Yahoo Finance | 09/04/2025 - Oxolife, the female fertility biotech focused on increasing live birth rates by enhancing embryo implantation in women undergoing assisted reproductive technology (ART) fertility treatment, today announces that Agnès Arbat, its Chief Executive Officer, has been awarded the prestigious EU Women Innovators Prize at the European Innovation Council (EIC) Summit on the 3rd of April 2025 in Brussels, Belgium.

Research professional news | 09/04/2025 - Anton Muscatelli argues that closer European collaboration around innovation must include universities. It appears that the European Research Council and the European Innovation Council—two flagship institutions funded by the EU—will survive. But beyond this, it is difficult to see how universities will be able to engage in EU research funding in the future.

Offshore Energy| 08/04/2025 - XFuel, a Spanish producer of high-grade sustainable drop-in fuels and carbon removal for the transport sector, has secured €7.7 million in blended finance from the European Innovation Council (EIC), helping it bring its fuel-from-waste technology to transport markets.

The Microbiologist | 09/04/2025 - The study, led by Dr. Enrique Lara-Pezzi, head of the Molecular Regulation of Heart Failure group at the CNIC and a member of the Spanish cardiovascular research network (CIBERCV), demonstrates that the introduction of a healthy version of the TMEM43 gene directly into cardiac muscle cells significantly improves heart function and prolongs survival in a mouse model of the disease. The study was supported by the Pathfinder Cardiogenomics program of the European Innovation Council.

AgTechNavigator | 09/04/2025 - The company - which has been awarded the European Innovation Council's Seal of Excellence and successfully completed the first batch of FoodSeed, a food tech accelerator - will focus on optimising industrial bioproduction and validating new categories of microorganisms, expanding its primary focus on microalgae to include yeasts and bacteria.

Space daily | 10/04/2025 - Currently hosted by the ESA BIC Comunidad de Madrid incubator, PERSEI Space also receives support from the UC3M's C3N-IA Center for Innovation and operates within the Leganes Tecnologico Science Park. Its work is bolstered by funding from the European Innovation Council through projects E.T.PACK-F and E.T.COMPACT.

Irish building magazine | 10/04/2025 | Ireland - Ecocem, a leader in low-carbon cement technologies, as part of a consortium of Europe’s leading academic and industrial leaders, has today announced it has been awarded €4m in research funding the European Innovation Council (EIC)’s.

Silicon Canals | 10/04/2025 - Copenhagen-based Sparrow Quantum, a supplier of photonic quantum chips, has raised €21.5M in a Series A funding round. The investment was led by PensionDanmark, with participation from EIFO, Novo Holdings, 2xN, LIFTT, and the European Innovation Council.

Think geoenergy | 08/04/2025 - The overall aim of DeepU is to develop a deep (>4 km), closed-loop, vitrified, waterproof, non-cracked U-tube heat exchanger by integrating laser and cryogenic gas into a single cutting-edge drilling solution. DeepU has been funded by the European Commission under the EIC Pathfinder Programme.

Irish Times | 08/04/2025 - Belfast-based Nuada has secured €2.5m in funding from the EIC Accelerator, the first Northern Ireland based company to get funding from the prestigious innovation programme. The carbon capture technology specialist focuses on decarbonising sectors such as cement, lime, steel and energy from waste, by capturing direct carbon emissions during the manufacturing process.

Research professional news | 07/04/2025 - The governing board of the European Innovation Council is discussing using “fast lanes” so the funder can more smoothly support beneficiaries moving between its schemes, as part of its plans to operate more like the US Advanced Research Projects Agency (Arpa) model, its president Michiel Scheffer has told Research Professional News.

The Horizon Results Platform podcast highlights the remarkable innovations and success stories of EU-funded Research & Innovation (R&I) beneficiaries. In the first episode, Dr. Peter Baumann, Founder and CEO of rasdaman GmbH, shares how his company transformed big data analytics with cutting-edge "datacube" technology—now used by major organisations such as NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), Airbus, and NATO. Tune in for an inspiring conversation filled with valuable lessons for innovators and founders!

Launched in June 2023, the unitary patent was designed to simplify and reduce the cost of protecting inventions across multiple EU member states. Now, nearly two years later, adoption of the system is picking up pace, particularly among universities and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). According to the European Patent Office (EPO), more than 57% of patents granted to SMEs and universities in 2024 requested unitary protection, highlighting how widely the system is being embraced by these sectors.

The European Commission is inviting all stakeholders involved in research and innovation to participate in a survey designed to inform and shape future EU policies on knowledge valorisation. Your input on the uptake of the Codes of Practice will play a vital role in enhancing the transformation of research outcomes into market-ready innovations and delivering real value to society. The survey will be open until 30 May 2025.

European Innovation Council (EIC) Impact Report, with a focus on the Horizon Europe portfolio, provides insights into around 706 start-ups, 402 advanced research projects, and 183 initiatives dedicated to commercialising research results, all funded between 2021 and 2024. According to the latest edition of the report, the EIC Fund has established itself as one of Europe's foremost early-stage technology investors.

The EU’s state aid rules, designed to prevent unfair competition through public subsidies, are increasingly viewed as a barrier to innovation, especially when it comes to commercialising intellectual property (IP) developed at universities. Under current regulations, public institutions must ensure that any transfer of IP to a company, whether a spin-out or an external partner, is done at fair market value. But for early-stage IP, establishing market value is complex, and the required payments can be a major hurdle for young companies.

Last week, experts from the European IP Helpdesk team were actively engaged in three different events across Europe, all aimed at supporting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and beneficiaries of EU-funded projects with their intellectual property (IP) questions and needs. Whether by providing hands-on support at dedicated booths or contributing more extensively to event agendas, the team played a key role in reinforcing the innovation ecosystem through IP awareness and expert guidance.

A message from Michiel Scheffer, President of the EIC Board:

The Trusted Investor Network brings together a select group of investors committed to co-investing in high-potential deep-tech companies alongside the EIC Fund. The Network now comprises 111 members, collectively managing over €336 billion in assets.

The report demonstrates the significant progress the EIC has made to become the investor of choice for European deep tech entrepreneurs.