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European Innovation Council (EIC) · Grant · Needs partners · 45 eligible countries
€4M
Up to, per project
8-10 weeks
Typical prep time
Rolling
Continuously open
What this call funds
This grant supports very early stage collaborative research on breakthrough deep tech science, often before a company even exists or during its earliest R&D work. It funds exploratory, high risk scientific and technological research rather than product commercialisation. The goal is to validate radically new ideas that could later become deep tech ventures.
Who wins this
A small multi country consortium of research organisations, universities or deep tech innovators working together on early stage breakthrough science across Europe and associated countries.
The call in detail
- Stage
- Pre-seed · Seed
- Sectors
- Deep Tech
- Eligible countries (45)
- Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Israel, Türkiye, Ukraine, Serbia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Georgia, Armenia, Moldova, Tunisia, New Zealand
- Partners
- Required. You apply as a consortium: at least 3 partners, from 3 countries.
- Technology readiness
- TRL 1 to 4
- Also required
- Typically requires a small multi country research consortium working on early stage deep tech research.
- Funding type
- grant
- Typical prep time
- 8-10 weeks
Could you win this call?
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Who has won calls like this
Real projects funded under calls like this
NOAH · UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT · Netherlands · 5 partners
€4M
2027
BRICKS · FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA · Italy · 5 partners
€3.8M
2026
SCALAR · UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART · Germany · 4 partners
€4M
2026
COBRAS · UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART · Germany · 3 partners
€4M
2026
GLIOGEN-X · Siena Imaging s.r.l. · Italy · 5 partners
€4M
2026
SPECTRA · CHALMERS TEKNISKA HOGSKOLA AB · Sweden · 6 partners
€4M
2026
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