Women Tech.EU initiative

Code: 36239 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2025-WOMENTECH | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 01/04/2025 | End submission calls: 02/09/2025

The Women TechEU Initiative is designed to support early-stage women-led deep-tech startups, addressing gender gap in the tech industry and fostering more diverse startup ecosystem across Europe. The initiative aims to enhance the competitiveness of women-led companies addressing critical societal challenges. By empowering women entrepreneurs, Women TechEU supports early stage deep-tech companies, paving the way for the participation of women-led start-ups in future EIC calls.

The European Capital of Innovation Awards 2026 (iCapital)

Code: 36153 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2025-ICAPITAL-PRIZE-02 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 20/03/2025 | End submission calls: 18/06/2025

The European Capital of Innovation Awards aim to champion inspiring cases of municipality-enabled innovation flourishing in cities. The Awards are a prestigious recognition for city administrators who are courageous enough to open up their governance practices to experimentation, to boost innovation by all means, to be a role model for other cities, and to push the boundaries of technology for the benefit of their citizens. In addition to the monetary reward, the prize brings high visibility in the form of renewed public interest and increased media coverage.

EIC Pathfinder Open

Code: 36046 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2025-PATHFINDEROPEN | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 20/02/2025 | End submission calls: 21/05/2025

The overall objective of the EIC Pathfinder for advanced research is to develop the scientific basis to underpin breakthrough technologies. It provides support for the earliest stages of scientific, technological or deep-tech research and development. Pathfinder projects aim to build on new, cutting-edge directions in science and technology to disrupt a field and a market or create new opportunities by realising innovative technological solutions.

The EIC Pathfinder Open supports early stage development of future technologies (e.g. various activities at low Technology Readiness Levels 1-4), based on high-risk/high-gain science-towards-technology, breakthrough research (including ‘deep-tech’).

EIC STEP Scale Up

Code: 35323 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2025-EICSTEP-01 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 26/11/2024 | End submission calls: 16/12/2025

The EIC STEP Scale Up call presents a unique opportunity for ambitious scale up companies (SMEs and small mid-caps) with game-changing innovations in Europe’s critical technology areas. It offers a powerful combination of financial and strategic support designed to propel your groundbreaking solution to the forefront of these sectors.

This call is part of the implementation of the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (STEP) which supports the development or manufacturing of critical technologies throughout the Union or safeguarding and strengthening their respective value chains.

EIC Accelerator 2025 - Short application

Code: 35135 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2025-ACCELERATOR-01 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 29/10/2024 | End submission calls: 18/12/2025

The EIC Accelerator focuses in particular on innovations building on scientific discovery or technological breakthroughs (‘deep tech’) and where significant funding is needed over a long timeframe before returns can be generated (‘patient capital’).

The EIC Accelerator supports companies (principally SMEs, including start-ups) to scale up high impact innovations with the potential to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.

Strengthening the sustainability and resilience of EU space infrastructure

Code: 34250 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2024-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-05 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 20/06/2024 | End submission calls: 16/10/2024

The overall goal of this Challenge is to support the development of innovations that will strengthen the protection of EU space infrastructure.

The specific goals of this challenge are:

1. development of technologies for space debris mitigation and active debris removal;
2. concepts for in-space recycling of dysfunctional orbital assets;
3. innovations for protecting EU space infrastructure.

Nanoelectronics for energy-efficient smart edge devices

Code: 34248 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2024-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-04 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 20/06/2024 | End submission calls: 16/10/2024

The overall goal of this challenge is to explore novel materials and beyond CMOS devices, non-von Neumann architectures and alternative information processing paradigms to drastically reduce energy consumption in order to meet application-specific needs of smart edge devices and circuits.

Nature inspired alternatives for food packaging and films for agriculture

Code: 34246 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2024-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-03 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 20/06/2024 | End submission calls: 16/10/2024

This Pathfinder Challenge aims to support ambitious interdisciplinary research that will lead to the development and production of sustainable nature inspired alternatives for food packaging and agricultural production such as, but not limited to, greenhouse and mulch films. These materials must have a reduced environmental impact, through design and production, while delivering the functional characteristics of plastics.

Towards cement and concrete as a carbon sink

Code: 34243 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2024-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-02 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 20/06/2024 | End submission calls: 16/10/2024

One default pathway to decarbonize cement is to capture and store CO2 of current production processes (CCS). Technologies for CCS are in development and expected to increase the cost of cement. To avoid additional costs of future emissions as much as possible, accelerated deep-tech innovations are needed to fully negate or even absorb emissions by the sector in future. The breakthrough innovations sought with this Pathfinder Challenge aim to be more cost effective than CCS. Moreover, this Pathfinder Challenge encourages breakthrough innovations that utilize CO2. Such innovations can play an important role in future CCUS economies, and trigger future revenue opportunities for the sector by offering negative emissions at scale.

This Pathfinder Challenge seeks to support breakthrough innovations and (alternative) pathways for decarbonized and carbon-negative cement and concrete.

Solar-to-X devices for the decentralized prosumption of renewable fuels, chemicals and materials as climate change mitigation pathway

Code: 34241 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2024-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-01 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 20/06/2024 | End submission calls: 16/10/2024

The objective is to make progress towards synthetic fuels and chemicals technologies which integrate all necessary conversion steps into a single device, and which are solely and directly driven by solar energy.

The European Innovation Procurement Awards 2025

Code: 34224 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2024-PRIZE-EIPA | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 26/06/2024 | End submission calls: 26/09/2024

The European Innovation Procurement Awards 2025 aim to recognise public and private buyers, natural persons and those legal entities supporting practices across Europe in their efforts to promote and stimulate both procurement of innovative solutions and the innovative ways the solutions are procured. It also aims to demonstrate how innovation procurement positively transforms society and the economy by not only creating new and sustainable markets, but also by tackling societal challenges such as green energy transition.

EU Prize for Women Innovators

Code: 34178 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2024-PRIZE-EPWI | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 27/06/2024 | End submission calls: 25/09/2024

The European Prize for Women Innovators celebrates the women entrepreneurs behind Europe’s game-changing innovations, so that they may inspire other women and girls realise their full potential as the EU’s future scientists, innovators, and tech leaders.

There are two prize categories:

• The Women Innovators prize
• The Rising Innovators prize

Transition Open 2024

Code: 33397 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2024-TRANSITIONOPEN-01 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 18/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

EIC Transition funds innovation activities that go beyond the experimental proof of principle in laboratory. It supports both the maturation and validation of your novel technology from the lab to the relevant application environments (by making use of prototyping, formulation, models, user testing or other validation tests) as well as explorations and development of a sustainable business case and business model towards commercialisation.

The European Social Innovation Competition 2024

Code: 33281 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2024-EUSIC-PRIZES-04 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 09/04/2024 | End submission calls: 11/06/2024

The European Social Innovation Competition aims at raising awareness about social innovation across a wide audience, sparking the creation of new socially innovative ideas, creating a network of like-minded practitioners and supporting finalists to transform their ideas into structured businesses.

The European Capital of Innovation Awards 2024 (iCapital)

Code: 33103 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2024-ICAPITAL-PRIZE-02-1 / HORIZON-EIC-2024-ICAPITAL-PRIZE-02-2 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 05/03/2024 | End submission calls: 18/06/2024

The European Capital of Innovation Awards aim to champion inspiring cases of municipality-enabled innovation flourishing in cities.

The Awards will feature two categories:

• European Capital of Innovation 2024 category.
• European Rising Innovative 2024 City category.

EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application

Code: 32144 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 03/01/2024 | End submission calls: 01/11/2024

The EIC Accelerator focuses in particular on innovations, building on scientific discovery or technological breakthroughs (‘deep tech’) and where significant funding is needed over a long timeframe before returns can be generated (‘patient capital’).

EIC Pathfinder Open

Code: 32142 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2024-PATHFINDEROPEN-01-01 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 03/01/2024 | End submission calls: 07/03/2024

The overall objective of the EIC Pathfinder for advanced research is to develop the scientific basis to underpin breakthrough technologies. It provides support for the earliest stages of scientific, technological or deep-tech research and development. Pathfinder projects aim to build on new, cutting-edge directions in science and technology to disrupt a field and a market or create new opportunities by realising innovative technological solutions.

EIC Accelerator Challenge: Customer-driven, innovative space technologies and services

Code: 31320 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2023-ACCELERATORCHALLENGES-07 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 08/12/2022 | End submission calls: 08/11/2023

The overall goal of this Challenge is to ensure Europe is able to service and protect its own Space infrastructure, avoiding the risk of losing its strategic autonomy, and enhance the competitiveness of its space industry by encouraging the emergence of innovative, interoperable, scalable, and autonomous “customer-driven” innovative space technologies and services.

EIC Accelerator Challenge: Emerging semiconductor or quantum technology components

Code: 31318 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2023-ACCELERATORCHALLENGES-05 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 08/12/2022 | End submission calls: 08/11/2023

This Challenge contributes to the objectives of the Chips Act by supporting the development of critical technologies where start-ups and SMEs with disruptive innovations have the potential to scale up and help ensure the future open strategic autonomy of the Union.

EIC Accelerator Challenge: New European Bauhaus and Architecture, Engineering and Construction digitalisation

Code: 31316 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2023-ACCELERATORCHALLENGES-04 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 08/12/2022 | End submission calls: 08/11/2023

The overarching objective of this Challenge is to provide transformative digital products or digitally enabled solutions for the AEC sector that can help it achieve climate neutrality while striving to comply with or contribute to the human-centred quality values and principles brought forward by the New European Bauhaus.

EIC Accelerator Challenge: Novel technologies for resilient agriculture

Code: 31313 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2023-ACCELERATORCHALLENGES-06 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 08/12/2022 | End submission calls: 08/11/2023

This Challenge aims to improve the resilience of the European food supply chain and security, notably by improving agricultural productivity and fostering environmentally sustainable technologies, all while regenerating and increasing soil health and ecosystem services. By aiming to valorise crop residues, this Challenge also aims to contribute to better carbon and nitrogen management practices, to mitigation of climate change and environmental challenges including biodiversity loss and pollution.

EIC Accelerator Challenge: Aerosol and surface decontamination for pandemic management

Code: 31308 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2023-ACCELERATORCHALLENGES-02 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 08/12/2022 | End submission calls: 08/11/2023

This Challenge calls for proposals by SMEs with technologies, backed by scientific evidence, supporting normal social interaction, devoid of social distancing, in the presence of air- or surface-borne pathogens. In doing so, this Challenge aims to strengthen EU’s industry preparedness and competitiveness in the area of pandemic safety technologies.

EIC Accelerator Challenge: Energy storage

Code: 31305 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2023-ACCELERATORCHALLENGES-03 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 08/12/2022 | End submission calls: 08/11/2023

This Challenge targets groundbreaking innovations in any field of technology that have a high potential to meet the following objectives:

• to store electric and/or thermal energy at low cost, high density, high charging/discharging efficiency and enhanced durability.
• to design technological approaches (chemical, electrical, electrochemical, mechanical, thermal) for energy storage at different scales (centralised at large industrial facilities premises or distributed and at small scale level – mobile electronics), duration (short – millisecond to day, medium – days to month and long term – months to seasons) and uses (from stationary to mobile).
• to develop technologies that, without using critical raw materials or ensuring the maximisation of their recycle/reuse, minimise their carbon footprint measured through a life-cycle analysis (including cost and social impact evaluation). The integration of technologies in products and services shall embrace circular and life cycle thinking approach, and support the transition to a circular economy.

EIC Accelerator Challenge: Novel biomarker-based assays to guide personalised cancer treatment

Code: 31302 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2023-ACCELERATORCHALLENGES-01 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 08/12/2022 | End submission calls: 08/11/2023

This EIC Accelerator Challenge aims to improve the efficacy, safety and uptake of therapeutic approaches against refractory cancers, using novel comprehensive predictive, prognostic and companion diagnostic tests, in the context of precision oncology.

The overall goal of this Challenge is to support and accelerate the preclinical validation and/or clinical phase 1 work carried out by innovative SMEs (including start-ups, spinouts) and small midcaps to develop novel predictive, prognostic and companion diagnostic assays to guide cancer treatment.

Financial support for Ecosystem Partners

Code: 30473 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2023-PARTNERS-01 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 16/08/2023 | End submission calls: 14/11/2023

On 18 September 2023, the European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) is organising an informative webinar to learn more about the Coordination and Support Action call (CSA) with the title: Financial support to access services from ecosystem players.

The CSA call on Ecosystem Partners was published on 16 August 2023.

Next Generation Innovation Talents

Code: 30234 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2023-TALENTS-01-01 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 27/07/2023 | End submission calls: 04/10/2023

The objective of the ‘Next Generation Innovation Talents’ scheme is to enable researchers and aspiring innovators to better understand and gain direct experience of the complex process of taking innovation beyond invention and help them develop their entrepreneurial mindset. At the same time, this scheme aims to provide innovative start-ups with access to new ideas and insights from the cutting edge of research, thus accelerating the development of their breakthrough products and services.

EIC Pathfinder Challenge: In-space solar energy harvesting for innovative space applications

Code: 29704 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2023-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-05 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 20/06/2023 | End submission calls: 25/10/2023

The overall goal of this Challenge includes the development of technologies required for in-space energy harvesting and transmission, and of novel propulsion technologies that will use such harvested energy.

This Challenge aims at developing and as such make related impacts in:

• Design and laboratory validation of concepts to develop technologies for energy harvesting in space e.g. in-space utilisation of this energy for transportation and other related research and innovation activities, in particular for cleaning space debris;
• Development and laboratory validation of breakthrough technologies for wireless power transmission of energy, e.g. through power grid, for energy beam pointing and control;
• Development of eco-friendly and innovative green propulsion solutions for in-space applications (e.g., spacecraft orbital corrections, in orbit satellite servicing, active debris removal, end-of-life services, etc.) addressing the barriers to the use of in-space solar energy for innovative propulsion.
• Use of innovative in-space robotic solutions for in-space manufacturing and assembly of space-based solar units.

EIC Pathfinder Challenge: Responsible Electronics

Code: 29702 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2023-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-04 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 20/06/2023 | End submission calls: 25/10/2023

The overall goal of this Challenge is to create opportunities for discovery of new environmentally friendly electronic materials, thus reducing its environmental impact and the need for critical raw materials and hazardous chemicals.

EIC Pathfinder Challenge: AEC digitalisation for a new triad of design, fabrication, and materials

Code: 29700 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2023-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-02 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 20/06/2023 | End submission calls: 25/10/2023

This Challenge seeks to develop research and early innovations with a breakthrough potential related to design, fabrication and materials for the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) value chain enabled by novel algorithms and advanced digitalization. In such a digitalized AEC value chain design, fabrication and materials are symbiotic and mutually dependent and enabling.

The potential of the digitalised, mutually interdependent, mutually reinforcing, intertwined triad of design, fabrication and materials can potentially exceed our wildest imaginations. This Challenge seeks the realisation of disruptive solutions for  AEC.

EIC Pathfinder Challenge: Clean and efficient cooling

Code: 29698 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2023-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-01 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 20/06/2023 | End submission calls: 25/10/2023

This EIC Pathfinder Challenge aims at advancing scientific knowledge and technological development of novel, clean and efficient cooling solutions that fully underpin “cold economy” vision.

For this purpose, the portfolio of projects supported under this Challenge should explore the potentials of new devices, processes, components and materials for clean cooling generation, storage and/or transport.
Specific objectives of the Challenge are to explore new devices, processes, components and materials for cooling.

EIC Pathfinder Challenge: Precision Nutrition

Code: 29696 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2023-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-03 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 20/06/2023 | End submission calls: 25/10/2023

The goal of this Challenge is to investigate and provide scientific evidence of the role of diet in FrHCs and NCDs.

The specific objectives of this Challenge are:

• Investigate causal relationships among diet, microbiome and glycans, with potential impact on personalising human diet.
• Identify food ingredients, food technology processes, additives and dietary patterns that have negative effects on human health and, aging.
• Identify food ingredients, food technology processes and additives that have a beneficial effect on human health, and aging.
• Develop recommendations for the reformulation of new food products and processes with no- or fewer additives.

Support to test EIC innovations for public and private procurers

Code: 29591 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2023-INNOVPRO-01-01 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 01/06/2023 | End submission calls: 07/11/2023

This action has two main objectives:

• to enable selected EIC Awardees to prove the concept or test, through structured pilots, their innovative solutions in the services or premises of interested buyers that are aiming at procuring innovation;
• to increase the purchase of innovative solutions from public and private procurers or buyers across Europe.

The European Innovation Procurement Awards Prize - HORIZON-EIC-2023-EUIPA-PRIZES-03

Code: 28519 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2023-EUIPA-PRIZES-03 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 20/04/2023 | End submission calls: 17/08/2023

The European Innovation Procurement Awards 2023-2024 aim to recognise public and private buyers, natural persons and those legal entities supporting these practices across Europe in their efforts to promote and stimulate both procurement of innovative solutions and the innovative ways the solutions are procured. It also aims to demonstrate how innovation procurement positively transforms the economy by not only creating new and sustainable markets, but also by tackling societal challenges such as green energy transition.

The European Social Innovation Competition 2023

Code: 28194 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2023-EUSIC-PRIZES-04 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 30/03/2023 | End submission calls: 30/05/2023

The European Social Innovation Competition aims at raising awareness about social innovation across a wide audience, sparking the creation of new socially innovative ideas creating a network of like-minded practitioners and supporting finalists to transform their ideas into structured businesses.

The European Social Innovation Competition 2023 will focus on ‘Fighting energy poverty’ – Repower EU. 

The EU Prize for Humanitarian Innovation

Code: 27928 | Identifier Code: The EU Prize for Humanitarian Innovation | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 21/03/2023 | End submission calls: 03/10/2023

The European Prize for Humanitarian Innovation celebrates the humanitarian organisations, social enterprises, and companies that are developing technology to deliver better quality assistance to vulnerable people affected by natural disasters and man-made crises such as conflicts.

The European Capital of Innovation Awards (iCapital)

Code: 27763 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2023-ICAPITAL-PRIZE-02 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 08/03/2023 | End submission calls: 29/06/2023

The European Capital of Innovation Awards aim to champion inspiring cases of municipality-enabled innovation flourishing in cities. The Awards are a prestigious recognition for city administrators who are courageous enough to open up their governance practices to experimentation, to boost innovation by all means, to be a role model for other cities, and to push the boundaries of technology for the benefit of their citizens. In addition to the monetary reward, the prize brings high visibility in the form of renewed public interest and increased media coverage.

EIC Transition Challenge: Environmental Intelligence 

Code: 27168 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2023-TRANSITIONCHALLENGES-02 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/01/2023 | End submission calls: 27/09/2023

Proposals submitted to this Challenge should focus on demonstrating novel devices, sensors or technologies that have a clear and quantifiable advantage with respect to one or several of the key issues mentioned above compared with existing alternatives for similar class of problems or applications.

Deadline dates:
12 April 2023
27 September 2023

EIC Transition Challenge: Chip-scale optical frequency combs

Code: 27163 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2023-TRANSITIONCHALLENGES-03 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/01/2023 | End submission calls: 27/09/2023

The overall goal of this Challenge is to advance technological developments of the light states in driven nonlinear systems and to develop novel platforms for chip-scale frequency combs.

Deadline dates:
12 April 2023
27 September 2023

Transition Open 2023

Code: 27155 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2023-TRANSITIONOPEN-01 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/01/2023 | End submission calls: 27/09/2023

The EIC Transition Open has no predefined thematic priorities and is open to proposals in any field of technology or application. For any chosen field, EIC Transition projects should address, in a balanced way, both technology and market/business development, possibly including iterative learning processes based on early customer or user feedback.

EIC Transition Challenge: Full scale Micro-Nano-Bio devices for medical and medical research applications

Code: 26662 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2023-TRANSITIONCHALLENGES-01 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/01/2023 | End submission calls: 27/09/2023

The scope of the Challenge is the maturation of Micro-Nano-Bio technologies developed in previous EU-funded projects to enable their transition to market, and the creation of the business plans to guide their next steps.

Deadline dates:
12 April 2023
27 September 2023

EIC Accelerator Open 2023

Code: 26581 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2023-ACCELERATOROPEN-01 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 08/12/2022 | End submission calls: 08/11/2023

The EIC Accelerator focuses in particular on innovations, building on scientific discovery or technological breakthroughs (‘deep tech’) and where significant funding is needed over a long timeframe before returns can be generated (‘patient capital’).

1. The “EIC AI Platform”, on which stakeholders developed and submitted their proposals for the Program in question, ceases to be active, with immediate effect.
   Submission of new proposals to Step 1 of the EIC Accelerator Program is currently suspended. The submission will be available again in early July 2023, in a new EISMEA online tool.
2. The scheduled closing date of Step 2 of 7 June 2023 has been postponed to 21 June 2023 at 17.00 (Brussels time). Proposals will be submitted to the Funding & Tenders Portal in a revised simplified form, which will be posted on the relevant page immediately. Companies that have already started preparation will receive relevant information within the next few days.
3. The Frequently Asked Questions document has been revised to include information about emergency settings.

Deadline dates:
11 January 2023
22 March 2023
21 June 2023
04 October 2023

EIC Pathfinder Open

Code: 26569 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2023-PATHFINDEROPEN-01-01 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 10/01/2023 | End submission calls: 07/03/2023

The overall objective of the EIC Pathfinder for advanced research is to develop the scientific basis to underpin breakthrough technologies, with potential to create new markets and/or to address global challenges. It provides support for the earliest stages of scientific, technological or deep-tech research and development. Pathfinder projects aim to build on new, cutting-edge directions in science and technology to disrupt a field and a market or create new opportunities by realising innovative technological solutions.

Pan-European network of startup associations to support the integration of Ukrainian tech innovators into European ecosystems and to enhance their operations in Ukraine

Code: 23584 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2022-UKRAINIANTECH-01-01 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 23/06/2022 | End submission calls: 07/09/2022

This action supports intermediate organisations such as start-up associations, enterprise support centres, incubators, accelerators, etc., including those that operate at European or trans-national level, to work together to provide urgent support to Ukrainian innovative tech companies

EIC Pathfinder Challenge: Mid to long term and systems integrated energy storage

Code: 22825 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2022-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-02 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 16/06/2022 | End submission calls: 19/10/2022

This Challenge will support proposals from the following technologies and systems for stationary applications:

• mid/long term energy storage for power systems, with technologies such as metal air or redox flow batteries, power to heat to power, chemical bonds, electrochemical/chemical/thermal hybrid solutions, integration of energy carriers and ‘storage to X’ strategies; concepts for centralised or decentralised applications at grid, industrial or district scale level are included, excluding micro and small scale or single building solutions;
• mid/long term thermal energy storage (heating or cooling) at different temperature, such as building integrated and process systems integrated solutions, chemical looping or thermochemical storage, solar thermal energy harvesting and storage, combined storage of thermal and electrical energy as well as other energy vectors, storage systems integrated in cold chains and in industrial processes.

EIC Pathfinder Challenge: DNA-based digital data storage

Code: 22821 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2022-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-05 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 16/06/2022 | End submission calls: 19/10/2022

This EIC Pathfinder Challenge is to explore scalable and reliable high-throughput approaches for using DNA as a general data-storage medium. Solutions would thus need to address the read/write/edit operations of digital data in synthetic DNA, capturing the expected advantages of high density and stability/longevity of this form of data storage. The use of DNA sequences as chassis for non-standard forms of information coding, or of other polymeric substrates and related coding/decoding techniques are also in scope, provided they entail at least similar benefits than stateof-the-art DNA approaches. Proposed techniques should deliver qualitative advances in key parameters such as throughput, DNA-length (well above a few hundred mers), reliability (coupling efficiency), speed and cost. Beyond the usual storage applications, there is also scope for radically different scenarios for such a technology, for instance for data-processing, in-vivo sensing or fingerprinting.

Applications submitted to this Challenge, must pay particular attention to the relevant bio-safety and ethical issues.

EIC Pathfinder Challenge: Cardiogenomics

Code: 22817 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2022-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-03 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 16/06/2022 | End submission calls: 19/10/2022

Companies are therefore increasingly raising funding to support their preclinical CVD programs aimed to develop key molecules that can disrupt signalling pathways that regulate key cardiovascular processes including rhythm, hypertrophy, contractility, and autophagy and others, potentially leading to new therapies for heart failure or other CVD conditions. The overall aim of this Challenge is to pave the way for novel therapies
for major CVD conditions including hemorrhagic and ischemic stroke, aneurysm, cardiomyopathy and certain types of arrhythmias and other conditions, for which no effective treatments are currently available.

The gender dimension in research content should be considered, where relevant.

EIC Pathfinder Challenge: Towards the Healthcare Continuum: technologies to support a radical shift from episodic to continuous healthcare

Code: 22814 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2022-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-04 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 16/06/2022 | End submission calls: 19/10/2022

This call can support innovative technologies ranging from the sensor level up to the system level for effective integration of multimodal data.

Proposals can aim at monitoring a family of conditions or a wider mix of health factors, using the optimal combination of single-point or historic multi-point sensor data and, if appropriate, clinical records, genomic data, etc. to realise maximal performance. Involvement of relevant stakeholders (e.g., clinical experts and patient organizations) from an early stage is recommended. The gender dimension in research content should be considered, where relevant as well as the involvement of relevant stakeholders (e.g. clinical practitioners, patient organisations, etc.) from an early stage.

EIC Pathfinder Challenge: Carbon dioxide and Nitrogen management and valorisation

Code: 22812 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2022-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-01 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 16/06/2022 | End submission calls: 19/10/2022

This Challenge focuses on new biological, chemical, physical routes that integrate the capture and/or recovery of CO2 and N species, storage and their conversion into value added products, and/or net zero commodities, chemicals, fuels and energy vectors. The processes should focus on the use of renewable energy as input to develop carbon negative or net zero systems. Reaching these objectives requires multidisciplinary competencies and cross-sectorial approaches, with a strong focus on circularity and whole life analysis. The research could address in an integrated manner environmental, industrial, agricultural, socio-economic and logistic issues.

EIC Pathfinder Challenge: Alternative approaches to Quantum Information Processing, Communication, and Sensing

Code: 22808 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2022-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-06 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 16/06/2022 | End submission calls: 19/10/2022

The scope of this call is to develop innovative approaches to encoding, manipulating, or storing information in quantum objects, or to exploiting quantum phenomena for information processing, communication, and sensing in a way that differs from the mainstream approaches currently being pursued in quantum research. Proposals should clearly identify the limits of the current quantum information processing paradigms they are trying to improve upon and propose relevant metrics to track progress and demonstrate success or a superior paradigm compared with conventional quantum information processing approaches.

Enhancing synergies between the EIC and Startup Europe

Code: 22418 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2022-STARTUPEU-01-01 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 01/06/2022 | End submission calls: 17/11/2022

The EIC is seeking to build synergies with the wider European startup ecosystem via a second wave of actions under the Commission’s Startup Europe initiative. The actions will act as a catalyst to fulfil the potential of European startups, in delivering market-ready applications and technology solutions that can contribute to the competitiveness and strategic autonomy of EU industry in key technology areas and value chains.

The European Social Innovation Impact Prize 2022

Code: 21269 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2022-SocialInnovationImpactPrize | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 12/04/2022 | End submission calls: 24/05/2022

The European Social Innovation Impact Prize 2022 aims at recognizing the efforts made by the semi-finalists of the European Social innovation competition challenge prize 2021 edition to evolve their original applications, develop the best impact methodology, and demonstrate the best results among all participants.

The European Social Innovation Challenge Prize 2022

Code: 20815 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2022-SocialInnovationChallengePrize | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 31/03/2022 | End submission calls: 17/05/2022

The European Social Innovation Competition- the Challenge Prize 2022 will focus on ‘the future of living, innovation for affordable, and sustainable housing districts’.

Facing Societal Challenges category

Code: 20243 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2022-InnovationProcurementAwardsPrize2 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 22/03/2022 | End submission calls: 22/06/2022

The European Innovation Procurement Awards aim to recognise public and private buyers, natural persons and those legal entities supporting these practices across Europe in their efforts to promote and stimulate innovation procurement and the innovative ways the solutions are procured. The Awards also aims to demonstrate how innovation procurement positively transforms the economy by not only creating new and sustainable markets, but also by tackling societal challenges such as climate change.

Procurement Leadership category

Code: 20241 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2022-InnovationProcurementAwardsPrize3 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 22/03/2022 | End submission calls: 22/06/2022

The European Innovation Procurement Awards aim to recognise public and private buyers, natural persons and those legal entities supporting these practices across Europe in their efforts to promote and stimulate innovation procurement and the innovative ways the solutions are procured. The Awards also aims to demonstrate how innovation procurement positively transforms the economy by not only creating new and sustainable markets, but also by tackling societal challenges such as climate change.

Innovation Procurement Strategy category

Code: 20238 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2022-InnovationProcurementAwardsPrize1 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 22/03/2022 | End submission calls: 22/06/2022

The European Innovation Procurement Awards aim to recognise public and private buyers, natural persons and those legal entities supporting these practices across Europe in their efforts to promote and stimulate innovation procurement and the innovative ways the solutions are procured. The Awards also aims to demonstrate how innovation procurement positively transforms the economy by not only creating new and sustainable markets, but also by tackling societal challenges such as climate change.

EU Prize for Rising Innovators

Code: 20215 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2022-RisingInnovatorsPrize | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 08/03/2022 | End submission calls: 18/08/2022

The EU Prize for Women Innovators celebrates the women entrepreneurs behind game-changing innovations. In doing so, the EU seeks to raise awareness of the need for more women innovators and create role models for women and girls everywhere.
The Prize is awarded to the women who have created the largest impact on the EU innovation ecosystem by transforming ideas into new and advanced products and services to benefit people and planet.

EU Prize for Women Innovators

Code: 20212 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2022-WomenInnovatorsPrize | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 08/03/2022 | End submission calls: 18/08/2022

The EU Prize for Women Innovators celebrates the women entrepreneurs behind game-changing innovations. In doing so, the EU seeks to raise awareness of the need for more women innovators and create role models for women and girls everywhere.
The Prize is awarded to the women who have created the largest impact on the EU innovation ecosystem by transforming ideas into new and advanced products and services to benefit people and planet.

EIC Pathfinder Open 2022

Code: 20189 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2022-PATHFINDEROPEN-01-01 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 01/03/2022 | End submission calls: 04/05/2022

The EIC Pathfinder Open is under the Innovation Council’s program and supports the development of the first phase of such future technologies (eg various activities at low Readiness Levels 1-4), based on pioneering science research on high-risk technology / high profit (including “deep-tech”).

Creating communities, stakeholder engagement and impact from EIC portfolios

Code: 19792 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2022-COMMUNITIES-01-01 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 05/04/2022 | End submission calls: 08/09/2022

This action aims to raise the visibility and impact of EIC portfolios of projects through novel and creative approaches for:

• stimulating synergies, inter-disciplinary exchanges and serendipitous effects among the projects in a thematic portfolio;
• building broader, diverse and gender-inclusive communities around each portfolio, well beyond the beneficiaries of the portfolio projects as such; and
• reaching out to relevant stakeholders that can further enhance the portfolio’s impacts.

Pilot European innovation gender and diversity index

Code: 19786 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2022-GENDER-01-01 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 05/04/2022 | End submission calls: 08/09/2022

In order to improve the availability of all talent, and particularly female talent, to the EIC portfolio of projects and companies and the EU innovation eco-system, and following the recommendations of the ScaleUp Europe report, the EIC seeks the development of an innovation gender and diversity index, providing consistent information to the EIC, other investors and funding bodies, market actors and policy makers across Europe.

The European Capital of Innovation Awards: (European Rising Innovative City category)

Code: 19724 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2022-iCapitalPrize-02 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 03/03/2022 | End submission calls: 30/06/2022

The European Capital of Innovation Awards will recognize the cities’ role as catalysers of the local innovation ecosystem and will stimulate new activities aimed at boosting game-changing innovation.

The European Capital of Innovation Awards (iCapital): (European Capital of Innovation category)

Code: 19719 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2022-iCapitalPrize-01 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 03/03/2022 | End submission calls: 30/06/2022

The European Capital of Innovation Awards will recognize the cities’ role as catalysers of the local innovation ecosystem and will stimulate new activities aimed at boosting game-changing innovation.

EIC Transition Challenge: Process and system integration of clean energy technologies

Code: 19644 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2022-TRANSITIONCHALLENGES-02 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 01/03/2022 | End submission calls: 04/05/2022

EIC Transition aims at maturing both your technology and business idea thus increasing its technology and market readiness. The expected outcomes of an EIC Transition project are
a) a technology that is demonstrated to be effective for its intended application and
b) a business model, its initial validation and a business plan for its development to market. It is also expected that the intellectual property generated by the EIC Transition project is formally protected in an adequate way.

EIC Transition Challenge: Green digital devices for the future

Code: 19642 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2022-TRANSITIONCHALLENGES-01 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 01/03/2022 | End submission calls: 04/05/2022

EIC Transition aims at maturing both your technology and business idea thus increasing its technology and market readiness. The expected outcomes of an EIC Transition project are
a) a technology that is demonstrated to be effective for its intended application and
b) a business model, its initial validation and a business plan for its development to market. It is also expected that the intellectual property generated by the EIC Transition project is formally protected in an adequate way.

EIC Transition Open 2022

Code: 19638 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2022-TRANSITIONOPEN-01 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 01/03/2022 | End submission calls: 04/05/2022

EIC Transition aims at maturing both your technology and business idea thus increasing its technology and market readiness. The expected outcomes of an EIC Transition project are
a) a technology that is demonstrated to be effective for its intended application and
b) a business model, its initial validation and a business plan for its development to market. It is also expected that the intellectual property generated by the EIC Transition project is formally protected in an adequate way.

EIC Transition Challenge: RNA-based therapies and diagnostics for complex or rare genetic diseases

Code: 19634 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2022-TRANSITIONCHALLENGES-03 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 01/03/2022 | End submission calls: 04/05/2022

EIC Transition aims at maturing both your technology and business idea thus increasing its technology and market readiness. The expected outcomes of an EIC Transition project are
a) a technology that is demonstrated to be effective for its intended application and
b) a business model, its initial validation and a business plan for its development to market. It is also expected that the intellectual property generated by the EIC Transition project is formally protected in an adequate way.

EIC Accelerator Challenge: Technologies for Open Strategic Autonomy

Code: 18693 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2022-ACCELERATORCHALLENGES-01 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 10/02/2022 | End submission calls: 23/03/2022

EIC Accelerator Challenge: Technologies for Open Strategic Autonomy
This EIC Accelerator Challenge identifies the set of key strategic areas and corresponding specific objectives for which highly innovative start-ups and SMEs are invited to propose new technologies, pioneering solutions and breakthrough innovations.

EIC Accelerator Challenge: Technologies for ‘Fit for 55’

Code: 18690 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2022-ACCELERATORCHALLENGES-02 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 10/02/2022 | End submission calls: 23/03/2022

EIC Accelerator Challenge: Technologies for ‘Fit for 55’
This EIC Accelerator Challenge aims at supporting the development and scaling up of technologies and boosting breakthrough innovations that strengthen the green transition. Breakthrough innovations for this Challenge should have the potential to create significant economic, competitiveness and employment benefits for Europe.

EIC Accelerator Open - 2022

Code: 18679 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2022-ACCELERATOROPEN-01 Grant | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 10/02/2022 | End submission calls: 23/03/2022

The EIC Accelerator Open call supports companies, principally start-ups and SMEs, to scale up high impact innovations with the potential to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.

Cooperation with EEN

Code: 13077 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2021-EEN-01-01 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 01/07/2021 | End submission calls: 06/01/2022

Deliver support actions to women innovators and widening countries applicants to EIC Accelerator as well as Seal of Excellence (SoE) holders through creating synergies with EU partners and programmes such as the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN).

Energy Harvesting and Storage Technologies

Code: 10697 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2021-TRANSITIONCHALLENGES-01-02 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 19/05/2021 | End submission calls: 22/09/2021

This is an EIC Transition Challenge call and it aims to have an impact on sustainability, using non critical and non-toxic raw materials and ensuring circular approaches and/or high degree of recyclability in the whole lifetime, and on financial and business level, preparing a detailed plan to exploitation supported by a sound business model and identifying any regulatory hurdles that need to be addressed.

Medical Technology and Devices: from Lab to Patient

Code: 10692 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2021-TRANSITIONCHALLENGES-01-01 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 19/05/2021 | End submission calls: 22/09/2021

This is an EIC Τransition Challenge call and it aiming to benefit patients and support clinicians.

EIC Transition Open 2021

Code: 10688 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2021-TRANSITIONOPEN-01 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 19/05/2021 | End submission calls: 22/09/2021

The EIC Transition Open aims at funding innovation activities that go beyond the experimental proof of principle in laboratory. It is twofold, supporting both the maturation and validation of a novel technology, and the development of a business case and business model towards the innovation’s future commercialisation.

Co-Creation with Public and Private Buyers of Innovations

Code: 9834 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2021-PUBLICBUY-01-01 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 01/07/2021 | End submission calls: 28/10/2021

The public and private sector grasp is aiming to offer new opportunities making use of new technologies or solutions, notably for innovation suppliers. Moreover, innovation procurement allows providing better and more efficient public services to face societal challenges.

The objective of this topic call, is to foster the aggregation of the demand at European level and pull the European market in order to give the possibility for innovative technologies to find potential first and large buyers.

Awareness Inside

Code: 4019 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-01 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 15/06/2021 | End submission calls: 27/10/2021

This is a Pathfinder challenge Call and it aims to promote awareness and consciousness in the system, elements that have been high on the Artificial Intelligence (AI) research agenda.

Emerging Technologies in Cell and Gene therapy

Code: 4017 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-03 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 15/06/2021 | End submission calls: 27/10/2021

This is a Pathfinder challenge Call and it aims at reinforcing critical components of the European cell and gene therapy community, such as focused research consortia, start-ups and spinoffs, in their ability to compete and sustain in this fiercely competitive field, full of challenges and obstacles all along the way from discovery to the manufacturing step. Proposals submitted to this call should effectively address exactly that, by proposing convincing technological solutions and/or new breakthrough concepts that go far beyond the current state-of-the-art.

Novel routes to green hydrogen production

Code: 4014 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-04 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 15/06/2021 | End submission calls: 27/10/2021

This is a Pathfinder challenge Call and it aims at developing novel processes and technologies to produce green H2, at different scales (from small to large) and capturing cross sectorial coupling and system integration opportunities, entirely based on:

• renewable sources and
• non-toxic, non-critical raw materials.

Engineered Living Materials

Code: 4010 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-05 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 15/06/2021 | End submission calls: 27/10/2021

This Pathfinder Challenge aims to overcome the technological challenges to harness the engineering potential of nature for materials’ production. The specific objectives of this call are to support the development of new technologies and platforms enabling the controlled production of made-on-demand living materials with multiple predictable dynamic functionalities, shapes and scales; and to build a community of researchers and innovators in ELMs. Reaching these objectives requires a research team that strongly integrates, among others and not exclusively, expertise in synthetic biology, materials engineering, control engineering, artificial intelligence, synthetic or engineered morphogenesis as well as ethical, legal and social aspects (ELSA).

Tools to measure and stimulate activity in Brain Tissue

Code: 4002 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-02 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 15/06/2021 | End submission calls: 27/10/2021

This is a Pathfinder challenge Call and it aims to discover new physical principles for activity monitoring (invasive or non-invasive) and activity modulation as well as to develop novel neurodevices that can be rapidly accepted by clinicians and patients. Thus, ultrasound, light (optogenetics or otherwise), mechanical stimulation, local release of neuroactive compounds, ionising radiation, etc could be explored.

Enhancing synergies between the EIC and Startup Europe

Code: 3580 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2021-STARTUPEU-01-0 | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 01/06/2021 | End submission calls: 18/11/2021

This Call focuses on building synergies with the wider European startup ecosystem via a new wave of actions under the Commission’s existing Startup Europe initiative. These actions will act as a catalyst to fulfil the potential of European startups, in delivering market-ready applications and technology solutions that can contribute to the competitiveness and strategic autonomy of EU industry in key technology areas and value chains.

The European Innovation Procurement Awards Prize - HORIZON-EIC-2021-InnovationProcurementAwardsPrize

Code: 3673 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2021 InnovationProcurementAwardsPrize   | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 14/04/2021 | End submission calls: 29/07/2021

This Call aims to recognise public and private buyers across Europe and Associated countries for their efforts to promote innovation procurement and the innovative ways that the solutions are procured. It also aims to emphasise the importance of close buyer–supplier cooperation in bringing the innovative solutions to market.

EIC Accelerator Challenges 2021-Green Deal innovations for the Economic Recovery

Code: 3694 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2021-ACCELERATORCHALLENGES-01   | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 08/04/2021 | End submission calls: 06/10/2021

The call will support the scale up of next generation low-carbon technologies and will support European companies willing to become global technology leaders able to transform the world. Game changing, breakthrough technologies combined with innovative business models, will be a key feature.

EIC Accelerator Challenges 2021- Strategic Digital and Health Technologies

Code: 3696 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2021-ACCELERATORCHALLENGES-01   | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 08/04/2021 | End submission calls: 06/10/2021

With this EIC Accelerator challenge, the European Innovation Council (EIC) seeks to support start- ups and SMEs (including small midcaps) that are developing strategic technologies or innovations based on these technologies, in order to be ahead of the evolution of these technologies, capture the competitive advantages and scale up high impact innovations with the potential to create new markets or disrupt existing ones in identified areas of Strategic Digital and Health Technologies.

EIC Accelerator Open 2021

Code: 3698 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2021-ACCELERATOROPEN-01   | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 08/04/2021 | End submission calls: 06/10/2021

The EIC Accelerator Open call supports companies, principally start-ups and SMEs, to scale up high impact innovations with the potential to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.

EIC Pathfinder Open 2021

Code: 3699 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDEROPEN-01   | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 08/04/2021 | End submission calls: 19/05/2021

The EIC Pathfinder Open is under the Programme of the European Innovation Council and provides support for innovative technologies that are at an early stage of development and have the potential to create new markets and / or meet global challenges.

EU Prize for Women Innovators

Code: 3806 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2021-WomenInnovatorsPrize   | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 18/03/2021 | End submission calls: 30/06/2021

The EU Prize for Women Innovators celebrates the women entrepreneurs behind game changing innovations. In doing so, the EU seeks to raise awareness of the need for more female innovators, and create role models for women and girls everywhere.

The European Capital of Innovation Awards (iCapital)

Code: 3808 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2021-iCapitalPrize   | Programme name: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 18/03/2021 | End submission calls: 15/07/2021

Every year, the European Union recognises cities with inclusive innovation ecosystems by awarding the recognition prize European Capital of Innovation Awards. The awards identify urban ecosystems that connect citizens, the public sector, academia, and business, and successfully translate their results into improved wellbeing of their citizens, while boosting game-changing innovation. The award is part of the European Union’s efforts to raise awareness about the benefits of urban innovation ‘with’ and ‘for’ citizens, supporting cities in addressing relevant societal challenges, and strengthening their urban resilience.