The EIC Accelerator is designed for high potential, high risk start-ups and scale-ups developing deep tech. In 2023, the overall budget is €1.137bn split in Open and Challenge calls.
Open calls are for companies from any industry, while Challenge calls have specific topics you can find below. The EIC Accelerator funding includes a grant component of up to €2.5m and equity of up to €15m*.
€612.98m
Short application deadline: Continuous
Full application deadlines: 11/01/2023 - 22/03/2023 - 07/06/2023 - 04/10/2023
Grants of max. €2.5m and /or Equity of max. €15m*
€524.73m
Short application deadline: Continuous
Full application deadlines: 22/03/2023 - 07/06/2023 - 04/10/2023
Grants of max. €2.5m and /or Equity of max. €15m*
The EIC Accelerator is a 3-step process. It starts with a short application that can be submitted at any time via the online platform.
The EIC Accelerator has 4 deadline dates in 2023 for the full application, which is the second step of the process: 11/01, 22/03, 07/06 & 04/10.
The face-to-face interview is the last and decisive step of the process. Companies are invited to meet with a panel of 5 jury members. The panel will decide if companies are awarded funding from the EIC Accelerator. The interview lasts 45 minutes, the first 10 minutes on the pitch deck submitted at the full application stage. The remaining 35 minutes are Q&A with the 5-member jury panel. After two/three weeks from the interview, companies will be notified on the final outcome of their application.
Support and accelerate the preclinical validation and/or clinical phase 1 work carried out by innovative SMEs (including start-ups, spinouts) and small midcaps to develop novel predictive, prognostic and companion diagnostic assays to guide cancer treatment.
Specific Objectives:
Indicative budget: €65m
Development and commercialisation of technological solutions facilitating social interaction in the context of pandemic emergencies, by means of one or more of the three following approaches:
Specific Objectives:
Indicative budget: €65m
Strategic for the REPowerEU plan, transforming the EU into a resource-efficient economy, ensuring increasing Europe's energy independence from unreliable suppliers and volatile fossil fuels, facilitating the development of social innovations and promotion of participative approaches for a fair energy transition, increasing awareness for a rationale use of energy, while preserving Europe’s natural environment and tackling climate change.
Specific Objectives:
Indicative budget: €100m
To provide transformative digital products or digitally enabled solutions for the AEC sector that can help it achieve climate neutrality while striving to comply with or contribute to the human-centred quality values and principles brought forward by the New European Bauhaus.
Specific Objectives:
Indicative budget: €65m
This Challenge contributes to the objectives of the Chips Act by supporting the development of critical technologies where start-ups and SMEs with disruptive innovations have the potential to scale up and help ensure the future open strategic autonomy of the Union.
Specific Conditions:
Applications to this EIC Accelerator Challenge may request an investment component of above EUR 15 million in duly justified cases.
In order to protect the strategic interests of the Union and its Member States, the contract may set specific conditions and milestones if this is necessary to ensure that technologies of a strategic nature for open autonomy are not directly or indirectly controlled by third countries not associated to Horizon Europe or by legal entities of non-associated third countries.
Any technology under this Challenge must be developed in a robust manner, paying specific attention to safety, security and ethics considerations in future applications.
A. Quantum technology components:
B. Semiconductor chip development:
The aim of this Challenge is to support the design and development of innovative semiconductor components and intellectual property for analogue and digital integrated circuits and systems including memory, logic, optical components, and sensors, in relevant technology fields such as: Artificial Intelligence, edge computing, Internet of Things, electric and autonomous vehicles, 5G/6G communication, cybersecurity, health and wellness, environmental sustainability. The scope also includes innovative design approaches that address combination of different functionalities such as computing, RF, power, memory and sensing. Moreover, this Challenge should support advanced chips design in order to keep Europe in the front line of the semiconductor industry in the coming years as the industry thrives for higher performance and greater circuit integration.
The proposing entities should demonstrate ground-breaking innovation in the respective applications fields and high potential for commercial deployment in important EU industry sectors such as automotive, industry automation, information and communication, healthcare, aerospace, security, energy.
Indicative budget: €100m
Groundbreaking innovations that will lead to a radical transformation beyond the state-of-the-art of the current fertilisation, crop protection, irrigation and soil management practices. From a food system point of view, they will take into account strategies for climate adaptation, and a life cycle approach. Consideration should be also given to possible effects of such innovations on the food supply chain. From an environment point of view it is expected they will help to ensure healthier and richer biodiversity and more resilient ecosystems.
Specific Objectives:
Indicative budget: €65m
Ensure Europe is able to service and protect its own Space infrastructure, avoiding the risk of losing its strategic autonomy, and enhance the competitiveness of its space industry by encouraging the emergence of innovative, interoperable, scalable, and autonomous “customer-driven” innovative space technologies and services.
Specific Objectives:
Indicative budget: €65m
*Amounts greater than €15m may be requested for certain justified cases.
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