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Michiel Scheffer, President of the Board of the EIC, was present at TNW Conference

Business Metropole Ruhr | 24/06/2024 | Under the title "Decarbonization of the Earth: Fantasy or Reality?", Jörg Kemna, Managing Director of the Business Metropole Ruhr, discussed the feasibility and challenges of global decarbonization efforts and what role technology can play in them with Lubomila Jordanova, CEO & Founder, Plan A, Thomas Roehrl, Head of Partnerships and Future Projects, BMW Foundation and Michiel Scheffer, President of the Board, European Innovation Council.

 
Streamers look to AI to crack the codec code

IBC 365 | 24/06/2024 | The company Deep Render now employs 35 people and last year received a £2.1m grant from the European Innovation Council and raised £4.9m in venture capital led by IP Group and Pentech Ventures.

 
Imperial College London Spin-Off AquaBattery Secures €6M Seed Funding For Flow Battery Technology Deployment

India Education Diary.in | 20/06/2024 | In 2022, it secured a €2.5 million grant from the European Innovation Council’s Accelerator programme to move its technology forwards. Since then, it has won further grant funding and signed collaboration agreements with Norwegian renewables company Statkraft and knowledge institute Deltares to explore applications for its battery technology. AquaBattery and Imperial are also seeking other funding opportunities to develop new flow battery membranes, for example through a proposal submitted to the European Innovation Council.

 
Materrup raises €26 million to deploy ten low-carbon cement plants

La Tribune - Objectif Aquitaine | 20/06/2024 | The company, which has been awarded the EIC Accelerator and French Tech 2030 labels, offers an innovative binder, a multi-patented formula, allowing produce cement based on clay and not limestone, thus generating half the CO2 of conventional cement, but with a high performance and identical uses.

 
Large-Scale Magnetic Cooling

TendersInfo - Project Notices | 19/06/2024 | The objective of the lemon project is the development and technical demonstration of a process for the scalable, permanent, Helium-3-Free generation of very low (cryogenic) milli-kelvin temperatures based on continuous adiabatic demagnetization refrigeration (Cadr). It is funded under The European Innovation Council (EIC).

 
Answer to a written question - Issues with the EIC artificial intelligence platform - E-001277/2024(ASW)

European Parliament | 19/06/2024 | The EIC Accelerator application migrated to the Electronic Submission System hosted on the EU Corporate Funding and Tender opportunities portal for full proposals. This ensured that applicants were able to continue submitting proposals. The solution addressed some areas for improvement recommended by the EIC Board in their statement from March 2023 concerning mainly the reduction in the length of proposals

 
Genopole at BIO USA 2024: renewed vitality for health biotechs!

Genopole | 19/06/2024 | BIO USA also offers a space for discussion with the European Commission present on site to promote EIC Accelerator, its financial support system for startups close to the market. This is an opportunity to relay the issues of visibility of European startups in the United States, to learn about the expected evolution of relations between the American market and the European market and to promote Genopole's acceleration programs to give weight to the applications that Genopolitan startups will submit to European systems.

 
How Shemha Health created a digital guide in healthcare chaos

Forbes Bulgaria | 19/06/2024 | The co-founders believe that their product has great potential and expect €29 million in revenue by the end of 2028. They will first participate in the EIC Accelerator, a funding program of the European Innovation Council, part of Horizon Europe, aimed at innovative companies.

 
Glucose variability patterns for precision nutrition in diabetes

TendersInfo - Project Notices | 18/06/2024 | The GLUCOTYPES project brings together leading experts in nutrition, metabolic diseases, glycobiology, gut microbiome, epidemiology, and machine learning from five European countries to tackle this challenge. It is funded under The European Innovation Council (EIC).

 
Zero-loss Energy harvesting Using nanowire solar cells in Space

TendersInfo - Project Notices | 18/06/2024 | The ZEUS project is focused on advancing the development of innovative, highly efficient and radiation-resistant nanowire solar cells designed for in-orbit solar energy collection. It is funded under The European Innovation Council (EIC).