EIC Accelerator Open

Call Updates

Mar 31, 2022 11:07:20 AM

• A total number of 790 proposals were submitted in response to the EIC Accelerator Open Call cut off March 23rd, 2022 (HORIZON-EIC-2022-ACCELERATOROPEN-01).

Feb 9, 2022 12:00:00 PM

The submission session is now available for: HORIZON-EIC-2022-ACCELERATOROPEN-01(HORIZON-EIC-ACC-BF)

EIC Accelerator Open

TOPIC ID: HORIZON-EIC-2022-ACCELERATOROPEN-01

Programme: Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON)
Call: EIC Accelerator 2022 (HORIZON-EIC-2022-ACCELERATOR-01)
Type of action: HORIZON-EIC-ACC-BF HORIZON EIC Accelerator Blended Finance
Type of MGA: HORIZON Action Grant Budget-Based [HORIZON-AG]
Deadline model: multiple cut-off
Opening date: 01 March 2022
Deadline dates: 23 March 2022 17:00:00 Brussels time
15 June 2022 17:00:00 Brussels time
05 October 2022 17:00:00 Brussels time

Topic description

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).

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 or other relevant environment (e.g. at least Technology Readiness Level 5/6 or higher and have fully completed Technology Readiness Level 4). 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.

EIC Accelerator Open, which has no predefined thematic priorities and is open to proposals in any field of technology or application.

For further information, please see the: 

https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/horizon/wp-call/2022/wp_horizon-eic-2022_en.pdf