New monthly open calls digest from EIC Business Acceleration Services

On 4 July 2025 the European Innovation Council's Business Acceleration Services team announced a new spin-off digest of its newsletter. The monthly digest will deliver, directly to subscribers' inboxes, the latest open calls for activities and services from EIC Business Acceleration Services and the wider network of EIC Partners. The first issue was scheduled for mid July 2025.

What the open calls digest offers

The digest is positioned as a practical filter to help innovators and awardees keep up with timebound opportunities that support scaling, market access and collaboration. It aggregates open calls for services and activities published by EIC BAS and partners and is distributed once a month.

Who the EIC Business Acceleration Services are for

Under Horizon Europe the EIC aims to pair grant finance with downstream services to help innovations reach markets. EIC Business Acceleration Services are framed as available to innovators at any stage of the research and innovation cycle. Eligibility covers a number of specific beneficiary groups and some services are available more broadly under specific agreements.

What EIC BAS provides: pillars and programmes

EIC BAS organizes support around three main pillars designed to push innovations toward commercialisation and growth. The services include match-making with corporate buyers and investors, access to specialised partners and coaching and training activities.

Where to find services and cofunding

All open calls and partner offers are published on the EIC Community Platform and the EIC Service Catalogue. The Service Catalogue is a searchable database of offers from EIC Partners that can be filtered by beneficiary type service category and technical domain.

How to access the services and subscribe

Practically access is through the EIC Community Platform requiring EU Login credentials. The platform hosts open calls the service catalogue subscription forms and event registration. The BAS open calls digest subscription requires consent to the relevant privacy statements and captures basic personal and organisational details.

Calendar highlights and open calls

The EIC BAS publication and the EIC Community Platform also lists an events calendar and several open calls for partners corporate participants buyers and experts. The 2026 calendar in the announcement lists trade fair participation corporate days and training events from January to July 2026.

Open calls and partner recruitment

The EIC is actively recruiting partners under a number of calls. The calls include the EIC Corporate Partnership Programme call for corporates the EIC Innovation Procurement Programme call for public and private buyers and the EIC Ecosystem Partnership Programme call for accelerators incubators research and training organisations. A call for experts and mentors to support early stage ventures is expected to reopen in Q3 2025. Investors can also explore co-investment opportunities with the EIC Fund.

Context and critical perspective

The digest and the BAS offer practical value for users who need a single feed of open calls and partner opportunities. At the same time the announcement is part promotion and part operational guidance. Reported impact figures are useful but largely self reported by the EIC and presented without detailed methodology. Some metrics are aggregated since 2021 while others are restricted to activity since 2024 which complicates direct comparison.

Finally the EIC operates within an EU funding ecosystem that combines European Commission policy objectives with agency level delivery. That means services can be valuable but also bureaucratically conditional. Applicants should factor in eligibility rules reporting requirements and the administrative burden associated with public programmes.

Practical next steps for innovators

If you are an EIC awardee applicant or an innovation support organisation consider these immediate actions.

Legal and publication notes

Material distributed by the EIC Community includes a disclaimer that the information is provided for knowledge sharing and should not be interpreted as the official view of the European Commission or other organisations. Subscribers are required to accept privacy statements when registering to newsletters and services.