The EEA and Norway Grants for the 2021-2028 funding period allocate €3.3 billion to support Europe's green transition, democracy, and social resilience across 15 programme areas. This funding is structured around three overarching priorities:
European Green Transition: Focusing on environmental protection, renewable energy, and climate change mitigation.
Democracy, Rule of Law, and Human...
The European Innovation Council's 2025 Work Programme has been live for a while now and opens funding opportunities worth over €1.4 billion for strategic technologies and scaling up companies.
🚀 We are introducing theInnovation Fund- one of the world’s largest funding programmes for thedemonstration of innovative low-carbon technologies.
Directly managed by the European Commission, it has a budget 💰 of€4.6 billion to boost net-zero technologies, electric vehicle battery cell manufacturing and renewable hydrogen.
This initiative is designed to support innovative investment...
We are analysing the European Innovation Council’s “EIC Accelerator/ EIC Fund” programme to see if it is successful in bringing in more private investors for the companies involved in its funding scheme. This research investigates the publicly available funding history...
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This research focuses on the top Venture Capital firms located across several European regions: France & Benelux, Nordics, DACH, Southern Europe, UK & Ireland, CEE, and Israel.
For each investor/VC, we identified what investment stage they specialise in (pre-seed, seed, series A) and the number of companies in their portfolio. From their investment profile, we filtered through all the companies...
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We are constantly analysing if the EIC Accelerator/ EIC Fund - EC's flagship innovation funding programme succeeds in identifying European outliers and overseen game-changing innovators OR it supports companies already funded by private investors. This research looks into the...
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The EIC Board released a statement, aiming to double the participation of widening countries (Central-Eastern Europe) in EIC programmes from below 8% to at least 15%.
EIC's New Participation Targets for Widening Countries. The EIC Board has set an ambitious target: to bolster the participation of widening countries in EIC instruments to a commendable 15%, a marked rise from the existing...
The EIC Accelerator supports companies (principally SMEs, including start-ups, but also small mid-caps with up to 500 employees) to scale up high impact innovations with the potential to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.
The total budget for the EIC Accelerator in 2024 is €675 million, with €375 million allocated for the Open Call, €300 million for the six Challenge calls. The budget...
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€250+ million in the form of grants, equity investments or blended finance were awarded to CEE-based firms between 2014-2022. Nearly 500 CEE-based firms successfully applied for funding from Europe's flagship EIC Accelerator programme (previously called SME instrument under Horizon 2020).
The EIC Accelerator programme helps high-risk, innovative SMEs and start-ups willing to develop and...
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