The Enterprise Europe Network is joining forces with the European Innovation Council!

Posted 20 December, 2022

How to make EU innovation support more efficient, improve the capacity of your SME to apply to the EIC, and help you as Seal of Excellence (SoE) holder finance your project? The answer is EEN2EIC (Enterprise Europe Network to European Innovation Council)!

As a potential EIC applicant, you will receive the help of the EEN hand-in-hand with the EIC to boost the quality of your project. The specific focus of this cooperation is in:

Women-led innovative companies

As far as women’s participation in the EIC is concerned, of those awarded funding in 2020, over 20% had a female CEO, pointing towards an increasing number of women-led startups in the programme.

EIC Accelerator Seal of Excellence (SoE) holder

Widening countries & Third countries associated to Horizon Europe

Given the overall picture with regard to participation and success rates over the course of the past years since the launch of the EIC Pilot in October 2019, EEN2EIC aims to address the gap between widening countries and non-widening in order to improve the quality of proposals in general.

Discover all activities and find out more info here

Are you a woman-led innovative company or an EIC Accelerator SoE holder based in the Brussels Capital Region? Interested in applying to the EIC? Enterprise Europe Brussels can help you ! Reach out @ bene@hub.brussels.

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