EIC Accelerator
Funding for
later stages of technology development
Grant amount
Up to €2.5 m (grant) and €15 m (equity)
Deadline
The cut-off dates for the full application in 2024 are 13 March and 3 October
Answer
About 4 months
later stages of technology development
Up to €2.5 m (grant) and €15 m (equity)
The cut-off dates for the full application in 2024 are 13 March and 3 October
About 4 months
There will only be two EIC Accelerator full application deadlines in 2024: 13 March and 3 October.
As you can read below the EIC Accelerator is in three steps:
With the expected 13 March deadline, and a 4-6 week approval time for the short application, the application work should start no later than in December!
Reach out to 1st Mile CEO Søren Houmøller for a free consultation on the situation for your case.
The EIC Accelerator funding programme is part of the European Innovation Council (EIC), who aims to identify and support breakthrough technologies and game changing innovations to create new markets and scale up internationally. The ambition of the program is to create the next unicorns (growth companies valued at more than €1bn). The program supports game-changing innovation.
The programme is targeted at enterprises with:
The program is very attractive in terms of financing (up to €2.5m in grant and €15m in equity) and funding rate (70% plus 25% overhead, in practice 87.5% of actual expenses).
The EIC Accelerator is designed for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with radically new ideas underpinned by a business plan for rolling out marketable innovation solutions and with ambitions to scale up. It targets for-profit SMEs only, including young companies and start-ups, from any sector.
Large corporates, research centers or scientists cannot apply directly, but they can participate in projects as subcontractors or third parties and don’t need to be established in an EU Member State or associated country.
Any start-up and small and medium-sized enterprise that is established in one of the EU Member States or is established in a Horizon Europe Associated Country can receive EU funding and support.
The EIC provides grant-only support or blended finance (grant in combination with equity investment).
The EIC Accelerator offers small and medium-sized businesses the following:
All proposals are evaluated based on three award criteria:
The EIC Accelerator application process is divided into three steps.
Step 1: You must register on the EU’s Funding and Tenders Portal. On the portal, different sections are filled in with details about your innovation, your market potential, your team, company information etc. and a pitch-deck of maximum 10 slides and a presentation video of maximum 3 minutes are attached.
If your short application receives a GO (normally within 4 weeks), you can submit a Full application within a year.
Step 2: The full application will also be submitted on the Portal and will e.g. include a detailed business plan, full information on company finances and structure and a set of milestones to for the EIC to manage the funding
If your full application receives a GO, you will be invited to a face-to-face interview.
The maximum delay to inform applicants will be 4 months from the date of the cut-off. The indicative date for the signing of grant agreements is maximum 6 months from the date of the corresponding cut-off.
For full details on the evaluation procedure read the guidelines for applicants on the Horizon Funding and Tender Portal.
Yes, your EIC Accelerator application can be resubmitted under certain conditions, depending on the history of the proposal.
Yes. For more information please visit Horizon Europe.