FAQs

Tools, guidance, experiences and contacts that 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 startups and potential clients – Coworking.

Find out all about the tools you get through egg.

Your application to participate in the assessment process is free of charge.

 If you qualify, you pay €45,00 per month (participation fee) for the 12 months of support, which is readjusted to €90,00 per month from the second year until the expiration of our five-year covenant. Furthermore, in case you wish to reserve a distinctive working space at the egg premises for your team (either for the main headquarters of the company, or as a branch, or as the headquarters of its subsidiary) you pay an additional €90,00 per month (rental fee) for the first 12 months, which is readjusted to €120,00 per month from the second year onwards (post-acceleration platform).

In addition, in case the startup secures funding in the form of investment funds and/or through a commercial agreement with clients/strategic partners during its participation in the acceleration and post-acceleration platforms, the participants undertake to pay a success fee of four point seventy-five percent (4.75%).

That fee will be used to further enhance the services provided by the egg Accelerator to the Business Teams (e.g. extroversion, networking, etc.).

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.

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 startups which have already been found in the same position as you and understand your concerns.

The egg building is located on 75 Thessalonikis & Florinis Str, Moschato.

The egg building is easily accessible by public transport, as well as to people with disabilities.

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

Your daily presence at the egg premises is not a basic requirement for your participation in the egg Accelerator, as most of our initiatives are taking place 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.

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 the egg Accelerator, the existence of a legal entity is not considered as inhibitory factor.

Find out all the terms and conditions in the Standing Call for the Expression of Interest.

You can combine egg with any funding program you wish.

Find out all the terms and conditions.

Of course you can submit more than one business idea to the same application round.

Find out all the terms and conditions.

You can try again if you had:

• Applied, but had not qualified to the final phase of induction..
• Participated in the egg Accelerator in the past, but you have recently made a strategic pivot in your business plan.

Find out all the terms and conditions.

You cannot participate in the egg Accelerator if you:

• Participated in acceleration/post-acceleration platforms of a previous year with the exact same product or service.
• Do not meet the terms and conditions.
• Do not have legal capacity to undertake binding legal commitments.

Yes. You cannot apply in any other way.

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

Apply online to the egg 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 Standing Call.

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.

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 verification, and then digitise your Declaration of Honour. 

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

Scan the Declaration of Honour that you have verified at a Citizens Service Centre (KEP) or a police station and include it in the Annex of your business plan.

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

Yes, you must include 1 Declaration of Honour for each member of your team in the Annex of your business plan.

Find out how to submit the Declaration of Honour.

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. From each distinctive application process, approximately 25-30 business plans are finally accepted in the egg Accelerator.

Find out all about how we evaluate 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.

From each distinctive application process, approximately 25-30 business plans are finally accepted in the egg Accelerator.

The only criterion for the final selection is the score that the business plan receive during the assessment process.

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 have the option to settle in the egg 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.

For all the above options, you have our full support and guidance.

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 in the egg Accelerator or not.

Only as part of carrying out, promoting and advertising the business plan, and if you approve first all the content we wish to use.

That’s why we ask for permission to use and promote the progress of your business plan and any other achievements for a 5-year period since the date of your application to egg platforms.

If you want, you can patent your business plan before participating in one of the available egg platforms. Find out what applies for this in the Standing Call.

Whatever the case may be, 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.

Take a look at the terms and conditions of the Standing Call for the Expression of Interest for egg Accelerator.

The deadline for submitting your application to the egg Accelerator expires on 29.09.2025, at 23:59.

After this date, the application platform will open in December 2025.

Find out how to submit your application.

You can submit your application online until Monday 29th September 2025 at 23:59 (GMT+2).

In case the application period is about to be extended, you will be informed soon.