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EIT Food Seedbed Incubator

Status

Usually opens in January and March

Projected from the months this call usually opens — not a date the funder has confirmed.

Closed

Projected from the pattern of past calls — confirm on the funder's page before planning around it.

Amount
Not published

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%.

Funder

EIT Food

ppp · supranational

Deadline: One call a year — Annual intake, usually with applications closing in the first months of the year.

Your odds
Not published

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.

Effort
quick

Quick — mostly identity and bank details.

Who can apply

Open to researchers, PhD students and pre-incorporation teams with an agrifood idea, as well as very early-stage companies.

Related reading: How grant deadlines actually work

Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://www.eitfood.eu/programmes/seedbed-incubator · not human-checked

Verified on 14 August 2026

Source: www.eitfood.eu

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