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’).
The conditions for qualifying. An eligibility check tests your details against each one.
Size: micro enterprise, small enterprise or medium-sized enterprise
Does your company qualify?
Give a few facts about your company and project, and see for each condition whether you meet it.
Eligibility checkGrant from URBAN PROSUMERS (EU-funded project) across the EU. Total budget €180,000. Applications until 30 September 2026.
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A check is an indication from the published conditions and the facts you give. Only the competent authority decides whether you are eligible.