ACCEND: ACCelerating EuropeaN Deeptech scale-ups

The overarching goal of ACCEND is to establish capabilities and processes that enable the project partners to conduct impactful and
exemplary cross-border startup accelerator programmes in Europe - to initiate and establish a long term cross-border startup acceleration
service ecosystem. It brings together and enriches a diverse and complementing array of deep tech acceleration services: support in
access to finance; advisory in the use of testbeds and living labs for business development; matchmaking with key public procurers of
innovation; and global growth coaching advisory targeting global scaleup pathways with go-to-market activities. ACCEND builds shared
understanding and trust between the project partners by collaboratively designing joint, distributed Cross-border Startup Accelerator
Services that builds on strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of each partner and their regional ecosystems; It conducts a
pilot programme named ACCEND Accelerator where these complementing services are delivered to a 100+ scale-up companies, aiming
towards opening the regional services and funding borders, as well as global markets for these startups.