EIC Accelerator 2026 - Short proposal
Open
This is the status published by the official source.
Scope:
The EIC Accelerator supports companies (principally SMEs, including start-ups) to scale up high impact innovations with the potential to create new markets or disrupt existing ones. The EIC Accelerator provides a unique combination of grant and investment funding and Business Acceleration Services (see Section VII of EIC Work Programme 2026).
The EIC Accelerator focuses in particular on innovations building on scientific discovery or technological breakthroughs (‘deep tech’) and where significant funding is needed over a long timeframe before returns can be generated (‘patient capital’). Such innovations often struggle to attract financing because the risks and time period involved are too high. Funding and support from the EIC Accelerator is designed to enable such innovators to attract the full investment amounts needed for scale up in a shorter timeframe.
The EIC Accelerator supports the later stages of technology development as well as scale up. The technology component of your innovation must therefore have been tested and validated in a laboratory and other relevant environment (e.g., at least Technology Readiness Level 5 completed). The EIC Accelerator looks to support companies where the EIC support will act as a catalyst to crowd in other investors necessary for the scale up of the innovation.
Applicants to EIC Accelerator can submit proposals through:
• EIC Accelerator Open - which has no predefined thematic priorities and is open to proposals in any field of technology or application
• EIC Accelerator Challenges - in predefined areas of emerging and strategic technologies. For further information please see the EIC Work Programme 2026.
- Status
- Open
- Deadline
- (time not stated)
- Opens
- Published
- Country
- European Union (EU-wide)
- Programme
- Horizon Europe (HORIZON)
- Funder
- European Commission
- Official page
- Open at the source portal
What applying involves
10 steps, all of them taken from this call's own documents.
Understand the call
- Read the call on the source portal and download its documents
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Write the proposal against the award criteria and thresholds
standard for this programme
Described in section IV of the EIC Work Programme 2026 — conditions §5a
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Check the grant's legal and financial set-up
standard for this programme
Described in Annex G of the HE Main Work Programme 2023–2025 – — conditions §6
Check you are eligible
- Confirm your technology readiness level against the range the call states
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Check every partner is established in an eligible country
standard for this programme
Described in Annex 2(B. Eligibility) of the EIC Work Programme 2026 . Applicants from the United Kingdom can apply to the EIC Accelerator, but can only request and receive funding in the form of “grant only” — conditions §2
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Meet the call's other eligibility conditions
standard for this programme
Described in Annex 2(General conditions for proposals) of the EIC Work Programme 2026 — conditions §3
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Be able to show financial and operational capacity
standard for this programme
Described in Annex 2(C. Financial and Operational Capacity) of the EIC Work Programme 2026 — conditions §4
Prepare the documents
- Complete the detailed budget table standard for this programme
Submit
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Check the submission and evaluation process
standard for this programme
Described in section IV of the EIC Work Programme 2026 — conditions §5b
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Submit before the closing date shown above
The source states the closing day but no closing time — check the portal before the last day. — calls.deadline
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Where this came from
- Source document
- https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/data/topicDetails/horizon-eic-2026-accelerator-01.json
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Data source
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