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EIC Fund: First equity investments of €178 million in breakthrough innovations

42 highly innovative start-ups and small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) will together receive equity financing of around €178 million to develop and scale up breakthrough innovations in health, circular economy, advanced manufacturing and other areas.

 
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EIC-EIT: Working closer together for Europe's innovators

The European Innovation Council (EIC) and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) signed a memorandum of understanding to reinforce their cooperation to support the best European entrepreneurs.

 
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3 EIC-funded companies nominated for DIGITALEUROPE’s Future Unicorn Award 2021

Every year, the DIGITALEUROPE Future Unicorn Award showcases Europe’s most promising scale-ups. Among the 21 nominees of this year’s competition, there are 3 EIC-funded startups with digital health innovations, cloud computing and water solutions.

 
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Breakthrough ideas
EU-funded company APEPTICO develops treatment for late-stage COVID-19 patients

Apeptico, part of the EU-funded SOLNATIDE consortium, is accelerating the development of peptide-based treatments targeting the late-stage COVID-19 patients and conducting a clinical study at the Medical University of Vienna.

 
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How to help ReSET economy and environment through spatial planning

A new Pathfinder project called ReSET explores spatial policy solutions for sustainable development focused on employment, economy and environment win-wins, and proposes scientific and technological breakthroughs to build a systemic understanding of socio-environmental interrelationships.

 
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The new Open Research Europe (ORE) platform has opened its wings

The Open Research Europe (ORE) platform changes the research publication domain by providing free, open access, peer-review services for EU-funded research.

 
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News from EIC Community
2020 EIC Community wrap-up: The year of digital engagement

In March 2020, the pandemic measures turned the world upside down, obliging several businesses to reinvent themselves. Let’s look back at the peer-to-peer events, co-creation moments and networking opportunities that shaped the Business Acceleration Services and its community events in 2020.

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Green Innovations: HPNow is producing clean hydrogen-peroxide with only water, electricity and air

The EIC-funded company closed 2020 with a €5M equity round led by AP Ventures and Evonik Venture Capital. Based in Copenhagen, Denmark, HPNow is expanding its portfolio with solutions for agriculture, industrial and municipal water treatment.

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Interview with Future and Emerging Technologies Innovator Silvia Scaglione

Silvia Scaglione is specialist in bioengineering. Since 2010, she is a permanent researcher at the Italian National Research Council (CNR) and head of the Laboratory of Tissue Engineering CNR-IEIIT in Genoa. She is also founder, president and chief scientist of React4Life, an innovative biotech start-up.

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Spintex presented its innovative idea of a next generation textile at a prestigious pitching event in the Silicon Valley

SPINTEX is creating a new, scalable way of making silk artificially. These fibres can be used in sustainable fashion textiles, and also, due to their high-performance, in other markets for advanced technical textiles.

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Upcoming community events
Coaching Corner with Aero Enterprise: Riding the winds of change

For the very first coaching corner episode, we bring together Peter Kurt Fromme-Knoch, CEO of the Austrian company Aero Enterprise and Andreas Preuß, the business coach that followed their two EIC-funded projects.

 
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Open Call - EIC ePitching to Investors on Agritech, Food & Beverages: who’s ready for a side dish of new investments?

The EIC and Bpifrance are pleased to invite all eligible startups to participate in the monthly EIC ePitching with investors. This edition will focus on manufacturing and will take place on 16 February 2021.

 
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Open Call - EIC Procurers Day with José de Mello Group: Get ready to meet your new partners in the health and mobility sectors

The virtual session, taking place on 17 and 18 March 2021, will be dedicated to matching EIC-beneficiaries with José de Mello Group’s procurement needs in the fields of mobility and health.

 
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Open Call - EIC Winter School: Start the year off strong and sharpen your marketing skills!

To help you warm up these cold winter days, the EIC Business Acceleration Services is inviting all EIC-funded beneficiaries to join them for the EIC Winter School from 29 January till 12 February 2021. They are offering three distinct online marketing courses.

 
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Research Meets Industry

FET BRIEFING organises an online matchmaking event for Future and Emerging Technologies projects focused on energy.

 
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