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The EIC Accelerator Challenge focuses on innovations of digital and health technologies which build on scientific discovery or technological breakthroughs (‘deep tech’) and supports projects where significant funding is needed over a long timeframe before returns can be generated.

The EIC Accelerator Challenge – Green Deal innovations for the Economic Recovery will finance projects which supports the Green Deal implementation by significantly contributing to at least one of the eight sustainability goals set in the agreement.

The purpose of the tender is to enable companies to obtain bank loans faster, easier and cheaper, therefore, ensuring the growth and development of SMEs through new investments, modernization of technological equipment and the provision of working capital in connection with investments and development projects.

The DIY4U Open Innovation Call is an opportunity to be involved in an innovative project to develop and promote decentralised customer-centric product design & production approaches for Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCGs). The DIY4U project enables consumers to collaborate with manufacturers to design and create personalised FMCGs, though the DIY4U digital platform and Fablabs (small scale manufacturing demonstration facilities).

The EU-Citizen.Science Call will fund the development, implementation and testing of 10 training modules on the topic of citizen science.

The objective of the AI4EU Call for Solutions is to select the best 41 Solution Providers that will solve one of the specifically published challenges faced by European industry.

The EIC Accelerator is designed for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMES) with radically new ideas underpinned by a business plan for rolling out marketable innovation solutions and with ambitions to scale up.

With its Pathfinder programme the EIC supports the exploration of bold ideas for radically new technologies. It welcomes the high-risk / high gain and interdisciplinary cutting-edge science collaborations that underpin technological breakthroughs.