The European Commission launched the European Innovation Council (EIC) with a budget of over €10 billion (in current prices) for 2021-2027 to develop and expand breakthrough innovations! The official Article HERE Based on the past programme, Horizon 2020, the new EIC not only constitutes a novelty, but it stands out globally under many aspects: It… Continue reading European Commission: Innovation Council
Horizon Europe is the EU’s key funding programme for research and innovation with a budget of €95.5 billion. Horizon Europe calls have supported and incentivised different areas along the years: Health, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics, Energy, Transport, Marine Science, Agriculture. They have also shown particular interest in the fields of renewable energy, climate change… Continue reading Horizon Europe Calls: Renewable Energy
The promotion of gender equality in research and innovation (R&I) is a main European Commission commitment. This commitment is part of its Gender Equality Strategy for 2020-2025, which fosters gender equality across all EU policies. (Please note that, in this article, the word “gender” refers exclusively to male and female.) In addition, the… Continue reading Horizon Europe: Gender Equality in Research and Innovation
The European Partnership on Innovative SMEs is a new call from the Horizon Europe Framework Programme. What’s expected? The projects are expected to show an active contribution to the following outcomes: Improved knowledge transfer in the innovative SMEs ecosystem. Through increased and sustained collaboration between SMEs, public research partners and academia; Mitigation of difficulties… Continue reading #HorizonEU: European Partnership on Innovative SMEs
Horizon Europe incorporates research and innovation missions to increase the effectiveness of funding by pursuing clearly defined targets. For so, the Commission engages policy experts to develop studies and reports to define how a mission-oriented policy approach will work. Specifically, EU Missions are a new way to bring concrete solutions to some of the EU’s… Continue reading Horizon Europe: EU Missions
Horizon Europe is the EU’s key funding programme for research and innovation with a budget of € 95.5 billion. Based on three pillars, the programme facilitates collaboration and strengthens the impact of research and innovation in developing, supporting and implementing EU policies while tackling global challenges. It supports creating and better dispersing of excellent knowledge… Continue reading The Three Pillars of Horizon Europe
AFS has been working side by side with CO2BioClean to offer them support in their search for valid investors. And, as sponsors and financial partners of the project, we are very pleased to announce that… the CO2BioClean project has obtained an EIC contribution of €6.6 million! Its innovative concept, the support of a… Continue reading CO2BioClean: a great success!
The European Innovation Council has recently launched an EIC Accelerator Challenges focused on green deal innovations for the economic recovery. The EIC Accelerator Challenges supports companies–start-ups and SMEs, in particular–to scale up high-impact innovations with the potential to create new markets or disrupt existing ones in identified areas of strategic relevance. It focuses on… Continue reading Green Deal innovations for the Economic Recovery: EIC Accelerator Challenges
This article presents the EIC Accelerator evaluation criteria to assess proposals that are submitted to the Programme. It gives an overview of how these proposals are evaluated, how–and by whom. Moreover, it presents the steps and requirements you need to meet in order to succeed. And, in this sense, why AFS’ expertise may be… Continue reading EIC Accelerator Evaluation Criteria: What You Need to Know
The EIC Community Platform gathers the largest innovation community of its kind in Europe. It is an ensemble of people working across all fields and disruptive innovation areas Through the EIC Community, corporates, procurers, investors and other partners can access 5500+ quality stamped companies and more than 408 innovation-driven research teams from all around… Continue reading The EIC Impact Report 2021: The EIC Community
