About
The EIC Community Programme aims to gather EIC Community members in a space where they can share their experiences, providing access to peer-learning workshops and tailor-made training activities. Within this scope, the EIC Community Programme has several initiatives, such as:
- EIC Winter/Summer Schools
Dedicated intensive school sessions where the EIC community has the opportunity of receiving in-depth training about a certain business topic (e.g.: marketing, GDPR & IP, negotiations skills). At the Winter or Summer School, EIC beneficiaries are invited to learn in a cooperative setting, with open discussions between speakers and participants.
- EIC Community Talks
These are one-time events dedicated to different horizontal topics such as internationalisation, fundraising, intellectual property rights, human resources and similar, helping participants to gain insights that they can take and apply to their businesses. Usually, these sessions are joined by speakers that provide testimonies and share their knowledge from different angles.
- EIC Welcome/Coordinators Days
The Welcome or Coordinators Days are annual events dedicated to welcoming all the new organisations that have been awarded in the past year within the EIC funding schemes.
EIC beneficiaries are offered the opportunity to network, discuss and learn more about the management of their grant, meet the responsible EIC Project & Financial Officer and discuss any operational aspect of their project. On these occasions, the EIC team also showcases all the benefits and programmes under the Business Acceleration Services.
Eligibility
This programme is open to beneficiaries from: EIC Accelerator applicants (2nd stage), Seal of Excellence (Horizon Europe), EIC Pathfinder, EIC Transition, EIC Accelerator, and Women TechEU.
Timeline
These events happen throughout the year. For more information, please check the Open Calls & Upcoming Events page.
Boost your network with the EIC Community Platform
As part of the EIC Community Programme, the EIC Community Platform gathers all innovative companies funded under the European Innovation Council covering the EIC Accelerator, Pathfinder, Transition projects, Seal of Excellence (Horizon Europe), Women TechEU as well as coaches, corporates, investors, procurers, staff of the EIC…and many more! Our ambition is to boost connections and foster communication by creating a shared knowledge base and a virtual meeting-place where innovative and business partners can connect and leverage new partnerships.
On the EIC Community Platform you can:
- Access Business Acceleration Services like coaching and matchmaking events
- Explore business opportunities and expand your business network
- Co-create knowledge and self-organise online events and learning opportunities
- Get support from peers and the EIC eco-system, share experience and start discussions
- Publish your challenge or submit your solution on the EIC Challenge Platform
- Expand networks with EIC ecosystem partners
- Share your experience and get support from peers via horizontal and thematic groups
- Co-create ideas and knowledge
- Promote interesting other events to the EIC Community
How to access the EIC Community Platform?
Enter the EIC Community Platform
You will be requested to log in using your EU Login username and password. If you do not have one, you can create your EU Login here.
You will then be asked to register your user profile. If you are funded by the EIC, it may be that your user profile has been already automatically registered. In this case just log in with EU Login username and password you are already in!
Who is it for?
The Community brings together all the people that interact around the EIC. For the moment, the Community is open to EIC Awardees funded under the European Innovation Council covering the EIC Accelerator, Pathfinder, Transition projects, Seal of Excellence (Horizon Europe), Women TechEU as well as coaches, corporates, investors, procurers, staff of the EIC…and many more!
What is on the EIC Community Platform?
- Stories show you highlights of the most relevant news, success stories, open calls for events and others;
- Events and matchmaking opportunities promoted by the Business Acceleration Services and external partners, or events directly promoted by the EIC Community members in Groups;
- Topics help you find all the relevant information concerning a thematic area on one page (discussions, events, active groups etc.);
- Groups provide members with a space to connect, share ideas and foster opportunities in public or private groups, between members with shared interests and purposes. Here you find information, events and group discussions under a specific theme created by a group;
- A searchable list of all EIC-funded companies;
- Profiles of people and organisations who share relevant information about their activity (team, products or services, target markets).
- Read more about the EIC Business Acceleration Services Global Offer on the EIC Community Platform
Get in touch
If you have any questions, please contact us through the EIC Community’s contact page by choosing the ‘Ask a question / get support about the EIC Community platform’ category.