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Horizon Europe is the main Research and Innovation Funding Programme of the European Commission.

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Horizon 2020 is the previous Funding Programme. There are no longer calls, but projects can run until 2024.

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EIC Pilot

The European Innovation Council (EIC) pilot supports researchers and innovators developing breakthrough innovations with the potential to create new markets and boost jobs, growth and prosperity in Europe. It will pilot two new schemes: EIC Pathfinder and EIC Accelerator

Your NCP contacts for this programme

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Magali Parent

magali.parent@vlaio.be

+32 2 432 42 42

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Margot Beereboom

margot.beereboom@fwo.be

+32 2 550 15 76

About this programme

The European Innovation Council (EIC) pilot supports researchers and innovators developing breakthrough innovations with the potential to create new markets and boost jobs, growth and prosperity in Europe. It will pilot two new schemes.

I. The EIC Pathfinder pilot (grant only)

  • FET-Open Early-stage - Science and technology research by interdisciplinary consortia exploring visionary ideas for radically new future technologies that challenge current paradigms and venture into the unknown. Open to research into any area of technology, it aims to attract new, high-potential research and innovation player.
  • FET-Proactive - Cutting edge-high-risk/ high reward research and innovation projects that aim to firmly establish the future potential of a new and promising demonstrate a new technological paradigm within a pre-defined scope.

II. The EIC Accelerator pilot (grant only and blended finance1)

SME Instrument Close-to-market and projects with a potential to scale up of a single SME established in EU Member States or Horizon 2020 associated countries.

 

Other Calls

Fast Track to Innovation (FTI) - Close-to-market projects of consortia with three to five entities from at least three different EU Member States or Horizon 2020 associated countries. Industry must participate. Interdisciplinary approaches encouraged.

 

Other actions

Horizon Prizes - Horizon Prizes boost breakthrough innovation by fostering solutions to challenges which bring major benefits to society.

Support Actions - Help to optimise the impact of EU investment in EIC innovators and innovations; they contribute to building an EIC community and a vision underpinning a possible future EIC.

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Testimonial

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ERC grants for UGent professor Lieven Eeckhout

Professor Lieven Eeckhout’s main research interests include computer architecture and the hardware/software interface with a specific emphasis on performance evaluation and modeling, and dynamic resource management.

Professor Eeckhout is the recipient of a European Research Council (ERC) Starting grant, Advanced grant and three Proof of Concept grants. Two of his former PhD students founded in 2013 CoScale, a spin-off in data center monitoring, which was acquired by New Relic.