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Research & Innovation grants for breakthrough research from laboratory to prototype.
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EIC Board Homepage

Meet the leading innovators who advise the EIC on its overall strategy and performance

EIC Programme Managers

Meet our in-house experts who head EIC support in various portfolios such as health, digital, green-deal, space, construction or technology

EIC Ambassadors announced at the EIC Summit

EIC ambassadors act as a voice for the EIC in the Member States, and provide feedback from all corners of the innovation ecosystem

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The EIC draws on a wide range of external advice and expertise in order to select the most promising projects and companies and to support them

Projects funded by the EIC

Discover EIC projects in your region
or in your business area

  • EIC Podcasts

    The game changers: from idea to innovative business. Interviews with EIC Programme Managers - technology experts from fascinating industries including space, energy, health and quantum - on the latest technology trends.

    Go to the EIC Podcasts

  • Tech Talks
    Tech Talks

    Visionary Programme Managers – in collaboration with various experts from across the European tech ecosystem – guide and connect portfolios of EIC projects and companies in support of major technological goals. Hear more from them in these videos.

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Latest statistics - STEP results

7
Companies selected for funding
34
Proposals submitted
11
STEP Seals
4
Top countries
FR (3), NL (2), DE (1), FI (1)

News

  • 15 July 2025
Science Business | 14/07/2025 | Europe - The vision stresses that, without the EIT, the EU budget lacks instruments to fund early-stage start-ups, arguing that its other innovation funding schemes, such as the European Innovation Council (EIC), the European Investment Bank and the Innovation Fund...
  • 15 July 2025
Dages Industri | 14/07/2025 | Sweden - AlzeCure Pharma is conducting a rights issue of SEK 48.5 million, with a possible over-allotment of SEK 10 million, to accelerate its projects in Alzheimer's and chronic pain and related partnership discussions. Following financial support from the European...
  • 15 July 2025
Semi Engineering | 14/07/2025 - VSORA raised $46.0M in funding led by Otium and a French family office with participation from Omnes Capital, Adélie Capital, and the European Innovation Council Fund. VSORA develops high-performance AI inference chips for both data centers and edge deployments.

HorizonEU - Innovative Europe

Promote coordination and dialogue on the development of the Union's innovation ecosystem