About
The EIC Accelerator Challenges supports companies (principally start-ups and SMEs) to scale up high impact innovations with the potential to create new markets or disrupt existing ones in identified areas of strategic relevance.
Financed activities
Activities supported could include, for instance, product/service development, trials, optimisation, prototyping, validation, demonstration and testing in real world conditions and market replication. Essential actions for the innovation project can be subcontracted.
Calling for
Companies that have the potential to be a global leader in developing strategic technologies in one of the following areas:
- Digital technologies: devices, methods, systems as well as working principles, processes and standards which apply to the ICT technology industry such as advanced high performance computing, edge computing, quantum technologies, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, block-chain, cloud infrastructure technologies and technologies for the Internet of Things.
- Healthcare technologies: AI-driven tools for early diagnosis; point-of-care diagnostics; novel approaches in cell and gene therapy, in particular for cancer; development of novel biomarkers for clinical prognosis, patient stratification or monitoring purposes across a wide spectrum of disorders; bioprocessing 4.0 (digitalisation across stages of biodevelopment in biotech/biopharma industry); healthcare intelligence services; and e-health (including mobile health) solutions for healthcare systems, medical practice and Intensive Care Units.
Funding amount
Grant of up to €EUR 2.5 million and investment component of between €0.5 and EUR 15 million