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
Projects which support the Green Deal implementation by significantly contributing to at least one of the following sustainability goals:
- Increasing the EU’s climate mitigation and/or adaptation ambition;
- Supplying clean, affordable and secure energy;
- Transitioning of industry to a clean and/or circular economy (including waste prevention and/or recycling);
- Building and renovating in an energy and resource efficient way;
- Accelerating the shift to sustainable and smart mobility;
- Transition to a fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food system;
- Preserving and restoring ecosystems and biodiversity (including nature based solutions that provide co-benefits for climate adaptation and mitigation);
- Realising a zero pollution ambition and a toxic-free environment.
Funding amount
Grant of up to €EUR 2.5 million and investment component of between €0.5 and EUR 15 million