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The EIC is Europe’s flagship innovation programme to identify, develop and scale up breakthrough technologies and game changing innovations

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Business acceleration services

As EIC supported researcher, innovator or entrepreneur you will benefit from a wide range of services:

access to coaches, mentors, expertise and training
access to global partners (leading corporates, investors, procurers, distributors, clients)
access to innovation ecosystem and peers

Business acceleration services

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EIC Prizes

Take the challenge and compete for an EIC Prize which rewards Europe's leading innovators

EIC Prizes

Find investment opportunities

The EIC Fund is looking for investment partners - discover more and check the Investment Guidelines.

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EIC networks

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

EIC Ambassadors

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

EIC Jury Members

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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Latest statistics: EIC Accelerator June cut-off results

65

innovative start-ups

60

receive grant & equity

20%

proposals from female CEOs

€363

allocated budget

€227 million

investment component

16 countries

France, Germany, Netherlands on top

Featured Projects

Success Stories

Smartex: Open Circular Knitting Machine with purple light

Smartex: Detection of defective textile production

SATAGILITY-GO2MARKET project: Improved satellite manoeuvring technology

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

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News

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15 September 2023

Call for Tenders: EIC Corporate Partnership Programme 3.0

EISMEA launched new tender for the future European Innovation Council Corporate Partnership Programme 3.0

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6 September 2023

EIC Fund topping the charts

Sifted listed the EIC Fund as the fifth largest tech investor in Europe

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5 September 2023

European Capital of Innovation Awards (iCapital) 2023: find out who the 12 semi-finalists are!

12 cities from 10 countries have advanced to the semi-final stage of the ninth edition of the iCapital Awards.

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4 September 2023

EIC Pathfinder: nearly €170 million to support novel technologies

The European Innovation Council (EIC) has selected the next set of proposals under the 2023 EIC Pathfinder Open call

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31 August 2023

European Social Innovation Competition: meet 15 finalists fighting energy poverty

The Commission announced today the 15 finalists of this year’s European Social Innovation Competition.

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17 August 2023

“European Reception” at Gastech 2023 Singapore: fostering new business connections in south-east Asia

The EIC, in collaboration with the Delegation of the European Union in Singapore and DMG events, is organising the first high-level networking event (“European Reception”) dedicated to European excellence on innovation at Gastech 2023.

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