European Innovation Council online Info Day - Work Programme 2025

On Tuesday 5 November 2024, prospective applicants of the European Innovation Council (EIC) Work Programme 2025 - which was adopted on 29 October 2024 - had the chance to learn more about the upcoming opportunities under the Work Programmme, but also about the success stories and lessons learnt under the previous work programmes, during an online Info Day. 

Prospective  European Innovation Council interested in the  EIC Work Programme 2025 are warmly invited to join this online Info Day to learn more about these opportunities, but also about the successes achieved under the previous work programmes.

High-level speakers from the European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) and the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD) of the European Commission and from the European Investment Bank (EIB) provided an overview about three main funding schemes of by EIC:

• EIC Pathfinder: for advanced research on breakthrough or game-changing technologies;
• EIC Transition: for transforming research results into innovation opportunities;
• EIC Accelerator: for individual companies to develop and scale up breakthrough innovations with high risk and high impact.

Dedicated sessions presented the wide range of services (access to coaches, mentors, access to global partners & innovation ecosystem) offered to all EIC-funded projects and companies by the Business Acceleration Services (BAS) and the STEP call as a novelty under the Work Programme 2025.

The next day, prospective applicants could also learn more in the online Info Day dedicated to the EIC Accelerator Challenges under the Work Programme 2025.

Recording

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Presentations

You can now download the presentations used during the Info Day:

Questions

Questions during the Info Day were collected via Slido and addressed during the Q&As sessions.

Following the info day, the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on the EIC Work Programme 2025 are being updated with all new questions (i.e. questions not already included in the FAQs) collected during the event, including those which were not addressed during the Q&As sessions.

For questions after the event, please write to EISMEA-COMMUNICATIONec [dot] europa [dot] eu (EISMEA-COMMUNICATION[at]ec[dot]europa[dot]eu)

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