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The European Innovation Council and the European Space Agency (ESA) have launched a joint call for contributions to collect ideas for implementing the concept of ‘circular economy’ and technologies and sustainable processes in space
![Statistics on the EIC Transition results: 29 selected proposals for Open, 13 for Challenges. Read the article for full information.](https://eic.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2022-01/EIC%20Transition%20Sept%20results%20v2.jpg?itok=JwWNUCaG)
The European Innovation Council (EIC) has selected 42 projects following a first ever EIC Transition calls for proposals. Successful proposals, selected among 292 submitted, will receive altogether €99 million of EU funding.
![INNOSUP funded project PITCCH is running its 3rd Call for Corporate Challenges](https://eic.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2022-01/3rd%20open%20call%20for%20Corporate%20Challenges.jpg?itok=h16lrd2l)
PITCCH aims to create a Pan-European Open Innovation network to facilitate the establishment of structured collaborations between big corporations as technology seekers and SMEs and start-ups as technology providers.
Important update on equity investments and EIC Accelerator cut-offs.
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The Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs) of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) are now able to assess the start-ups and scale-ups they support and fast track them directly to the full application stage of the EIC Accelerator
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Did you miss the MOOC course? No problem - the recordings are available now.
![EIC Accelerator statistics tab - read the article for full information](https://eic.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2021-12/EICAccelerator-October21cutoff_0.jpg?itok=hBqkuK46)
99 innovative start-ups and SMEs will receive EUR 627 million of EU funding
European Innovation Council Programme Managers, Marco Pantaleo and Francesco Matteucci, provide a glimpse on how the EIC is putting EU funding to help solve one of society’s major challenges
There will be no EIC Accelerator cut-off date in January as originally foreseen
![Representatives of Agri Sud-Ouest Innovation, coordinator of DIVA, receiving “Les étoiles de l’Europe” Trophy from the French Ministry of Research during the forum of Horizon Europe in Paris.](https://eic.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2021-12/MESRI-02122021-Les-Etoiles-de-l-EUROPE-023%20v2.jpg?itok=XRJFK-St)
Congratulations to the winners
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Call for ‘agrotech’ projects open until 21 January 2022
![Logos of the winning companies - Snowball, Zekki and Skillab](https://eic.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2021-12/EUSIC_winners.png?itok=h3PjqUNz)
Each of the three winning projects will receive EUR 50 000.
![The European Innovation Council Summit highlights](https://eic.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2022-01/EVP%20Vestager%20and%20Cssr%20Gabriel.jpg?itok=RwvEt4d8)
Join us next year for the next EIC Summit!
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At the European Innovation Council Summit taking place in Brussels, the European Commission announced the winners and runners up of the first ever edition of the EU Innovation Procurement Awards
![Women Innovators winners: Alibhe and Isabel Keane, Mathilde Jakobsen, Merel Boers, Daphne Haim Langford](https://eic.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2021-11/EIC_twitter_WI-winners_winners-all%20copy.png?itok=eOB6dptD)
The EU Prize for Women Innovators is awarded to the most talented women entrepreneurs from across the EU and countries associated to Horizon Europe
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This report documents the results and impact of the EIC pilot phase which, since 2014, has funded around 5500 start-ups and SMEs and over 400 research and innovation projects on emerging technologies.
![iCapital Prize 2021 - winners](https://eic.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2021-11/EIC_twitter-winners_winners-all%20iCap.png?itok=aeXlaqAr)
The city of Dortmund in Germany is the European Capital of Innovation 2021 and the city of Vantaa in Finland is the European Rising Innovative City
The Polish company PolTREG is debuting this Tuesday on the main market of the Warsaw Stock Echange
![Pathfinder 2021 results](https://eic.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2021-11/pathfinder.jpg?itok=ouVyxjpw)
Total of €168 million for funding (on average €3 million for each project)
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EIC Board has a powerful role to guide the implementation of the EIC as Europe’s flagship innovation programme with a budget of EUR 10 billion