Start-up Accelerator

EIT Regional Innovation Scheme (RIS) Edition
August - November 2017

Application deadline extended until 5 July 2017, 5 pm CET!

The Climate-KIC Accelerator is the only EU accelerator programme focused on climate impact by cleantech commercialisation - now coming to more regions across Europe!

Get access to an extensive international network, great education, intensive coaching, and substantial financial support.

This edition of our start-up Accelerator is open for applications for start-ups in our EIT Regional Innovation Scheme (EIT RIS) countries:

• Bulgaria • Cyprus • Estonia

• Latvia • Malta • Portugal

• Romania • Serbia • Slovenia

You can also apply if you are located in any of the following countries, but you have to make sure that you can attend all compulsory programme components in one of the above nine countries: Croatia, Czech Republic, Greece, Lithuania, Slovakia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro.

Climate-KIC Accelerator: where great ideas grow into great businesses

Can’t see your country? Check out this page to see if you can still join:

www.climate-kic.org/accelerator

What is in it for you?

Financial support between 15,000 and 25,000 EUR per team

Expert coaching, pitch training and workshops

Mentoring and networking

Bootcamps

Access to Climate-KIC partners and network

The EIT Regional Innovation Scheme (EIT RIS) is Climate-KIC's outreach programme to increase the innovation capacity of European regions that don’t yet benefit directly from the EIT and its Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs).

The programme connects Climate-KIC with selected partnerships from business, higher education and research, as well as regional policy-makers, public entities and other stakeholders to spur innovation in Europe.

About EIT RIS

We are looking for innovators with breakthrough ideas to counter climate change.

If you are an early-stage startup (up to three years) or you are working as a team and want to create a startup based around a new technology or service with high potential for both commercial viability and climate impact, then this is the right place for you!

Every year, Climate-KIC Accelerator supports over 150 startups in Europe, and this number is still growing. Have a look at our startups and see how you compare:

www.climate-kic.org/start-ups

Climate-KIC Accelerator is Europe’s largest cleantech accelerator for early stage startups. It is focused upon getting startups ready for their first investors and customers and helps them scale their business.

Who we are looking for

What is it all about?

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Stage 3: Onwards to Investment and Scaling

Stage 2: Business Model Validation & First Customers

The journey to an investible and scalable startup takes you through three stages, each with a special focus.

The Start-up Journey

The first stage of the Accelerator is intended to help early-stage Startups refine and develop their specific USP and business model. Here the first prototype can be finalised and assistance is provided to obtain industry feedback.

The second stage of the Accelerator builds on the first stage and helps move startups with a well-formulated business model to the next phase: validation and customer acquisition. Here again startups have access to grants and services but also funds to cover other materials that are required to help develop the business. Teams can now focus on acquiring their first customers and an iterative process of business model validation whilst receiving continuing support from expert coaches and mentors and participating in programme activities and workshops.