Temporary Subsidy Scheme for Aviation in Transition (LiT): Venture Booster Knowledge Vouchers

Who is it for?

Start-ups with a question regarding the aviation transition can use the Venture Booster Knowledge Voucher. They can use the voucher to consult an expert. The expert will immediately help the start-up to attract funding and/or to assess how well their product meets the needs of a specific market (product-market fit).

You may engage the following experts:

• knowledge institution 
• private company
• independent professional

Conditions 

You will be eligible for a Venture Booster Knowledge Voucher if: 

• your company is a start-up
• your field of activity demonstrably contributes to the transition to sustainable aviation and
• your knowledge-related question relates to one of these topics:
  • Investor Readiness
  • IP advice
  • Market validation
  • Founder Coaching

Investor readiness

A start-up prepares to attract external funding in this process. Examples:

• Develop and refine an investment-ready business model and growth strategy. 
• Prepare financial plans and cash flow projections that meet investors’ expectations.
• Develop a compelling pitch and investment material.
• Set up the start-up legally (including a capitalisation table, legal structure and governance).
• Gain an understanding of the types of investors that are appropriate to your start-up’s phase and objectives.

The objective: to increase the likelihood that your investors will have trust and confidence in the feasibility, scalability and return on investment of your start-up.

IP advice

Strategic support in protecting and exploiting intellectual property. Examples:

• Patent search: the expert helps to determine whether a technology is new and patentable.
• Freedom to operate analysis: to check that you are not infringing any existing patents.
• IP management: make decisions regarding patents, trademarks, copyright and confidentiality.
• Advice on how to use IP to add value and as a negotiating tool with investors or partners.

The objective: protect innovations, minimize risks and strengthen your value proposition.

Market validation

You investigate whether there is adequate market demand for your product. Examples:

• Interviews, surveys and pilot assessments with potential customers and partners.
• Investigate market size, segmentation and barriers to adoption (who the customers are and why they are not yet using a product).
• Test pricing models and business cases.
• Identify early adopters and key stakeholders.
• Investigate expectations regarding product-market fit and scalability.

The objective: to ensure that you find a solution that is wanted by the market and to reduce your investment risk.

Founder coaching

Individual or team coaching to strengthen your entrepreneurial and leadership skills. Examples:

• Leadership development
• Decision-making and strategy
• Individual effectiveness
• Communication and stakeholder management
• Resilience and perseverance coaching

The objective: to help you manage and scale up your start-up sustainably and successfully.

Preparing your application

Include a quotation from a knowledge institution or company with your subsidy application. This must specify how and by whom the knowledge-related questions will be answered. The quotation may not have been signed yet. It must relate to strategic, advisory and facilitative work. This means that you may not enter into a standard consultancy contract for operational work. 

Please note: The subject and your knowledge-related question in your application must be the same as in the quotation. If this is not the case, we will reject your application.

After your application

If you applied for a Venture Booster Knowledge Voucher, you will receive a decision within 13 weeks.

Transferring the voucher

 Once your knowledge-related question has been answered, you transfer the Venture Booster Knowledge Voucher to the expert who answered it. Follow these steps:

• Log in using eRecognition 2+.
• Go to ‘Transferring’. 
• Carry out the ‘Voucher transfer’ task.
• We will send the expert an email once the transfer has been processed.

Please note: If you are giving a Venture Booster Knowledge Voucher to a knowledge institution as an intermediary on behalf of an entrepreneur, please ask the entrepreneur to complete and sign the LiT Voucher Transfer Declaration. See below. Please send this as an attachment.

Downloads

• Transfer voucher

Redeeming the voucher

To receive the subsidy (redeeming the voucher), you will need to send us a signed contract between yourself (the start-up) and the expert.
If you are a knowledge institution or company and have received a Venture Booster Knowledge Voucher, you can redeem this once you receive our notification email. The subsidy will be paid to the expert who answered the knowledge-related question(s).

Do not miss the opportunity for funding: you must redeem the Venture Booster Knowledge Voucher within 24 months of having received it. The voucher must be redeemed by 31 December 2029.

For experts

If you, as a knowledge institution or company, have answered a knowledge-related enquiry, you can redeem the voucher by following these steps:

• Log in using eRecognition 2+.
• Go to the ‘dossier’ tab.
• Select ‘Redeem’.
• You will receive a decision regarding the redemption of the Venture Booster Knowledge Voucher within 13 weeks.
• You will then be paid within a few weeks.

We carry out random checks on applications to redeem vouchers. If you, as an expert, are selected for this sampling, we will require additional information from you.

• Redeem voucher

More information

• Publication in Staatscourant (Government Gazette) (23 March 2026) - amendment scheme
• Publication in Staatscourant (Government Gazette) (6 May 2024) - with explanatory notes
• Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management (I&W) Framework Decision: wetten.nl - Regulation – Framework Decision on subsidies for Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management