Earlier this week, the European Innovation Council (EIC) has announced that it is migrating to the electronic submission system hosted on the Funding and Tender Opportunities Portal (FTOP) and that the previous EIC Artificial Intelligence Platform used for applying to the EIC Accelerator scheme is not accessible anymore, due to a contractual dispute.
As an emergency measure, the EIC has restructured EIC Accelerator application forms on FTOP and will continue to improve them. Companies that have already worked on their application for full (Step 2) proposals for the EIC Accelerator cut-off on 7 June 2023 were already informed and received their draft application documents by e-mail. They will be able to continue their application on FTOP with immediate effect, using the Portal’s application forms.
To guarantee equal treatment in the evaluation process, companies that have already submitted a full (Step 2) application on the EIC AI Platform will need to re-submit it. These companies will also receive their application as submitted on the EIC AI Platform by e-mail.
To accommodate this significant change for applicants, the deadline for submissions for the 7 June 2023 cut-off has been delayed with two weeks until 21 June 2023 (17:00 Brussels time).
Further information about the EIC Accelerator scheme for companies is available in UKRO’s dedicated factsheet (link in the “Related content” section).