Grants for developing innovation in Europe, in particular high-risk innovation in disruptive technologies and better integration of actors in innovation ecosystems.
Priorities and funded actions
The strand “European Innovation Council” aims to identify, develop and deploy high risk innovations of all kind with a particular focus on breakthrough, market-creating and deep-tech innovations. It aims to support the rapid scale up of innovative technologies and companies (mainly start-ups and SMEs) at EU and international level along the pathway from ideas to market.
Objectives:
- Supporting impact-oriented companies of which over 90% addressing Sustainable Development Goals;
- Crowding in of co-investments and follow-up investments in EIC funded companies of 3-5 times the level of EIC funding;
- Effectively promoting the bridging of research to deployment across EIC activities;
- Improving gender balance and promoting women innovators;
- Improving balance across geographical regions and in particular the ‘widening’ countries defined in Horizon Europe
Structure:
Open Funding
- EIC Pathfinder Open
- EIC Transition Open
- EIC Accelerator Open
EIC Strategic challenges
- EIC Pathfinder Challenges
- EIC Transition Challenges
- EIC Accelerator Challenges
EIC Prizes
- EU Prize for Women Innovators
- The European Capital of Innovation Awards (iCapital)
- The European Innovation Procurement Awards
- The European Social Innovation Competition
EIC Community and Business Acceleration Services
- EIC Business Acceleration Services global offer
Other Actions
Among financed actions:
- Testing
- Prototyping
- Validation, demonstration and testing under industrial conditions
- Replication in the market
- Market studies
Contact
Stéphane Ouaki
+32-229-67286
https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/research-and-innovation
European Innovation Council (EIC) (RTD.A.EISMEA.E)
European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA)