Project Access 2 EIC

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.

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)