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EIC Prizes

2025 European Prize for Women Innovators open for applications

EIN Presswire | 27/06/2024 | This joint initiative, supported by the European Innovation Council (EIC) and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), celebrates the outstanding achievements of women entrepreneurs behind Europe’s most game-changing innovations. Winners will be selected in three prize categories: EIC Women innovators, EIC Rising innovators and EIT Women leadership.
 
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EIC general news

What do EIC programme managers do?

Science|Business | 25/05/2024 | Former EIC programme manager Iordanis Arzimanoglout walks us through the strategic thinking behind the European Innovation Council’s approach to boosting translation of research to market.
 
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Member states call for a greater role in shaping FP10

Science|Business | 27/06/2024 | There is also a favourable mention for the European Innovation Council (EIC), with the taskforce saying it has “demonstrated its importance to address certain gaps between research excellence and the transformation of those findings into market.”
 
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EIC Pathfinder

German research institute opens doors to partnerships in aerospace engineering

Link To Leaders | 24/06/2024 | There is a German applied research institute that is developing new methodologies and concepts relevant to space logistics in the context of the EIC's Pathfinder space challenge.
 
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A LIST researcher in the spotlight

Le Quotidien.lu | 26/06/2024 | LIST researcher wins prestigious EIC Pathfinder grant for innovative cooling technology. Worth almost €2 million, this highly competitive grant will support the 'CoolPol' project, which aims to develop advanced polymer-based cooling technologies.
 
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The two new ambassadors of the UDC: "We need greater access to scholarships for students and researchers"

La Voz de Galicia | 24/06/2024 | The Flufet project, which is about monitoring on farms the jump of viruses, has funding of more than three million euros and the support of the European Innovation Council.
 
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Medical technology: Radiation-free diagnostic procedure for breast cancer

E-HEALTH-COM | 26/06/2024 | In the QUSTom (Quantitative Ultrasound Stochastic Tomography) project, an international research team aims to develop a new imaging method for radiation-free diagnosis of breast cancer based on ultrasound and supercomputing as part of a project funded by the European Innovation Council.
 
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EIC Accelerator

Materrup raises EUR26m funding for its circular low-carbon cement technology

Cemnet (additional subscription may be required) | 25/06/2024 | Certified by EIC accelerator and Frenchtech2030, Materrup aims to accelerate transition in the European cement market through its structural and certified cement offering, a real alternative to conventional carbonated cements thanks to a low-cost, low-carbon technology that can be deployed immediately.
 
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Exeliom Biosciences collaborates with REMIND in MAINTAIN POP study

PharmiWeb | 25/06/2024 | Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Paris, Exeliom has raised a total of €27 million ($29M) since its inception. The company has been awarded the ‘Plan de relance 2030’, ‘Deeptech’ and ‘I-Lab’ awards by Bpifrance, and the ‘EIC Accelerator’ by the European Innovation Council Fund.
 
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FUTTEC expands and adds separate microwave ovens to the unique FT3 3rd generation "microwave road users" for year-round pothole repairs II. and III. classes

FeedIT.cz | 26/06/2024 | FUTTEC managed to obtain a subsidy of 1.8 million euros from the European Commission under the EU Horizon 2020 program for the commercialization of this innovative technology. FUTTEC is now seeking another EU grant under the EIC Accelerator program.
 
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This is how European research can compete with the US and China

Svenskt Näringsliv | 25/06/2024 | Ambitions in the EU's research efforts must be raised considerably, states Emil Görnerup, research policy expert. Swedish Business and Industry proposes, among other things, to abolish the EIC Accelerator, as the EU needs more technology companies, but government risk capital is not the solution to the problem.
 
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Streamers look to AI to crack the codec code

IBC 365 | 24/06/2024 | The company Deep Render now employs 35 people and last year received a £2.1m grant from the European Innovation Council and raised £4.9m in venture capital led by IP Group and Pentech Ventures.
 
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EIC Fund

Minesto's tidal power plant is noticed by BBC News

Cision News | 24/06/2024 | With granted development funds of more than 45 million euros from, among others, the European Regional Development Fund, the European Innovation Council and InnoEnergy, Minesto is the EU's largest investment in marine energy.
 
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UroMems Raises Record $47 million (€44 Million) in Series C Financing to Fund Pivotal Clinical Trials of the UroActive™ System, the First Smart Automated Implant to Treat Stress Urinary Incontinence

WREG | 25/06/2024 | The financing round was led by Crédit Mutuel Innovation and joined by the European Innovation Council as well as the existing investors Wellington Partners, Bpifrance, Supernova Invest, Hil-Invent, b-to-v Partners and Financière Arbevel.
 
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Embedl receives 45 MSEK investment to scale up its operations and the tools delivering highest performing AI models for the automotive industry

ArcticToday | 26/06/2024 | Embedl, a Swedish deep tech company specializing in AI research and development, has successfully raised SEK 45 million led by Spintop Ventures. The round includes co-financing from the European Innovation Council (EIC).
 
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Axelera AI raises $68 million Series B funding

Security Systems News | 28/06/2024 | Axelera AI's Series B funding round is Europe’s largest oversubscribed Series B funding round in the fabless semiconductor industry. It is backed by major institutional investors, including Invest-NL Deep Tech Fund, the European Innovation Council Fund, Innovation Industries Strategic Partners Fund and Samsung Catalyst Fund among many others.
 
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Fueling the Future: Innatera Attracts a Cumulative $21M in Oversubscribed Series A Funding Amidst Strong Market Interest

PR Newswire | 27/06/2024 | Born out of a decade of research on energy-efficient neuromorphic computing, Innatera pioneers a new breed of microprocessors that aim to bring brain-like intelligence to sensors. Backed by leading European deeptech VCs Matterwave Ventures, MIG Capital, InvestNL, European Innovation Council, Delft Enterprises and Innavest, it's on a mission to make a billion sensors intelligent by 2030.
 
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EIC Board

Michiel Scheffer, President of the Board of the EIC, was present at TNW Conference

Business Metropole Ruhr | 24/06/2024 | Under the title "Decarbonization of the Earth: Fantasy or Reality?", Jörg Kemna, Managing Director of the Business Metropole Ruhr, discussed the feasibility and challenges of global decarbonization efforts and what role technology can play in them with Lubomila Jordanova, CEO & Founder, Plan A, Thomas Roehrl, Head of Partnerships and Future Projects, BMW Foundation and Michiel Scheffer, President of the Board, European Innovation Council.
 
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Events

"EIC Accelerator: Funding opportunities, procedures and support" by Praxi Network

Symboulos | 26/06/2024 | PRAXI Network, National Contact Point of the European Framework Program for Research and Innovation "Horizon Europe", invites you to an open event entitled: "EIC Accelerator: Funding opportunities, procedures and support", which will take place on Tuesday, July 9, 2024, from 14:00 to 18:00, in the conference room of the Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences (ICE-HT).
 
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