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Grant Title
Horizon Europe EIC Accelerator Challenge: Technologies for Open Strategic Autonomy
Budget
250.000.000 Avro
Grant Per Project
Sector
SCIENCE
Program
Ufuk Avrupa (Horizon Europe)
Release Date
28 March 2022
Application Deadline
05 October 2022
Content

SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES

This EIC Accelerator Challenge aims at supporting the development and scaling up of technologies and boosting breakthrough innovations that strengthen the green transition. Breakthrough innovations for this Challenge should have the potential to create significant economic, competitiveness and employment benefits for Europe. 

This EIC Accelerator Challenge identifies the following set of key strategic areas and corresponding specific objectives for which highly innovative start-ups and SMEs are invited to propose new technologies, pioneering solutions and breakthrough innovations:

  • Components, technologies and systems for the pharmaceutical industry to ensure security of supply including through synthetic biology and novel manufacturing technologies,
  • Strategic healthcare technologies building on Europe’s research strengths in cell and gene therapies, including ribonucleic acid (RNA) based therapies to ensure EU leadership;
  • Edge computing applications including new business models to foster EU leading role in their development,

Expected Results

The  expected impact  of  this Challenge  is  a significant  reduction  of the  European dependency  on other  regions  for deep-tech innovations and  services  of  EU  key strategic interest,  and  consequently strengthening  of  European competitiveness, security and open strategic autonomy.

ELIGIBILITY & ADMISSIBILITY CRITERIA

Any legal entity, regardless of its place of establishment, including legal entities from non-associated third countries or international organisation (including international European research organisations) 102 is eligible to participate. 

In order to be eligible for funding, the applicants must be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e., Member States (including their outmost regions and overseas countries and territories (OCTs)), countries associated to Horizon Europe and low- and middle-income third countries.

FUNDING & RESOURCE ALLOCATION

Total budget for this call is EUR 250.000.000.

TIMETABLE 

DeadlineTime
First stage23 March 2022
Second stage15 June 2022
Third stage5 October 2022

PARTNER SEARCH 

If you are looking for collaborating partners you can check Partner Search tab on Funding & Tenders Portal

FURTHER INFORMATION 

Call for Proposal Document

For further information please click here. 

COUNTRY COORDINATOR 

Country Coordinator for this call is: TÜBİTAK

For your questions and inquiries please contact: ncpeic@tubitak.gov.tr