--- title: "EIC Accelerator Challenge – strategic digital and health technologies call" description: "The EIC Accelerator Challenges supports companies (principally start-ups and SMEs) to scale up high-impact innovations with the potential to create new markets or disrupt existing ones in identified areas of strategic relevance." url: https://idconsortium.com/news/eic-accelerator-challenge-strategic-digital-health-technologies date: 2021-05-07 modified: 2022-03-04 author: "Rubén Gil" image: https://idconsortium.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/IDConsortium-News_Horizon-Europe-eic-accelerator-challenge-strategic-digital-health-technologies-bg-01.jpg categories: ["News"] tags: ["companies", "EIC", "Europe", "Horizon Europe", "impact", "innovation", "market", "support"] type: post lang: en --- # EIC Accelerator Challenge – strategic digital and health technologies call ### NEWS | [Horizon Europe](https://idconsortium.com/programs/horizon-europe) > # EIC Accelerator Challenge – strategic digital and health technologies call ## The EIC Accelerator Challenges supports companies (principally start-ups and SMEs) to scale up high-impact innovations with the potential to create new markets or disrupt existing ones in identified areas of strategic relevance. 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