HORIZON EUROPE – EIC Accelerator 2025 – Full application – 2025

Some Horizon Europe budgets are structured in response to policy ambitions (“destinations”) and deployed through calls for proposals targeting more specific thematic/sector (“Topics”). Thus, your application must be linked to a topic of a call for proposals.

Various categories of projects are eligible:

• RIA, Research and Innovation Actions: Basic and applied research / Technology development and adoption / Testing and validation of a prototype in the laboratory ;
• IA, Innovation Actions: Prototypes, tests, demonstrations, pilot projects, market placement. These actions may include limited R&D activities ;
• CSA, Coordination and Support Actions: Networking, studies & conferences, communication, studies for new research infrastructures ;
• MSCA, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions / ERC individual grants: Training networks for researchers, Individual grants for experienced researchers, Staff exchange – mobility for researchers and non-scientific staff.

In addition, calls specify the categories of eligible beneficiaries:

• Collaborative projects, composed of a coordinator and several partners organisations (consortium) ;
• Single-beneficiary projects, involving a single organization ;
• Individual scholarships, open to natural persons in their own name with their home institution.

TOPICS:

Open

• HORIZON-EIC-2025-ACCELERATOR-02-CHALLENGES-05: Breakthrough innovations for future mobility
• HORIZON-EIC-2025-ACCELERATOR-02-CHALLENGES-01: Acceleration of advanced materials development and upscaling along the value chain
• HORIZON-EIC-2025-ACCELERATOR-02-CHALLENGES-02: Biotechnology driven low emission food production systems
• HORIZON-EIC-2025-ACCELERATOR-02-CHALLENGES-04: Innovative in-space servicing, operations, space-based robotics and technologies for resilient EU space infrastructure
• HORIZON-EIC-2025-ACCELERATOR-02-OPEN-01: EIC Accelerator Open 2025
• HORIZON-EIC-2025-ACCELERATOR-02-CHALLENGES-03: GenAI4EU: Creating European Champions in Generative AI

Additional information

• To find your National Contact Point: Click here

Useful

• Guidelines:  Click here
• Other call documents:  Click here
• Executive Agency website:  Click here
• More information:  Click here

Total budget of the call: 634 million euros

Budget per topic:

• HORIZON-EIC-2025-ACCELERATOR-02-CHALLENGES-05: 50 million euros
• HORIZON-EIC-2025-ACCELERATOR-02-CHALLENGES-01: 50 million euros
• HORIZON-EIC-2025-ACCELERATOR-02-CHALLENGES-02: 50 million euros
• HORIZON-EIC-2025-ACCELERATOR-02-CHALLENGES-04:  50 million euros
• HORIZON-EIC-2025-ACCELERATOR-02-OPEN-01: 384 million euro
• HORIZON-EIC-2025-ACCELERATOR-02-CHALLENGES-03: 50 million euros

Funding rate: between 70% and 100% of the total eligible costs