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05/05/2025

EIC Media Review - 05/05/2025

European Innovation Council Forum sends input for the EU Startup and Scaleup Strategy (30/04/2025)

EU reporter | 29/04/2025 - Startups, Research and Innovation Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva (pictured) attended her first European Innovation Council (EIC) Forum Plenary where she met the representatives of national authorities from 23 member states, five associated countries and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) Board.

Commission touts Horizon Europe’s economic impact in interim evaluation (05/05/2025)

Science Business | 30/04/2025 | Europe - An in-house analysis by the European Commission on Horizon Europe paints an optimistic outlook for the EU research and innovation programme, as the Brussels research bubble is wondering if the programme’s successor will carry on in the same format or would be subsumed to a new European Competitiveness Fund. To support its focus on competitiveness, the Commission has also tried to estimate the economic impact of the investment and has reached the conclusion that every euro spent in Horizon Europe so far could generate up to €11 in GDP gains by 2045.

Every euro invested by the Horizon Europe program yields €11 (05/05/2025)

ioplus | 02/05/2025 | Netherlands - The European Commission has presented an evaluation of Horizon Europe, the EU's flagship research and innovation program, for the 2021-2027 timeline. With investments driving significant returns—€11 in GDP for every €1 invested—this program showcases the power of strategic funding. Since its inception, it has financed over 15,000 projects with a striking €43 billion, supporting 35 Nobel laureates' endeavors.

Alarm at EU plans to end Horizon Europe’s civilian focus (30/04/2025)

University world news | 29/04/2025 - Deketelaere told University World News that the amendment “will allow support for technologies with potential dual-use applications under the Horizon Europe funded European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator” and permit equity investments in defence-focused technologies.

Strengthening Europe’s defense: Proposals to incentivize defense investments – recent developments (30/04/2025)

Business review | 30/04/2025 - Furthermore, under the updated Horizon Europe Regulation, the European Innovation Council will broaden its reach to fund startups focused on dual-use and defense-related technologies, offering a fresh wave of opportunities for emerging players in the market.

The EU Chips Act has already catalysed 80 billion euros of investments in production capacity (30/04/2025)

Key4biz | 29/04/2025 | Italy - A further boost to innovation comes from six new quantum chip projects selected as part of a €200 million EU investment, aimed at developing crucial technologies for applications such as quantum computing, communication and sensing. In parallel, through the Chips Fund, the European Innovation Council and other partners are already providing direct financial support in the form of equity to innovative start-ups in the sector.

Horizon Europe 2025 work programme nears adoption as drafts are pre-published (30/04/2025)

Open access government| 28/04/2025 - Separate from the main programme, distinct work streams continue for the European Research Council (ERC), the Joint Research Centre (JRC), and the European Innovation Council (EIC). Institutionalised partnerships, particularly in mobility, digital technologies, energy, and bio-based sectors, are also managed through separate but related work programmes.

EU Clean Industrial Deal requires R&I boost, says Cesaer (30/04/2025)

Research professional news | 29/04/2025 | Europe - Group of science and technology universities says European Innovation Council should better support university spinouts. The EU should increase its support for research and innovation to help it achieve the aims of its Clean Industrial Deal, the Cesaer group of European science and technology universities has argued.

Xeltis passes evaluation phase; set to secure a 10M equity investment (05/05/2025)

Medical buyer | 02/05/2025 - Xeltis has passed the evaluation phase of the 2025 European Innovation Council (EIC) STEP Scale-Up call program, and is set to secure a 10 million equity investment from the Council, subject to an award decision by the European Commission and to an EIC Fund Investment Committee decision.

Scientists Discover New Bacteria on Oregon Coast With Potential for Bioelectronic Breakthroughs (30/04/2025)

KXL | 28/04/2025 - cientists at Oregon State University have discovered a new species of bacteria in Yaquina Bay that could lead to advances in medicine, industry and environmental cleanup. The research, published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, included contributions from the University of Antwerp, Delft University of Technology, and the University of Vienna. Funding came from the Office of Naval Research, Oregon Sea Grant, Research Foundation Flanders, the University of Antwerp, the EU Marie Sklodowska-Curie Cofund, and the European Innovation Council.

Is the glass half full or half empty? (05/05/2025)

diabetologie-online | 30/04/2025 | Germany - One of the largest "sponsors" of research in Europe is the European Union (EU). The "EIC Pathfinder Challenge" funding program is titled "Towards the Healthcare Continuum: technologies to support a radical shift from episodic to continuous healthcare" [European Commission (EIC Pathfinder Challenge)]. Among the nine projects listed, the MuSiC4Diabetes project is mentioned, as is the MiWear8 project.

Annaida obtains undisclosed pre-series A funding (30/04/2025)

Startupticker | 29/04/2025 | Switzerland - Annaida Technologies, the first company to bring magnetic resonance to the scale of cells, has closed an oversubscribed Pre-Series A funding round led by HEMEX. Alongside lead investor HEMEX, the round saw the participation from existing investors including Zürcher Kantonalbank (ZKB), Excellis, EFI Lake Geneva Ventures, and members of Club degli Investitori through Simon Fiduciaria. The capital raised, combined with the support from EIC Transition (Horizon Europe) and Innosuisse (Swiss Innovation Project), strengthens Annaida’s position to mature its groundbreaking micro magnetic resonance platform into a commercial product.

Dutch investor Innovatiefonds Noord-Holland backs these three Amsterdam-based startups: Know more (05/05/2025)

Silicon canals | 30/04/2025 - the Dutch company received pre-seed funding in 2022 from TTT Medtech, FIRST Fund, and INH. And in January 2025, Phosphoenix received a €2.5M EIC Transition grant for its neural prosthesis project, SIGHTED. The funding supported the development and commercialisation of a brain implant aimed at vision restoration.

Exclusive: Dutch Astrape Networks lands €7.9M to tackle AI data centre traffic jams (30/04/2025)

Tech funding news | 30/04/2025 - Today, Astrape Networks has closed a €7.9 million seed round, which includes a €2.5 million grant from the European Innovation Council (EIC). PhotonVentures, Join Capital, and Brabant Development Agency (BOM) co-led the round, with Shift Invest participating. This funding supports Astrape’s mission to enhance data centre efficiency, crucial for expanding AI and high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure and strengthening Europe’s digital sovereignty.

StarTric, fundraising for heart valve project concluded (30/04/2025)

Askanews | 28/04/2025 | Italy - StarTric, an Italian startup active in the advanced biomedical technologies sector, has completed a complex development financing plan that gives it access to funds for a total value of over 12 million euros. The most significant contribution comes from the success in the latest European EIC Accelerator call, within the Horizon Europe program, which assigned it 2.5 million euros in non-repayable funding, in addition to 8.4 million euros in capital financing that will be disbursed in future financing rounds through the EIB.

Stablepharma begins first-in-human trial of “world-first” fridge-free vaccine (30/04/2025)

Clinical trials arena | 29/04/2025 - In February 2025, Stablepharma was one of five UK companies awarded a $2.85m (€2.5m) grant through the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator programme. This came after the company received €50,000 through the Horizon Europe Scheme in February 2021.

Can algae save the world? (30/04/2025)

Kathimerini | 29/04/2025 | Greece - Harshni, who has taken on the post-fermentation processing of the products, saw the Greek biotech startup as “the perfect job opportunity. We produce game-changing innovations and create new markets. That’s why we joined the European Innovation Council’s EIC Accelerator funding programs and the equally competitive Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking,” she says.

Colourant specialist Sparxell gets key fashion innovation recognition (30/04/2025)

Fashion network | 28/04/2025 - Sparxell, a University of Cambridge spin-out and “developer of the world's first high-performance, plant-based colourant technology”, joins an elite group “demonstrating exceptional impact potential, scalability, and business viability while creatively rethinking industry standards”. This recognition comes as Sparxell recently secured a €1.9 million grant from the European Innovation Council (EIC), adding to investments from the L'Oréal-backed Circular Innovation Fund and support from Innovate UK.

French DeepTech Chipiron raises €14 million to “make MRIs as accessible as X-rays” (05/05/2025)

eu-startups | 30/04/2025 - Chipiron, a Paris-based DeepTech company, has announced a €14.9 million Series A funding round to complete the development of its miniaturized MRI scanner, designed to make this critical imaging technology accessible worldwide. This round is led by Blast, followed by the EIC Fund and iXcore. It is also supported by public funding: France2030 (SGI), the EIC Accelerator (European Commission), and ADD (Bpifrance).

Transformative innovations shaping a safer future for transport (05/05/2025)

open access government | 01/05/2025 - Whilst electric vehicles are gliding silently through city streets, autonomous technologies are paving the way for safer and more efficient travel. Innovators seeking to contribute to the future of mobility can turn to the EIC Accelerator for funding and support.

Catalyxx closes a round with Axon to build a green chemicals plant in Seville (05/05/2025)

ABC de Sevilla | 02/05/2025 | Spain - The startup was founded by a former Abengoa executive who ended up purchasing the technology. It reaches an agreement with a French company to process bioethanol.

The rise of spin-offs in the health sector faces limitations due to difficulties in accessing financial resources (05/05/2025)

Immedicohospitalario | 02/05/2025 | Spain - Finally, in the growth phase, national and international venture capital is gaining importance, along with programs such as the European Innovation Council's EIC Accelerator, but the available funding remains insufficient compared to European and North American standards.

A Romanian startup that wants to accelerate chip design wants to attract 6 million euros and expand to the US (05/05/2025)

Economedia | 02/05/2025 | Romania - Amsimcel, a Romanian technology startup that develops software to accelerate the design and verification of semiconductor chips, wants to raise 6 million euros in an initial funding round as it seeks to expand in the US and, in the long term, in the Far East, its CEO and co-founder said, according to SeeNews. Amsimcel has already secured $3 million in grants and equity from public and private institutions, including EIC Accelerator and venture capital funds Plug & Play, Gapminder and TechAngels.

AlzeCure publishes interim report for January – March 2025 (05/05/2025)

borskollen | 05/05/2025 | Sweden - “The first quarter of 2025 was once again an active and positive period for AlzeCure Pharma. In February 2025, we received EUR 2.5 million in funding from the European Innovation Council (EIC), with the possibility of further funding through the EIC Fund. We are very proud and honored to receive this prestigious grant“.

Which companies are competing in creating a quantum chip Giants and startups want to achieve a historic breakthrough (30/04/2025)

Dir.bg | 29/04/2025 | Bulgaria - IQM is a Finnish startup building superconducting quantum computers and spun off from Aalto University and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. It has received funding from Business Finland, as well as additional support from the EIC Accelerator programme.

Investment data for alternative proteins indicates growth but need improved financing (05/05/2025)

Food and drink technology | 02/05/2025 - The European Innovation Council (EIC) – established under the EU’s Horizon Europe programme – supported a $58 million (€54 million) funding round enabling Germany’s Infinite Roots to expand its production capabilities and prepare for commercial launch. EIC also invested $15.4 million (€14.8 million) in Spanish start-up MOA Foodtech, while the French government and public investment bank Bpifrance funded Standing Ovation to scale up precision fermentation-made casein.

Heart Aerospace scraps Swedish operations, 75 roles axed in US move (30/04/2025)

Tech EU | 30/04/2025 | Europe - Swedish hybrid-electric aeroplane maker Heart Aerospace is scrapping its Swedish operations and relocating to the US, axing 75 roles. Backed by Bill Gates, Heart Aerospace is in the race to build a viable electric aircraft for commercial use. Last year, Heart Aerospace raised $107 million in Series B funding, bringing the company’s total financing to $145 million. Other investors include Air Canada, Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures, European Innovation Council Fund, EQT Ventures, Lower Carbon Capital, Norrsken VC, United Airlines, and Y Combinator.

Meet the companies racing to build quantum chips (30/04/2025)

TechCrunch | 28/04/2025 - In February 2023, Pascal raised a €100 million Series B funding round led by Singapore’s Temasek, with participation from existing investors Quantonation, the Defense Innovation Fund, Daphni, and Eni Next, as well as new investors European Innovation Council (EIC) Fund, Wa’ed Ventures, and Bpifrance (through its Large Venture Fund). / In March 2025, and following a €6 million seed round in 2023, Quantware announced having raised a €20 million Series A (approximately $19.27 million) — including €5 million in equity out of the €7.5 million it previously secured from the European Innovation Council (the remainder is a grant).

VSORA Raises $46M in Funding (30/04/2025)

Finsmes | 29/04/2025 - VSORA, a Paris, France-based provider of artificial intelligence (AI) inference chips, raised $46M in funding. The round was led by Otium and a French family office with additional participation from Omnes Capital, Adélie Capital and co-financing from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Fund.

Ghent-based Azalea Vision raises €9M to advance eye care with real-time adaptive smart lenses (30/04/2025)

Silicon canals | 29/04/2025 - Ghent-based Azalea Vision, a health tech company, announced the first closing of its €15M Series A funding round. The company has been supported by MedTech, HealthTech, and DeepTech investors, including imec.xpand, Elaia Partners, Sensinnovat, and Shigeru, and reinforced by EIC and VLAIO (Belgium) non-dilutive grants.

Valencia-based MySphera, present in more than 50 hospitals in Spain, is seeking funding for its international expansion (05/05/2025)

Valencia plaza | 05/05/2025 | Spain - The Valencian company MySphera, an expert in patient tracking solutions for optimizing hospital processes, has implemented its technology in more than 50 healthcare centers, mostly in Spain, and is now preparing for its next major step: internationalisation. To this end, it has launched a financing round that could reach €10 million, with the support of the European Innovation Council (EIC), which has already committed to providing up to €5 million as a co-investor.

HPC cloud provider Qarnot receives funding from the European Innovation Council (05/05/2025)

Averia | 02/05/2025 | Czechia - High-performance computing (HPC) cloud services provider Qarnot has secured funding from the European Innovation Council (EIC). The new investment round will help Qarnot accelerate the deployment of its compute clusters in “strategic locations” and provide HPC cloud services for industries such as aerospace, automotive, energy and artificial intelligence.

From intern to CEO: Yousef Yousef’s journey leading LG Sonic (30/04/2025)

Innovation origins | 30/04/2025 - With over a decade of experience leading a company, LG Sonic’s CEO is now also sharing his expertise to help others. Yousef is also part of the European Innovation Council (EIC) board. When former Commissioner Carlos Moedas considered launching the agency, he was one of the first ones to be involved. “As a professional, I longed for an institution like the EIC, way before it even existed.”

28/04/2025

EIC Media Review - 28/04/2025

EIC named top 3 in Sifted's most active public fund investor ranking in Q1 2025 (24/04/2025)

Sifted | 24/04/2025 | Europe - Public money is still one of Europe’s secret weapons in tech. From helping early-stage startups get off the ground to backing bigger rounds alongside private capital, public funds continue to de-risk innovation and fuel competitiveness. This quarterly ranking highlights the public funds that made the most bets — either with equity, debt or grant funding — on European tech startups this quarter.

EU Commission reallocates cash to defence, again (25/04/2025)

Euractiv | 22/04/2025 | Europe - Concretely, the European Innovation Council (EIC) of Horizon Europe – whose role is to support the commercialisation of high technologies – would do the same for dual-use and defence-related innovations in the future. “The objective is to foster a dynamic innovation ecosystem that speeds up the development and deployment of cutting-edge dual-use and defence technologies, like AI and cybersecurity,” the executive’s press release says.

Commission wants Horizon Europe to fund dual-use technologies (25/04/2025)

Science Business | 24/04/2025 | Europe - The European Commission is proposing a “targeted exception” to Horizon Europe’s exclusively civilian focus that would allow the European Innovation Council (EIC) to support dual-use technologies. Plans to allow the EIC to invest in technologies with both civil and military applications were previewed in March in the Commission’s white paper on the future of European defence.

Macron launches an appeal to international researchers (25/04/2025)

Les Echos | 18/04/2025 | France - The "Choose France for Science" platform calls on universities and research organisations to submit projects to host international researchers, "particularly in the areas of" health research, climate and biodiversity, digital technology and artificial intelligence, space studies, agriculture and food, and low-carbon energy. Successful candidates must commit to "submitting a competitive European or international project" (ERC, EIC pathfinder, etc.) within two years of their arrival.

Move for EIC to fund defence heightens fears over FP10 (24/04/2025)

Research professional news | 23/04/2025 | Europe - A European Commission proposal for part of the EU’s current research and innovation programme to start funding defence R&I illustrates why many in the sector are concerned about its plans for the 2028 version, Framework Programme 10, to be more politically shaped, a sector leader has said.

Commission downplays concerns over EIC funding defence projects (28/04/2025)

Research professional news | 25/04/2025 - The European Commission has defended its proposal for part of the EU’s research and innovation programme to fund defence projects, following criticism of the move. Earlier this week, the Commission said the European Innovation Council—which supports the development and commercialisation of breakthrough technologies—should start funding “defence-related innovations…to foster a dynamic innovation ecosystem that speeds up the development and deployment of cutting-edge…technologies, like artificial intelligence and cybersecurity”.

EU budget set for defence-related boost under new regulation (24/04/2025)

European Sting | 23/04/2025 | Europe - Through the Horizon Europe regulation, the reach of the European Innovation Council (EIC) will include start-ups working on dual-use and defence-related innovations. The objective is to foster a dynamic innovation ecosystem that speeds up the development and deployment of cutting-edge dual-use and defence technologies, like AI and cybersecurity.

Six underused EU funding opportunities for Latvian startups (28/04/2025)

LSM+ | 25/04/2025 | Latvia - Having just returned from the EIC Summit in Brussels, one thing was blatantly clear – Latvian startups would stand to gain significantly (in both funding and other soft benefits), if there were a larger Latvian presence in the EU capital.

Technology Giants to Address Sustainability at GITEX Europe (28/04/2025)

Sustainability mag | 25/04/2025 - The European Commission has integrated environmental requirements throughout its investment programme, mandating energy efficiency standards for computing infrastructure and carbon footprint reporting for funded initiatives.The Berlin exhibition is organised by KAOUN International with support from the Berlin Senate Department for Economics, Energy and Public Enterprises, Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Berlin Partner for Business and Technology and the European Innovation Council.

European Industry Days: new edition of the flagship European event will take place in Poland (25/04/2025)

Puls Biznesu | 24/04/2025 | Poland - The European Industry Days are not just about politics – they are also about business. The exhibition space with 32 stands will showcase innovative companies from Poland and Ukraine. Additionally, in the “Meet-the-Experts” zone, you will be able to talk to experts and learn about the support offered by the EU for industry. Current initiatives include, among others, the Enterprise Europe Network, Horizon Europe, the STEP portal, the European Digital Innovation Hubs, the European Innovation Council – all of these programmes support EU start-ups, SMEs, scientific communities and civil society.

ANEMEL: Revolutionising green hydrogen production from ‘dirty’ water (25/04/2025)

Innovation news network | 23/04/2025 - Funded by the European Innovation Council and led by the University of Galway, in Ireland, the ANEMEL project aims to develop efficient electrolysers powered using renewable technologies. The electrolysers will utilise non-critical raw materials within all their basic components, including electrocatalysts and membranes. All this will reduce the cost of the electrolyser components and improve their recyclability, thus reducing waste and providing a competitive advantage.

Electrothrix yaqonensis: A New Species Of Electricity-conducting Organism (28/04/2025)

Astrobiology | 26/04/2025 - Scientists have identified a novel species of bacteria that acts as electrical wiring, potentially ushering in a new era of bioelectronic devices for use in medicine, industry, food safety, and environmental monitoring and cleanup. Scientists from the University of Antwerp, Delft University of Technology and the University of Vienna also participated in the research, which was supported by the Office of Naval Research, Oregon Sea Grant, Research Foundation Flanders, the University of Antwerp, the EU Marie Sklodowska-Curie Cofund and the European Innovation Council.

IIT Startups: The Complete Guide (25/04/2025)

Nouvelles du monde| 22/04/2025 | France - Novavido's technology is based on nanotechnology devices with photovoltaic polymers capable of partially restoring vision through a bioelectric interface. Thanks to funding of over €3 million received from the EIC Pathfinder program in 2021, Novavido is designing next-generation visual implants, aimed at improving the quality of life of people with serious vision problems.

Ecocem receives €4m in EIC Pathfinder Challenge (28/04/2025)

Irish building magazine | 22/04/2025 | Ireland - Ecocem, a leader in low-carbon cement technologies, as part of a consortium of Europe’s leading academic and industrial leaders, has today announced it has been awarded €4m in research funding the European Innovation Council (EIC)’s.

Lace Lithography uses atoms to go beyond EUVL (28/04/2025)

ee news europe | 22/04/2025 | Europe - Lace Lithography AS (Bergen, Norway) is developing a form of lithography that uses atoms fired at a surface to define features at resolutions beyond what is possible using extreme ultraviolet lithography. FabouLACE is a European Union funded project to develop dispersion force masked-based helium atom lithography with a budget of €2.5 million provided by the European Innovation Council. The project’s start date was December 1, 2023 and its runs until November 30, 2026.

Spain has 199 biomedical spin-offs, but suffers from a lack of specialised investors in advanced stages (25/04/2025)

CincoDias | 24/04/2025 | Europe - "Business angels and platforms such as Capital Cell, which provide funding at this critical stage, also operate here. Furthermore, since 2015, fund managers specializing in early-stage investment have become established. Finally, in the growth phase, national and international venture capital is gaining importance, along with programs such as the European Innovation Council's EIC Accelerator, but the available funding remains insufficient by European and North American standards," the study notes.

Bosco Emparanza, a life diving among food waste and tiger sharks (28/04/2025)

Navarra capital | 25/04/2025 | Spain - His passion for nature, biotechnology, and business led Vitoria-born Bosco Emparanza to co-found the Navarrese company MOA Foodtech five years ago. Focused on transforming agri-food industry waste into highly nutritious products, the startup now has sixteen professionals on staff and has been selected by the European Innovation Council (EIC) to receive €14.8 million in grants and investments. The firm also collaborates with major companies such as Italy's Barilla.

EUR 17.5mn in EIC financing propels SemiQon’s growth from startup to scaleup (25/04/2025)

DataQuest | 24/04/2025 - EIC and Business Finland funds take SemiQon’s total fundraising to EUR 24 million in form of blended finances combining private investments and project funding over the last 2.5 years. With the EIC backing, SemiQon will speed up commercialization and diversify its business to domains beyond the quantum industry. The highly competitive EIC funding consists of EUR 2.5 million in a competitive, non-dilutive grant and an additional EUR 15 million of equity-based ear-marked funding.

Carthera Reaches Recruitment Milestone in SONOBIRD Pivotal Trial for Recurrent Glioblastoma (28/04/2025)

Biospace | 22/04/2025 - Carthera, developer of the revolutionary SonoCloud® medical device, today announces it has enrolled the first 100 patients in its SONOBIRD pivotal trial for the treatment of recurrent glioblastoma.Founded in 2010 by Prof. Alexandre Carpentier, run by CEO Frederic Sottilini and chaired by Oern Stuge, MD, Carthera has received support from the National Research Agency (ANR), the French public investment bank (Bpifrance), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the European Innovation Council (EIC).

Invoice financing as a growth engine – Helping companies take the next step (28/04/2025)

Sydsvenskan | 28/04/2025 | Sweden - One of the enablers and a guarantee that Invoier is something to be reckoned with is the EU support that the founders managed to win in a battle against 14,000 other companies. The application itself took nine months. ''The EU Commission, through the EIC (European Innovation Council), gave us the support and joined as a partner. It meant a lot to Invoier to be able to realise its vision and build the future'', says Fredrik Mistander.

22/04/2025

EIC Media Review - 22/04/2025

Winners of EIC scale-up call expect increase in private investment (16/04/2025)

Science Business | 15/04/2025 | Europe - Winners of the European Innovation Council’s (EIC) new instrument to support scale-ups are positive about the investment and application process, but want to see more ambition, with investment ceilings raised even further.

European Innovation Council seeks to take advantage of geopolitical momentum (22/04/2025)

Science Business | 22/04/2025 | Europe - The European Commission has been touting the success of its European Innovation Council (EIC) so far, but it is already looking for ways to improve it in the coming years. In particular, it wants the EIC to help more start-ups grow and scale-up, and to boost the EU’s economic competitive advantage in critical technology.

EIC Summit 2025: ‘Permission to misbehave’ for accelerating innovation (22/04/2025)

Dataconomy | 17/04/2025 - The European Innovation Council (EIC) Summit took place in Brussels on April 2nd and 3rd, 2025. This significant event brought together key figures from across the European innovation landscape, including policymakers, entrepreneurs, researchers, and investors, to discuss how Europe can strengthen its position as a global innovation leader.

Beyond the Grant: Building and funding deep tech ventures in Europe (16/04/2025)

Dataconomy | 15/04/2025 - The European Innovation Council (EIC) Summit gathered bright minds, ambitious startups, and key players shaping Europe’s technological future in Brussels. While there, I attended a particularly insightful workshop titled “Seeding Success: Strategies for Early Stage Investment.” Understanding how groundbreaking ideas navigate the challenging path from lab to market is crucial for anyone involved in Europe’s deep tech scene. This session, featuring speakers from the EIC Board, research institutions, and venture development, offered a direct look at this very issue.

Young researchers urged to demand independent FP10 (16/04/2025)

Research professional news | 15/04/2025 - The European Commission seems to want to move Framework Programme 10, the R&I programme due to start in 2028, into a planned European Competitiveness Fund intended to boost economic growth and autonomy. Most R&I sector leaders are strongly opposed, saying this would make FP10 too subject to political whims and ill-suited rules.

NOVA Medical School receives 3.25 million to create a collaborative ecosystem (17/04/2025)

Publico | 16/04/2025 | Portugal - NOVA Medical School receives 3.25 million to create collaborative ecosystem Attracting investment for research projects is not always easy, but the health sector is still one of the sectors that has attracted the most investment in the Portugal 2020 Programme. “Portugal is above the EU average in the health sector, according to the European Innovation Council”, he points out, highlighting that here “there is a world of opportunities because the country has the skills”.

Europe funds UPV projects on telemedicine, health monitoring through sweat, and immunological therapies (22/04/2025)

Las provincias | 19/04/2025 | Spain - The Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) has received six million euros from the European Innovation Council (EIC) to fund eleven projects. Thus, it becomes the leader among Spanish universities in the EIC.

Data corner: defining the usual suspects for EIC Accelerator funding (16/04/2025)

Science Business | 15/04/2025 | Europe - On paper, the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator funds any kind of start-up or SME that is developing and scaling up breakthrough green and digital technologies. But some companies are much better at securing its funding than others. So, who is most likely to win this funding? To find out, we looked at the latest report from the innovation consultancy Lira, which analyses the 139 winners from 2024, as well as the European Commission’s own data.

Companies could lose millions in EU funding (16/04/2025)

mmonline | 16/04/2025 | Hungary - "As a leading consulting firm, we often experience that even professionally high-quality, promising projects receive lower evaluations in EIC Accelerator applications if the role of artificial intelligence is not sufficiently developed in the project. For example, in the case of a healthcare technology innovation - despite the novelty of the basic idea and social utility - the application evaluators indicated that the methodology and added value of the application of AI should have been presented in more detail for a successful application," the expert highlights.

Captor Therapeutics reported a net loss of PLN 8.8 million in Q4 (16/04/2025)

Bankier | 15/04/2025 | Poland - It was also noted that the company received a recommendation for funding from the European Innovation Council in the most competitive round of funding to date since the launch of the EIC Accelerator program under Horizon Europe. The funding includes a grant of EUR 2.5 million and possible participation of the European Investment Bank in a potential share issue of up to EUR 5.3 million.

ATMOS Raises €1M in New Funding as it Prepares for Inaugural Flight (22/04/2025)

European space flight | 21/04/2025 | Europe - Germany’s ATMOS Space Cargo has secured €1 million in new funding as the company prepares for the launch of its re-entry capsule demonstration mission. The latest investment comes just two months after the company announced it had received €13.1 million from the European Commission’s EIC Accelerator Programme.

How intellectual property protection opens doors to peace for Ukraine (22/04/2025)

Delo | 18/04/2025 | Ukraine - For example, the winner of the European Commission's EIC Accelerator 2022 program was the green technology startup Releaf Paper, founded by Ukrainians Valentin Frechka and Alexander Sobolenko. The team won a grant in the amount of 2.5 million euros for the construction of a factory that will produce cellulose from the fibers of fallen leaves using a unique patented technology.

Bulgaria's Check Point Care seeks 8.5 mln euro investment (16/04/2025)

Seenews | 15/04/2025 - "We have a pending investment of 8.5 million euro from the European Innovation Council (EIC) for which we would need a matching investment of the same amount. The overall investment would be 17 million euro and we are looking for a lead investor," Slovenian businesswoman Kaja Vidic, a co-owner and chief business development officer at Check Point Care, told SeeNews on the sidelines of the EIC Summit held in Brussels earlier this month.

AMT Medical Raises $25M in Series B Funding (17/04/2025)

Finsmes | 17/04/2025 - AMT Medical, an Ede and Utrecht, the Netherlands-based clinical-stage medtech company, raised $25M in Series B funding. The round was led by Bender Analytical Holding B.V. (BAH). Other investors Invest-NL, and the European Innovation Council (EIC) Oost NL and angels also participated. The company intends to use the funds to support new key initiatives, including CE marking and initial clinical trials in the United States in open and robotic settings.

Company gets $54 million funding boost on quest to harness virtually limitless energy source: 'Strategic technology' (17/04/2025)

The Cool Down |16/04/2025 - Marvel Fusion, a Munich-based fusion energy company, received $54 million in new funding to build the power plant of the future.The company recently secured more funds from the European Innovation Council Fund, EQT Ventures, and Siemens Energy to support this ongoing work. Prior funding has come from private investors.

2025 EU Prize for Women Innovators: Celebrating women at the forefront of European innovation (16/04/2025)

Zephyrnet | 14/04/2025 - The European Innovation Council (EIC) Summit in Brussels brought together over 1,400 people to discuss the future of Europe’s advanced technology. As a jury member for the 2025 EU Prize for Women Innovators, I was particularly impressed by the remarkable talent and dedication of the women celebrated. While the summit offered valuable learning and networking, the award ceremony truly highlighted the creativity and leadership of women driving innovation, solidifying the EIC Summit’s importance for Europe’s innovation agenda.

Look who is inspiring new generations of women innovators (22/04/2025)

Innovators mag | 18/04/2025 - The winners of this month’s European Prize for Women Innovators are creating a future young people can finally get excited about. Led jointly by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) and the European Innovation Council (EIC), the Horizon Europe-funded competition has three categories: the Women Innovators Prize, open to women who have ‘founded a successful company’; the Rising Innovators Prize, for under 35s; and the EIT Women leadership prize, for ‘exceptional members of the EIT Community’.

EIC Ambassador Cristian Dascălu on Romania’s role in Europe’s startup future (16/04/2025)

Business Review | 15/04/2025 - At the EIC Summit 2025, held on April 2-3 in Brussels, Business Review spoke exclusively with Cristian Dascălu, EIC Ambassador and a key advocate for innovation in Europe’s widening countries. With a deep understanding of both policy and the startup ecosystem, Dascălu shared his vision for how Romania can move from potential to performance, leveraging European instruments like the EIC to empower founders, foster deep tech, and build a more connected innovation landscape across the region.

‘Priceless’ EIT should not be scrapped, expert says (22/04/2025)

Research professional news | 17/04/2025 - Rachel Armstrong, a professor of regenerative architecture at KU Leuven university in Belgium and now an ambassador for the EIC, told Research Professional News that the EIT has a very “complementary role” to the newer funder.

14/04/2025

EIC Media Review - 14/04/2025

EIC mulling smoother funding flow under Arpa-like approach (09/04/2025)

Research professional news | 07/04/2025 - The governing board of the European Innovation Council is discussing using “fast lanes” so the funder can more smoothly support beneficiaries moving between its schemes, as part of its plans to operate more like the US Advanced Research Projects Agency (Arpa) model, its president Michiel Scheffer has told Research Professional News.

EU’s turn towards industry risks leaving research in the cold (11/04/2025)

Research professional news | 09/04/2025 - Anton Muscatelli argues that closer European collaboration around innovation must include universities. It appears that the European Research Council and the European Innovation Council—two flagship institutions funded by the EU—will survive. But beyond this, it is difficult to see how universities will be able to engage in EU research funding in the future.

New Widening tools to target research collaboration and management (11/04/2025)

Science Business | 07/04/2025 | Europe - Meanwhile, 90 projects will be backed under the European Innovation Council pre-accelerator call in 2027, which will be introduced this year to help early-stage deep-tech start-ups from Widening nations attract investments.

The Trump effect and a possible exodus of expertise (11/04/2025)

The Hindu | 09/04/2025 - Michiel Scheffer at the European Innovation Council (EIC) wrote on social media that "a concept" to welcome scientists from the US would be discussed at an EIC board meeting in April.

Brussels Chronicles: What Happened at the EIC Summit 2025 on European Startup Investment (11/04/2025)

Economy up | 08/04/2025 | Italy - The European Innovation Council is the European Commission’s main vehicle for investing in startups. At the EIC Summit 2025, the progress and the necessary turning point to move beyond fragmentation and bureaucracy were taken stock. Enrico Letta’s speech was featured.

Digitalisation: Those who do not integrate AI into their operations may lose out on multi-million EU funds (14/04/2025)

Technokrata | 11/04/2025 | Hungary - The European Union is providing targeted support for ethical and industrial AI developments through the Horizon Europe and European Innovation Council (EIC) grant schemes. Horizon Europe is the EU’s 2021-2027 framework programme for research and innovation, with a budget of €95.5 billion to complement national and regional R&I funding. The European Innovation Council (EIC) operates as part of this framework programme and supports breakthrough, high-value-added innovations with over €10 billion. Its three grant types – Pathfinder, Transition and Accelerator – support almost all stages of innovation development: from early scientific research to technologies close to market entry.

Something for the weekend - welcome to the AI Continent of Europe. US and Chinese travellers, please have your documentation ready for inspection... (14/04/2025)

Diginomica | 11/04/2025 - A bold declaration from EU Technology Commissioner Henna Virkkunen this week as she formally launched the birth of the AI Continent Action Plan, the European Union’s broad AI strategy to take on the US and China for parity, if not dominance, of the sector. There are some harsh realities that need to be acknowledged. The EU currently only invests around four percent of what the US does in AI. The European Innovation Council worked with a budget of €256 million euros in 2024.

EU DeepU project explores non-mechanical drilling technology for deep geothermal (09/04/2025)

Think geoenergy | 08/04/2025 - The overall aim of DeepU is to develop a deep (>4 km), closed-loop, vitrified, waterproof, non-cracked U-tube heat exchanger by integrating laser and cryogenic gas into a single cutting-edge drilling solution. DeepU has been funded by the European Commission under the EIC Pathfinder Programme.

Ecocem receives €4m in EIC Pathfinder Challenge (11/04/2025)

Irish building magazine | 10/04/2025 | Ireland - Ecocem, a leader in low-carbon cement technologies, as part of a consortium of Europe’s leading academic and industrial leaders, has today announced it has been awarded €4m in research funding the European Innovation Council (EIC)’s.

News Breakthrough gene therapy offers hope for rare, deadly heart disease in young men (11/04/2025)

The Microbiologist | 09/04/2025 - The study, led by Dr. Enrique Lara-Pezzi, head of the Molecular Regulation of Heart Failure group at the CNIC and a member of the Spanish cardiovascular research network (CIBERCV), demonstrates that the introduction of a healthy version of the TMEM43 gene directly into cardiac muscle cells significantly improves heart function and prolongs survival in a mouse model of the disease. The study was supported by the Pathfinder Cardiogenomics program of the European Innovation Council.

Antibiotic resistance, the turning point could come from Unibo (14/04/2025)

Bologna Today | 12/04/2025 | Italy - New advanced nanomaterials to fight antibiotic resistance: the BactEradiX project is working to develop a modular nanoplatform capable of targeting bacterial biofilms, i.e. aggregations of microorganisms that promote resistance to the action of the immune system and antibiotics. Funded with 3 million euros, BactEradiX is an EIC Pathfinder project promoted by the European Innovation Council (EIC), the EU body that promotes the design and development of highly innovative technologies.

Ecocem receive €4 million of EIC research funding (14/04/2025)

Agg-Net | 11/04/2025 - ECOCEM, a European leader in low-carbon cement technologies, as part of a consortium of Europe’s leading academic and industrial leaders, have been awarded €4 million in research funding from the European Innovation Council (EIC). The grant comes as part of the EIC Pathfinder Challenges 2024 and will support a programme of work focusing on optimizing the environmental compatibility of electric arc furnace (EAF) slag for low-carbon cement.

Technologies developed to clean up orbit and enhance satellite longevity (11/04/2025)

Space daily | 10/04/2025 - Currently hosted by the ESA BIC Comunidad de Madrid incubator, PERSEI Space also receives support from the UC3M's C3N-IA Center for Innovation and operates within the Leganes Tecnologico Science Park. Its work is bolstered by funding from the European Innovation Council through projects E.T.PACK-F and E.T.COMPACT.

Carbon capture specialist Nuada wins €2.5m in funding from European accelerator (09/04/2025)

Irish Times | 08/04/2025 - Belfast-based Nuada has secured €2.5m in funding from the EIC Accelerator, the first Northern Ireland based company to get funding from the prestigious innovation programme. The carbon capture technology specialist focuses on decarbonising sectors such as cement, lime, steel and energy from waste, by capturing direct carbon emissions during the manufacturing process.

Sound waves can cut reliance on synthetic inputs, start-up claims (11/04/2025)

AgTechNavigator | 09/04/2025 - The company - which has been awarded the European Innovation Council's Seal of Excellence and successfully completed the first batch of FoodSeed, a food tech accelerator - will focus on optimising industrial bioproduction and validating new categories of microorganisms, expanding its primary focus on microalgae to include yeasts and bacteria.

New Data Bolstering the Anti-inflammatory Effect of NeuroRestore ACD856 Presented at Alzheimer's Conference (11/04/2025)

Wallstreet Online | 07/04/2025 - The unique pharmacological mechanism of NeuroRestore also enables multiple indications, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, but also depression. ACD856 is a first-in-class drug candidate for Alzheimer's disease and is now being prepared for upcoming Phase II clinical trials in patients, which is financially supported by the European Innovation Council, via an EIC Accelerator grant of €2.5m.

XFuel gets EU funding to scale up its fuel-from-waste tech (11/04/2025)

Offshore Energy| 08/04/2025 - XFuel, a Spanish producer of high-grade sustainable drop-in fuels and carbon removal for the transport sector, has secured €7.7 million in blended finance from the European Innovation Council (EIC), helping it bring its fuel-from-waste technology to transport markets.

Beating back batteries: Dracula Technologies' energy harvesting tech (11/04/2025)

Startups Magazine | 07/04/2025 - “We achieved funding through technical partnerships, fundraising, and grants from Europe and the French Public Investment Bank (BPI),” he said. Most recently, Dracula Technologies was picked in 2022 among 1,000 European startups where it received €1.6 million in grants thanks to the European Innovation Council Accelerator programme.

Government Grants for Startups: How to Apply and Win (14/04/2025)

The successful founder| 11/04/2025 - European startups have access to grants focused on innovation, sustainability, and research. Horizon Europe Grants fund research and innovation across various industries. European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator offers grants and equity funding for high-growth startups.

Copenhagen’s Sparrow Quantum raises €21.5M to strengthen photonic chip supply chain in Europe (11/04/2025)

Silicon Canals | 10/04/2025 - Copenhagen-based Sparrow Quantum, a supplier of photonic quantum chips, has raised €21.5M in a Series A funding round. The investment was led by PensionDanmark, with participation from EIFO, Novo Holdings, 2xN, LIFTT, and the European Innovation Council.

FaradaIC Sensors raises €4.5M for electrochemical gas detection tech (11/04/2025)

Tech EU | 07/04/2025 - FaradaIC Sensors, an electrochemical gas detection company, has raised €4.5M in a funding round led by JOIN Capital. The round also saw follow-on investment from Forma Prime, an early-stage investor in the company, along with participation from other investors, including the European Innovation Council, Elev8, Atlantis-Ventures, Tiburon, and Frontures.

Dutch deep tech company BlueHeart Energy raises funds: Know more (14/04/2025)

Silicon canals | 11/04/2025 - Netherlands-based BlueHeart Energy, a company developing Thermo Acoustic heat pump for the residential market, has received a strategic investment from Copeland, a US-based climate solutions provider. The European Innovation Council Fund also joined as a strategic investor.

Qarnot Secures Funding from European Innovation Council (14/04/2025)

Time.News | 12/04/2025 - Qarnot, a trailblazer in cloud-based HPC solutions, recently secured investment from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Fund, a move laden with implications for both the company and the broader tech ecosystem in Europe. While the exact amount of investment has not been disclosed, the funding is expected to accelerate Qarnot’s deployment of computing clusters in strategic locations, such as urban centers, which can enhance service delivery across multiple sectors including automotive and energy.

Hintco Wins EU Innovation Award for Advancing Renewable Hydrogen via H2Global (14/04/2025)

Fuel cells works | 08/04/2025 - Hintco has been named a second prize winner in the prestigious European Innovation Procurement Awards 2025, recognising its pioneering role in accelerating the market for renewable hydrogen through the H2Global mechanism. The award was presented at the European Innovation Council (EIC) Summit in Brussels.

Oxolife's CEO Agnès Arbat receives prestigious EU Women Innovators Prize (11/04/2025)

Yahoo Finance | 09/04/2025 - Oxolife, the female fertility biotech focused on increasing live birth rates by enhancing embryo implantation in women undergoing assisted reproductive technology (ART) fertility treatment, today announces that Agnès Arbat, its Chief Executive Officer, has been awarded the prestigious EU Women Innovators Prize at the European Innovation Council (EIC) Summit on the 3rd of April 2025 in Brussels, Belgium.

The winners of the 2025 EU Prize for Women Innovators have been announced (11/04/2025)

Radio Romania | 07/04/2025 | Romania - Women who promote innovation and entrepreneurship across Europe are awarded each year by the European Commission in three categories: women innovators, young hopefuls and women who promote entrepreneurship. The awards are given to women from across the EU and countries associated with the Horizon Europe programme who have founded successful businesses and brought innovation to the market.

07/04/2025

EIC Media Review - 07/04/2025 [EIC Summit 2025 Edition]

R&I commissioner outlines plan for EIC expansion (04/04/2025)

Research professional news | 04/04/2025 - Ekaterina Zaharieva, the EU research and innovation commissioner, sketched out her plans for expanding the European Innovation Council at the funder’s annual conference in Brussels this week. Responding to a question from Research Professional News in a press conference at the EIC Summit, Zaharieva said the expansion would need to show private sector investors that the EU is “serious” about using the EIC to support their own investments in technology-based small companies.

EIC Impact Report 2025: EIC on track as leading deep-tech investor, mobilising €2.6 billion of additional investment (04/04/2025)

Business Review | 03/04/2025 | Europe - Celebrating its fourth anniversary at the annual EIC Summit on 2 and 3 April 2025, the European Innovation Council presented the EIC Impact Report 2025. The report demonstrates the significant progress the EIC has made to become the investor of choice for European deep tech entrepreneurs. Here are some highlights from his year’s edition.

‘Don’t call it innovation, say that you are creating jobs’ (04/04/2025)

Innovation Origins | 04/04/2025 - As the godfather of the European Innovation Council (EIC), Carlos Moedas is one of Europe’s firmest believers in innovation’s power for competitiveness and economic growth. As a politician, he adds a pragmatic approach. “Don’t tell that you are making innovation, tell that you are creating jobs,” he said on the EIC Summit stage.

EIC Summit 2025: Europe’s Leading Event Focused on Deeptech and Policy (07/04/2025)

Business abc | 04/04/2025 - The EIC Summit 2025, held at Tour & Taxis in Brussels, gathers innovators, policymakers, and business leaders to discuss Europe's innovation landscape. It features EIC-funded projects, networking opportunities, and the prestigious EIC Prizes. Speakers include Henna Virkkunen (Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy), Ekaterina Zaharieva (Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation), and more.

Deep tech meets policy in Brussels: audio report (04/04/2025)

Polskieradio | 03/04/2025 | Poland - The 2025 European Innovation Council (EIC) Summit, a two-day event bringing together deep tech investors and policy makers, wrapped up in Brussels on Thursday.

2025 European Prize for Women Innovators’ winners: Recognising women’s groundbreaking achievements in innovation (04/04/2025)

Business Review | 03/04/2025 - Today, the Commission has announced the winners and runners-up of the 11th edition of the European Prize for Women Innovators, jointly managed by the European Innovation Council (EIC) and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). These women are not only inspiring future generations of innovators but also highlighting the importance of diversity and gender equality in driving Europe’s competitiveness forward.

Irish entrepreneurs win again at EU women innovator awards (04/04/2025)

Silicon republic | 03/04/2025 | Ireland - Rhona Togher, the co-founder of Lios, won the second-highest award, bagging the first runner-up prize under the Women Innovator category. Togher, an award-winning physicist, received €70,000. While Elizabeth McGloughlin, the co-founder and CEO of Tympany Medical, won the third spot in the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT ) Women Leadership category, taking home €20,000.

AI-based parking monitoring and emission-free construction projects win the European Innovation Procurement Awards 2025 (04/04/2025)

Business Review | 02/04/2025 - The winners, chosen by a jury of independent experts, were announced today at the European Innovation Council Summit in Brussels. Each winning initiative is awarded EUR 75 000 to further support their efforts in advancing innovation procurement, while the runners up in each category are rewarded with €50,000 (second place) and €25,000 (third place), respectively.

Europe Innovation Council Awards 2025: the car that guards parking lots and other winning innovations (07/04/2025)

Startup Romania | 05/04/2025 - The fourth edition of the Europe Innovation Council Summit 2025 (EIC Summit), the European conference that analyzes how Europe can become a global leader in technology with the help of startups, announced this year's winners in Brussels for innovative initiatives in tech and sustainability.

FP10 meets Competitiveness Fund: ‘We can have both,’ says commissioner (04/04/2025)

Science Business | 03/04/2025 | Europe - The EU’s competitiveness strategy has also prompted fears that Brussels intends to undermine the independence of the European Research Council (ERC) by pushing for more alignment with the European Innovation Council (EIC) and the EU’s broader political goals in the development of advanced technologies. But Zaharieva said that “preserving the autonomy” of the EIC and ERC is “really important.”

University group calls for more interdisciplinarity in EIC (01/04/2025)

Research professional news| 31/03/2025 - The European Innovation Council—the EU funder that supports the development and commercialisation of breakthrough technologies—should adopt a more interdisciplinary approach, according to the Cesaer group of science and technology universities. In a position paper published on 31 March, the group says that Europe is missing opportunities to help new companies grow “because key expertise is not always engaged at the right time”.

The European Innovation Council: A Catalyst for Breakthrough Technologies and Innovations (07/04/2025)

Business abc | 04/04/2025 - The European Innovation Council (EIC) is Europe’s key driver for next-generation technologies, revolutionising industries with a €10.1 billion budget. Backed by Horizon Europe programme, the EIC helps startups, SMEs, and scaleups thrive through grants and equity investments.

EIC on its way to becoming a leading deep-tech investor (04/04/2025)

Dutch IT leaders | 03/04/2025 | Netherlands - The European Innovation Council (EIC) is on its way to becoming a leading deep-tech investor, mobilising €2.6 billion in additional investment, according to the EIC Impact Report 2025.

The European network of innovation investors is being strengthened, the "piggy bank" at 336 billion (04/04/2025)

Business daily | 02/04/2025 | Greece - The EIC Fund has managed to attract more than €1.6 billion in co-investments and has been instrumental in accelerating the growth of European startups. The European EIC investor network is expanding, connecting 111 investors managing €336 billion to boost European technology and innovation.

EIC trusted investor network expands to boost European deep tech innovation (04/04/2025)

Open access government | 03/04/2025 - The European Innovation Council (EIC) is making big developments to accelerate the growth of Europe’s deep tech sector, as the EIC Trusted Investor Network continues to expand its reach.

Dual-use plan prompts call to confront ‘creeping militarisation’ (04/04/2025)

Research professional news | 03/04/2025 - Last month, the European Commission said it would “ensure the European Innovation Council…will invest in dual-use technology”. The EIC, which supports the development and commercialisation of breakthrough technologies, is a part of the R&I programme and is bound by its rules.

Axelera AI and Xeltis secure EU scaleup funding (04/04/2025)

Innovation Origins | 03/04/2025 - Axelera AI and Xeltis are among the seven European companies that will receive funding through the European Innovation Council (EIC) STEP Scale Up Scheme. The two Eindhoven-based companies passed the evaluation phase. They will get an investment of between €10 and €30 million each, aiming to leverage private co-investment and achieve financing rounds of €50 to €150 million or more.

€116 million awarded to projects under EIC pathfinder challenges (04/04/2025)

Open access government | 02/04/2025 - The European Innovation Council (EIC) has awarded nearly €116 million in funding to 31 new research projects selected through the 2024 EIC Pathfinder Challenges call.

Dr. Anita Rajpurohit: a legacy of hope (01/04/2025)

Killer startups | 31/03/2025 - Spermotile has raised $4 million from the European Union’s prestigious fund ERC Proof of Concept, EIC Transition, the Research Council of Norway, and UiT, developing an AI-powered sperm selection technology to improve IVF success rates. The technology integrates advanced microscopy, fluid mechanics, and AI-based selection, and is backed by three patents at various phases.

Fran Estevan (Inneürope): "Trump's position could accelerate European commitment to IT" (01/04/2025)

Valencia plaza | 01/04/2025 | Spain - The recent edition of the EIC Accelerator also reflects the importance of innovation in the country. "Spain has been awarded six of the 71 projects approved in the recent edition of the EIC Accelerator, which places us in fourth place behind Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden."

11 up-and-coming startups more people should know about (01/04/2025)

Deutsche-startups | 31/03/2025 | Germany - The European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator is investing up to €8.5 million (€2.5 million in grant funding and €6 million in equity investment) in Vivalyx. The Aachen-based life science startup, founded in 2022 by Andreas Schumacher, Benedict Doorschodt, René Tolba, Christian Bleilevens, Malte Brettel, and Marius Rosenberg, is developing a technology for the revitalization of donor organs.

Sequentia Biotech: Decoding life with data to improve it (07/04/2025)

Emprendedores | 05/04/2025 | Spain - Despite being a company that hasn't made much noise, Sequientia has received numerous awards and recognitions both domestically and internationally. One of these is the EIC Accelerator, a competition for innovative startups and SMEs organized by the European Union (EU). This is a Horizon Europe funding program that provided them with €2.5 million and allowed them to advance the development and commercialization of MICK.

Bulgaria’s digital future: The quiet power behind innovation (04/04/2025)

Tech EU | 04/03/2025 - Bulgaria’s tech ecosystem is rapidly emerging as a leading innovation hub in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), attracting significant investment and global recognition. In 2024, Smart Farm Robotix secured a €2.4 million grant from the European Innovation Council (EIC) to further develop this innovative technology.

EU Grants €50M Loan for Swedish Ag Giant to Build Pea Protein Factory for Meat Alternatives (07/04/2025)

Green Queen | 04/04/2025 - Lantmännen, Sweden’s largest farmer cooperative, has received a big boost from the EU to build a large-scale plant protein facility and supply ingredients to makers of meat and dairy alternatives. The EU, meanwhile, has been doubling down on its future food investments through various initiatives. It spotlighted several startups at EIT Food’s flagship Next Bite event last year, has included a number of alternative protein firms in its accelerator programmes, and invested €50M in precision-fermented and algae-based foods via the European Innovation Council.

D-Orbit Acquires Planetek, Forming a Strategic Union for Space Innovation (07/04/2025)

Startup Business | 04/04/2025 | Italy - The European Innovation Council (EIC) and the SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) have long been involved in crucial funding and support, such as that of Isar: over €10 million through the Horizon Programme for the development of ‘low-cost space launch’ systems alone. This support is not just about funding: it is about strengthening the EU’s technological sovereignty and competitiveness in a field long dominated by global giants elsewhere.

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EIC Media Review - 31/03/2025

UMA Leads Global Consortium to Accelerate Cement’s Role as a Carbon Sink (31/03/2025)

Scienmag | 28/03/2025 - The University of Malaga (UMA) is embarking on an unprecedented venture as it coordinates an innovative project under the Horizon Europe – European Innovation Council (EIC) Pathfinder Challenges programme. This initiative, which aims to revolutionize technology and scientific approaches, marks a significant milestone for the university, as it has not previously taken on a coordinating role in such a vast international collaboration.

ERC and EIC unite to call for increased, ringfenced budgets in FP10 (28/03/2025)

Science Business | 27/03/2025 | Europe - The European Research Council (ERC) and the European Innovation Council (EIC) have joined forces to push for an increase in their respective budgets amid persisting concerns over post-2027 research and innovation funding. In a statement released on March 26, the two EU funding agencies called for “increased” and “ringfenced” budgets in the next research Framework Programme, FP10, “even if included in an envisaged Competitiveness Fund.” They also asked for “a clear mandate, independence and agility in governance and operations.”

Europe and the startup ecosystem: Fail fast, learn faster (28/03/2025)

Liberal | 27/03/2025 | Greece - At the Union level, financial tools such as the European Innovation Council and the European Investment Fund have been created, while programs such as Horizon Europe and Startup Europe support startups and facilitate connections with investors and universities. However, all of this is for naught if young entrepreneurs continue to feel that bureaucracy is holding them back and, above all, that failure is something that stigmatizes you and is not forgiven.

Light can detect cancer in seconds – Danish researchers behind groundbreaking technology (31/03/2025)

Randers idag | 30/03/2025 | Denmark - The technology behind OPTIPATH exploits how light changes when it hits different types of tissue. It is not only in Denmark that the OPTIPATH technology has attracted attention. The project has received significant support from the EU’s prestigious EIC Pathfinder programme, which supports radical innovations with the potential to change the world. OPTIPATH was selected from more than 1,100 applicants, of which only 45 were awarded funding.

Galicia leads the study of a new anticancer agent (26/03/2025)

La opinion coruna | 26/03/2025 | Spain - The MEDiCS project, coordinated by José Luis Mascareñas from the CiQUS of the University of Santiago and which aims to develop a novel anti-cancer agent, focusing primarily on its effectiveness against pancreatic and colon tumors, has just been selected by the European Innovation Council as one of the 40 out of 416 submitted to the latest EIC Transition call, thanks to which it will have funding of 2.5 million euros to carry out the entire preclinical phase of this research over the next three years.

Sectoral HypeSound raises €1.2M to scale sound-based bioproduction tech (26/03/2025)

N24 | 26/03/2025 - Earlier this year, HypeSound was awarded the Seal of Excellence by the European Innovation Council (EIC) for its project proposal. The startup also completed the first cohort of FoodSeed, a food tech accelerator operated by CDP Venture Capital SGR. These milestones have helped establish the company’s credibility within the European biotech and agtech landscape.

Melt&Marble Strengthens Leadership to Scale Precision-Fermented Fat Production (28/03/2025)

Vegconomist | 27/03/2025 - Melt&Marble, a company specializing in precision-fermented fats, has announced two significant additions to its leadership team as it prepares for large-scale commercial production. The company’s work is also supported by the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator and the Horizon Europe DELICIOUS project, which are working to improve the functionality and taste of plant-based foods.

Rocío Arroyo (Amadix): the scientist revolutionizing cancer detection (28/03/2025)

Epe | 28/03/2025 | Spain - In February, the biotech company received a €15 million loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to support its international expansion, the clinical validation of PreveCol in the United States, and the company's consolidation in both the European and US markets. Amadix also received a €2.5 million grant from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator program and in 2018 won the award for best startup at the South Summit, becoming the first biotech company to receive this recognition.

Cerabyte gets In-Q-Tel cash for data archiving (26/03/2025)

Blocks and files | 25/03/2025 - Ceramic nano-dot archiving startup Cerabyte has received an investment from In-Q-Tel as part of a strategic initiative to speed up its product development. Cerabyte has previously received an investment from Pure Storage and been awarded a portion of a €411 million ($426 million) European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator grant.

Decarbonized Hydrogen: Sakowin Demonstrates Its First Industrial Pilot (31/03/2025)

Fuel cells works | 28/03/2025 - After four years of research and development, supported by the EIC Accelerator among others, Sakowin now has an industrial pilot ready for delivery to premium appliance manufacturer V-ZUG. This pilot will produce decarbonized hydrogen directly on-site, injected into the enameling furnace to reduce its CO2 emissions.

Italy’s HypeSound raises €1.2M to boost microbial growth using low-frequency acoustics (28/03/2025)

Silicon Canals | 26/03/2025 - Italy‘s HypeSound, a startup employing an advanced acoustic modulation system to improve bioproduction efficiency, has raised €1.2M in a pre-seed round. HypeSound was recently awarded the Seal of Excellence by the European Innovation Council (EIC) for the quality of its project proposal.

Computers of the future: Millions in funding for cutting-edge research from South Westphalia (28/03/2025)

Suedwestfalen | 26/03/2025 | Germany - Now eleQtron's project is receiving funding from the European Union, specifically through the Accelerator Grant from the EIC (European Innovation Council). The EIC supports groundbreaking innovations and technologies. In the latest funding round, eleQtron and 70 other companies prevailed among over 1,200 submissions (a success rate of less than 6%). The Siegen-based company will now receive €2.5 million in funding from the EIC.

EIB signs advisory agreement to enhance Croatia's fintech ecosystem (28/03/2025)

Trend news agency | 28/03/2025 - In addition, the EIB will collaborate with the Croatian Agency for SMEs, Innovation, and Investments (HAMAG-BICRO) to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and startups improve their investment readiness. This initiative will support access to early-stage finance and EU funding, including the European Innovation Council Accelerator.

Nuclear energy startup Marvel Fusion raises €50m as race to develop tech heats up (28/03/2025)

Sifted [Also featured in Financial Times] | 27/03/2025 - Germany’s Marvel Fusion has raised €50m as it looks to outcompete startup rivals racing to develop commercial nuclear fusion technology in Europe. The Series B extension sees the startup become the region’s best funded nuclear fusion player, taking total funds raised to €385m. EQT Ventures, Siemens Energy and European Innovation Council (EIC) Fund participated in the round.

Brevel raises US$25M for microalgae protein development and market expansion (25/03/2025)

Food ingredients first | 24/03/2025 - Israeli food-tech company Brevel has raised more than US$5 million in a seed extension up-round, bringing the total investment to US$25 million. The investment allows the company to accelerate its go-to-market strategy and develop microalgae proteins for F&B applications. Investors decided to increase their stake in the company, including: NevaTeam Partners, Siddhi Capital, European Union’s EIC Fund, Good Protein Fund, The Food Tech Lab and PVS Investments.

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EIC Media Review - 24/03/2025

Aston Institute for Membrane Excellence wins £13.2m of UK government and co-funding for water treatment technology (18/03/2025)

Water Magazine | 18/03/2025 | United Kingdom - The funding award for MEMetic builds on the success of the BIOMEM project, an international collaboration based on research from Professor Goddard, Dr Derry, Professor Roslyn Bill, Professor Paul Topham, Dr Alice Rothnie and Professor Brian Tighe. BIOMEM won a €3m European Innovation Council (EIC) Pathfinder grant in 2024.

EIC will invest in dual-use start-ups, Commission says (21/03/2025)

Science Business | 20/03/2025 | Europe - The European Innovation Council (EIC) and the planned TechEU Scale-up Fund will both be permitted to invest in dual-use technologies, the European Commission has announced. This marks a change in role for the EIC, which as part of Horizon Europe only supports technologies with civilian applications.

French deeptech, leader in Europe (18/03/2025)

Le Mag IT | 17/03/2025 | France - The DGE suggests, for example, strengthening the role of the European Innovation Council (EIC) and drawing inspiration from the American DARPA model to support the most strategic projects. "It is desirable that the next Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (FPRI), starting in 2027, include a significant portion dedicated to the EIC's actions, in order to strengthen its ambitions by enabling larger-scale investments, with increased targeting of the deeptech technologies that are most strategic for European sovereignty and have the greatest market potential," the report urges.

Over 30 million euros from the European Innovation Council Accelerator to Italian companies Nanophoria, StarTric and Aindo (18/03/2025)

Bebeez | 17/03/2025 | Italy - Three Italian startups have secured a total of over €30 million in funding, including equity and grants, from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator, part of the group of 71 companies selected by the EIC last October from 1,211 companies from all over Europe that participated in the call.

Tympany Medical co-founder shortlisted for award (20/03/2025)

Pulse IT | 20/03/2025 - The co-founder of Irish medtech start-up Tympany Medical has been shortlisted for the prestigious European Prize for Women Innovators, which recognises outstanding female leaders driving innovation in Europe. The Galway-based company has developed a cutting-edge endoscope for the ENT market, particularly for use in complex rhinology cases. Solascope is designed to enable variable angle visualisation.

EU Awards Multi-Million Euro Grant for New Asthma Drug (21/03/2025)

Mirage news | 20/03/2025 - The company name describes the envisioned product in a nutshell: RNhale - that is, RNA therapeutics to inhale. Now the young Munich-based company has been awarded a Transition grant of 2.5 million euros by the European Innovation Council (EIC) to bring such a novel anti-asthma drug to clinical practice.

Danila De Stefano: What is needed to have a more competitive and startup-friendly Europe (19/03/2025)

Economy up | 18/03/2025 | Italy - One of the measures that Europe could adopt is to increase the calls launched by the European Commission, such as the EIC Accelerator, which offers financing at subsidized rates or as non-repayable grants, and to incentivize IPOs through segments such as Euronext Growth and AIM Italia, with more flexible requirements.

Greece is under scrutiny in innovation: We are also losing to Bulgaria (19/03/2025)

Power game | 18/03/2025 | Greece - Greece is recording anemic performance in the EIC Accelerator program, Europe's financial "flagship" for innovative startups and small and medium-sized companies. In fact, only three Greek companies managed to secure funding from the European Innovation Council's EIC Accelerator, while neighboring Bulgaria has more than doubled its performance, with seven Bulgarian companies having drawn capital from the program's financial taps.

DNAformer: The Intersection of Nature and Artificial Intelligence (21/03/2025)

Scienmag | 20/03/2025 - Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology are making waves in the field of data storage by developing a breakthrough method for DNA-based data retrieval. The research was made possible through backing from the European Research Council, the European Innovation Council, and the Israel Science Foundation, which collectively aim to inspire and fund groundbreaking scientific advancements.

Braga asserts itself as a European hub of innovation and technology (21/03/2025)

Diario do minho | 20/03/2025 | Portugal - “The Braga Innovation Ecosystem: A Gateway to European Deep Tech”, was the motto of the event that brought together entrepreneurs, investors and institutional representatives to discuss the future of innovation and cutting-edge technology in Europe. The initiative, held today at gnration, was attended by representatives from the European Innovation Council (EIC), the National Innovation Agency (ANI), Startup Braga and several protagonists from the city's innovation ecosystem.

Europe funding at a glance: 28 February to 13 March (20/03/2025)

Research professional news | 20/03/2025 - Nine finalists have been shortlisted for the 2025 European Prize for Women Innovators, which rewards entrepreneurship and is jointly awarded by the EU’s European Institute of Innovation and Technology and European Innovation Council. The prize has three categories, with top awards in each of €50,000-€100,000. Applications have been evaluated based on criteria including the expected impact of applicants’ innovations and their ability to inspire others. Three of the finalists are French, two are Irish and the others are from Estonia, Portugal, Spain and the UK. The winners will be announced on 3 April.

EIC Chooses Nine Quantum Tech Start-ups in Latest Funding Round (19/03/2025)

The quantum insider | 19/03/2025 - The European Innovation Council (EIC) announced the results of its most competitive funding rounds yet, selecting nine quantum technology start-ups and SMEs to receive grants from the Transition and Accelerator programs.

An all-European nuclear fusion in 2031: interview with the (Italian) CEO of Proxima Fusion (20/03/2025)

Fortuneita | 19/03/2025 | Italy - ''We raised 7.5 million in a pre-seed round, then 20 million in Seed. Then we received a grant of 10 million to work with the Max Planck from the German government and subsequently other funds, such as the 15 million investment plus 2.5 of grant from the European innovation council. We are between 30 and 40 million in public funds.''

The European Commission must back down over its research funding plans (19/03/2025)

times higher education | 19/03/2025 - On the same day, EU R&I ministers unanimously agreed their “Warsaw Declaration”. While less explicit, it is in remarkable agreement with the EP. Both insist on a programme that is based on excellence, where awards are made on “open and fair” competition rather than political criteria. They agree on the need to boost funding for the European Research Council and European Innovation Council and secure their autonomy. And both insist on the entire research continuum, from basic to applied, being funded. As the ministers note, FP10 should be a space for experimentation and risk-taking.

Iktos uses AI to accelerate the discovery of new drugs (24/03/2025)

Les Echos | 20/03/2025 | France - Iktos aims to accelerate the discovery of new drugs using generative artificial intelligence. For its project, it won the European EIC Accelerator challenge and received a €2.5 million grant.

PfxBiotech Leads the Way in Next-Generation Bioactive Ingredients (21/03/2025)

The Portugal News | 21/03/2025 | Portugal - Portuguese startup PfxBiotech, based in Porto’s UPTEC innovation hub, has achieved a major milestone by securing €9.5 million in funding from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator.

Zero Point Motion launches with £4 million funding targeting motion sensing (24/03/2025)

Optics | 20/03/2025 - Zero Point Motion has also secured major government and EU funding, including £1.3 million from the UK’s Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV) in 2023, followed by a €2.4 million grant from the European Innovation Council Accelerator program.

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EIC Media Review - 17/03/2025

Parliament and Council demand independent FP10 (12/03/2025)

Research Professional News | 11/03/2025 | Europe - In a separate press conference after the Council vote, the EU R&I commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva did not address the call for independence directly. Instead, she reiterated previous Commission assertions that R&I are central to its plans. She reiterated that she intends to expand the European Research Council and European Innovation Council, adding: “We are thinking about how to do it.”

EU ministers call for independent FP10 in Warsaw Declaration (13/03/2025)

Science Business | 12/03/2025 | Europe - The Warsaw Declaration also urges the Commission to preserve the independence and expand the roles of the European Research Council (ERC) and the European Innovation Council (EIC). This drew a warm response from ERC president Maria Leptin, who thanked the ministers for their “strong support.”

SpaceFounders Launches Call for Applications for European Space Startups (12/03/2025)

Aerocontact | 11/03/2025 - Entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to work on two fundamental axes: the structuring of business growth - sales, team, management, industrialization, export - as well as financing strategies for non-dilutive - major European project calls - and dilutive - deep tech venture capital. They will also have numerous industrial visits and business meetings across Europe, thanks in particular to SpaceFounders partners including the European Space Agency (ESA), the German Space Agency (DLR), the European Innovation Council (EIC), Thales Alenia Space, Airbus Defence and Space, Beyond Gravity, and Safran.

Great support for R&D from TÜBİTAK (12/03/2025)

Para | 10/03/2025 | Turkiye - The European Innovation Council (EIC) is Europe’s most important innovation support program, established to discover, develop and scale groundbreaking innovations. The EIC Accelerator, EIC’s largest budget funding program, aims to fund the ideas of SMEs, especially startups and spinout companies at Technology Readiness Level (THS) 6, including their access to the market and scaling processes. The “Plug-in” tool allows companies supported by national support programs approved by the European Commission to apply directly to the EIC Accelerator Program without making a short application within a certain quota.

Are you a company with a breakthrough innovation? Take advantage of the Horizon Europe program! (17/03/2025)

S.Novice | 17/03/2025 | Slovenia - The European Innovation Council (EIC) is one of the EU's leading programmes supporting high-risk deeptech innovations. Under the third pillar of Horizon Europe, it manages over €10 billion to finance the development of disruptive innovations across the full spectrum of technological development. Its flagship product is the EIC Accelerator, which offers start-ups and SMEs up to €2.5 million in grants and the possibility of equity investments of up to €10 million through the EIC Fund.

How the European Union finances startups: which programs, which results (12/03/2025)

Economy Up | 11/03/2025 | Italy - This last pillar includes the European Innovation Council (EIC) with a budget of €10.1 billion, specifically dedicated to supporting innovative startups and scale-ups. The EIC offers a combination of grants and equity investments, with the Pathfinder providing up to €4 million for early-stage projects, the Transition offering up to €2.5 million for technological development, and the Accelerator providing up to €2.5 million in grants and between €0.5 and €15 million in equity.

Widening countries’ wish list for FP10: Part 2 (13/03/2025)

Science Business | 12/03/2025 | Europe - Croatia is also calling for dedicated funding streams for Widening countries in competitions for European Research Council (ERC) and European Innovation Council grants. But this proposal is likely to be met with strong opposition from member states that insist excellence should be the only consideration in awarding ERC funds.

EU universities call for the retention of the excellence principle (12/03/2025)

Forschung & Lehre| 11/03/2025 | Germany - They also call for a strengthening of the European Innovation Council (EIC), including the "Pathfinder" and "Transition" programs, which serve to translate knowledge into innovation. In order to better promote collaborations between private companies and researchers or universities, a revision of the second pillar of Horizon Europe is also necessary. EU Research Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva has already noted that it is "too complicated."

“The startup ecosystem in Ukraine is on the rise” (14/03/2025)

Delano | 13/03/2025 | Luxmebourg - Launched as part of the European Innovation Council and led by a consortium of 19 organisations in 12 countries (including the Luxembourg agency Luxinnovation), Seeds of Bravery aims to support Ukrainian tech companies and integrate them into the EU’s innovation ecosystem. Kobzar’s company, Funely AI, was named a winner in the deep tech incubators programme last year; S. Lab and Hydratico were beneficiaries of the deeptech scaleup & acceleration programme.

CO₂ Battery: An Italian Solution to Energy Storage (12/03/2025)

Today | 11/03/2025 | Italy - Energy Dome, founded by Italian engineer Claudio Spadacini, is based in Milan and has become a point of reference for the development of sustainable energy storage technologies. The project has attracted international attention, receiving €17.5 million in funding from the European Union under the EIC Accelerator. This fund supports the most innovative startups in the renewable energy sector.

Start Up, Fedriga: Aindo Award Demonstrates Innovation Excellence (12/03/2025)

Askanews | 11/03/2025 | Italy - Aindo, the startup based in Padriciano engaged in data analysis, big data management, artificial intelligence and machine learning, obtained the prestigious funding from the European Innovation Council (EIC), promoted by the European Commission and the European Investment Bank.

Galway’s SymPhysis aims for a US launch by next year (12/03/2025)

Silicon Republic | 10/03/2025 | Ireland - Galway medtech SymPhysis Medical is aiming for a strong launch in the US market in the next 18 months. Recently, SymPhysis received the European Innovation Council’s Seal of Excellence, a label awarded to projects of high value and innovation.

Bristol startup raises £4m after transformational breakthrough (13/03/2025)

Business cloud | 13/03/2025 | United Kingdom - Bristol-based sensor technology startup Zero Point Motion has closed a £4m pre-Series A funding round to transform positioning and navigation. Recognized as one of Sifted’s ‘16 Bristol-based Startups to Watch’, Zero Point Motion has also secured major government and EU funding, including £1.3m from the UK’s Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV) in 2023, followed by a €2.4m grant from the European Innovation Council Accelerator program.

Vouchers for startups: a beacon that needs more light (13/03/2025)

Observador | 13/03/2025 | Portugal - The announcement of the new vouchers – “Deep Tech”, “Go to EIC Accelerator” and “Start from Knowledge” – may have been a sign that Portugal has woken up to the economy of the 21st century. XXI. But between enthusiasm and reality there is an ocean of details that can turn these instruments into just another “fire of sight”, and the focus of these measures is a light that only makes sense if the ecosystem knows how to navigate beyond its reach.

Fermentation-derived proteins are bubbling up in 2025 (13/03/2025)

News wise | 13/03/2025 - Spanish biotechnology startup MOA Foodtech was awarded a €14.8 million investment commitment from the European Innovation Council (EIC) as part of the latest EIC Accelerator funding round.

Dutch deeptech startups received 956 million euros in funding from RVO (14/03/2025)

Dutch IT leaders | 13/03/2025 | Netherlands - The majority of the funding, namely 594 million euros, came from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator programme. In addition, 18 million euros was obtained via the EIC Transition programme. The RVO acts as the national contact point for these European subsidy schemes, which are part of the Horizon Europe programme of the European Commission.

WMF 2025: Big Tech, Nobel Prize winners, and Change Makers among the first global innovation speakers in Bologna, Italy (12/03/2025)

Economy press release | 07/03/2025 - WMF 2025 will also host representatives from institutions and academia, who will contribute with in-depth insights on crucial topics for the development of innovation. Among the announced speakers from public institutions are prominent figures such as Michiel Scheffer, Board President of the European Innovation Council.

Trump's 'assault on science': Bad for the US, good for EU? (13/03/2025)

DW | 12/03/2025 - The Trump administration's science policies are driving scientists to look for jobs in Europe. Europe wants to help. But some warn against exploiting the situation. Michiel Scheffer at the European Innovation Council (EIC) wrote on social media that "a concept" to welcome scientists from the US would be discussed at an EIC board meeting in April.

Portuguese project wins 3rd place: “The Newsroom” (13/03/2025)

Portugal global | 12/03/2025 | Portugal - The European Commission has announced today the winner of the 2024 European Social Innovation Competition (EUSIC), during the European Social Innovation Forum Annual Event - NeSEI, a gathering that fosters innovation and collaboration among European social entrepreneurs and innovators.

Latvian initiative wins Europe-wide civic engagement prize (17/03/2025)

LSM+ | 14/03/2025 - The EC announced the winner of the 2024 European Social Innovation Competition (EUSIC), during the European Social Innovation Forum Annual Event – NeSEI, a gathering that fosters innovation and collaboration among European social entrepreneurs and innovators. The winning project is “Cultivating Civic Habits” by Latvia's Sabiedribas Lidzdalibas Fonds (Foundation of Public Participation).

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EIC Media Review - 10/03/2025

EXCLUSIVE: Zaharieva, DG RTD ‘irrelevant’ as von der Leyen pushes research to megafund (10/03/2025)

Euractiv | 10/03/2025 | Europe - The odds are stacked in favour of scrapping the EU's flagship research and innovation (R&I) programme for a massive European Competitiveness Fund (ECF) instead in the next long-term budget, according to notes from a 25 February closed-door meeting seen by Euractiv. Both the leaked idea of merging funding in a competitiveness fund, and the Commission's Competitiveness Compass caused fears that ERC and EIC autonomy would have to yield to political control.

Gender index reveals 'unbalanced representation' in the entire EU tech ecosystem (05/03/2025)

Euronews | 06/03/2025 - A new gender and diversity index has found "unbalanced gender representation" across the European tech ecosystem, from talent to academia and C-suite executives. The GENDEX index, funded by the European Innovation Council (EIC), evaluates how women have been represented in schools and various levels of tech companies over the last decade. Stéphane Ouaki, head of the department for the European Innovation Council, wrote in a brochure that women occupy roughly 30 per cent of all the leadership positions in European companies.

Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform mobilises over €15 billion to boost investments in Europe in its first year (05/03/2025)

The European Sting | 05/03/2025 - Today, the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (STEP) celebrates its first year in action for the development and manufacturing of critical technologies in Europe. Over the past year, STEP has pooled the investment firepower of 11 EU programmes, mobilising over €15 billion to support Europe’s competitiveness in three strategic sectors: digital technologies and deep-tech innovation, clean and resource-efficient technologies, and biotechnologies.

Europe funding at a glance: 14-27 February (07/03/2025)

Research professional news | 06/02/2025 | Europe - The European Innovation Council, which is the EU’s funder of research and innovation around breakthrough technologies, has introduced a new benefit for applicants to its funding schemes who are well evaluated but miss out on funding due to budget shortages, and instead receive a Seal of Excellence to indicate their quality.

Don’t panic! Use EU rebrand to make research stronger (07/03/2025)

Research professional news | 06/03/2025 | Europe - What matters is retaining the mechanisms that work: key instruments such as a robust European Research Council, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and the European Innovation Council, along with a well-functioning approach to support continental collaboration in research and innovation. We can put whatever label we want on the box, as long as the right things are inside.

Europe cautiously opens its arms to American scientists (05/03/2025)

Science Guide | 04/03/2025 | Netherlands - Cautious or not, in between times Europe is already looking at how scientists from the United States can be attracted. For example, the European Innovation Council, chaired by Michiel Scheffer, is supposed to discuss in April how scientists from the US can be welcomed. In the meantime, European Commissioner Zaharieva is investigating with her colleague Magnus Brunner, who is responsible for migration, whether the EU can introduce a ‘special passport’ to entice scientists from other countries to come to Europe.

TechIreland report shows fewer women founders closing bigger deals (10/03/2025)

Tech central | 07/03/2025 - The report showed that last year, 48 Irish women-founded start-ups fundraised a total of €145 million. The overall amount of funding raised by women founders is making a recovery from 2023, which was the lowest since 2019. Ten of the female-founded start-ups were a third-level spinout that collectively raised €42 million. State supports such as European Innovation Council’s funding and Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund play a crucial role in funding deep tech innovation.

EIC Pathfinder Open 2025: Your chance to create future technologies (05/03/2025)

VE | 04/03/2025 | Lithuania - EIC Pathfinder Open is an unique opportunity to receive up to 3 million euros in funding for your most ambitious research and technological breakthroughs. Why participate? Radical innovation – if your idea is revolutionary and can open up new areas of technology, this call will provide you with the tools you need to implement it.

Our breath holds more secrets than we realize (07/03/2025)

Norwegian scitech news | 06/03/2025 - The BreathSense project is part of the European Innovation Council portfolio “Towards the healthcare continuum,” which aims to develop at-home breath analysis technologies, financed by Horizon Europe (grant agreement number 101115028).

The next SpaceX? These UK & European spacetech startups are taking off in 2025 (04/03/2025)

Tech funding news | 03/03/2025 - Designing and manufacturing innovative space capsules to return cargo from orbit, Atmos Space Cargo specialises in microgravity-on-demand solutions. Last month, the company secured €13.1 million from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator. This funding will accelerate the development of its Phoenix 2 capsule, targeting commercial deployment.

EIT Health: 6 biotech start-ups developing life-changing innovations (04/03/2025)

Science Business | 03/03/2025 | Europe - The European Union (EU) provides significant support for biotech start-ups through framework programmes like Horizon Europe, through which EIT Health is co-funded. EIT Health’s programmes have been instrumental in supporting start-ups that later progressed to the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator, highlighting its crucial role in bridging early-stage development and growth.

Anne Worsøe will promote Norwegian business while the trade war escalates (04/03/2025)

Shifter | 03/03/2025 | Norway - Worsøe will lead the work to strengthen Norwegian business's international position and promote trade and economic cooperation. She was one of the initiators behind the Nordic Innovation House and the startup program TINC, and has been a jury expert at the European Innovation Council Accelerator in Brussels since 2018. Worsøe also sits on several company boards.

10 Most Promising Ukrainian Startups Right Now (05/03/2025)

RBC | 04/03/2025 | Ukraine - Founded by Valentin Frechka, the startup has developed its own technology to produce paper from fallen leaves, which are often disposed of in urban areas by burning as green waste. In 2022, the award-winning company received a €2.5 million grant from the EIC Accelerator program and a €4 million investment from the European Commission.

Stablepharma’s fridge-free vaccine entering first-in-human UK clinical trial (07/03/2025)

Bioindustry | 04/03/2025 - Stablepharma’s innovative technology platform, StablevaX™, transforms vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics into thermostable products that do not require refrigeration. This technology addresses a critical global challenge: the distribution, storage, and wastage issues associated with temperature-sensitive products reliant on the cold chain. Stablepharma’s technology was recognised earlier this month with a grant award of €2.5m from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator programme.

Former jury reveals: How deeptech startups secure millions in funding from the EIC (07/03/2025)

Business Insider | 06/03/2025 | Germany - German deeptech startups have a wide range of financing options - from venture capital to EU funding programs such as the EIC Accelerator. In addition to classic VC investments or German funding opportunities, the EU itself also has programs to provide startups with capital in an early phase: such as the European Innovation Council (EIC). At its accelerator, deeptech startups receive a grant of up to 2.5 million euros or financing of up to ten million euros after they have applied and presented themselves to an expert jury.

Digital health start-up Noah Labs secures 11 million euros in EU funding (07/03/2025)

Starting-up | 05/03/2025 | Germany - This makes Noah Labs, based in Berlin and Potsdam, one of the 71 innovative companies across Europe that have been selected for funding in the latest and most competitive EIC Accelerators funding round to date.

Galway medtech firm eyes US launch for cancer patient device (10/03/2025)

Irish examiner | 10/03/2025 - SymPhysis is entering into a market worth €86m in the US and Europe alone. The company was endorsed by the European Innovation Council last February, receiving the seal of excellence, which highlights the value and impact of the innovation.

QDI Systems receives investment of up to EUR 7.5 million from the European Innovation Council (10/03/2025)

Dutch IT Leaders | 10/03/2025 | Netherlands - Groningen deep-tech company QDI Systems has received a €2.5 million grant from the European Innovation Council (EIC). The total funding available to QDI Systems through the grant and the associated equity financing amounts to up to €7.5 million.

They are 14% of startup founders. But they want to be more and say how (10/03/2025)

Sapo | 08/03/2025 | Portugal - “The number of women founders or even in leadership positions is still low. We have the example of the results of the EIC Accelerator that, since March 2021, of the 702 startups/companies selected for funding, only 104 had a woman as CEO (and only two were Portuguese companies), representing only 15% of the total funds allocated to date”, Diana Oliveira, co-founder and R&D director at Pfx Biotech, notes.

Modvion unveils wooden wind turbine tower for the largest onshore turbines (10/03/2025)

PES | 08/03/2025 - The wood technology company Modvion is now announcing its new wooden wind turbine tower, engineered for the largest onshore wind turbines. The tower has been given third party approval and will now be adapted for series production. Modvion has been able to develop cost-effective wind turbine towers and more efficient transportation for installations of tall towers. The operation is part-financed by the Swedish Energy Agency, the Västra Götaland region, and the EU program Horizon 2020 EIC Accelerator.

Finland’s Skyfora raises €4M to turn cell towers into high-resolution weather sensors; here’s why (04/03/2025)

Silicon Canals | 03/03/2025 - Skyfora, a Helsinki-based company specialising in AI-powered weather technology, has secured €4M in a funding round. Svetoslava Georgieva, Chair of the EIC Fund Board, adds, “We are delighted with the EIC Fund’s investment in Skyfora, an innovative company developing a next-generation weather intelligence. We believe in the potential of their technology that can save lives and mitigate economic disruptions and financial risks.”

Artificial Intelligence: Italian-led chip startup Axelera AI gets $61 million in funding (07/03/2025)

Milano finanza | 06/03/2025 | Italy - In the last round, investors included the EIB through the EIC (European Innovation Council) investment vehicle, CDP Venture (already present in the capital from the beginning) and Samsung, which entered through its strategic investment fund, the Samusung Catalys Fund.

Dutch startup QuantWare seeks to fast-track quantum computing (05/03/2025)

Startupnews | 04/03/2025 - A spinout of TU Delft and its affiliated research institute, QuTech, QuantWave has now raised a €20 million Series A (approximately $19.27 million) — including the €5 million equity portion of the €7.5 million it previously secured from the European Innovation Council after its €6 million seed round (the remaining part is a grant).

EIC board urges applicants to treat consultants with caution (04/03/2025)

Science Business | 04/03/2025 | Europe - The European Innovation Council (EIC) board has published a review of the use of consultants in applications to its instruments, warning against consultants who demand co-ownership of intellectual property or claim to have insiders’ knowledge.

Finalists announced for 2025 European Prize for Women Innovators (07/03/2025)

Innovators Magazine | 06/02/2025 - The winners of this year’s European Prize for Women Innovators will be announced at the EIC Summit on 3 April. And ahead of Saturday’s International Women’s Day, the finalists of the 2025 edition have been announced.

TOP 100: Europe’s most influential women in the startup and venture capital space (10/03/2025)

EU-Startups | 07/03/2025 | Europe - Ana Barjasic: Entrepreneur, angel investor, and policy adviser. She established Connectology, a boutique agency specialising in finance access, investment readiness, and behavioural science. Among her significant roles, she serves as a Board Member of the European Innovation Council, advocating for entrepreneurs from Horizon Europe’s widening countries.

How to become a top EU women innovator (10/03/2025)

Innovators Magazine | 08/03/2025 - Innovators Magazine attended the EU Prize for Women Innovators ceremony last year, interviewing Vicky D. Kefalas, a member of the European Innovation Council (EIC) Board, about Europes’ new Trusted Investors Network (TIN); and Anna Panagopoulou, Director of ERA & Innovation at the European Commission, who told us how the EU is delivering the twin green and digital transition.

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EIC Media Review - 03/03/2025

Business Leaders Must Take The Lead (26/02/2025)

Time.news | 25/02/2025 - Establishing networks that connect innovative thinkers, entrepreneurs, and industry disruptors can bridge gaps and encourage knowledge-sharing across borders. Initiatives like the European Innovation Council provide platforms for collaboration among startups and established enterprises, facilitating exchange and inspiration that is crucial for development.

French research institutions told to do better in second half of Horizon Europe (25/02/2025)

Science Business | 25/02/2025 | Europe - French research institutes and universities have been told to improve their performance in the second half of Horizon Europe. In particular, they must work towards broader success in winning grants and secure more project coordination roles.

“My goal is to create opportunities so that young people do not need to leave.” (03/03/2025)

Link to Leaders | 03/03/2025 | Portugal - Carlos Moedas, Mayor of Lisbon: My idea is now to also scale. We have been in connection with other countries as well, such as France with Station F, which is another major innovation hub in Paris. Therefore, it is about continuing to develop these ties internationally, on the one hand, trying to be the anchor point for other Portuguese cities and also for countries like Cape Verde, and then anchoring with the European Innovation Council project, which is the largest innovation project in Europe and which can be a source of financing for these companies.

Europe could be a ‘haven’ for US researchers, says ERC president (28/02/2025)

Science Business | 2702/2025 | Europe - Leptin is keen to support researchers willing to relocate to Europe, but she warned that the ERC’s capacity for action was limited. Meanwhile, Michiel Scheffer, head of the European Innovation Council board, wrote on social media that “a concept” to welcome scientists from the US would be discussed at the board’s April meeting.

Standalone EIT Digital seeks alternative funds for core activities (25/02/2025)

Science Business | 25/02/2025 | Europe - EIT Digital has no plans to abandon its less profitable activities now that it is financially independent, but their scale depends on how much additional funding it can find.

EIT board makes case for continued existence in FP10 (28/02/2025)

Science Business | 27/02/2025 | Europe - The governing board of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) has promised to reduce the administrative burden of participation in its activities, as it makes its pitch for continued funding in Framework Programme 10, due to begin in 2028.

Who are the winners of the Deeptech awards? (25/02/2025)

Le Dauphiné | 25/02/2025 | France - The winner of the AI and infra category, the company Nellow, aims to "revolutionize microelectronics", according to its president Jean-Philippe Attané. “We have just recruited a chief design officer,” announces Jean-Philippe Attané. “And we have won an EIC [European innovation council] transition grant of 2.5 million euros, which will allow us to create a prototype and demonstrate the integration of our technology.”

Medicine of the future – HQS brings quantum computers into diagnostics (26/02/2025)

Techtag | 25/02/2025 | Germany - The technology could soon accelerate drug development and revolutionize diagnostics.''We have received 2.5 million euros in funding from the EIC Transition program. This will enable us to further develop our technology – especially for applications in diagnostics. This takes us a huge step forward.''

€2.5m awarded to Trinity College researchers for colorectal cancer healing (27/02/2025)

RTE | 26/02/2025 | Ireland - €2.5m has been awarded for the development of a project called "SMARTHEAL", an implant which aims to improve postoperative care for colorectal cancer patients.The funding has been awarded to scientists from AMBER, the Research Ireland Centre for Advanced Materials and BioEngineering Research based in Trinity College Dublin (TCD). The €2.5m in funding has been awarded via the European Innovation Council (EIC) Transition Call.

Commission plans ‘step-change’ in simplicity for climate research (25/02/2025)

Science Business | 24/02/2025 | Europe - Under the continuity action, the Commission mostly plans to support existing Mission platforms, such as national adaptation hubs, the implementation platform and climate services. For scale-up, it will fund pre-commercial procurement of breakthrough solutions for addressing health risks caused by climate change as well as a funding call for start-ups as part of the European Innovation Council Accelerator programme.

Food security requires alternative proteins, upscaling innovation is crucial (26/02/2025)

Euractiv | 26/02/2025 | Europe - A recent Good Food Institute (GFI) report outlined Europe’s increased investments in the alternative protein sector and the progress made to redefine the future of food. In 2023, investments in alternative protein research across Europe reached a record €290 million - a significant increase from just €63 million in 2020. This upward trend continued through 2024, bolstered by initiatives such as the European Innovation Council’s €50 million allocation for precision fermentation and algae projects.

Easelink receives €11.5 million in EU funding (25/02/2025)

Electrive | 24/02/2025 - Easelink, the Austrian developer of a conductive EV charging solution called Matrix Charging, has received a grant totalling 11.5 million euros from the European Innovation Council. The money will primarily be used to standardise the system.

Delft-based CarbonX secures €2.5M EIC Accelerator grant (26/02/2025)

Silicon Canals | 26/02/2025 - Delft-based CarbonX, announced that it has been selected for the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator grant. Competing against 1,211 proposals, the Dutch company was chosen among 71 leading companies in the most competitive funding round.

Scottish bio-tech company secures £3.4m investment (25/02/2025)

The Microbiologist | 24/02/2025 - uFraction8 is a multi-award-winning company recognised for the innovative technology and highly capable team. Awards have come from prestigious international organizations leading the development of new technologies and impactful research such as Horizon 2020, InnovateUK, European Innovation Council, Nature Publications, The Royal Society of Edinburgh and The institute of Chemical Engineers amongst many others.

Mediterranean Algae, from the UA Science Park, receives the seal of excellence from the European Commission (26/02/2025)

Gente digital| 26/02/2025 | Spain - Mediterranean Algae Technologies SL, a biotechnology startup from the University of Alicante Science Park (PCUA), has been awarded the seal of excellence by the European Commission (EC). The seal of excellence certifies "the quality and potential of the Mediterranean Algae project within the framework of the 'EIC Accelerator' programme, one of the most competitive initiatives in the EU for high-impact startups."

Government launches new incentives to support Portuguese startups with disruptive technology projects (27/02/2025)

Sapo | 26/02/2025 | Portugal - To promote the growth and consolidation of Portuguese startups in the international market, three measures will be launched. These include two vouchers, the Go to EIC Accelerator voucher and the Deep Tech voucher, and the Start from Knowledge ignition program. ANI reports that the first of the vouchers was created to support startups in applying to the European EIC Accelerator program, with an allocation of one million euros. The voucher “aims to support Portuguese Deep Tech startups that obtained a positive result in the initial phase of the EIC Accelerator”, explains ANI.

Bringing Light to Hidden Places in the Body of Cancer Patients (27/02/2025)

Haaretz | 26/02/2025 - Palatchi: "We plan to enter the market in 2026 with the treatment for Upper Tract Urothelial Cancer, and at the same time, as mentioned, we are continuing with the development of the other two indications – pancreatic cancer and lung cancer... In addition, we have secured funding of 13.5 million euros from the European Innovation Council – EIC. Soon we will also issue a public offering, starting right now, with the first round of fundraising for institutional and strategic investors, with the aim of raising 60 million dollars for entering the market, launch, continuing clinical studies and an IPO on the US stock exchange."

Startups, three Italians selected by the EU for the EIC Accelerator programme (28/02/2025)

Milano Finanza | 27/02/2025 | Italy - Over 1,200 applications and 71 winners. Among them, three Italian startups. These are the results of the 2024 edition of EIC (European Innovation Council) Accelerator, the European Union acceleration program that supports innovative SMEs, mid-caps and startups with a mix of non-repayable and equity contributions.

Superintelligent artificial intelligence - from Sweden? (28/02/2025)

Digi | 28/02/2025 | Norway - A Swedish artificial intelligence company has taken a major step towards revolutionizing both the AI market and the robotics industry. Sics AI, which was recently awarded the Guldhanden innovation prize, has now been selected as one of 71 companies to receive extensive support from the EU's innovation council EIC Accelerator.

10 tips to get you up to speed with the EIC Accelerator (28/02/2025)

Luxinnovation | 27/02/2025 | Luxembourg - The EIC Accelerator is a funding programme under Horizon Europe that offers support to startups and SMEs. It primarily focuses on deeptech ventures that may be too risky for traditional private investors alone. The programme’s funding structure includes either grants only, equity only, or blended finance (combining grants and equity). But securing this investment is no walk in the park. It demands a compelling application that showcases not just your brilliant idea, but also your team's grit and your company's readiness for hypergrowth.

VarmX awarded €15m follow-on equity investment by the EIC Accelerator (27/02/2025)

Pharmaceutical manufacturer | 26/02/2025 - VarmX, a biotech company developing innovative approaches for the bypass of direct oral anticoagulants targeting activated factor Xa (FXa DOACs) and inherited coagulation disorders, has been awarded a follow-on equity investment of €15 million from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator.

NanoPhoria: €17.5 Million Awarded For Non-Viral Drug Delivery Platform (27/02/2025)

Pulse2 | 27/02/2025 - NanoPhoria, a pre-clinical stage biotech company developing a versatile and non-viral drug delivery platform based on inorganic nanoparticles with a lead product for heart failure treatment, announces the investment commitment of €17.5 million from the European Innovation Council’s (EIC) Accelerator program, including a grant of €2.5 million and a conditional equity investment of up to €15 million.

Ten million for stem cell startup (25/02/2025)

Westdeutsche Zeitung | 25/02/2025 | Germany - It is quite a sum that those responsible at “BioThrust” can be happy about: the company has now received an impressive ten million euros from the “European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator”, which is known for supporting and accelerating top technology companies in Europe.

Eleven start-ups raised a total of 118 million in subsidies (26/02/2025)

Mena | 25/02/2025 | Netherlands - Eleven Dutch start-ups have raised a total of 118 million euros in funding in the most recent round of the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator programme. These include projects that combat viruses, improve quantum computers and produce circular raw materials.

Reimagining the world of physical products with TG0 (27/02/2025)

Maddyness | 26/02/2025 | UK - Co-founder and CEO of TG0 about sustainable interfaces, haptics the three Cs that underpin the business: curiosity, creativity, and collaboration.TG0 has been fortunate to receive support from a mix of sources. Early on, we secured grants from InnovateUK and European Innovation Council and investment from Amadeus Capital, which helped us bring our ideas to life.

The Port of Huelva, the scene of a pilot project to treat dredging fluids (26/02/2025)

Huelva informacion | 25/02/2025 | Spain - This technology would allow the Port of Huelva to work with innovative water treatment and sustainability solutions, increasing the use of natural resources, primarily water. After undertaking the remodeling of the sewage network and the treatment of rainwater with an investment in 2022 of more than 22 million euros, which would finally be completed with this technological solution, it is being co-financed by the European Commission through the EIC Accelerator program with an approximate investment of 3.5 million euros.

Turkish startup Viagens Triple moves headquarters to Lisbon and prepares financing round (26/02/2025)

Sapo | 25/02/2025 | Portugal - “Our vision goes beyond individual travelers. Having received pre-approval of our €6 million project from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator, we are now in the process of submitting a business plan for final approval. Once complete, we will develop a SaaS solution that will enable B2B customers to measure scopes 1, 2 and 3 of carbon emissions, i.e. whether they are direct, indirect and value chain emissions.”

Can mycelium finally become a cheap vegan alternative? (28/02/2025)

Sifted | 27/02/2025 | UK - Investments in alternative protein startups rose from €127m in 2023 to €158m in 2024 — a 24% increase. While generalist VCs remain hesitant, players like EIT Foods and the European Innovation Council (EIC) are doing most of the deals. German VC FoodLabs is the third most active investor in the space, according to Sifted data.

“Europe’s strength is its medium-sized companies” (03/03/2025)

La Vanguardia | 02/03/2025 | Spain - The EIC has become a key player in innovation in the EU. In an interview, its president, Michiel Scheffer, dispels pessimism and defends the business fabric.

European Collaboration in AI: Unlocking Funding for Medical Imaging Projects (28/02/2025)

Health Management | 27/02/2025 - At the European Congress of Radiology (ECR), Federica Zanca, Programme Manager for Medical Imaging and AI at the European Innovation Council (EIC) in Leuven, Belgium, addressed the critical funding landscape for AI in healthcare under the Horizon Europe framework. She delineated the framework's three foundational pillars: Excellence, Thematic Research and Innovation, emphasising the pivotal role of the EIC in fostering deep tech innovations.

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