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EIC Pathfinder Challenges 2025

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The overall objective of the EIC Pathfinder for advanced research is to develop the scientific basis to underpin breakthrough technologies. It provides support for the earliest stages of scientific, technological or deep-tech research and development. Pathfinder projects aim to build on new, cutting-edge directions in science and technology to disrupt a field and a market or create new opportunities by realising innovative technological solutions through:

  • ‘EIC Pathfinder Open’ open to support projects in any field of science, technology or application without predefined thematic priorities.
  • ‘EIC Pathfinder Challenges’ to support coherent portfolios of projects within predefined thematic areas with the aim to achieve specific objectives for each Challenge.

 

Biotech for Climate Resilient Crops and Plant-Based Biomanufacturing

To enhance adaptation pathways for the production of climate-resilient crops and develop alternative pathways to produce high value ingredients in plants by increasing nutrient profile of crops based on plant native and/or non-native ingredients.

These novel production processes that must deliver energy- and resource-efficient, low emission foods that maintain or increase biodiversity and are integral to a healthy diet.

  • 31 OCTOBER 2024
Challenge Guide – Biotech for Climate Resilient Crops and Plant-Based Biomanufacturing

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Generative-AI based Agents to Revolutionize Medical Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer

To create interactive GenAI autonomous agents and/or a combination of them that provide clinicians with a holistic end to end perspective of patient care.

The Challenge will support early-stage groundbreaking research projects that will develop and validate novel approaches and concepts for integrating and interpreting multidimensional medical imaging and health data. 

  • 31 OCTOBER 2024
Challenge Guide – Generative-AI based Agents to Revolutionize Medical Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer

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Towards autonomous robot collectives delivering collaborative tasks in dynamic unstructured construction environments

Enabling autonomous robot collectives to collaboratively perform complex construction tasks in dynamic, unstructured environments. Advancing robotic collaboration and electrification to revolutionize on-site building processes and enhance efficiency, safety, and sustainability.

The specific objectives of the challenge is to develop a building system to assemble a representative and future-relevant structure (pavilion) using a multitude of discrete modules, a development of an autonomous mobile multi-robotic collaborative platform and perform  demonstration in a laboratory environment (TRL 4).

  • 31 OCTOBER 2024
Challenge Guide – Towards autonomous robot collectives delivering collaborative tasks in dynamic unstructured construction environments

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Waste-to-value devices: Circular production of renewable fuels, chemicals and materials

Developing of next generation technologies that turn today’s problematic waste streams into essential building blocks of a future circular economy. 

The Challenge focuses on currently non- or hard-to-recycle types of synthetic polymer materials (including among other mixtures of different types of plastics, polymeric composite materials, micro-/nanoplastics, untreated plastic waste, diapers, rubber, etc.), flue gases, wastewater and seawater desalination brines. Proposals must target real-life industrial and household waste.

  • 31 OCTOBER 2024
Challenge Guide – Waste-to-value devices: Circular production of renewable fuels, chemicals and materials

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EIC work programme 2025

EIC Work Programe 2025
  • General publications
  • 29 October 2024
EIC work programme 2025