{"id":8021,"date":"2025-12-22T12:15:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T12:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/?p=8021"},"modified":"2026-03-09T13:18:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T13:18:02","slug":"epic-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/mt\/2025\/12\/22\/epic-x\/","title":{"rendered":"EPIC-X Acceleration+ Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Discover EPIC-X: Empowering Women-Led Deep-Tech Startups Across Europe!<\/p>\n<p>EPIC-X is a Horizon Europe acceleration initiative supporting women-led deep-tech startups from 16 \u201cmoderate\u201d and \u201cemerging\u201d innovator countries. It offers equity-free funding of \u20ac60,000 alongside a tailored 6-month Acceleration+ programme with expert mentoring, capacity-building sessions, networking, and demo day opportunities to help startups grow, connect, and scale across Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The EPIC-X Open Call for applications is open until 5 January 2026!<\/p>\n<p>Eligible startups must have at least a woman founder or C-level executive holding 25%+ ownership and have achieved product-market fit or seed funding.<\/p>\n<p>Prepare a strong application with the step-by-step tutorial video available on the EPIC-X website and YouTube channel: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mJKabNjCbY4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view the tutorial.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watch the Info Session to learn all about the call and application process here: <a href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2F8-5QrPjQc_o%3Fsi%3DdJ5RQWioDsYJoq6h&amp;data=05%7C02%7Ckevin.cassar.8%40gov.mt%7C1cef62458c924d88d28e08de413ce5e7%7C34cdd9f55db849bcacba01f65cca680d%7C0%7C0%7C639019927000757116%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=wg6nOduMszcI7m%2FccRmEpUDL7ZQjrdr6ruq46iuiu%2FE%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to watch the Info Session.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information or questions, contact:<\/p>\n<p>Alessandra Loria: <a href=\"mailto:alessandra.loria@gov.mt\">alessandra.loria@gov.mt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>EPIC-X team: <a href=\"mailto:general@epic-x.eu\">general@epic-x.eu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Explore the programme and apply now: <a href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fepic-x.eu%2Fopen-call%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7Ckevin.cassar.8%40gov.mt%7C1cef62458c924d88d28e08de413ce5e7%7C34cdd9f55db849bcacba01f65cca680d%7C0%7C0%7C639019927000858896%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=vfEDpH%2FMtYpy6l6PRERa%2Bz6A2PQnZXHcybrRJ%2Bu2dYk%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to apply now.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload  wp-image-8022 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/EPIC-X-OpenCall-FB_Web.png\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/EPIC-X-OpenCall-FB_Web.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"702\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27702%27%20height%3D%27468%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20702%20468%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27702%27%20height%3D%27468%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/EPIC-X-OpenCall-FB_Web-200x133.png 200w, https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/EPIC-X-OpenCall-FB_Web-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/EPIC-X-OpenCall-FB_Web-400x267.png 400w, https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/EPIC-X-OpenCall-FB_Web-600x400.png 600w, https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/EPIC-X-OpenCall-FB_Web.png 750w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 702px) 100vw, 702px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discover EPIC-X: Empowering Women-Led Deep-Tech Startups Across Europe! EPIC-X is a Horizon Europe acceleration initiative supporting women-led deep-tech startups from 16 \u201cmoderate\u201d and \u201cemerging\u201d innovator countries. It offers equity-free funding of \u20ac60,000 alongside a tailored 6-month Acceleration+ programme with expert mentoring, capacity-building sessions, networking, and demo day opportunities to help startups grow, connect, and scale<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-closed-funding-scheme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8021"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8025,"href":"https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8021\/revisions\/8025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}