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European Innovation Council Pathfinder Challenges – Work Programme 2025 Info Day

This Info Day is dedicated to EIC Pathfinder Challenges under the EIC Work Programme 2025

Pathfinder Challenges 2025 Info Day

Date & time: 4 April 2025, 09:00 – 13:00 CET
Location: Albert Borschette Congress Center, Rue Froissart 36, 1040 Brussels, Belgium & online

The European Innovation Council (EIC) kindly invites you to its Info Day about the EIC Pathfinder Challenges, published in the EIC 2025 Work Programme. The Info Day takes place in Brussels on Friday, 4 April 2025, right after the EIC Summit 2025. It consists of a plenary session explaining the specific characteristics of EIC Pathfinder Challenge calls, and parallel sessions by the EIC Programme Managers Ivan Stefanic, Federica Zanca, Franc Mouwen and Carina Faber. Please see the agenda below. 

All parts of the Info Day will be livestreamed and recorded. Recordings and slides will be made available for the public after the Info Day. Remote participants can participate in the discussions and Q&A by submitting their questions via sli.do. For general questions, you are invited to consult the EIC Pathfinder FAQ website

To participate in person to the Info Day, please register below by 25 March.

Register here

Book your seat, 1 week left to register, registration will end on Tuesday 25 March 2025, 18:00 (CET)

  • innovation | EU financing
  • Friday 4 April 2025, 09:00 - 13:00 (CEST)
  • Brussels, Belgium

Programme

  1. 4 Apr 2025, 08:30 - 09:00 (CEST)
    Arrival and registration
  2. 09:00 - 09:10 (CEST)
    Introduction to the EIC

    Sivasegaram MANIMAARAN, Policy Officer, DG RTD

  3. 09:10 - 09:20 (CEST)
    Introduction to the EIC Programme Managers

    Anne-Marie SASSEN, Head of Unit EIC Programme Managers’ Office, EISMEA

  4. 09:20 - 10:00 (CEST)
    EIC Pathfinder Challenges – Introduction and evaluation, Q&A

    TBA from EIC Pathfinder Unit, EISMEA

  5. 10:00 - 10:10 (CEST)
    EIC pro-active portfolio management

    Isabel OBIETA, EIC Programme Manager for Sustainable Semiconductors

  6. 10:10 - 10:20 (CEST)
    Introduction to Tech to Market opportunities

    Eva BALTAR, EIC Tech to Market activities, EISMEA

  7. 10:20 - 10:35 (CEST)
    Presentation by a successful Pathfinder Challenges project coordinator
  8. 10:35 - 11:00 (CEST)
    Coffee break
  9. 11:00 - 13:00 (CEST)
    Pathfinder Challenge 1: Biotech for Climate Resilient Crops and Plant-Based Biomanufacturing

    Ivan STEFANIC, EIC Programme Manager for Food Chain Technologies, Novel & Sustainable Food

    Matchmaking sessions: *Opportunity for participants to briefly present themselves and their competences for possible collaboration.

    *If you want to make use of this opportunity, please indicate it in the registration form. Closer to the date we will confirm the order of the presentations and request the slides from the participants.

  10. 11:00 - 13:00 (CEST)
    Pathfinder Challenge 2: Generative-AI based Agents to Revolutionize Medical Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer

    Federica ZANCA, EIC Programme Manager for Medical imaging and AI in healthcare

    Matchmaking sessions:*Opportunity for participants to briefly present themselves and their competences for possible collaboration.

    *If you want to make use of this opportunity, please indicate it in the registration form. Closer to the date we will confirm the order of the presentations and request the slides from the participants.

  11. 11:00 - 13:00 (CEST)
    Pathfinder Challenge 3: Towards autonomous robot collectives delivering collaborative tasks in dynamic unstructured construction environments

    Franc MOUWEN, EIC Programme Manager for Architecture Engineering Construction Technologies

    Matchmaking sessions:* Opportunity for participants to briefly present themselves and their competences for possible collaboration.

    *If you want to make use of this opportunity, please indicate it in the registration form. Closer to the date we will confirm the order of the presentations and request the slides from the participants.

  12. 11:00 - 13:00 (CEST)
    Pathfinder Challenge 4: Waste-to-value devices: Circular production of renewable fuels, chemicals and materials

    Carina FABER, EIC Programme Manager for Renewable Energy Conversion and Alternative Resource Exploitation

    Matchmaking sessions: *Opportunity for participants to briefly present themselves and their competences for possible collaboration.

    *If you want to make use of this opportunity, please indicate it in the registration form. Closer to the date we will confirm the order of the presentations and request the slides from the participant.

  13. 13:00 - 13:05 (CEST)
    Closure

Practical information

When
Friday 4 April 2025, 09:00 - 13:00 (CEST)
Where
Albert Borschette Congress Center
Rue Froissart 36, 1040 Brussels, Belgium
Languages
English