Lithuania: CPVA business partnership grants for Ukraine

Lithuania’s Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid Fund is accepting applications for its Business Partnerships Programme in Ukraine. The K1 call opened on 24 June 2026 and runs until 31 December 2026 at 17:00 Lithuanian time.

The configuration here is rare. A Ukrainian company does not merely partner someone else’s application, because the call is built around a joint project of Lithuanian and Ukrainian business where both sides carry their own role and their own contribution.

As of 19 August this is the only open business call across the three Baltic states that works with Ukrainian companies directly. The Lithuanian embassy closed its own call on 17 April, while the Latvian foreign ministry allocated its funding back on 22 May.

Who runs it and where the money comes from

CPVA, the Central Project Management Agency of Lithuania, administers the call. This state body sits in Vilnius at S. Konarskio street 13, and it distributes Lithuanian and European funds both inside the country and abroad.

The funding source is the Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid Fund. In January 2026 that same fund financed four Ukraine recovery projects worth more than EUR 14.5 million, and in June Lithuania announced a further EUR 7 million, of which EUR 4 million goes to solar installations for Ukrainian schools and hospitals.

For wider context, Lithuanian support to Ukraine since the start of the full-scale invasion has reached roughly EUR 2 billion. Within CPVA a separate Lithuanian International Partnerships Centre operates programmes including Rebuilding Ukraine, the Demining Capability Coalition and the International Civil Protection Shelter Coalition.

What the call funds

The programme supports business partnerships between Lithuania and Ukraine for the sake of economic recovery and reconstruction. It funds projects that transfer technology, build enterprise resilience and create sustainable jobs.

So the logic differs from a classic development grant. The state finances a commercial partnership and expects an economic result from it: a working production line, a transferred technology, jobs kept or created.

Project duration is tied to size. According to the call conditions, projects run from 4 to 24 months: up to 12 months for projects under EUR 50,000 and up to 24 months for larger ones. The exact financial limits and the list of eligible costs appear in the call documents on the CPVA page.

Who can apply

The range of applicants is wider than the word business in the title suggests:

• companies from Lithuania and from Ukraine;
• joint consortia of Lithuanian and Ukrainian participants;
• some non-governmental organisations, research and educational institutions.

The main entry condition. An applicant needs at least 3 years of operational experience. An exception exists for innovative start-ups, and that exception is worth reading closely, since it decides whether a young technology company qualifies.

The 3-year condition filters out newly created enterprises, although it also removes the problem of paper applications from the pool. For a Ukrainian company trading since 2023 or earlier, with a Lithuanian partner or looking for one, the threshold is comfortably passable.

The two-stage procedure and what it changes

Submission runs in two stages. First comes a business idea concept, a shorter document describing the partners, the nature of the cooperation and the initial project idea. Then, once a concept is selected, applicants prepare the full project application.

For an applicant this structure works well. Only those who clear the first filter go on to build a full budget, a detailed plan and the supporting paperwork. So at the start you risk a few days of work instead of several weeks.

What this means for planning. The 31 December deadline looks distant, although evaluation sits between the two stages, and the full application then arrives on a fixed schedule. Therefore the concept belongs in autumn.

Why this call deserves attention from Ukrainian business

Most Baltic grant money for Ukraine flows through organisations that hold registration in the donor country. The Latvian foreign ministry call limits applicants to legal entities of Latvia outright, so the Ukrainian side enters it as a cooperation partner.

The K1 call works differently. A Ukrainian company is a full participant in the partnership here, which is exactly why this instrument deserves separate attention despite the modest Lithuanian budget compared with large EU programmes.

The second reason is time. A deadline of 31 December 2026 leaves more than four months, whereas most bilateral calls this year closed 4 to 6 weeks after announcement. That covers both finding a partner and preparing the concept.

CPVA takes questions about the call conditions through the agency contact page. The full document package, including the business idea concept form and the financial limits, sits on the call page.