EIT Community Booster

Four companies will each receive (1) a €25,000 prize to accelerate their growth and (2) a tailored package of supporting services valued at €25,000. Total grant per startup is €50,000.

Supporting services will include:

• Training activities.
• Advice from experts and climate coaches.
• One-to-one support by a mentor.
• Access to EIT Climate KIC’s ecosystem of cities, corporations, investors, SMEs, Universities and research institutions.
• Access to NEB startups and projects, as well as key NEB stakeholders.

Early-stage startups developing scalable solutions with high potential to make an impact on climate issues  through the specific NEB challenges indicates and bringing in their products/solutions the three dimensions of NEB: sustainability (including circularity), quality of experience (including aesthetics) and inclusion (including accessibility and affordability).

• Growth stage: pre-seed, seed
• Eligibility criteria:
  • already have PoC/Alpha/Beta/prototype,  
  • less than 5 years old, 
  • incorporated and based in the EU 27 or in one of the Horizon Europe associated countries,
  • Accepting and engaging EIT Climate-KIC’s Services-for-Equity Agreement (SFEA) acting as sustainable financial mechanism.

1. Green transition through architectural, cultural, and historic sites:  

• Natural building materials and energy efficiency, including refurbishment of existing, historic buildings.
• Sustainable alternatives for hardscapes as urban spaces, naturalisation of degraded public areas, green areas, biodiversity, green and blue infrastructures, and urban furniture as assets promoting active mobility, improving citizen well-being, and mitigating heat island effects.
• Urban farming and regenerative agriculture to reduce emissions and foster the relationship between city and farmer.

2. Towards circularity and urban resilience: 

• Enhancement of public realm, accessibility, and interconnection through active mobility modalities, to mitigate air pollution and noise, and improve physical and mental health.

3. Ensuring affordability and accessibility to all:  

• Energy communities to ensure comfort living at affordable prices through multi-disciplinary retrofitting teams.
• Shift from building-centric to community-centric approach in providing telecommunications, data, energy, water, waste.
• Upgrade historic and old buildings to meet new energy efficiency requirements whilst preserving their significance and sense of belonging within the community. 
• Universal mobility as a key enabler for social inclusion. Everyone should be able to move freely within cities regardless gender, race, beliefs, or disability (barrier free access).

• Make sure to read the program’s factsheet for more information about the prize, topics and eligibility criteria:

Factsheet

• Learn more about EIT Climate-KIC initiatives
• Read the programme’s Terms & Conditions
• If you have any questions please contact the New European Bauhaus Climate Acceleration Programme via natalia.vera@climate-kic.org; christine.roehrer@climate-kic.org 

The best 4 companies will receive a full year of tailored international growth support by the EIT Digital Accelerator worth €50,000 to scale up their business.

• Raise your next Series A or Series B funding round from European investors in a faster and smarter way with the support of the Access to Finance team
• Expand your market share, reach new customers and grow your international footprint with the support of the Access to Market team
• Leverage the Pan-European network of top European corporations, investors, SMEs, universities and research institutions.
• Gain international visibility through EIT Digital communication channels.

Fast-growing European ‘deep tech’ startups in growth stage (scaleups) with a differentiating product offering that leverages sophisticated, hard-to-reproduce digital technologies. Ideally you are looking to raise Series A or B funding in the near future and/or expand your market presence in Europe.

• Growth stage: scaleup
• Eligibility criteria:
  • Incorporated after 01/01/2011
  • Headquarter is based in the EU 27 or in one of the Horizon Europe associated countries.
  • The company must meet one of these financial parameters to be eligible:
    • Min. €300,000 annual revenue (2020) OR
    • Min. €300,000 revenues (in 2021 until 30 June 2021) OR
    • €2,000,0000 of total funding.

Digital Industry: digital solutions for energy efficiency, sustainability, transparency and resource optimisation in manufacturing, logistics, supply chain, retail.

Digital Cities: digital solutions to make city operations more efficient, improve city infrastructure and urban mobility, and enhance the quality of experience for citizens.

Digital Wellbeing: digital solutions for prevention & rehabilitation, coping with chronic conditions, diagnosis, monitoring and healthy lifestyle.

Digital Tech: digital solutions for efficiency and improvement if existing infrastructures; security & privacy of citizens.

Digital Finance: digital solutions improving access to financial services for communications and businesses, affordability, risk mitigation.

• Make sure to read the program’s factsheet for more information about the prize, topics and eligibility criteria:

Factsheet

• Read programme’s Terms & Conditions
• If you have any questions please contact accelerator@eitdigital.eu

The best 4 companies will receive 6 months of tailored international acceleration support by the EIT Food FAN worth €50,000 to accelerate their growth and impact.

• Build entrepreneurial skills, benefit from mentoring and gain exposure to your market, potential customers, investors and media.
• Become part of the Pan-European network of world-class industry, academic and research institutions.
• Benefit from the access to facilities such as labs, pilot sites, agricultural land.
• Gain international visibility through EIT Food communication channels.

Agri-food startups that are set to make a big impact on any part of the agriculture or food supply chain thus committed to building a healthier, more trusted and sustainable food system.

• Growth stage: pre-seed, seed
• Eligibility criteria:
  • customer validation,
  • early traction,
  • technology readiness,
  • incorporated and based in the EU 27 or one of the Horizon Europe, associated countries.

Green transition through architectural, cultural, and historic sites:
Urban farming and regenerative agriculture to reduce emissions and foster the relationship between city and farmer.

Towards circularity and urban resilience:
Circular economy through actions sticking to the principles of the food waste hierarchy and efficient reutilization of bio-products and bio waste, achieving emissions and waste reduction and fostering the second life of products.

Ensuring affordability and accessibility to all:
Solutions to ensure all people have access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food and to support citizens in acquiring an active and healthy lifestyle, including a healthy diet.

• Make sure to read the program’s factsheet for more information about the prize, topics and eligibility criteria:

Factsheet

• Read programme’s Terms & Conditions
• If you have any questions please contact FANFrance@eitfood.eu

Four companies will be selected to receive a €15,000 cash prize to accelerate their growth in addition to a tailored package of access to market and access to finance services, valued at €35,000 and provided by EIT Manufacturing’s Business Creation team.

In addition to the €15,000 cash prize, the four selected companies will be able to:

• Benefit from tailored access to market support to help you reach new customers and expand into new geographies.
• Receive tailored access to finance support to prepare for fundraising, potential financing consideration by EIT Manufacturing, and introductions to VCs and early-stage funding opportunities.
• Leverage EIT Manufacturing’s network of more than 60 pan-European partners from industry, academia and RTOs and access to participate in EIT Manufacturing’s broader portfolio of activities and programmes.
• Gain international visibility through EIT Manufacturing’s communication channels.

Innovative startups actively looking to grow and enhance their business development efforts or raise venture funding now or in the near future.

• Growth stage: pre-seed, seed
• Eligibility criteria:
  • are actively looking to grow
  • have demonstrated meaningful customer traction
  • have been operative for more than one year
  • have a dedicated full-time team with a headquarters incorporated in any EU or Horizon Europe associated country
  • are looking to enhance and complement their business development efforts
  • are currently or will in the future be looking for access to finance from equity partners

Green manufacturing

• Low environmental footprint solutions
• Solutions related to decarbonizing manufacturing processes and maintenance
• ‘Locally’ manufactured and delivered solutions
• Circular economy solutions
• Urban manufacturing solutions

Socially sustainable manufacturing

• Efficiencies related to manufacturing processes and maintenance
• Human-machine co-working and automation solutions
• Agile, flexible, and resilient supply chains
• Inclusiveness and quality of experience (including aesthetics) in manufacturing processes and solutions

• Make sure to read the program’s factsheet for more information about the prize, topics and eligibility criteria:

Factsheet

• Read programme’s Terms & Conditions
• If you have any questions please contact business.creation@eitmanufacturing.eu

The 4 best companies will receive €50.000 worth of acceleration services and benefit from:

• Individualized business coaching, training and mentoring by industry experts and experienced founders.
• Validation of your market and technology with access to a network of living labs
• Finding your product-market fit.
• Scaling your business, driving growth and internationalisation.
• Investor pitch coaching and potential contacts with investors and VC funds.
• Access to EIT Urban Mobility network of cities, mobility players and investors.
• International visibility through the EIT Urban Mobility communication channels.

Startups with a properly validated, clear, scalable and innovative business idea that solves a mobility-related customer problem.

• Growth stage: pre-seed, seed
• Eligibility criteria:  
  • validated technology,
  • min 1 billion addressable market,
  • min 2 FTEs,
  • less than €1M revenue (lifetime),
  • at least 70% of company is owned by founders & employees, no more than 5% shares are held outside of eligible countries.
  • Incorporated and based in the EU 27 or one of the Horizon Europe associated countries.

• Sustainable alternatives for hardscapes as urban spaces, naturalization of degraded public areas, green areas, biodiversity, green and blue infrastructures, and urban furniture as assets promoting active mobility, improving citizen well-being, and mitigating heat island effects.
• Enhancement of public realm, accessibility, and interconnection through active modes, to mitigate air pollution and improve physical and mental health.
• Universal mobility as a key enabler for social inclusion. Everyone should be able to move freely within the city regardless gender, race, beliefs, or disability (barrier-free access).

• Make sure to read the program’s factsheet for more information about the prize, topics and eligibility criteria:

Factsheet

• Read programme’s Terms & Conditions
• If you have any questions please contact business.creation@eiturbanmobility.eu