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EIC Accelerator Challenges 2025

EIC Accelerator Challenges

The EIC Accelerator Challenges calls are open to proposals in predefined topics that have been identified in areas where breakthrough technologies or game-changing innovations developed by start-ups or SMEs can have a major impact on EU objectives.

In 2025 support for start-ups in semiconductor technologies and quantum technologies will be pursued in particular through STEP Scale Up.

The total budget for EIC Accelerator Challenges for 2025 is EUR 250 million.

The total indicative budget per challenge is EUR 50 million.

Is your project dealing with a different topic? Then go to the EIC Accelerator Open.

List of EIC Accelerator Challenges

To support start-ups and SMEs committed to bringing transformative AI-driven solutions to market, to safeguard human autonomy and enhance human expertise thus providing significant added value to decision-making processes, services or industrial workflows.