EIC Transition

The EIC Transition is a funding programme under Horizon Europe targeting innovation activities that goes beyond the experimental proof of principle in laboratory. It supports both the maturation and validation of novel technologies from the lab to the relevant application environments.

The EIC Transition offers support to SMEs, start-ups and organisations that:

• have identified EU-funded project result(s) with promising commercial potential that could be the basis for innovation and promising new businesses
• envision novel promising technology that is ready for the next steps towards its maturation and validation, to be further developed and validated for some specific, high potential, commercial applications
• have conducted a preliminary market research to identify potential markets for their innovation and explored potential competitors
• envisage building a motivated and entrepreneurial team with a mix of skills, including researchers, business people, marketers etc. to develop and drive the idea towards commercial success

• Single legal entities established in a Member State or an Associated Country (‘mono-beneficiary’) if you are a start-up, SME or research performing organisation (university, research or technology organisation, including teams, individual Principal Investigators and inventors in such institutions who intend to form a spin-off company). Larger companies (i.e. which do not qualify as SMEs) are not eligible to apply as a single legal entity
• Small consortia of two independent legal entities from two different Member States or Associated Countries
• Consortia of minimum three and maximum five independent legal entities (‘multi-beneficiary’) following standard rules i.e. must include at least one legal entity established in a Member State and at least two other independent legal entities, each established in different Member States or Associated Countries

Your proposal must build on results already achieved within an eligible project that are, at least, at experimental proof of concept (TRL 3) or, ideally, technology validated in the lab level (TRL 4). Proposals building on project results at TRLs other than TRL3 or TRL4 are not eligible.

The following list contains the research projects whose results are eligible for funding for further development and business exploration activities under the EIC Transition Open 2024 call.
Proposals  originating from research projects funded by the European Defence Fund (EDF), though not all listed in this file, are also eligible with focus on civil applications (including dual use) in addition to the other eligibility criteria.
This list does not constitute proof of eligibility and is provided as indication only.
Applicants, in case of doubt, are invited to contact the NCP network.
Eligibility will be verified during the evaluation after the cutoff date on the base of the EIC Work Programme 2024 text.

To facilitate preparation of EIC Transition 2024 proposals (including search for ideas and partners) we provide the link to the Innovation Radar discovery tool with basic information about innovations stemmed from eligible EIC Pathfinder and precedent, Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) projects.