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European Innovation Council pilot
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Additional €150 million for EIC Accelerator call to fund ideas tackling coronavirus
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The EIC Accelerator will work with an extra €150 million to support game-changing innovations to tackle the coronavirus crisis. The additional budget will fund the best start-ups and SMEs who applied under the March cut-off. A record number of companies applied to the EIC Accelerator pilot March cut-off - many of which have innovations relevant to the coronavirus outbreak.
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EIC Work Programme updated
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The new EIC Work Programme frees more budget for both the EIC Accelerator, for COVID19 related proposals in the March 2020 cut-off, and the Pathfinder Proactive to better align its topics with the EU’s political priorities. The Pathfinder calls will see a stronger emphasis on AI and the creation of a new subtopic on zero-emissions energy storage and conversion technologies for carbon neutrality.
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#EUvsVirus Hackathon identifies 117 solutions to support recovery from the COVID-19 outbreak
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In the next weeks, the EIC will strive to match the demands in terms of financing and resources of the winning solutions, with offers from partners. The winning solutions will be invited to join an EIC COVID Platform – to be launched at the end of May – that will facilitate connections with end users (like hospitals), investors, foundations and other funding opportunities.
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Top innovation leaders call for a strong role for the EIC in coronavirus recovery
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On 27 April 2020, the EIC Advisory Board laid out its Vision Statement for the future of the EIC, especially in the aftermath of COVID-19. The Board advocates directing investments towards game-changing innovations that create a sustainable and human-centric digital future.
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Dream the future and apply for EIC Pathfinder Open
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With a budget of €196.2 million, the EIC Pathfinder Open has launched a bottom-up call for proposals. Due to the current crisis, the deadline for submission of applications has been extended to 03 June 2020, 17:00 (Brussels local time). We offer funding for ambitious and novel research ideas for radically new technologies that challenge current thinking.
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Give us your opinion on the effectiveness of the EU's innovation support!
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Are you satisfied with the EU’s innovation support? What more can be done? We want to hear from SMEs, researchers, innovators, universities, incubators, research centres, etc. your views on how to make public support for innovation in the EU more effective. The survey will close on 31 May 2020.
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Business acceleration services
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Smart Separations wins EIC ePitching on COVID-19 solutions
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On 15 April 2020, EIC-backed innovators pitched their solutions to fight COVID-19 to a panel of top investors. An overwhelming amount of innovators applied to the dedicated EIC ePitching session, but only seven made the cut. Hugo Macedo won the best pitch with its COVID-blocking micro-filter.
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EIC ePitching with Procurers on COVID-19: finding common solutions together
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On 15 April 2020 the European Innovation Council brought together over 50 public and private procurers, five European corporates and more than 20 EIC-backed SMEs during the first EIC ePitching with Procurers, dedicated to solutions that fight COVID-19. The SMEs had the opportunity to pitch their solutions to the procurers and follow-up with dedicated one-to-one sessions in the afternoon.
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COVID-19 and business acceleration events
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Due to the COVID-19 outbreak and given that the wellbeing of the EIC community is of the utmost importance to us, face-to-face events have been cancelled this month and replaced by an online format. Please note that all selected companies will have the opportunity to participate in this online session. Further details will be available soon.
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Portable diagnostic device to detect COVID-19
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The Pathfinder Open project FREE@POC aims to develop an innovative molecular diagnostic platform to test infectious diseases, like HIV and Influenza. Considering the current exceptional circumstances, the consortium has promptly decided to re-direct research efforts to detect COVID-19 and are looking at opportunities to get a fast-track certification for their portable diagnostic platform.
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Isolation pods transport COVID-19 patients safely
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Epishuttle is a hard-top polycarbonate single isolation pods that allow coronavirus patients to be transported safely. The pods are reusable and provide complete isolation and protection from contagious diseases, without compromising treatment and care to the patient. Demand for Accelerator-funded Epishuttle from EU healthcare systems has increased massively since the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Unique drug kills viruses simultaneously
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NOVIRUSES2BRAIN is a research project, funded by Pathfinder that aims to develop broad spectrum antiviral drugs capable of inactivating different viruses simultaneously. The project is working in particular on viruses transmitted through Aedes mosquitos, like dengue and zika but researchers are now looking to include SARS-CoV-2 in the list of viruses to be addressed by NOVIRUSES2BRAIN.
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Chatbot screens COVID-19 symptoms
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Austrian SME Symptoma is developing an AI-based chatbot to mass screen citizens at risk of COVID-19. The chatbot can remotely screen suspected COVID-19 cases in 36 languages. Accelerator-funded Symptoma aims at helping health authorities worldwide in order to screen the population efficiently as a first-line defence against COVID-19 and any other potentially emerging epidemics.
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Forecasting the progression of pandemics
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Computer-based modelling can help us analyse how pandemics spread and evolve. Two finished EIC Pathfinder projects - EPIWORK and GLEAM - have made models and tools to forecast epidemics.
Researchers who worked on these projects are now using their results to try and understand how the COVID-19 pandemic may progress, and how containment and prevention measures may impact what’s to come.
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ELECTROMED detects COVID-19 antibodies
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ELECTROMED is a Pathfinder Open project developing an innovative technology able to detect the interaction between immune receptors and short peptides in a fast, flexible and inexpensive peptide microarray platform. The technology holds a strong potential to fight COVID 19 by detecting if a person has acquired immunity using short peptide targets (epitopes) for SARS-CoV-2 specific antibodies.
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