Accelerate Programme

EIT Manufacturing Accelerate is a permanently open Call with the objective to support, scale and accelerate industry startups into impactful players in the European manufacturing ecosystem.

Accelerate programme supports and grants financing to startups and scaleups with innovative solutions and technologies, that address critical challenges in the manufacturing sector, and are helping the European manufacturing sector to become more efficient, resilient, green, and globally competitive.

Tailored internationalisation and financing support services are provided to startups and scaleups from across Europe to support their product development and go to market capabilities.

Through Accelerate, EIT Manufacturing aims to tackle critical industrial challenges identified across following thematic areas:

Digitalisation and Automation
Net Zero Industry
Renewable Energy and
Circular Economy.

And any of the following priority technologies, products and/or solutions:

Industrial AI, Robotics, Additive Manufacturing, Advanced Materials, Critical Components, Electronics, Semiconductors, Photonics, Quantum Computing, Renewables, Energy Storage, Carbon Capture.

EIT Manufacturing aims to build European industry startups that show high growth and impact and addresses all range of technologies and business models, incremental improvement, and disruption. Furthermore, EIT Manufacturing encourages inclusive and gender-balanced teams to apply for this funding. By fostering an inclusive environment, we believe that diverse perspectives lead to innovative solutions and stronger collaborations.

The Accelerate programme is open to startups with solutions at Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 6 or higher, that are currently fundraising or preferably already in an ongoing funding round with the following characteristics:

Developing new products/services/solutions for manufacturing customers, and have a business-to-business (B2B) business model
Have an innovative product/service contributing to at least one of the EIT Manufacturing Strategic Objectives (SOs), thematic areas, and priority technologies, products and/or solutions
Have relevant business and technical expertise available in the team
Demonstrate sound Business Planning

This Call is open to private businesses (legal entities) with at least 2 team members and with headquarters in any Member State (MS) of the European Union (EU), and in any country associated with Horizon Europe programme.

The total maximum EIT funding allocated to this call is 8.800,000 EUR.

The available financial support (also known as “sub-grant”) is starting from 50,000 EUR and can be up to 500,000 EUR per company to pursue activities which are in line with the overall EIT Manufacturing Strategic Objectives and based on the project plan, budget, and the investment terms.

Registration for Accelerate Call Info-Sessions

Register for one of our info sessions on: 8 October, 15 October, 19 November, 26 November and 10 December at 11 am CEST.

Register here

Applicants are invited to send their applications at any time and before any of these cut-off dates:

1^st Cut-off date: 27 July 2024, 17:00 CEST
2^nd Cut-off date: 10 September 2024, 17:00 CEST
3^rd Cut-off date: 18 October 2024, 17:00 CEST
4^th Cut-off date: 16 December 2024, 17:00 CEST
5^th Cut-off date: 19 February 2025, 17:00 CEST
6^th Cut-off date: 21 April 2025, 17:00 CEST

Important!

In case of allocating the full available budget to applicants in the 1^st, 2^nd or 3^rd cut-off date, EIT Manufacturing reserves the right to close the Call and not provide funding in the rest of the cut-off dates.

Apply here!

After checking all the documents needed for the successful application, your submission may be finalised through the below form.

Submission form

Applicants that have submitted their applications at any time and before any of these cut-off dates, should consider the following revised timeline for receiving the results from due diligence and evaluation for each cut-off date respectively:

1^st Cut-off: 27 July 2024, 17:00 CEST

Eligibility and admissibility check: August 2024
Evaluation of proposals: August 2024
Communication of results: September 2024
Due Diligence: August – September 2024
Communication of results: September-November 2024

2^nd Cut-off: 10 September 2024, 17:00 CEST

Eligibility and admissibility check: September 2024
Evaluation of proposals: September 2024
Communication of results: September 2024
Due Diligence: September – October 2024
Communication of results: November 2024

3^rd Cut-off: 18 October 2024, 17:00 CEST

Eligibility and admissibility check: October 2024
Evaluation of proposals: October 2024
Communication of results: October 2024
Due Diligence: October – December 2024
Communication of results: November 2024 – January 2025

4^th Cut-off: 16 December 2024, 17:00 CEST

Eligibility and admissibility check: December 2024
Evaluation of proposals: December 2024 – January 2025
Communication of results: January 2025
Due Diligence: January – March 2025
Communication of results: March – April 2025

5^th Cut-off: 19 February 2025, 17:00 CEST

Eligibility and admissibility check: February 2025
Evaluation of proposals: February 2025 – March 2025
Communication of results: March 2025
Due Diligence: March – April 2025
Communication of results: May 2025

6^th Cut-off: 21 April 2025, 17:00 CEST

Eligibility and admissibility check: April 2025
Evaluation of proposals: May 2025
Communication of results: June 2025
Due Diligence: May – June 2025
Communication of results: July2025

Call documents

Announcement: the Accelerate Call Guidelines have been modified in Chapter 5.2 Evaluation of proposals; Sub-chapter First Evaluation. Please check for more details the Accelerate Call Guidelines version 2.0 published on 5 August 2024.