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EIC Accelerator Challenges

Identifier:

HORIZON-EIC-2022-ACCELERATORCHALLENGES

Budget:

537 m €

Type:

Multiple cut-off

Opening date:

01/03/2022

Closing date:

05/10/2022 5:00 PM

The EIC Accelerator Challenges call has been launched to support SMEs (and Small mid-caps up to 500 empoyees) with a grant and an investment component up to 17,5 mil. €. The funding aims at scaling up high impact innovations with the potential to create new markets or disrupt existing ones in following strategic areas: 

  • Technologies for Open Strategic Autonomy
  • Technologies for ‘Fit for 55’

EIC support acts as a catalyst to crowd in investors necessary for the scale up of the innovation. The EIC Accelerator call will have 3 cut-offs in 2022:

  • March 23
  • June 15
  • October 5

Links

Details on Technologies for Open Strategic Autonomy Challenge

Details on Technologies for ‘Fit for 55’ Challenge

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