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European Innovation Council
EIC Summit 2025

Europe’s prime event where deep tech meets policy took place on 2 & 3 April 2025 in Brussels

Research & Innovation grants for breakthrough research from laboratory to prototype.
Market-readiness grants for preparing to enter the market
STEP Scale Up highlight
Major investments to help companies become global leaders

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EIC advisers and collaborators

EIC Board Homepage

Meet the leading innovators who advise the EIC on its overall strategy and performance

EIC Programme Managers

Meet our in-house experts who head EIC support in various portfolios such as health, digital, green-deal, space, construction or technology

EIC Ambassadors announced at the EIC Summit

EIC ambassadors act as a voice for the EIC in the Member States, and provide feedback from all corners of the innovation ecosystem

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The EIC draws on a wide range of external advice and expertise in order to select the most promising projects and companies and to support them

Projects funded by the EIC

Discover EIC projects in your region
or in your business area

  • EIC Podcasts

    The game changers: from idea to innovative business. Interviews with EIC Programme Managers - technology experts from fascinating industries including space, energy, health and quantum - on the latest technology trends.

    Go to the EIC Podcasts

  • Tech Talks
    Tech Talks

    Visionary Programme Managers – in collaboration with various experts from across the European tech ecosystem – guide and connect portfolios of EIC projects and companies in support of major technological goals. Hear more from them in these videos.

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Latest statistics - STEP results

7
Companies selected for funding
34
Proposals submitted
11
STEP Seals
4
Top countries
FR (3), NL (2), DE (1), FI (1)

News

  • 22 April 2025
Research professional news | 17/04/2025 - Rachel Armstrong, a professor of regenerative architecture at KU Leuven university in Belgium and now an ambassador for the EIC, told Research Professional News that the EIT has a very “complementary role” to the newer funder.
  • 22 April 2025
Dataconomy | 17/04/2025 - The European Innovation Council (EIC) Summit took place in Brussels on April 2nd and 3rd, 2025. This significant event brought together key figures from across the European innovation landscape, including policymakers, entrepreneurs, researchers, and investors, to discuss...
  • 22 April 2025
Innovators mag | 18/04/2025 - The winners of this month’s European Prize for Women Innovators are creating a future young people can finally get excited about. Led jointly by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) and the European Innovation Council (EIC), the Horizon Europe...
  • 22 April 2025
Delo | 18/04/2025 | Ukraine - For example, the winner of the European Commission's EIC Accelerator 2022 program was the green technology startup Releaf Paper, founded by Ukrainians Valentin Frechka and Alexander Sobolenko. The team won a grant in the amount of 2.5 million euros for the construction...

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Promote coordination and dialogue on the development of the Union's innovation ecosystem