Fast Track to the EIC Accelerator

Fast Track to the EIC Accelerator is a pathway scheme run by the EUREKA Network with EISMEA for Eurostars-3 alumni. It lets qualifying teams skip Step 1 of the EIC Accelerator and go directly to the full proposal stage, with 20 tickets allocated each year. Applicants must be startups, SMEs, or small mid-caps from EU Member States, Iceland, Israel, Norway, Switzerland, Türkiye, or the UK. They must hold the IP or the rights to use it, and the business concept has to grow out of a Eurostars-3 project finished within the past two years or within the final six months of that project. The route has two call moments a year. This is an entry point for teams that already passed through Eurostars-3 and want a faster route into the EIC Accelerator. The downstream EIC Accelerator had a 2026 budget of EUR 634 million across grant and equity, but that is a separate programme; the Eureka side is the ticket and eligibility filter, not the money itself.

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