The European Commission reorganized its directorate general for research and innovation (RTD). The reorganization was effective last May and a new organizational chart was published. The chart revealed the transfer of management of the European Innovation Council (EIC) funding programme to the directorate for the European Research Area and Innovation. Ms. Anna Panagopoulou leads… Continue reading European Innovation Council is revamped to enhance oversight
This is the post number two of a series that explains the revised EIC Investment Guidelines. We focus on Characteristic of Investment. The Investment Guidelines have been updated to provide more clarity to applicants and to reflect recent changes in the management of the EIC Fund and will remain in place until the end of 2022.… Continue reading Revised EIC Investment Guidelines (2022): 2. INVESTMENT CHARACTERISTICS
All EIC supported projects and companies get access to coaching, mentoring, partnering and other EIC Business Acceleration Services https://eic.ec.europa.eu/eic-funding-opportunities/business-acceleration-services_en Under Horizon Europe, the EIC support goes far beyond funding and it aims at accelerating EIC innovations and growth of top deep tech companies. Access to a range of tailor-made EIC Business Acceleration Services will… Continue reading EIC: Business Acceleration Services
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
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 in… 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
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
Every startup that needs funding and investment to develop its project, has its best shot with the EIC accelerator. But let’s start from the basis: What is the EIC accelerator “The EIC Accelerator supports individual Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), in particular Startups and spinout companies to develop and scaleup game-changing innovations. In some cases small mid-caps (up to 500 employees) are… Continue reading Why you need consulting service for preparing an EIC accelerator proposal?
