EU-LAC Digital Accelerator 2025 (up to €10,500 in grants) – YOA

Deadline: October 31, 2025

Applications are open for the EU-LAC Digital Accelerator 2025. Are you constructing a world digital answer with a companion from Europe, Latin America, or the Caribbean? Join the EU-LAC Digital Accelerator Open Call for transatlantic partnerships.

The EU-LAC Digital Accelerator is a 6-month acceleration programme to assist company-startup and company-SME partnerships – from the European Union (EU), Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) – attain their digital innovation targets.

You will initially profit from providers to speed up your company-startup partnership:

• Roadmapping: definition of the plan and providers to obtain your partnership targets.
• Proof of idea: danger mitigation earlier than scaling up your digital options by operating PoCs and testing prototypes.
• Business case: definition of what you are promoting mannequin and IP coverage, in addition to market evaluation to enter a brand new continent or area.
• Investment & Scaling: evaluation and enchancment of your scaling capability in a company construction and your funding readiness.

Benefits

The EU-LAC Digital Accelerator gives varied grants to chosen startups and SMEs:

• PoC growth grant (€7,000): adaptation, integration, and testing of the digital answer.
• Travel grant (max. €2,000): transport and lodging prices for PoC execution on the company’s premises.
• Equipment transportation grant (max. €1,500): tools transportation wanted for actual-setting testing.

Eligibility

• Both companions have to belong to one in all these areas: European Union, Latin America, Caribbean.
  N.B. Partnership members must be from totally different areas. For occasion, a Peruvian startup or SME would solely have the opportunity to apply with a European or Caribbean company.
• You have to be 2 companions for 1 application: at the very least 1 company and 1 startup or SME.
• The making use of company-startup partnership ought to handle a digital transformation problem.

Application

• Read the Guide for Applicants to be sure you adjust to the eligibility standards.
• Apply by way of this form (it ought to take you round 10 minutes).

For extra data, go to EU-LAC Digital Accelerator.