Events

The next on site EIC NCP Training + Meet & Exchange organised by Access2EIC network in Stockholm on the 31/05 – 01/06 where the next “unofficial” EIC Summit will be on June 1.2. during a Sweden Precidency event. The activities will be distributed in two days. The first day will be dedicated to the EIC Accelerator submission process, with coaches and jury members and the second day on the Study visit to Company within the Deep Tech Conference.    Below you can find some information about the previsional agenda on the two days:   Training 31st May 2023   h.13.00 – 17.00 (tbc) Title: EIC Accelerator…

This workshop was organized in the framework of the Lightroom project, in collaboration with the Access2EIC project. The Lightroom project is developing digital training tools and workshops on the EIC Accelerator platform. This first workshop will focus on the knowledge framework built as the foundation of the Lightroom training tools and actions, and incorporated in a learning platform accessible to NCPs. Agenda 9.00 – 9.30 Arrival and welcome of participants 9.30 – 9.45 Introduction ●  Lightroom – general context and objectives ●  Workshop – working method 9.45 – 10.00 Outcomes of the first NCP survey in the framework of Lightroom…

On 28th March, the European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) is organizing an informative webinar to learn more about the 9th edition of the European Capital of Innovation Awards (iCapital). Applications are open and the deadline for submissions is 29 June 2023. During this informative session, you will discover its main novelties, especially its eligibility and award criteria. Moreover, you will discover the details of the category ‘The European Rising Innovative City’ that targets towns and cities with a population of more than 50,000 and less than 250,000 inhabitants, and of ‘The European Capital of Innovation’ category open for cities with more…

 The European Innovation Council (EIC) is Europe’s most ambitious innovation flagship initiative, with € 10.1 billion earmarked to help Europe’s most talented innovators quickly and efficiently scale ground-breaking, game-changing innovations. EICs are a single point of contact for ground-breaking innovators, providing support from idea to market, from early-stage advanced research to commercialisation and scaling-up. The EIC Infoday in Sofia will focus in particular on the EIC Accelerator Scheme, which supports start-ups and SMEs to develop and scale up deep-tech and disruptive innovative products or services at an advanced technological level (TRL 6-9). The EIC supports Europe’s most talented innovators through…

On 16 February 2023, EISMEA is organising an informative webinar to learn more about the European Innovation Ecosystems (EIE) Work Programme 2023-2024. The EIE Work Programme aims to create more connected, inclusive and efficient innovation ecosystems that support the scaling of companies and spur innovation to address important challenges.  This particular informative session will focus about four Calls in the CONNECT destination.    Open calls with deadline for submission on 23 March 2023: ·         HORIZON-EIE-2023-CONNECT-01-01 – Organisation of Women TechEU 2023-2024 ·         HORIZON-EIE-2023-CONNECT-01-02 – Preparatory action for setting up joint programmes among innovation ecosystems actors   Forthcoming calls opening on 08 June 2023 and with deadline for submission on 21…

The training will take place in Sofia Tech Park the 17th February from 9.30 to 13.00, in collaboration with EEN2EIC project “EIC Support & Service by A2EIC and EEN2EIC”. The workshop is organized in the framework of the EIC Infoday in Bulgaria that will take place the day before, the 16th February from 9.00 to 17.00, in the same place.   Who can attend?   NCPs and EEN. Participation of NCPs from widening countries are strongly recommended.   Date & Venue   17th February from 9.30 to 13.00   Sofia Tech Park, 111, Tsarigradsko Shosse Blvd Laboratory Building, 1st  floor room 3, Sofia   Costs   Reimbursing costs of travel…

EIC invite you for a series of information days on EIC Challenges, organised by the EIC Programme Managers. To know more about the EIC Challenges Information days click here: https://eic.ec.europa.eu/eic-challenges-information-days_en     

The European Innovation Council (EIC)  and the European Medicine Agency (EMA) invite you to attend the EIC-EMA Info Day on January 31, 2023 to hear about the wide range of support services provided by EMA to researchers and SMEs active in research and innovation in the pharmaceutical and med-tech sectors.   During the online Info Day, you will learn on how to engage with EMA at different development milestones, and on the range of EMA support services including those targeting gene and cell therapies, and orphan medicines. You will also hear about the benefits to apply to the Innovation Task Force (ITF) services, PRIME…

 More than 2500 participants followed the European Innovation Council online info day, which took place on 13 December 2022. Prospective applicants learned about the main novelties of the EIC Work Programme 2023, but also about the results achieved until today. In addition, speakers will provide an overview about three main funding schemes provided by EIC: • EIC Pathfinder: for advanced research on breakthrough or game-changing technologies; • EIC Transition: for transforming research results into innovation opportunities; • EIC Accelerator: for individual companies to develop and scale up breakthrough innovations with high risk and high impact. All this information is extremely…

Webinar on the “Association status of CH and UK and other countries in the focus of the EIC” Recording available below this link Below you can find the presentation: Input-UK-Innovate UK UKRI Input-other-countries-FFG Input-CH-Euresearch        

EISMEA – ACCESS2EIC: EIC NCP Training Workshop – EIC Work Programme 2023  1st December 2022 09:00-15:00   In view of the launch of the new EIC Work Programme for 2023, this NCP Training in collaboration with EISMEA explores the novelties of the EIC Work Programme. Agenda EIC NCP Workshop 2023 Presentation: NCP Worshop WP23_final_v1 (1)  

The European Innovation Council (EIC) Transition Unit invites you to a webinar dedicated to the 2022 upcoming EIC Transition Challenges calls, with next deadline for submission of proposals on 4 May 2022. During the webinar, you will have the chance to hear from the Programme Managers for each of the Challenges, but more importantly, to ask any questions you may have. The EIC Transition call will fund innovation activities that go beyond the experimental proof of principle in laboratory. It supports both the maturation and the validation of your novel technology in the lab and in relevant application environments AND…

  The European Innovation Council, with a budget of €10.1 billion (2021-2027), is already playing an important role in the European innovation ecosystem. It supports researchers and entrepreneurs throughout their journey from the idea to the market and nurturing deep tech innovations. During the Info Day EIC experts will talk about the main novelties of the EIC Work Programme 2022. In addition it will be given an overview about three main funding schemes provided by EIC: ‘EIC Pathfinder’ for advanced research on breakthrough or game-changing technologies; ‘EIC Transition’ for transforming research results into innovation opportunities; ‘EIC Accelerator’ for individual companies to develop and scale up…

EISMEA – ACCESS2EIC: EIC NCP Training Workshop – EIC Work Programme 2022  9 February 2022 09:00-15:00   In view of the launch of the new EIC Work Programme for 2022, this NCP Training in collaboration with EISMEA explores the novelties of the EIC Work Programme. Agenda is available here: Agenda Presentations can be found here: NCP Training Presentation 1 and NCP Training Presentation 2 Video recording of the session can be found here: YouTube Accelerator NCP workshop questions Questions Transition NCP wshop  

“The EIC AI Platform: the approach for dealing with complaints & rebuttals”  9 September 2021 10:00 We are pleased to invite you to a webinar on the results, next steps and developments on the AI tool & the approach for dealing with complaints/ rebuttals. The webinar will be interactive and there will be an opportunity to ask questions. The webinar will take place on Thursday 9th  September at 10:00. Please RSVP by Wednesday 7th by nominating up to 3 persons from your country. Further meeting information and link will be provided to registered participants in due course. Agenda available here…

EISMEA, in collaboration with Access2EIC will be organising a webinar on the EIC Accelerator Business Plan on Friday, June 11 from 14:00-16:30 CET (Brussels time).  The webinar will be organised with EISMEA and Innoloop in conjunction with Access2EIC to present the Business Plan based on feedback and questions received.  The floor will be open to questions on the Business Plan but also on other parts of the AI Platform. The webinar will take place on June 11 at 14:00 (CET). Please RSVP by June 9 at 17.00CET by nominating up to 3 persons from your country.  Further meeting information and…

We are pleased to invite you to a webinar on preparing the full application for EIC Accelerator Step 2.  The webinar will be organised with EISMEA and Innloop to provide an overview of the different elements in each of the three Step 2 modules (ideation, development and go-to-market). The webinar will be interactive and there will be an opportunity to ask questions.  However, in order to prepare the most efficient presentation, we encourage you to send your questions in advance to the following functional mailbox: support@eic.eismea.eu.  Please note that we will take the opportunity during the webinar to answer all questions…

  Attention: The maximum number of participants will be 40, so we invite everyone to register, but in case we exceed the maximum number, we need to do a selection according the need to support EIC Accelerator companies and a geographical distribution so that every country has at least one NCP in the training. The participants need to take part in every of the 4 parts, as they are closely linked together.  As this course includes also a train the trainer setup, it will enable the participants to train the other NCPs in their country. In addition, all the trainings…

We have the pleasure to invite you to an online workshop on the new EIC Accelerator evaluation process and AI-based IT platform under Horizon Europe to be held on  13 April from 10h-12h (Brussels time).  As you know, the EIC artificial intelligence-based IT platform is one of the main novelties of  the application process for the EIC Accelerator Programme. Aim of the workshop is to provide participants with practical information on the application and evaluation process as well as on the functionalities of the new AI-based IT platform.   The workshop  would  be  an opportunity for EIC NCPs to get an overview…

                The  online training on the new EIC Work Programme 2021 under Horizon Europe, organised by European Commission together with the Access2EIC network took place on 11th and 12th March 2021. The aim of the training, dedicated to participants from Member State delegates and NCPs, was to provide to key stakeholders and practitioners with an overview of the new EIC support under Horizon Europe. Download the material here: Introduction Pathfinder Project Managers & Pathfinder Challenges  Transition to Innovation Activities  Intellectual Property Ad-hoc Grants & Fast-Track Intro Accelerator Accelerator BAS EIC Prizes AI Tool Access2EIC Recorded…

We are inviting you to join the webinar “EIC PROGRAMME MANAGERS – VISIONS AND PATHS UNDER THE EUROPEAN INNOVATION COUNCIL” jointly organized by #FETFX project and the #Access2EIC NCP Network that will be held  on Friday 26th March 2020 via the platform Webex Events from 10:00 to 12:30. It will be a unique opportunity to guide the EIC R&I community to the new main concept introduced by the fully-fledged EIC: the EIC projects portfolio and its proactive management principle, mainly managed by the EIC Programme Managers. The objective of the webinar is to guide the EIC R&I community to the…

  18th December 2020  14:00-15:30 (Webex Event) Moderator: Francesco Kienzle (CH) Panellists- FET NCPs: Edina Nemeth (HU), Stefano Pozzi Mucelli (LU), Ruben Wassink (NL), Ola Ihnatowicz (PL) An informal panel discussion has been organized by FET NCPs in the framework of Access2EIC. The following topics will be covered. EIC WP Structure- Pathfinder Open and Challenges-what’s new. Evaluation process. Transition activities. FET related activities in Horizon Europe,  Flagships- what next with existing ones? It will be the occasion to share insights on the new EIC Pathfinder programme in the forthcoming Horizon Europe. There will be also a Q&A session so please start collecting…

December 16th 2020 14.00 – 17.00 Speakers: APRE, CDTI Target: FET, SME, ARF NCPs  Access2EIC recently released a toolbox based on businesses coming out from research in order to help researchers, spin offs and start ups to frame better their way to market. The methodology and the three tools developed are particularly focused to the FET/Pathfinder communities who are going now to approach the “EIC Transition to Innovation” calls in Horizon Europe, which seems to be the place where proposers would need to work in the conceptualization of their business. Aim of this web training is to better describe how this frame…

  18th December 2020  14:00-15:30 (Webex Event) Moderator: Francesco Kienzle (CH) Panellists- FET NCPs: Edina Nemeth (HU), Stefano Pozzi Mucelli (LU), Ruben Wassink (NL), Ola Ihnatowicz (PL) An informal panel discussion has been organized by FET NCPs in the framework of Access2EIC. The following topics will be covered. EIC WP Structure- Pathfinder Open and Challenges-what’s new. Evaluation process. Transition activities. FET related activities in Horizon Europe,  Flagships- what next with existing ones? It will be the occasion to share insights on the new EIC Pathfinder programme in the forthcoming Horizon Europe. There will be also a Q&A session so please start collecting…

16th September 2020 10.30 – 12.30 We are inviting you to join the Access2EIC on line Info-day on the topic “Exploitation opportunities in EIC Pathfinder FET” The session (10:30-12:30), organized by the Access2EIC – EIC National Contact Point Network, in collaboration with the European Commission, will focus on the exploitation opportunities under European Innovation Council  Pathfinder programme with the aim to turn promising results from FET-funded projects into genuine technological or societal breakthrough and disruptive innovations. The event will focus in particular on: The presentation of the latest FET Innovation LaunchPad Call for proposals (last cut off on October 14) sharing of…

25 June 2020  10.30-13.00 CET Target SME and ARF NCPs  Duration: 150′ Under the Enhanced EIC Accelerator pilot, the first agreements with the EIC Fund are now to be concluded. In this sense the Access2EIC NCP Network is organizing a Webinar focused on the EIC Accelerator Equity and Due Diligence Process in in Collaboration with the European Commission, European Investment Bank and Armilar Ventures Partners.  This Webinar aims to provide clarifications on the key points on the investment cycle to the National Contact Points, in order to better advise their clients at national level. We will have the opportunity to…

29 April 2020  15.00 – 16:30  Target SME and ARF NCPs Duration: 90’ In view of the upcoming EIC Accelerator Pilot calls this Access2EIC web session aims to provide all the necessary clarification for the National Contact Points in order to better advise their clients at national level. During this session the NCPs will have the chance to interact with  the Commission and go into details about the  ​novelties of the upcoming calls as well as on the current state of play of the blended finance part of the Instrument. The enhanced EIC Pilot supports top-class innovators, entrepreneurs, small companies and scientists with bright…

22 April 2020 09:30-12:30 We are inviting you to join an Info-day Webinar on the topic “European Innovation Council Pilot: EIC Pathfinder and Accelerator 2020 calls”. As several novelties have been introduced within the EIC Pilot Work Programme 2020 which reflect the new European Commission’s leadership priorities, the European Commission in conjunction with the Access2EIC National Contact Point Network is inviting you to join this webinar dedicated to the European Innovation Council Pilot 2020 calls for proposals. The objective of the event is to provide up-to-date information on the content of the last Pathfinder and Accelerator calls under Horizon 2020…

We are inviting you to join an infoday webinar on the topic “European Innovation Council Pilot: How to succeed in the EIC Pathfinder and Accelerator 2020 calls”. As several novelties have been introduced into the EIC Pilot Work Programme 2020 which reflect the new European Commission leadership priorities, the European Commission in conjunction with the Access2EIC National Contact Point Network organizes this webinar dedicated to the European Innovation Council Pilot 2020 calls for proposals. The objective of the event is to provide up-to-date information on the content of the last Pathfinder and Accelerator calls under Horizon 2020 to potential applicants as well as information on support…