Methodology

How EUACC verifies and ranks EU funding

Every figure on EUACC traces to an official EU source and is re-verified weekly. Here's exactly how we keep it accurate, how we judge whether a programme fits your startup, and why nothing here is pay-to-play.

Accuracy

How we keep the data current

EUACC is a single, structured database — not a pile of hand-written pages. Every programme amount, deadline, TRL band, eligibility rule and success rate lives as a verified field, and the site renders directly from it, so what you read is what we last verified.

An automated review runs continuously and re-checks every figure against its authoritative EU source on a weekly cadence, replacing any past deadline with the next real cut-off and flagging anything that has changed. Open calls are pulled live from the EU Funding & Tenders Portal, so "what's open now" is real, not remembered.

Sources

Where the numbers come from

We only publish a figure we can trace to an official source: the European Commission's Funding & Tenders Portal, the European Innovation Council, HaDEA, the EIF, and the EU's Digital Innovation Hub network. Industry knowledge is used for context; specific amounts, deadlines and rates are not.

See our full data-sources list →

Fit

How we judge whether a programme fits you

When EUACC (or its AI assistant) recommends a programme for your startup, it weighs five things — in roughly this order of importance:

01
Eligibility matchDoes the startup meet the hard gates — entity type, country, company age, TRL band, consortium rules? A programme you cannot apply to is never surfaced as a fit.
02
TRL fitWhere the technology sits on the TRL scale vs the programme's funded range (e.g. EIC Accelerator funds TRL 5–8, Pathfinder TRL 1–4).
03
Funding type vs needGrant vs blended finance vs equity vs loan — matched to whether the founder needs non-dilutive money, investment, or both.
04
Deadline proximityWhether a real, open cut-off exists in a usable timeframe — pulled live from the EU Funding & Tenders Portal, never assumed.
05
Realistic oddsThe programme's actual success rate, stated plainly, so a 3% lottery is not dressed up as a sure thing.
Independence

Why nothing here is pay-to-play

No programme, fund or incubator pays to be listed, ranked higher, or recommended. EUACC carries no paid placement on funding data and takes no affiliate commission on EU grants. All programme, investor and incubator information is free to browse, in 24 EU languages, with no signup wall.

We make money by helping founders do the work — finding the right funding and drafting strong applications with our AI — not by selling visibility to the programmes themselves.

Corrections

Found something wrong?

If a figure looks off, tell us and we'll re-verify against the source and correct it. Accuracy is the whole product — a wrong deadline helps no one. Ask the AI or flag it here →