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EIC Accelerator 2026 - Short proposal[E8]

UnknownEuropean Commission[E1]

In plain English

What they want: Call: EIC Accelerator 2026 - Short application. Type of action: HORIZON EIC Accelerator. 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.
Who can bid: No restrictions are stated in the notice data. The tender documents may set more.
Deadline: Buyer's deadline: 4 Nov 2026, 01:00 Central European time (UTC+1). UTC: 4 Nov 2026, 00:00 UTC.
Published 6 Nov 2025.
Value: Not stated by the buyer.
Buyer: European CommissionSee what else this buyer buys and when.
How to apply: Through the buyer's official process. Open the original notice on EU Funding & Tenders Portal (grants and calls for proposals) (opens in a new tab) ↗
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Deadline[E2]: 4 Nov 2026, 01:00 Central European time (UTC+1)
Value: Not stated
Published[E6]: 6 Nov 2025
Procedure: Not stated
Source: EU Funding & Tenders Portal (grants and calls for proposals) (opens in a new tab)
Last checked: 8 hours ago

About the requirement

From the notice

Call: EIC Accelerator 2026 - Short application. Type of action: HORIZON EIC Accelerator. 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 o…[E3]

Eligibility and requirements

ConditionEU grant rules apply: check the call conditions for who can apply, consortium rules and co-funding.[E4]
The notice data states no restriction on who may bid. Exclusion grounds and selection criteria in the tender documents still apply.

Risks and unknowns

RiskOnly 5 days remain before the deadline.[E2]
RiskThis is a grant, not a contract. Grants usually need a proposal against the funder's criteria, may need partners and often need co-funding.[E5]
UnknownThe notice does not state a value.
UnknownWe read the published notice, not the full tender documents.

Updates

First seen · 28 Oct 2026, 21:22 UTC
The source published a call for competition with a future deadline.
Source document HORIZON-EIC-2026-ACCELERATOR-01:31094502:2026-10-15T15:31:18.828+0200

Evidence

8 facts

Every fact on this page comes from the published notice. Each entry shows the document and the field it was read from.

E1
The buyer is European Commission.
Document HORIZON-EIC-2026-ACCELERATOR-01:31094502:2026-10-15T15:31:18.828+0200, field /metadata/type/0, read 28 Oct 2026, 21:22 UTC · source (opens in a new tab)
E2
Proposals must be submitted by 4 Nov 2026, 01:00 Central European time (UTC+1).
“2026-11-04T00:00:00.000+0000”
Document HORIZON-EIC-2026-ACCELERATOR-01:31094502:2026-10-15T15:31:18.828+0200, field /metadata/deadlineDate/0, read 28 Oct 2026, 21:22 UTC · source (opens in a new tab)
E3
The buyer describes the requirement in the notice.
“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 Busi…”
Document HORIZON-EIC-2026-ACCELERATOR-01:31094502:2026-10-15T15:31:18.828+0200, field /metadata/descriptionByte/0, read 28 Oct 2026, 21:22 UTC · source (opens in a new tab)
E4
EU grant rules apply: check the call conditions for who can apply, consortium rules and co-funding.
“EU call topic”
Document HORIZON-EIC-2026-ACCELERATOR-01:31094502:2026-10-15T15:31:18.828+0200, field /metadata/type/0, read 28 Oct 2026, 21:22 UTC · source (opens in a new tab)
E5
This call is open for proposals.
“31094502”
Document HORIZON-EIC-2026-ACCELERATOR-01:31094502:2026-10-15T15:31:18.828+0200, field /metadata/status/0, read 28 Oct 2026, 21:22 UTC · source (opens in a new tab)
E6
The notice was published on 6 Nov 2025.
“2025-11-06T00:00:00.000+0000”
Document HORIZON-EIC-2026-ACCELERATOR-01:31094502:2026-10-15T15:31:18.828+0200, field /metadata/startDate/0, read 28 Oct 2026, 21:22 UTC · source (opens in a new tab)
E7
The Funding & Tenders Portal gives the status as open for submission.
Document HORIZON-EIC-2026-ACCELERATOR-01:31094502:2026-10-15T15:31:18.828+0200, field /metadata/status/0, read 28 Oct 2026, 21:22 UTC · source (opens in a new tab)
E8
The notice is titled "EIC Accelerator 2026 - Short proposal".
Document HORIZON-EIC-2026-ACCELERATOR-01:31094502:2026-10-15T15:31:18.828+0200, field /metadata/title/0, read 28 Oct 2026, 21:22 UTC · source (opens in a new tab)

Source: EU Funding & Tenders Portal, © European Union, CC BY 4.0. SLETOR shortened and reformatted the text. Data licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (European Commission) (opens in a new tab). Personal contact details in notices are not stored or shown.

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