European Innovation Council (EIC)
The EIC aims at identifying and supporting breakthrough technologies and game-changing innovations with the potential to scale up internationally and eventually become market leaders. It focuses specifically on promising start-ups and SMEs.
Your NCP contacts for this programme
Magali Parent
magali.parent@vlaio.be
+32 2 432 42 42
Margot Beereboom
margot.beereboom@fwo.be
+32 2 550 15 76
About this programme
It supports all stages of innovation from R&D on the scientific underpinnings of breakthrough technologies, to validation and demonstration of breakthrough technologies and innovations to meet real world needs, to the development and scaling up of start-ups and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
The funding and support consists of three main funding schemes:
- the EIC Pathfinder for advanced research to develop the scientific basis to underpin breakthrough technologies
- the EIC Transition to validate technologies and develop business plans for specific applications
- the EIC Accelerator to support companies (SMEs, start-ups, spin-outs and in exceptional cases small mid-caps) to bring their innovations to market and scale up.
In each funding scheme, the direct financial support to innovators is augmented with access to a range of Business Acceleration Services. The three main EIC instruments offer both bottom-up calls and calls with predefined thematic priorities (challenges). In addition to these instruments there are the EIC Prizes, which reward innovative solutions offered by companies/organisations for pre-defined societal challenges or specific target audiences, such as women innovators, innovative cities, public or private procurers or social innovation.
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- EIC Work Programme 2023 Info Session recording
- EIC Work Programme 2022 Info Session recording
- EIC NCP network
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) - European Innovation Council (EIC)
- Recordings/ppt of EIC accelerator and EIC pathfinder infosessions-NCP Flanders - May 2021
- EC DG Research and Innovation - EU Prize for Women Innovators
- EC - EIC Prices
- EIC Community
- EC - about European Innovation Council
- EC - European Innovation Council (EIC)
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Testimonial
ScreenME - Enhancing excellence in screen media entrepreneurship
The Horizon2020 twinning project ScreenME has as its objective to enhance excellence in screen media entrepreneurship at Tallinn University (TLU). To do so, ScreenME has established a network of universities across Europe that aim to improve research into and teaching of entrepreneurship for the screen media industry. ScreenME will develop a teaching course and will kick off research initiatives and projects on entrepreneurial activities in media organisations. The research group on ‘Studies in Media, Innovation and Technology (SMIT)’ of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) is partner in the network and is involved in two cross-cutting activities of the project: support for early stage researchers and developing stakeholder involvement.
