2024 is coming to an end, and we are looking ahead to 2025.
New and exciting grant opportunities are starting to shape up for 2025, and we are here to
help you find the best ones for your Company!
Assaf Mendelson – APM Grants CEO
The Horizon Europe EIC 2025 Work Program
The European Innovation Council (EIC) has released the new 2025 work program.
The new program included over €1.29 billion to support development and marketing of innovative technologies – an increase of over 25% from the 2024 budget!
Here are the key highlights of the 2025 EIC program:
The funding and support available in 2025 is organized into four main funding schemes:
- The EIC Pathfinder for early stage (TRL1-4) breakthrough technologies:
- €3-4 million in grant (100% financing)
- Open Call with deadline on 21/5/2025 requiring small consortia (3-6 orgs).
- Challenges Call with deadline on 29/10/2025 can be smaller consortia (at least two or single). Challenges include Biotech for agriculture, GenAI to revolutionize medical diagnosis, Autonomous robot collectives in construction, and Waste-to-value devices.
- The EIC Transition to validate technologies (TRL 3-6) for winners of previous Horizon Europe calls:
- €2.5 million in grant
- Deadline on 17/9/2025
- The EIC Accelerator to support startup companies to bring their innovations to market and scale them up (TRL 6-9):
- €2.5 million in grant (70% financing) + up to €10 million in Equity financing
- 3 Step process with Step one continuous.
- Open and Challenges Step 2 deadlines on 12/3/2025 AND 1/10/2025
- Challenges include Acceleration of advanced material development, Biotech driven low emission food production, GenAI4EU, Innovative in-space servicing and operations and space-based robotics, and Breakthrough innovation for future mobility.
- The NEW EIC Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (STEP) Scale Up program for providing additional support to promising companies driving innovation in critical areas – helping them secure larger funding rounds:
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- Equity-based funding of €10-30 million
- Focus on EU strategic areas including Digital technologies, Clean and resource efficient technologies, and Biotechnologies.
We welcome you to join our upcoming Webinar on the EIC 2025 program and the opportunities it presents. The free Webinar will be held on 2 December 2024 at 11:00AM. A notice for signing up will be sent out in the coming week. During the Webinar we will explain at greater depth the details of each program.
For more information on how you can benefit from these new opportunities, you can also contact us directly at info@apmgrants.com