European Innovation Council (EIC)

Under Horizon Europe the first European Innovation Council (EIC) work program will be implemented. The EIC aims at identifying and supporting breakthrough technologies and game-changing innovations with the potential to scale up internationally and become market leaders. 70% of the entire budget is ear-marked for SMEs, which shows the focus of EIC on SMEs.

At Catalyze, we have obtained funding for EIC for a wide range of companies, legal entities and academic groups.

EIC programme

3 subprogrammes form the basis of the EIC program:

Another novelty in this program is the addition of open topic calls, without a focus on a specific challenge as in the challenge-driven calls. The challenge-driven approach provides funding to address specific technological and innovation breakthroughs. The challenges focus on EU priorities for transitioning to a green, digital and healthy society, as well as the overall strategic planning for Horizon Europe. Each instrument is divided over Open calls and Challenge-driven calls.