EIC Transition Open
EIC Transition 2026 · HORIZON-EIC · TRL 3–6 · Can apply alone
What this call funds
This funding helps teams take a technology that has already been proven to work in the lab and get it ready for the real world. It pays for further development, testing and prototyping, plus work on building a viable business plan, protecting IP, and navigating regulation, so the innovation is ready for investors and commercialisation.
deep tech · research excellence · sme scaleup
Who wins this
A single organisation or small consortium that has already completed an earlier EU-funded project reaching early proof-of-concept and now needs to mature the technology and business case toward market readiness.
Could you win this call?
We read your site to see what you build.
The call in detail
- Indicative grant size
- €500k–€2.5M
- Funding model
- Lump sum — paid per completed work package, no financial reporting of actual costs
- Submission
- Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
- Type of action
- HORIZON EIC Grants
- Partners
- Not required. You can apply on your own.
- Also required
- Proposals must build on results from a previous eligible project that reached at least TRL3 and no further than completed TRL4; applicants may be a single entity, a two-partner consortium, or a 3-5 partner consortium with entities from different Member States/Associated Countries.
- Eligible countries (45)
- Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, United Kingdom, IL, TR, UA, RS, MK, ME, AL, BA, XK, GE, AM, MD, TN, NZ
Read the full conditions from the official call ›
General conditions 1. Admissibility conditions: Proposal page limit and layout Proposals must build on results already achieved within an eligible project that are, at least, at experimental proof of concept (applications must have completed all elements of Technology Readiness Level 3) and should not be beyond TRL4, i.e. that all elements of TRL4 have already been completed. Proposals building on project results at other TRLs level are not eligible. For more information on eligible projects, please consult the EIC Work Programme 2026 and the EIC Transition website. You can apply for EIC Transition either as: - A single legal entity established in a Member State or an Associated Country (‘mono-beneficiary’) - A small consortium of two independent legal entities from two different Member States or Associated Countries or - A consortium of minimum three and maximum five independent legal entities (‘multi-beneficiary’) following standard rules i.e. must include at least one legal entity established in a Member State and at least two other independent legal entities, each established in different Member States or Associated Countries. The standard admissibility and eligibility conditions as well as the eligibility of applicants from third countries are detailed in Annex 2 of the EIC Work Programme 2026. Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System. Sections 1 to 3 and the cover page (that includes the information about the related project on which the current EIC Transition proposal is built on) of the part B of your proposal, corresponding respectively to the evaluation criteria Excellence, Impact, and Quality and Efficiency of the Implementation, must consist of a maximum of 22 A4 pages. Excess pages will be automatically made invisible, and will not be taken into consideration by the evaluators. Please also consult Annex 2 of the EIC Work Programme 2026. 2. Eligible countries described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes. A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide. The eligibility of applicants from third countries is explained Annex 2 of the EIC Work Programme 2026. 3. Other Eligibility Conditions The EIC Transition is restricted to proposals based on results generated by the eligible projects described in the EIC Work Programme 2026. 4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion Described in Annex 2 of the EIC Work Programme 2026. 5a. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds Described in section III of the EIC Work Programme 2026. 5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes Described in section III of the EIC Work Programme 2026 and the Online Manual. 5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement Described in section III of the EIC Work Programme 2026. 6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants Please refer to the Model Grant Agreement (MGA) used for EIC actions under Horizon Europe. Specific conditions Described in the EIC Work Programme 2026. EIC Work Programme 2026 EIC Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
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