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European Innovation Council pilot

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Monthly focus

News from EIC Community

Deep Tech Europe report

Events

Highlights

Recent publications

Research and Innovation Days 2020

Monthly focus

New Deep Tech Europe report shows EIC's strong positive impact on the innovation community

The latest report documents projects supporting Sustainable Development Goals, the amount of follow-up investments in EIC-supported companies and progress in supporting female innovators.

Highlights

Help to solve the challenge: EIC Horizon Prize for innovative batteries for e-vehicles

Submit your solution on how to develop a safe and sustainable battery for electric vehicles. Contribute to the decarbonisation of Europe and apply until 17 December!

Highest demand ever for the EIC Accelerator Pilot with more than 4200 proposals requesting over €15 billion

The EIC Accelerator Pilot's final cut-off of the year boasts the highest ever number of applications from a total of 48 countries.

A commitment to ensure ‘systematic and structural cooperation’ between the EIC and the EIT

The EIC and the first Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs) of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) join forces to find synergies to maximise EU support for game-changing innovators and entrepreneurs across Europe.

Research and Innovation Days 2020

The EIC Fund: new opportunity for Europe’s innovative companies

The Fund was presented during the session “Europe's new ‘Super Fund': the EIC Fund”, which gathered Commissioner Gabriel and five experts from the EIC Fund Board of Directors and Investment Committee, as well as from the EIB as advisor to the Fund. The Fund represents a great opportunity for private investors to invest alongside the Fund in highly innovative companies.

Recordings of the R&I Days available online

Policymakers, researchers, entrepreneurs and the public debated to shape the future of research and innovation in Europe and beyond at the European Research and Innovation Days 2020. Rewatch the sessions now!

Meet the winners of the EIC Horizon Prize for Affordable High-Tech for Humanitarian Aid

Five exceptional innovations that can make a big difference in the lives of the most vulnerable people around the world have won the EIC Horizon Prize on Affordable High-Tech for Humanitarian Aid. Meet the winners!

Leuven named European Capital of Innovation 2020

The city of Leuven has risen to the top for its excellent innovation concepts and bringing together stakeholders and citizens with the common purpose of innovating around complex challenges.

Meet the women leading innovation in Europe

This year’s winners of the Women Innovators Prize are women who are pioneering game-changing innovations across a wide range of industries and helping to combat global challenges.

News from EIC Community

The accidental environmentalist: EIC Coffee Break with RanMarine

This month, we explore the story of Richard Hardimann, an EIC innovator, co-founder and CEO of Ranmarine, a Rotterdam-based start-up that developed the WasteShark – a water drone that can autonomously clean up ports and inland waters.

EIC Pathfinder presents the BOW project: Progressing nanomaterials in biotechnology

The BOW project keeps pushing the envelope of bionanotechnology, as they work to make implantable nanomaterials and nanodevices more biocompatible to human bodies.

The future of quantum communication with the TOCHA project

The TOCHA project focuses on finding efficient information-transfer channels at the nanoscale and its mission is to make quantum information transfer as efficient as possible.

Green Innovations: EIC company VanderSat is making agriculture more sustainable worldwide

See how through the support of the EIC-funded WATER4AGRI project, the Dutch company VanderSat developed a technology that can accurately measure the location and amount of water in the soil, anywhere in the world.

Events

EIC Investor Day with Euronext

On 20 and 21 October 2020, a number of EIC-funded SMEs will have the opportunity to gain a deeper understanding on how to prepare a company for an Initial Public Offering and pitch their business to top European investors. Join the plenary session on 20 October to see the pitches live!

Barcelona is open for business! Visit innovation hubs with the EIC

Meet innovation players and submerge yourself in their business culture of Barcelona with the EIC visit on 2-5 November 2020. Applications are open now!

Virtual EIC Accelerator Coordinators’ Day: Over 200 EIC innovators get their first glimpse of the services

The second Virtual Coordinators’ Day of the year brought together a total of 240 participants from several SMEs and held discussions on common challenges, needs and expectations.

Recent publications

European Innovation Ecosystems - what does Europe need?

A discussion on the challenges, needs and priorities across innovation ecosystems in Europe led by the European Innovation Council pilot brought together more than 350 stakeholders. The results are in!

Voices from the future, 30 Years of breakthrough technologies in Europe

What better way to celebrate the FET programme and its future as Pathfinder for Advanced Research in the EIC? Check the recently published booklet!

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