The EIC Board welcomes the publication of the EIC’s Work Programme for 2023 with over €1.6 billion to support deep tech innovations in scaling companies, startups and research teams from across Europe. It particularly welcomes novelties in the work programme, including a more targeted approach to challenge funding and a new scheme to enable start-ups to test …
The Commission adopted the 2023 work programme of the European Innovation Council (EIC). It opens funding opportunities worth €1.6 billion in 2023 for scientists and innovators to scale up breakthrough technologies and create new markets. Over half a billion euro is earmarked for next generation technologies in strategic areas for Europe, including energy storage, quantum, semi-conductors, and …
The support provided to date has resulted in: The portfolio of EIC companies achieving a combined valuation of over €40 billion,including 12 ‘unicorns’ and 112 ‘centaur’ companies. Incentivising over €10 billion in follow-on investmentsin its portfolio companies, including from venture capital, corporates, and national promotional banks. 20% of funding for women led companiesunder the Accelerator and over 30% women researchers in the …
Artificial intelligence, robotics, quantum computing, renewable energy, biotechnology, photonics. These are the fields revolutionising STEM and making innovators race to the market with new inventions. These fields are known as “deep tech” – technologies that blur the lines between science and engineering. Deep tech often combines the digital with physics and biology. It has become …
All around the globe, cities and regions are driving climate ambitions, promoting innovative solutions and mainstreaming sustainability into the everyday lives of citizens. Without the full engagement of subnational governments, it is nearly impossible for national governments to move quickly from commitments to achievements. At COP27 in Egypt, EIT Climate-KIC joined the European Committee of the Regions (CoR), ICLEI, Under2Coalition, Climate …
The European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) is proud to announce an EUR 890 million investment in activities tackling global challenges across Europe, delivered by eight of its Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs). The largest EIT funding round to date will boost European innovation in the areas of climate (EIT Climate-KIC), digitisation (EIT Digital), …
The Forty Kleparz Music Club in Kraków hosted the 6th edition of the EIT Jumpstarter Grand Final on the 29 of November. Located in a XIX century fort, the venue was perfectly chosen to livestream the event from three different rooms at the same time. It’s warm lighting and clubby atmosphere contributed to break the ice among participants …
Europe is on its way to generate and make use of more data than ever. The project PrepDSpace4Mobility aims at contributing to the development of the common European mobility data space by supporting the creation of a technical infrastructure that will facilitate easy, cross-border access to key data for both passengers and freight. Given the …
The funding opportunities available under Horizon Europe are defined every year in the corresponding annual work programme. The work programmes for 2023-2024 have been pre-published. Pre-publication means that the documents are in draft and have not been adopted yet. The drafts have been made public in order to give the potential participants an overview of the …
Scheme to support displaced researchers from Ukraine received over 400 applications and is now closed until further notice. The MSCA4Ukraine scheme, funded by the European Commission under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, published in September a call for applications to support displaced researchers from Ukraine. The managing consortium received over 400 applications from 28 countries by 11 November, …