European Innovation Council Pavillion

The EIC is Europe's flagship innovation programme to identify, develop and scale up breakthrough technologies and game changing innovations.

It'has been established under the EU'Horizon Europe'programme, to support game changing innovations throughout the lifecycle from early stage research, to proof of concept, technology transfer, and the financing and scale up of start-ups and SMEs.

A unique feature of the EIC is that it provides funding for individual companies (mainly startups and SMEs) through both grants and investments. The investments currently take the form of direct equity or quasi-equity investments and are managed by the'EIC Fund.