European Innovation Council (EIC)
The EIC aims at identifying and supporting breakthrough technologies and game-changing innovations with the potential to scale up internationally and eventually become market leaders. It focuses specifically on promising start-ups and SMEs.
Your NCP contacts for this programme
Magali Parent
magali.parent@vlaio.be
+32 2 432 42 42
Ria De Breucker
Ria.debreucker@vlaio.be
+32 2 553 13 77
About this programme
It supports all stages of innovation from R&D on the scientific underpinnings of breakthrough technologies, to validation and demonstration of breakthrough technologies and innovations to meet real world needs, to the development and scaling up of start-ups and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
The funding and support consists of three main funding schemes:
- the EIC Pathfinder for advanced research to develop the scientific basis to underpin breakthrough technologies
- the EIC Transition to validate technologies and develop business plans for specific applications
- the EIC Accelerator to support companies (SMEs, start-ups, spin-outs and in exceptional cases small mid-caps) to bring their innovations to market and scale up.
In each funding scheme, the direct financial support to innovators is augmented with access to a range of Business Acceleration Services. The three main EIC instruments offer both bottom-up calls and calls with predefined thematic priorities (challenges). In addition to these instruments there are the EIC Prizes, which reward innovative solutions offered by companies/organisations for pre-defined societal challenges or specific target audiences, such as women innovators, innovative cities, public or private procurers or social innovation.
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Innovation Fund National Infoday 2025
Work Programme & Calls
Infosheets
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- EIC Work Programme 2024 Info Session recording
- EIC Work Programme 2025 Info Session recording
- EIC Work Programme 2023 Info Session recording
- EIC Work Programme 2022 Info Session recording
- EIC NCP network
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) - European Innovation Council (EIC)
- Recordings/ppt of EIC accelerator and EIC pathfinder infosessions-NCP Flanders - May 2021
- EC DG Research and Innovation - EU Prize for Women Innovators
- EC - EIC Prices
- EIC Community
- EC - about European Innovation Council
- EC - European Innovation Council (EIC)
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Testimonial
ERC grants awarded to professor Inez Germeys
Professor Inez Germeys leads the Center for Contextual Psychiatry at KU Leuven, which is a large multi-disciplinary research group focusing on the interaction between the person and the environment in the development of psychopathology. She has received a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant (INTERACT) and Proof of Concept grant (IMPACT). With these grants professor Germeys and her team researched a new mobile self-management therapy for patients with a psychotic disorder. The Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in Daily Life (ACT-DL) was further developed for the clinical environment. In line with that the Horizon 2020 IMMERSE project aims to thoroughly evaluate strategies, processes, and outcomes of implementing a digital mobile mental health solution.
