FAQs

A year filled with tools, guidance, experiences and acquaintances to turn your innovative idea into a viable business. Next to us you’ll find:

1. Hospitality, support and tools – Business incubation.
2. Training, mentoring, financing opportunities – Acceleration.
3. Networking with other teams and potential clients – Coworking.

Find out all about the tools you get through egg – enter•grow•go.

You participate free of charge in the ENTER Phase. You apply without paying anything.

If you qualify to the GROW Phase, you pay €45,00 per month (participation fee) for the 12 months of support and an additional €45,00 per month (rental fee) in case you want to reserve a separate workspace in egg premises for your team (either for use as the main headquarters of the company, or as a branch office, or as the headquarters of its subsidiary). It is a token amount to use the egg –enter•grow•go facilities.

At the end of each cycle, along with the other teams you choose a charity to donate a large amount of the money collected from your payments. Our teams have donated more than €100,000 to charity from 2013 to 2023.

In addition, in case the startup secures potential investment funding, during its participation in the egg Start-Up Platform, in the form of investment capital, the participants owe three point seventy-five percent (3,75%) as a symbolic success fee.

That fee will be distributed for the further strengthening of the egg Start-Up services to the participants (e.g. extroversion, networking, etc.) as well as for public benefit purposes, selected by the participating startups.

Yes. You will find out about all available financing programmes. Choose the financing that is tailored to the needs of your business, e.g. bank borrowing, subsidies, equity funding, crowdfunding.

Find out all about startup financing at egg – enter•grow•go.

We help you network with:

• Potential clients and associates for your products and services through the egg extroversion programme.
• Investors to finance your startup.
• Alumni of egg – enter•grow•go who have already been in the same position as you and understand your concerns.

The egg – enter•grow•go building is located on 75 Thessalonikis & Florinis Str, Moschato.

The egg building is easily accessible by public transport.

At least 1 member of your team must attend all the seminars and lectures.

Your daily presence at the egg - enter • grow • go premises is not a basic requirement for your participation in the GROW phase, as most of our initiatives are supported online. However, we want you to make use of most of the services we provide you.

Email us: info@theegg.gr

We’ll be happy to answer all your questions.

No. Students are also eligible.

You must be studying at a public or private higher education institute, in Greece or abroad.

Find out all the terms and conditions for participating in egg – enter•grow•go.

An innovative idea:

• Meets an essential market need.
• Offers an opportunity to a satisfactory segment of the market.
• Has a competitive edge over the competition.

We particularly support plans that:

• Contribute to the extroversion of the Greek economy.
• Use new technologies and innovations.

Any industry. There are no limits. You just need an idea that is innovative.

When you apply, choose the industry that is closest to your idea from the list of industries.

You can submit your business plan as an individual entry. However, we encourage applications from teams that have already forged relationships between them, and have delegated roles and responsibilities.

For participating in egg – enter•grow•go, the existence of a legal entity is not considered as inhibitory factor.

Find out all the terms and conditions for participating in egg – enter•grow•go.

You can combine egg – enter•grow•go with any funding programme you want.

Find out all the terms and conditions for participating in egg – enter•grow•go.

Of course you can submit more than one business idea to the same evaluation process.

Find out all the terms and conditions for participating in egg – enter•grow•go.

You can try again if you had:

• Applied, but had not qualified to the GROW Phase.
• Participated in the GROW Phase, but have made some strategic change to your business plan (pivot).

Find out all the terms and conditions for participating in egg – enter•grow•go.

You cannot enter egg – enter•grow•go if you:

• Participated in the GROW Phase of a previous cycle with the exact same product or service.
• Do not meet the terms and conditions for participating in egg – enter•grow•go.
• Do not have the capacity to perform legal acts.

Yes. You cannot apply in any other way.

Find out step-by-step how to fill in your application form.

Apply online on the egg – enter•grow•go website:

1. Register and create your profile.
2. Fill in your application form.
3. Attach your business plan and the necessary solemn declarations.

Find out step-by-step how to fill in your application form.

For each member you fill in their:

• Full name
• email and phone number
• Date of birth
• ID card no.
• Role in the team

For each additional member, choose Add new member.

Yes, you can save your application as a draft at any time.

You can log in to your profile and make changes as many times as you like before you submit it.

However, for your application to be valid, you must submit it by the date stated in the Call for proposals.

For your application to be eligible, you must:

• Fill in all the fields of the application.
• Prepare and attach your business plan and the solemn declarations, in line with the strict specifications we give you.
• Submit it by the date stated in the Call for proposals.
• Meet all the terms and conditions for entry.

Yes, once you submit your application, the confirmation message and application number appear on the screen.

You also receive an email with the same information.

Check your Spam or Junk folder.

If it’s not there, email us at info@theegg.gr.

You prepare it according to the strict specifications we give you and you attach it to your online application.

Find out step-by-step how to prepare your business plan.

Follow the business plan template we give you. It includes:

1. Specific sections that cover the 3 assessment criteria.
2. An annex with the solemn declarations and any tables or diagrams you consider necessary.

Find out how to prepare your business plan.

Your business plan must be:

• Up to 8 pages long – The page margins must be 2.5 cm. You may add 1 cover page for your business plan and as many pages as you need for the annex.
• PDF or Word file, not over 10MB.

Find out how to prepare your business plan.

If you are using Microsoft Office 2007 or later version, choose Save as... PDF when saving your document.

Otherwise you can use a free online service:

• www.freepdfconvert.com
• http://createpdf.adobe.com
• www.dopdf.com

Yes. In your business plan annex, you may include tables, diagrams or any other information you consider necessary.

However, you can only attach 1 file to your application.

It makes no difference. You may fill it in either online or by hand.

You need to sign it at a Citizens Service Centre (KEP) or a police station, to get your signature validated, and then digitise your solemn declaration. 

Alternatively, you can get your signature validated through the Unified Digital Portal of Public Administration (gov.gr).

Scan the solemn declaration that you had validated at a Citizens Service Centre (KEP) or a police station and include it in your business plan annex.

Otherwise take a photo of it with your mobile phone and add it as a low-resolution file.

Yes, you must include 1 solemn declaration for each member of your team in your business plan annex.

Find out how to submit a solemn declaration.

They follow the same steps.

However, the signatures of all the team members living abroad must be validated by the Greek Consulate in their country of residence.

Find out how to submit a solemn declaration.

They must sign a Declaration of Honour. Their signature does not have to be validated.

Email us at info@theegg.gr to receive the relevant form.

Your business plan is rated based on 3 criteria:

• Is your idea innovative?
• Can you and your team put it into action?
• Is your plan for the initial period doable?

Find out how to prepare your business plan.

1. We check whether your application meets the main requirements.
2. Two experienced assessors study separately the business plan you submitted along with your application. They rate it based on transparent criteria.
3. We invite your team for an interview. You have 10 minutes to pitch your business plan to the assessors. There is no limit to the number of business plans that will be included in the GROW phase.

Find out all about how we assess your business idea.

Submitted business plan

Each of the 2 assessors rates you on a scale of 1 to 10 based on 3 assessment criteria and calculates the average score.

The average of the 2 assessors’ scores is your final score.

You need at least a score of 6 to qualify to the next round.

Your interview

Each assessor rates you on a scale of 1 to 10 for all 3 assessment criteria overall.

The average of the assessors’ scores is your final score.

Our goal is to qualify as many teams as possible that we can host at the egg - enter • grow • go premises.

The only criterion for selecting the final number of teams is the score that their business plan receives during the assessment.

No, setting up a company is not mandatory.

However, without a corporate legal entity (excluding sole proprietorships) you will not have access to all the egg services provided, such as Financing Tools and Business Networking.

You must move to the egg – enter•grow•go building. You may choose to:

• Transfer your company’s registered office.
• Open up a branch at our building.
• Establish a subsidiary with a registered office at our building.

You will have our support and guidance for all these.

Find out when you cannot participate if you have already set up a company.

Yes, you keep in full your copyright and any other rights associated with your business plan and results.

We keep all the information you submit confidential, whether you qualify to the GROW Phase or not.

Only as part of carrying out, promoting and advertising the programme, and provided you approve all the texts we wish to use.

That’s why we ask for permission to use and promote the progress of your business plan and any achievements for a period of 5 years from the date of your application to egg – enter•grow•go.

If you want, you can patent your business plan before entering egg – enter•grow•go. Find out what applies for this in the Call for proposals.

Whatever the case may be, during the GROW Phase, we encourage you to patent it and help you through the process.

You may apply provided you:

1. Are between 18 and 65 years old and can legally reside in Greece.
2. Are a graduate of or are enrolled in a public or private higher education institute in Greece or abroad.

Find out all the terms and conditions for participating in egg – enter•grow•go.

The deadline for submitting the application for the 12th year of egg – enter•grow•go expires on 13.05.2024 at 23:59.

No applications will be accepted after this date.

Find out how to submit your application for egg – enter•grow•go.

You can submit your application online until Monday 13th May 2024 at 23:59 (GMT+3).

In case the application period is about to be extended, you will be informed by egg - enter • grow • go.