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Scope:
The EIC Accelerator Challenges supports companies (principally start-ups and SMEs) to scale up high impact innovations with the potential to create new markets or disrupt existing ones in identified areas of strategic relevance. Like EIC Accelerator Open (Section II.3 of the EIC Work Programme 2021), the EIC Accelerator Challenges focus on innovations building on scientific discovery or technological breakthroughs (‘deep tech’) and where significant funding is needed over a long timeframe before returns can be generated (‘patient capital’).
The EIC Accelerator Challenges is open to innovations in the specific fields of technology or application described by the specific challenges in sections III.3.1 and III.3.2 of the EIC Work Programme 2021. However, innovations that harm the environment or social welfare or that are designed primarily for military applications will not be supported.
You should apply to the EIC Accelerator Challenge – Strategic Digital and Health Technologies, if you believe that your company has the potential to be a global leader in developing strategic technologies in one of the following areas:
- Digital technologies: devices, methods, systems as well as working principles, processes and standards1 which apply to the ICT technology industry such as advanced high performance computing, edge computing, quantum technologies, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, block-chain, cloud infrastructure technologies and technologies for the Internet of Things
- Healthcare technologies: AI-driven tools for early diagnosis; point-of-care diagnostics; novel approaches in cell and gene therapy, in particular for cancer; development of novel biomarkers for clinical prognosis, patient stratification or monitoring purposes across a wide spectrum of disorders; bioprocessing 4.0 (digitalisation across stages of biodevelopment in biotech/biopharma industry); healthcare intelligence services; and e-health (including mobile health) solutions for healthcare systems, medical practice and Intensive Care Units.
For further information, please see the EIC Work Programme 2021
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1 Including such technologies provided by EU space infrastructure (Galileo, Copernicus, etc.)
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Electronic patient files
Company valuation
Feasibility analysis
Diagnostic tools (e.g. genetic, imaging)
Clinical management
Intensive care
Technologies involving the manipulation of cells,
SME support
Internet of Things, embedded/pervasive systems
Start-up companies
Business management
Oncology
Financial & Investment management
Investment readiness
Technological innovation
Artificial intelligence
Medical engineering and technology
Marketing strategy
Bioprocessing technologies (industrial processes r
Industrial IoT and Control Systems
Gene therapy, cell therapy, regenerative medicine
Product innovation
Business development
Diagnostics
Innovation management
Hardware technology (RFID, chips, sensors, etc.)
Project financing
Health
Quantum Technologies (computing/communication)
Competitor analysis
Diagnostic and implantable devices, environmental
Entrepreneurship
High-performance computing (HPC)
Medical engineering
Cybersecurity Domains
Technology management
Critical care medicine and Emergency medicine
Business model innovation
Public sector innovation
Private investment
Business support services
Innovation support services
Technology commercialisation
IPR management
Biomarkers
Medical devices
Healthcare system
Business coaching and mentoring
Sustainable innovation
Venture capital
Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)
Due diligence
Spin-off companies
Software and Hardware Security Engineering
Health care sciences and services (including hospi
Market-creating innovation
Risk management
Cloud, Edge and Virtualisation
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