over EUR 23.6 billion
in funding
across the 11 EU programmes covered by STEP
EUR 10.4 billion
steered by the EU Commission
under five direct management programmes
EUR 13.2 billion
reprogrammed
by Member States and regions under Cohesion Policy Funds
Under STEP, 5 funding programmes are directly managed by the Commission. Find here the breakdown of how much funding was made available for STEP under those programmes (since 2023).
- European Defence Fund: 7%
- EU4Health: 6%
- Innovation Fund: 71%
- Digital Europe Programme: 4%
- Horizon Europe: 12%
EU Member States can reassign cohesion policy funding to support actions that are aligned with the STEP initiative.
So far, Member States have reprogrammed:
- €9.1bn under ERDF
- €990m under JTF+
- €2bn under ESF+
- €0bn under the cohesion fund
Number of STEP Seals per country and per sector
The STEP Seal is a quality label awarded to excellent projects that perform above evaluation thresholds under STEP calls. Explore STEP Seal projects across the EU and across STEP sectors:
| Cleantech | Digitaltech | Biotech | Total | |
| Belgium | 18 | 31 | 3 | 52 |
| Bulgaria | 4 | 17 | 0 | 21 |
| Czechia | 2 | 11 | 2 | 15 |
| Denmark | 17 | 14 | 2 | 33 |
| Germany | 41 | 58 | 8 | 107 |
| Estonia | 4 | 20 | 1 | 25 |
| Ireland | 8 | 14 | 1 | 23 |
| Greece | 20 | 29 | 1 | 50 |
| Spain | 46 | 59 | 3 | 108 |
| France | 36 | 49 | 7 | 92 |
| Croatia | 2 | 6 | 0 | 8 |
| Italy | 34 | 39 | 4 | 77 |
| Cyprus | 1 | 11 | 0 | 12 |
| Latvia | 4 | 12 | 1 | 17 |
| Lithuania | 1 | 10 | 0 | 11 |
| Luxembourg | 4 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| Hungary | 2 | 9 | 1 | 12 |
| Malta | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Netherlands | 20 | 29 | 4 | 53 |
| Austria | 10 | 22 | 4 | 36 |
| Poland | 7 | 25 | 1 | 33 |
| Portugal | 11 | 18 | 2 | 31 |
| Romania | 1 | 15 | 0 | 16 |
| Slovenia | 2 | 11 | 0 | 13 |
| Slovakia | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Finland | 12 | 26 | 1 | 39 |
| Sweden | 19 | 26 | 2 | 47 |
STEP Annual Report
Check the STEP Annual report for insights into STEP's achievements in 2024. The next report will be published in Q2 2025 – stay tuned and register to our Newsletter.