SME support seal of excellence 2025
Funds Spanish SMEs already holding an EIC Accelerator Seal of Excellence to scale their R&D.
CDTI funds this aid from its own resources plus European Regional Development Fund co-financing under Spain's ERDF Plurirregional programme, though the ERDF portion only applies where a project lines up with that programme's own cohesion-policy priorities. Eligible costs mirror the categories used in the original EIC Accelerator submission: equipment and materials for the period they're used on th…
The call backs R&D projects (TRL 5-8) run by Spanish SMEs that already won a Seal of Excellence in the EIC Accelerator competition under Horizon Europe's 2023 or 2024 rounds. It funds work to validate the business model and strengthen the company for a subsequent scale-up; deployment-stage work (TRL 9) is excluded.
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