecture that connects sustainability ambitions with the requirements of the European funding system. Founded by Dr. Chris Doering, combining academic expertise in design with long-term experience in applied sustainability research and international cooperation, Grantivity structures projects from the ground up using design-based and co-creative methods. This approach ensures strategic coherence, measurable impact, and resilience. Through established networks with leading research and implementation organizations, Grantivity enables the formation of strong consortia and focuses on integrating economic, ecological, and social objectives in line with rising social investment requirements.

Core services include the identification of strategically viable funding opportunities within future policy priorities, the full architectural design of proposals including logic, budgets, and timelines, and the reduction of administrative burden through result-oriented and simplified financing models.