Project Access 2 EIC

Access2EIC is a 7-year coordination and support action which builds upon the foundations laid by previous EIC support networks and in line with the new Horizon Europe Framework Programme

Overall, the network will aim at:

Improve professionalisation and skills of NCPs across Europe which in turn will help to simplify access to Horizon Europe calls, lowering the entry barriers for newcomers, and raise the average quality of proposals submitted particularly for women entrepreneurs and in widening countries.

Identify and share good practices, promote trans-national cooperation and raise the general standard of support to programme applicants, taking into consideration the novelties under Horizon Europe, the third pillar “Innovative Europe” and the various stakeholders within the EIC-EIE.

ACCESS2EIC aims to achieve the following specific objectives: 

Improve NCP capacities to gather and provide systemic knowledge (NCP Curriculum) to clients across different EIC-EIE calls (WP2)

Identify and share good practices, key success factors for EIC Pathfinder, Transition and Accelerator proposal preparation based on the experiences of previously funded projects (WP3).

Identify and share good practices, key success factors for EIC Pathfinder, Transition and Accelerator proposal preparation based on the experiences of previously funded projects (WP4)

Identify most relevant novelties in the new generation of financial instruments (EIC Fund, InvestEU) and communicate about them; foster the use of financial instruments to complete the EU funding continuum for high potential businesses actors participating or emerging from EIC calls, and to develop a better understanding of VC co-investments with the EIC-Fund. (WP5)

Enhancing the outreach of this Network through strategic information, communication and dissemination activities; to provide support in establishing complementarities and capacity building between the EIC Network and stakeholders in the EIE (WP6)

Partners

ACCESS2EIC is the network of 15 partners of who share the common purpose to work as a network of EIC NCPs supporting national applicants and raising the quality of applications submitted under the EIC 2021-2027.

1. AGENZIA PER LA PROMOZIONE DELLA RICERCA EUROPEA (APRE), Italy
2. CENTRO PARA EL DESARROLLO TECNOLOGICO INDUSTRIAL (CDTI), Spain
3. OSTERREICHISCHE FORSCHUNGSFORDERUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (FFG), Austria
4. INSTYTUT PODSTAWOWYCH PROBLEMOW TECHNIKI POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK (IPPT PAN), Poland
5. NATIONAL TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION AUTHORITY (IIA), Israel
6. DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUER LUFT – UND RAUMFAHRT EV (DLR), Germany
7. Innovasjon Norge (IN), Norway
8. BPIFRANCE FINANCEMENT SA (BPIFRANCE), France
9. IDRYMA TECHNOLOGIAS KAI EREVNAS (FORTH), Greece
10. ENTERPRISE IRELAND (EI), Ireland
11. ANI – AGENCIA NACIONAL DE INOVACAO, SA (ANI), Portugal
12. GIS-TRANSFERCENTER FOUNDATION (GIS-TC), Bulgaria
13. CENTRUM VEDECKO TECHNICKYCH INFORMACII SLOVENSKEJ REPUBLIKY (CVTISR), Slovakia
14. NEMZETI KUTATASI FEJLESZTESI ES INNOVACIOS HIVATAL (NKFIH), Hungary
15. TECHNOLOGICKE CENTRUM AKADEMIE VED CESKE REPUBLIKY (TC CAS), Czechia

16. MINISTERE DE L’EINSEGNEMENT SUPERIEUR, DE LA RECHERCE ET DE L’INNOVATION (MESRI), FRANCE