EIC Business Acceleration Services launches dedicated monthly newsletter

The European Innovation Council Business Acceleration Services or EIC BAS has started a new monthly newsletter aimed specifically at EIC beneficiaries, EIC BAS business partners and stakeholders. The bulletin is positioned as a complement to the broader EIC newsletter and is intended to bring targeted updates on open calls, events, success stories and partner opportunities directly to subscribers.

What the newsletter will include

Each edition promises a concise set of items relevant to innovators and those working with them. The stated content mix includes exclusive news from the EIC community, early alerts about open calls and funding opportunities, and a preview of upcoming workshops, matchmaking events and webinars. The newsletter is billed as a practical tool to provide connections, market intelligence and invitations to programmes designed to accelerate market entry and scale up.

How to subscribe and what data is collected

Subscription is handled through an online sign up form. Required fields include email address, given name, family name, country, organisation name and type of entity. The form also asks whether the registrant is an EIC beneficiary, which EIC strand applies where relevant, preferred language and additional demographic fields including gender. Consent to a privacy statement is mandatory to register. The subscription is managed by the European Commission Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology, also called DG CONNECT.

What the EIC Business Acceleration Services are

EIC Business Acceleration Services operate under Horizon Europe. The stated objective is to ensure that financial awards from the EIC are a starting point and not an endpoint. BAS provides tailored nonfinancial support at all stages of development to help EIC-supported innovators move from laboratory results to customers and scale markets.

Who can benefit

Eligibility focuses on EIC awardees and affiliated groups but some services are open more broadly. Primary beneficiaries include EIC Accelerator awardees, EIC Transition and EIC Pathfinder awardees, Women TechEU winners and STEP Seal holders. Members of the EIC Scaling Club are also served. Some activities are available to Seal of Excellence recipients and organisations that have specific agreements with the EIC. EIC BAS has stated that services have no expiration date, meaning past awardees remain eligible to apply after their funded project ends.

The three BAS pillars and the services they fund

EIC BAS groups its activities around Contracts, Contacts and Skills. That reflects a focus on helping innovators win procurement and commercial deals, expand their networks across corporates and investors, and build the managerial and commercial capacities needed to scale.

Selected programmes and what they do

Reported impact and metrics

EIC BAS publishes a set of cumulative figures to demonstrate reach and outcomes. These metrics are useful for understanding activity volumes but require careful interpretation when claiming causal impact on company performance.

These figures reflect outputs and self reported outcomes. Independent evaluation would be needed to measure long term economic impact or to attribute funding and growth directly to specific BAS interventions. Some stated values apply only to recent periods and are flagged as such by the EIC.

How to access BAS services and the EIC Community Platform

All open calls for BAS and EIC Ecosystem Partner services are published on the EIC Community Platform. Users must register with EU Login credentials to apply for services, access matchmaking, join coaching and find partner calls. The platform is the gateway for both beneficiaries and external partners seeking to work with the EIC.

Work with the EIC BAS and open partner calls

The EIC is recruiting partners across categories. Current open calls include corporate partners for the Corporate Partnership Programme, public and private buyers for the Innovation Procurement Programme, accelerators and incubators for the Ecosystem Partnership Programme and experts and mentors for training programmes. Investors are also invited to co invest with the EIC Fund under its investor engagement routes.

Selected calendar highlights for 2026

Practical next steps for readers

If you are an EIC beneficiary or an organisation working with innovators, sign up to the EIC BAS newsletter to receive targeted alerts. Register on the EIC Community Platform with EU Login credentials to apply for services and browse open calls. If you represent a corporate, buyer or service provider interested in partnering with the EIC, consult the relevant open calls and application pages on the EIC BAS and EISMEA websites.

The newsletter is a low friction way to stay informed. The broader point is that EIC BAS consolidates a range of activities that are useful to innovators. The published metrics show substantial activity. Policy makers and potential beneficiaries should however be wary of overstating the link between BAS activities and downstream company performance without independent evaluation.

Where to find more information

Full details about services, calls and the subscription form are available on the EIC Community Platform and the EIC BAS pages on the European Innovation Council and European Commission sites. For data protection questions consult the EIC data protection notice and the privacy statement included on the subscription form.