EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application

Call updates

10 October 2024

A total of 1211 proposals were submitted to the call HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-02:

HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOROPEN-01 - EIC Accelerator Open 2024: 1021 proposals

HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATORCHALLENGES-01 | Human Centric Generative AI made in Europe: 33 proposals

HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATORCHALLENGES-02 | Enabling virtual worlds and augmented interaction in high-impact applications to support the realisation of Industry 5.0: 28 proposals

HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATORCHALLENGES-03A | Enabling the smart edge: 26 proposals

HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATORCHALLENGES-03B | Emerging quantum technology components: 17 proposals

HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATORCHALLENGES-04 | Food from precision fermentation and algae: 32 proposals

HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATORCHALLENGES-05 | Monoclonal antibody-based therapeutics for new variants of emerging viruses: 3 proposals

HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATORCHALLENGES-06 | Renewable energy sources and their whole value chain including materials development and recycling of components: 51 proposals

The remote stage evaluation of the proposals will start in October 2024 and will be finalized by mid-December 2024. Applicants who succeed at this stage will then be invited to interviews taking place in Brussels from 20-24 January (indicatively). The outcome of these interviews will be communicated to the respective applicants by mid-February.

10 October 2024

The short proposal call HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01 will now close on October 22nd 2024 at 5pm Brussels Time.

This will be replaced by the 2025 short proposal call HORIZON-EIC-2025-ACCELERATOR-01 upon the adoption of the 2025 EIC Work Programme, anticipated to take place in the last week of October.

28 August 2024

An update has been made to the short proposal Part B template in the submission portal. It nows contains a guidance on the use of generative AI tools for the preparation of the proposal. No changes to the content of the Part B template have been made.

Jan 3, 2024 12:00:02 AM

The submission session is now available for: HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01(HORIZON-EIC-ACC)

EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application

HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01

Programme: Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON)
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01)
Type of action: HORIZON-EIC-ACC HORIZON EIC Accelerator
Type of MGA: HORIZON Action Grant Budget-Based [HORIZON-AG]
Deadline model: single-stage
Planned opening date: 03 January 2024
Deadline date: 24 December 2024 17:00:00 Brussels time

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 funding from EUR 0.5 to EUR 17.5 million and Business Acceleration Services (see Section V of the EIC Work programme 2024).

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). 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 2024.