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Find similar grantsEIC Accelerator Challenges 2025: GenAI4EU is sponsored by European Innovation Council (EIC). Supports start-ups and SMEs developing transformative AI-driven solutions, including AI hardware, to enhance human expertise and decision-making processes.
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EIC Accelerator Challenges 2025 - European Innovation Council EIC Accelerator Challenges 2025 EIC Accelerator Challenges The EIC Accelerator Challenges calls are open to proposals in predefined topics that have been identified in areas where breakthrough technologies or game-changing innovations developed by start-ups or SMEs can have a major impact on EU objectives.
In 2025 support for start-ups in semiconductor technologies and quantum technologies will be pursued in particular through STEP Scale Up. The total budget for EIC Accelerator Challenges for 2025 is EUR 250 million . The total indicative budget per challenge is EUR 50 million.
Is your project dealing with a different topic? Then go to the EIC Accelerator Open. List of EIC Accelerator Challenges Acceleration of advanced materials development and upscaling along the value chain Scaling SMEs belonging to the whole value chain of advanced materials and addressing one or more of these four key application areas: energy, mobility, electronics, construction.
Biotechnology driven low emission food and feed production systems Radically decreasing greenhouse gas emissions and the wider environmental footprint of the food production system requires further action on several fronts.
GenAI4EU: Creating European Champions in Generative AI To support start-ups and SMEs committed to bringing transformative AI-driven solutions to market, to safeguard human autonomy and enhance human expertise thus providing significant added value to decision-making processes, services or industrial workflows.
Innovative in-space servicing, operations, robotics and technologies for resilient EU space infrastructure To support companies developing cost-effective, scalable and resilient solutions to service and/or augment satellite capabilities, perform in-orbit refuelling, contribute to space debris reduction, and protect EU space infrastructure Breakthrough innovations for future mobility To support cost-effective and scalable deep tech breakthroughs that will help deliver reductions in mobility-related emissions.
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The European Innovation Council Pathfinder Challenge DeepRAP (Deep Reasoning, Abstraction, and Planning) funds breakthrough research in cognitive AI at the earliest technology readiness levels (TRL 1-3). Awards of up to EUR 4 million support projects exploring fundamental advances in AI reasoning, abstraction, and planning capabilities that go beyond current pattern-recognition approaches. The challenge seeks research into AI systems capable of genuine logical reasoning, abstract thought, hierarchical planning, and transfer learning across domains — capabilities that current large language models and deep learning systems struggle to achieve reliably. Projects should propose novel architectures, algorithms, or theoretical frameworks that could enable AI systems to reason about novel situations, form and manipulate abstract concepts, and plan complex multi-step strategies. Like other EIC Pathfinder challenges, this programme does not require large consortia, making it accessible to individual researchers, small teams, and startups. The deadline is October 28, 2026.
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