EIT Food Seedbed Incubator
Usually opens in January and March
Projected from the months this call usually opens — not a date the funder has confirmed.
Projected from the pattern of past calls — confirm on the funder's page before planning around it.
Pre-incubation programme for researchers and very early founders. Participants receive a travel/validation stipend and a market-validation curriculum; equity-free. Stipend amounts set per edition.
You must co-fund 0%.
EIT Food
ppp · supranational
Deadline: annual_call — Annual intake, usually with applications closing in the first months of the year.
This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.
Quick — mostly identity and bank details.
Who can apply
- Sectors: agri
- Stage: idea, pre_seed
- Locally registered entity required
Open to researchers, PhD students and pre-incorporation teams with an agrifood idea, as well as very early-stage companies.
Source. https://www.eitfood.eu/programmes/seedbed-incubator — checked 2026-08-14 · not human-checked