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How does the EIC facilitate cooperation with global partners?
The BAS facilitate cooperation via exploration of commercialisation with industry, impact-focused matchmaking events (e.g. Corporate Days, Procurers Days), venture client models, structured pilots and trials with corporates and procurers, and support for marke...
What are the categories, eligibility and prize amounts for the European Innovation Procurement Awards?
There are three categories: Innovation procurement strategy, Facing societal challenges, and Procurement leadership. Eligible applicants include public and/or private procurers, individuals or legal entities in Member States or Associated Countries with practi...
What are the eligibility criteria for the EU Prize for Women Innovators?
The applicant must be a woman, ordinarily resident in an EU Member State or a country associated to Horizon Europe, and the founder or co-founder of an active innovative company registered at least two years before the call year. Applicants must support their...
What are the objectives, categories and main prizes for the European Capital of Innovation Awards (iCapital) in 2022?
The Awards recognise cities as catalysers of local innovation. Two categories in 2022: European Capital of Innovation (minimum 250,000 inhabitants) with a EUR 1,000,000 winner and two runners-up (EUR 100,000 each), and European Rising Innovative City (50,000–2...
What are the three main pillars of the EIC Business Acceleration Services (BAS)?
Access to coaches, mentors, expertise and training; access to global partners (leading corporates, investors, procurers, distributors, clients); and access to the innovation ecosystem and peers.
What does EIC business coaching cover?
Business coaching provides insights on business development shortcomings and guidance across the entrepreneurial journey, including value proposition and business model, IP management, data protection, strategy and investor business case, team building and lea...
What features does the EIC Community Platform provide?
The platform offers matching and collaboration features including partner search, groups, stories, event calendars and a challenges feature enabling members to post challenges and request solutions from the Community.
What is the 2022 budget and action type for bridging EIC awardees to innovation procurement?
Type of action: public procurement action. Indicative budget: EUR 4,000,000 from the 2022 budget. Indicative opening: Q1 2022.
What is the 2022 budget and action type for EIC coaching services?
Type of action: expert contracts action. Indicative budget: EUR 4,500,000 from the 2022 budget. Indicative timetable: from Q1 2022.
What is the 2022 budget and action type for EIC Marketplace supporting services?
Type of action: public procurement action. Indicative budget: EUR 4,000,000 from the 2022 budget. Indicative opening: Q1 2022.
What is the aim of mentoring under the EIC BAS?
Mentoring aims to develop founders’ and CEOs’ business and leadership skills—such as resilience, tenacity and strategic insight—often through mentors sharing their own experience in innovation and fundraising.
What is the EIC Marketplace tool?
The EIC Marketplace will collect and organise preliminary findings and results from EIC projects and proactively make this information, plus supporting services and expertise, available to potential partners, investors and entrepreneurs.
What is the EU Prize for Women Innovators and what are the prize categories and amounts?
The Prize celebrates women entrepreneurs who created significant innovation impact. There are two categories: Women Innovators (three prizes of EUR 100,000 each) and Rising Innovators (three prizes of EUR 50,000 each for applicants under 35).
What is the focus and prize structure of the European Social Innovation Competition 2022?
The 2022 Challenge Prize focuses on affordable, sustainable housing districts (the New European Bauhaus theme). The Challenge Prize awards three winners EUR 50,000 each (total EUR 150,000). The Social Innovation Impact Prize awards EUR 50,000 to one winner (el...
What qualifications are required to become an EIC business coach?
Applicants must have at least five years of professional experience in managerial positions with responsibilities in developing business innovation and at least five years of coaching experience supporting new business development.
What specific mentoring is provided to companies receiving EIC blended finance?
Specific mentoring is provided in coordination with the management of the equity component, and the EIC will also incentivise other investors to provide mentoring tasks and independent advice when looking for co-investors.
Who receives coaching days and how many are provided?
EIC Accelerator applicants invited to submit a full proposal, Seal of Excellence companies and all EIC awardees receive three coaching days. Additional coaching days for EIC awardees (in principle up to 12 days) depend on project review and Programme Manager i...
Are AI and hybrid approaches encouraged in Area 1 proposals?
Yes. Integrated hybrid approaches and autonomously operating devices continuously optimised with AI are particularly welcome.
How are EIC Transition proposals evaluated and shortlisted for interviews?
At least three EIC expert evaluators score proposals against award criteria; scores are averaged. The highest scoring proposals are pooled in descending order requesting aggregate support ≈2.2 times the available budget and invited to interviews. If ≥30% of ap...
How will the selected portfolio of projects be organised across Areas 1–3?
The portfolio is expected to cover all three areas, with a maximum of one proposal from each of Areas 2 and 3 and several proposals across Area 1 categories, fostering close interaction and a commonly developed vision to drive synergies and mutual learning.
What are the application deadline, page limits and evaluation timeline for EIC Transition?
Deadline: 17 September 2025 at 17:00 Brussels time via the Funding & Tenders Portal. Part B sections 1–3 and the cover page must be a maximum of 22 A4 pages. Remote evaluation results are provided indicatively within 9 weeks; interviews held ~11–13 weeks after...
What are the Challenge's focus areas?
The Challenge targets three focus areas: Area 1 – Fully integrated waste-to-value devices; Area 2 – Understanding underlying mechanisms via computational material science and AI; Area 3 – Cells from scratch using bottom-up synthetic biology.
What are the goals of Area 3 (bottom-up synthetic biology)?
Area 3 aims to deliver scientific breakthroughs in synthetic, fully artificial or cell-like systems to enable tailored microbial cell factories for waste degradation and valorisation, including carbon fixation, synthetic polymer decomposition, and production o...
What are the objectives for Area 2 (computational material science and AI)?
Area 2 projects must advance fundamental understanding of physical, chemical and biological processes enabling sustainable, scalable waste-to-value devices by (1) exploring fundamental phenomena across device types, (2) developing more accurate and less resour...