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EIC launches third edition of its corporate partnership programme

Agence Europe | 30/05/2024 | On Thursday 30 May, the European Innovation Council (EIC) announced the launch of the third edition of its EIC Corporate Partnership Programme, which aims to support EIC-funded companies seeking to scale up by acquiring new customers and business partners. A consortium of partners, selected following a call for tenders, led by Hello Tomorrow and including Dealflow.eu and EU-Startups, will support the EIC in providing this acceleration service.
 
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Accelerating the future of deeptech starting from healthcare: introducing the EIT Digital - SPEX Capital partnership

EIT Digital | 28/05/2024 | The launch of a collaboration with SPEX Capital: a ground-breaking initiative focused on invigorating early-stage ventures within the digital healthcare, med-tech, and wellbeing sectors. Thanks to strategic partnerships, it was possible to collaborate and engage on a regular basis with institutional stakeholders such as the European Investment Fund (EIF) and the European Innovation Council (EIC).
 
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EIC Pathfinder

The University of Rome Tor Vergata coordinates the EIC Pathfinder PHOENIX-OoC project

Dazebao News | 24/05/2024 | The second university of Rome coordinates the PHOENIX-OoC project, one of the five Italian projects financed by the EIC Pathfinder Open 2023 call. The call, with a budget of €169,500,000, selected 53 projects from all over Europe, including the PHOENIX-OoC OoC, which aims to develop innovative and sustainable Organ-on-Chip devices based on paper technology. These smar...
 
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Utrecht University: EIC Pathfinder Grant to Build Prototypical Quantum Computer

Targeted News Service | 28/05/2024 | The European Innovation Council (EIC) has awarded a Pathfinder Grant of about 3 million euros to the European consortium Quondensate. The consortium's research aims to result in a prototypical quantum computer which will overcome the conventional boundaries of standard information and computation technologies. The project is coordinated by Politecnico di Milano...
 
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BSC launches clinical validation of radiation-free breast cancer diagnostic technique at Vall d’Hebron Hospital

Bioengineer.org | 29/05/2024 | QUSTom was selected in 2022 to be part of the first call of the Pathfinder Open program of the European Innovation Council, financed by the Horizon Europe Framework Program of the European Union and the English UKRI, aimed at supporting disruptive ideas and projects with great international potential. The project has received 2,744,300 euros for its European part.
 
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Fighting Cancer With SMARTdrugs

Mirage News | 29/05/2024 | The research project, led by researchers from King's College London, with partners in Munich, Zurich, San Sebastian and Utrecht, has been awarded a Pathfinder Open Grant from the European Innovation Council (EIC) of nearly 4 million euros.
 
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EIC Accelerator

Qlucore starts project after receiving prestigious EU grant to advance personalized cancer treatment

Inderes | 27/05/2024 | Qlucore, a leader in software development for precision cancer diagnostics, has passed the evaluation phase and will receive a prestigious EIC Accelerator grant of 2,5 million Euros to accelerate the development of clinical cancer diagnostics solutions for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) as well as bladder cancer. In March the grant was made public and Qlucore is now starting the project and has received the first payment.
 
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The State Must Continue Creating Conditions to Support Science-Intensive Companies

LIAA | 27/05/2024 | In her speech, Egita Aizsilniece-Ibema, Head of the Latvian Innovation and Technology Representation in Brussels mentions how the Latvian company "Naco Technologies" is able to attract private investments necessary for expanding the production of a currently non-existent product in the market thanks to having received a €2.3 million grant from the European Innovation Council’s “EIC Accelerator” program for producing a unique coating for hydrogen technology, it allows the company to.
 
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8 Swedish companies spearheading the country’s biotech scene

LabioTech | 28/05/2024 | Hamlet BioPharma received €300,000 ($320,650) in a grant from the European Commission (EC) in April 2023 to accelerate its bladder cancer project, bringing its total funding as part of the EIC Accelerator program of the EC to €2.2 million ($2.4 million).
 
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Iris.ai raises €7.64M to enhance its AI engine to accelerate scientific research

Tech.eu | 29/05/2024 | Iris.ai provider of an AI engine for scientific text understanding, has announced its latest funding round, raising €7.64 million. Silverline Capital led the funding. The European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator Fund, the EIC's flagship startup grant, matched its contribution, following the Fund's previous backing in January 2023.
 
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The hotbed of the most resilient innovation

ABC.es | | 27/05/2024 | Neos Surgery has received €1.9 million in funding from the EIC Accelerator programme, awarded by the European Innovation Council, to clinically validate the device for lumbar disc herniation. And Eurecat and Tecnalia are its partners.
 
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VSORA And Partners CEA-Grenoble And Valeo Named Winners Of France 2030 Embedded AI Call For Projects

MENAFN -Press Releases (English) | 29/05/2024 | The France 2030 Embedded AI winning entry follows the 2023 announcement that VSORA was the recipient of $13.18 million (€12.0 million) from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator Program. That funding is used for the development of its hardware acceleration solutions for AI inference, advanced signal processing and complex algorithms.
 
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EIC Transition

On the road to success... Israeli biotech start-up Profuse Technology.

Israel Valley | 27/05/2024 | Profuse Technology therefore received a grant amounting to 2.4 million euros from the EIC Transition program as part of Horizon Europe. Objective: to further develop its technology which, according to the company, reduces the time needed to cultivate the muscle tissues that will be used to make cultured meat by 80% – while improving the nutritional quality, texture and taste of the latter.
 
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Alice & Bob to integrate Riverlane’s quantum error correction stack – Inside Quantum Technology

Zephyrnet.com | 29/05/2024 | Just a few weeks ago, Riverlane received a grant from the European Innovation Council Transition Fund to help the company advance its error decoder technology.
 
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EIC Board

Press conference during the visit of the President of the Board of Directors of the European Innovation Council

Portal GOV.SI | 28/05/2024 | Slovenia will be visited by the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the European Innovation Council (EIC), Michiel Scheffer, who will meet representatives of the economy, science, research, higher education and the Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, Igor Papič.
 
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World Berliners with Mali M. Baum, member of the board of the European Innovation Council (EIC)

Podcast.de | 29/05/2024 | You can hear in the newpodcast episode Mali M. Baum, founder of WLOUNDGE and member of the board of the European Innovation Council (EIC) at the European Commission.
 
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NATO Innovation Fund announces its new investment team

Tech.eu | 24/05/2024 | Lars Frolund (PhD) is a Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He serves on the Board of Directors of the European Innovation Council (EIC), the EIC Fund (the equity investment part of the EIC), and the Danish Innovation Fund. He was Special Advisor at NATO HQ for the creation of the Defense Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) and NATO Innovation Fund.
 
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Slovenia: To increase Slovenian innovation

Mena Report | 01/06/2024 | President of the Board of Directors of the European Innovation Council (EIC), dr. Michiel Scheffer met with the Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation Dr. Igor Papic. On Thursday evening, he also attended a reception, where he met informally with representatives of science, research, higher education and business.
 
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Events

AcouSort selected by EIC for participation in BIO for the third time and also invited to showcase its solutions in ISCT’s Innovation Zone

Modula Finance - English | 24/05/2024 | AcouSort has been selected by the European Innovation Council (EIC) for participation in the European Pavilion at BIO 2024 in San Diego, USA, after a competitive evaluation process. AcouSort is thereby one of only 15 European companies selected by the EU for full sponsorship at America’s leading medical trade fair, taking place in San Diego June 3-6. AcouSort has also been invited to participate in ISCT in Vancouver where the company will showcase its innovative solutions.
 
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