EU Funding & Tenders Portal · HORIZON-EIC-2026-ACCELERATOR-01

EIC Accelerator 2026 - Short proposal

Code: HORIZON-EIC-2026-ACCELERATOR-01
Programme: Horizon Europe (HORIZON)
Status: Open
Opens: 2025-11-06
Deadline: 2026-11-04 (16 days left; time on the official page)

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Key dates

2025-11-06Opens
2026-11-04Deadline

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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 grant and investment funding and Business Acceleration Services (see Section VII of EIC Work Programme 2026).

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 completed). 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 2026.

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