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Acceleration of advanced materials development and upscaling along the value chain

Funds a single company advancing advanced-materials development and upscaling, with an EU contribution of up to EUR 17.5 million under the EIC Accelerator's 2025 round.

This specific call is the full-application stage of the EIC Accelerator process — the Portal's own evaluation form list separately names a stage 1 short proposal form and a stage 2 full proposal form, and this topic sits at the second stage. Within the same EUR 634 million call, how many grants are expected varies a lot by topic: this materials challenge is budgeted for about 15 grants, while the …

This is one named challenge area, "Acceleration of advanced materials development and upscaling along the value chain", inside the EIC Accelerator 2025 - Full application call, sitting alongside several other challenge topics (CHALLENGES-02 through CHALLENGES-05, and OPEN-01) and an open topic under the same call. The Funding & Tenders Portal topic entry carries no further scope text beyond the challenge title itself — the technical detail on what qualifies lives in the EIC Work Programme document.

CycleiHow often this grant runs - e.g. annually, on a rolling basis, or a one-off call.No fixed schedule
Next deadlineiThe next date applications are due. Rolling means you can apply any time.-
Decision timeiTypical time from the deadline to the funder's decision.-
Project durationiHow long the funded work is expected to run.-
Award typeiThe form of funding - grant, equity, loan, tax credit, etc.Grant
Match fundingiThe share of project costs you must cover yourself. 0% = fully funded.-
Funding pooliThe total budget available across all awards in this round.€634M

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