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Benefit from a wide range of services: access to coaches, mentors, access to global partners & innovation ecosystem.

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EIC Board

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

EIC Programme Managers

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

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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

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Featured projects

PATHMAKER project: Implementing fast and optimal automated patient pathways

CoNAN projects: new generation of microchip-based tools for genetic analysis

EIC-funded natural gas dual-fuel system was named one of the top 50 in the European Startup Prize Mobility category

A game-changing shift in electronic industry: photons based computing

Why future homes could be made of living fungus

A-LEAF: An artificial leaf mimicking the process of photosynthesis

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Latest statistics - EIC Accelerator March 2022 cut-off - Successful Companies

74

Selected companies

€382 million

Allocated budget

12%

Successful proposals from female CEOs

84%

Receive equity & grant

18

Countries

News

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22 November 2022

The European Innovation Council signs 100th Pathfinder grant agreement

The EIC Pathfinder scheme signs 100th grant agreement with the project Elobio.

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22 November 2022

Two EIC-funded organisations awarded the European Union’s Innovation Radar Prize 2022

Congratulations to EIC-funded NVision (MetaboliQs project) and Polytechnic University of Madrid (AMADEUS, NATHALIE and Thermobat projects).

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22 November 2022

C2C-NewCap awarded the prestigious 2022 Transportation Hub Award in the USA

Congratulations to the EIC Accelerator beneficiary, C2C-NewCap for being awarded by the USA OceanExchange the 2022 Transportation Hub Award.

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21 November 2022

14 outstanding finalists in the running for the EU Prize for Women Innovators 2022

Fourteen of the most inspiring women entrepreneurs working in Europe today are in the shortlist for the ninth edition of the EU Prize for Women Innovators.

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17 November 2022

European Innovation Council Fund: first equity investments for a total of €190 million under Horizon Europe

Mariya Gabriel, Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, announced today that the European Innovation Council (EIC) Fund has taken 33 investment decisions since the appointment of an external fund manager on 29 September 2022.