Library FAQ
What impacts should Healthy Ageing projects aim to deliver?
Deliver biotechnology-based interventions for healthy ageing, accelerate personalised care via molecular phenotyping, provide recommendations for regulatory pathways addressing ageing, and improve citizen literacy on longevity.
What is evaluated under the 'Impact' criterion?
Potential credibility of pathways to expected outcomes, innovation potential including proof of principle and protection/exploitation measures, and communication and dissemination measures to maximise outcomes and raise awareness of results' market or societal...
What is the DeepRAP Challenge about?
DeepRAP targets advances in Reasoning, Abstraction and Planning (RAP) to close the gap between human cognition and AI, aiming for trustworthy cognitive AI systems beyond current symbolic or neural paradigms.
What is the focus of the 'Biotechnology for Healthy Ageing' Challenge?
To develop biotechnology-based proof-of-concept interventions, tools, or new approach methodologies addressing ageing and promoting healthy longevity, tackling age-related chronic diseases and associated societal and healthcare challenges.
What is the goal of the 'Advanced Materials for Miniaturised Energy Harvesting Systems' Challenge?
To develop a new generation of advanced materials for miniaturised integrated energy harvesting devices with significantly enhanced performance versus the state of the art, reducing reliance on critical raw materials and improving energy autonomy of connected...
What outcomes and portfolio targets are expected for Healthy Ageing projects?
Expected outcomes include completed TRL3 proof-of-concept interventions in vertebrate models, validated tools (e.g., biomarker signatures, pre-clinical models), and approaches addressing regulatory and societal challenges. Portfolio targets: up to 5 interventi...
What outcomes are expected from DeepRAP projects?
Models/architectures handling multimodal data and uncertainty with constrained compute, provable trustworthiness mechanisms (explainability, transparency, fairness, risk evaluation, security, alignment with legal/ethical standards including the EU AI Act), and...
What outcomes are expected from the Advanced Materials Challenge?
A new generation of advanced materials for miniaturised energy harvesting modules and achievement of TRL4 for the resulting energetically autonomous systems.
What portfolio diversity is expected for selected Advanced Materials projects?
The portfolio should cover a variety of advanced materials applied to a range of harvesting modules and systems, spanning different phenomena (solar, thermoelectric, piezoelectric, nanotribological), material compositions and application fields (e.g., agricult...
What research directions are sought in DeepRAP proposals?
Novel approaches such as neuro-symbolic AI or entirely new frameworks (potentially inspired by neuroscience, biology, physics, philosophy) addressing deep reasoning (causal, logical, commonsense), deep abstraction (transferable high-level concepts and internal...
What specific objectives are required for Advanced Materials proposals?
Identify innovative advanced materials harnessing new physical/chemical phenomena; implement them in miniaturised harvesting modules (e.g., mini solar cells, thermoelectrics, piezoelectric/nanotribological, electromagnetic wave harvesting); integrate modules i...
What types of projects are sought in the Biotechnology for Healthy Ageing Challenge?
Three areas: (1) preventative or therapeutic biotechnology/pharmaceutical interventions with proof of concept in a physiologically aged vertebrate model; (2) biomarker-based tools (using existing biomarker candidates/ageing clocks) demonstrating proof-of-conce...
Where can I find more details about award categories and portfolio considerations?
Further information and details will be provided in the EIC Pathfinder Challenge Guides.
Can the EIC Fund enter into contracts or maintain business relationships with institutions or individuals listed on sanction lists?
No. The EIC Fund shall not enter into any contract or maintain a business relationship with, nor make funds available directly or indirectly to, any institution or individual listed on sanction lists.
How are investment decisions by the EIC Fund taken?
The EIC Fund Manager makes investment and divestment decisions on companies selected through the EIC Accelerator following due diligence performed by the EIB according to the EIC Investment Guidelines, managing the portfolio in coordination with grant support...
How does the EIC collaborate with the EIT and its KICs?
Collaboration includes a Fast Track process allowing EIT KIC-selected companies to enter EIC Accelerator evaluation at stage two, access by EIC beneficiaries to services via BAS partnerships, the Next Generation Innovation Talents secondment scheme, and joint...
How is 'deep tech' defined in the EIC Work Programme?
Deep tech is technology based on cutting-edge scientific advances and discoveries, characterized by the need to stay at the technological forefront through interaction with new lab results, with the potential to deliver transformative solutions rooted in cutti...
What are EIC Business Acceleration Services (BAS)?
BAS are support services for EIC Awardees and other eligible organisations to support innovation development, commercialisation and scaling-up, including access to coaches and training, services of EIC Ecosystem Partners, and access to global partners.
What are EIC Ecosystem Partners?
EIC Ecosystem Partners are organisations selected to provide BAS or other support to EIC Awardees, including investors, business angels, mentors, innovation agencies, clusters, accelerators, incubators, technology transfer offices, KICs, members of the Enterpr...
What are EIC Programme Managers and an EIC Portfolio?
An EIC Portfolio is a set of actions with thematic similarities or contributing to the same EIC Challenge; EIC Programme Managers are high-level experts appointed to the Agency for a limited duration to develop visions for breakthrough technologies and proacti...
What is EISMEA in the EIC context?
EISMEA (the European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency) is the Agency entrusted by the European Commission with implementing Horizon Europe EIC activities, except for the EIC Fund.
What is the EIC Community platform?
The EIC Community platform is a virtual platform available to EIC Awardees and Awardees of various Seals of Excellence that facilitates links to BAS and enables discussions, exchanges and matchmaking with ecosystem actors.
What is the EIC Fund and who manages it?
The EIC Fund is an alternative investment fund established to invest in companies selected through EIC Accelerator calls; it is managed by an external alternative investment fund manager (the EIC Fund Manager) with the European Investment Bank (EIB) supporting...
What is the Marketplace mentioned in the Work Programme?
The Marketplace is an EIC-dedicated space, supported by the Horizon Results Platform, where results from EIC Pathfinder and Transition projects will be made available to cross-fertilise activities and stimulate innovation; it is expected to become available du...