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 checkThe EIC STEP Scale Up call offers a total indicative budget of EUR 300 million for 2026, which is expected to rise to EUR 900 million for the period 2025-2027. Any unused amount from this b…
Grant from SBEP (EU-funded project) across the EU. Total budget €37,723,260. Applications until 16 November 2026.
Grant from BP26-28 EITCC (EU-funded project) across the EU. Total budget €1. Applications until 16 November 2026.
A check is an indication from the published conditions and the facts you give. Only the competent authority decides whether you are eligible.