NCP@UEFISCDI
The European Innovation Council (EIC) promotes breakthrough innovation with scale-up potential at the global level.
It focuses mainly on breakthrough, deep tech and disruptive innovation, targeting especially market-creating innovation.
Areas of intervention:
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Pathfinder funding: for advanced research, supporting early stage development of future and emerging breakthrough, market-creating and/or deep tech technologies.
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Transition funding: to help researchers and innovators develop the pathway to commercial development for promising research results.
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Accelerator funding: to support individual SMEs, startups and small mid-caps to bridge the financing gap between late stages of research activities and market take-up, to effectively deploy breakthrough, market-creating innovation and scale-up companies where the market does not provide viable financing additional activities such as prizes and fellowships, and business added-value services.
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STEP Scale-Up: Scaling up strategic technologies. Catalyzing major funding rounds to scale up breakthrough innovations in the fields of digital, deep tech, clean tech & biotech.
Calls EIC 2025
EIC Accelerator 2025 - Short application
Open: 29 Oct. 2024
Deadline: 18 Dec. 2025
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Open: 22 Apr. 2025
Deadline: 17 Sep. 2025
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Open: 26 Nov. 2024
Deadline: 16 Dec. 2025
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Biotech for Climate Resilient Crops and Plant-Based Biomanufacturing
(HORIZON-EIC-2025-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-01)
Open: 24 July 2025
Deadline: 29 Oct. 2025
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Generative-AI based Agents to Revolutionize Medical Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer
(HORIZON-EIC-2025-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-02)
Open: 24 July 2025
Deadline: 29 Oct. 2025
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(HORIZON-EIC-2025-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-03)
Open: 24 July 2025
Deadline: 29 Oct. 2025
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Waste-to-value devices - circular production of renewable fuels, chemicals and materials
(HORIZON-EIC-2025-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-04)
Open: 24 July 2025
Deadline: 29 Oct. 2025
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Open: 17 June 2025
Deadline: 25 Sep. 2025
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Open: 17 June 2025
Deadline: 25 Sep. 2025
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Open: 01 Apr. 2025
Deadline: 02 Sep. 2025
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Support for the Ukrainian tech innovators
Open: 12 Aug. 2025
Deadline: 26 Nov. 2025
EIC Resources
Guides, support materials, reports by NCP and from the EC
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- European Innovation Council (EIC) Work Programme 2025
- EIC Pathfinder 2025 factsheet (NCP)
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Driving Innovation and Commercialization of Research through EIC & EIE (NCP)
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Deep-tech technologies:
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EIC 2023 – Call Results (NCP)