Scope The development of efficient, sustainable and flexible energy systems is a key challenge for Europe’s energy decarbonisation and a corner stone of Europe’s 2050 climate-neutrality goal, set out in the European Green Deal. To achieve such viable energy system, a particular support should be given to solutions aimed at increasing lifetime and decrease the […]
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HORIZON EUROPE: Engineered Living Materials
Scope Engineered living materials (ELMs) are composed, either entirely or partly, of living cells. ELMs entirely composed of living cells are called biological ELMs and they self-assemble via a bottom-up process – e.g. synthetic morphogenesis for organoids’ production. ELMs only partly composed of living cells are called hybrid living materials (HLMs) and are built with […]
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HORIZON EUROPE: Safe-and sustainable-by-design metallic coatings and engineered surfaces
Expected Outcome New metal coating systems, produced without, and free of, toxic substances (e.g. hexavalent Chromium), HREEs (heavy rare earth elements), LREEs (light rare earth elements), and PGMs (platinum group metals). A major challenge is the accumulation of metallic materials over the long term in the environment where they tend to have adverse reactions with […]
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Horizon Europe: The European Capital of Innovation Awards
Expected Impact The traditional city innovation ecosystem is opening up to new models of innovation engaging citizens. An increasing number of cities are acting as test beds for innovation and run citizens-driven initiatives to find solutions for their relevant societal challenges.The public domain is particularly challenged with finding effective ways to ensure the mainstreaming of […]
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Horizon Europe: Green Deal innovations for the Economic Recovery
Scope The EIC Accelerator Challenges supports companies (principally start-ups and SMEs) to scale up high impact innovations with the potential to create new markets or disrupt existing ones in identified areas of strategic relevance. Like EIC Accelerator Open (Section II.3 of the EIC Work Programme 2021), the EIC Accelerator Challenges focus on innovations building on […]
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Horizon Europe: Energy Harvesting and Storage Technologies
Scope Innovative technologies for efficient, low cost, sustainable, compact and flexible energy harvesting, conversion and storage are crucial to reach the Green Deal targets of decarbonised energy systems while achieving the transition to secure and affordable energy. EU-funded early-stage research on innovative energy technologies is uncovering unique opportunities for systems integration of advanced and sustainable […]
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HORIZON: Procurement Leadership Award
Expected Impact Public and private procurement represent an untapped potential to stimulate the demand for innovation. The public and private sectors could offer new opportunities for suppliers, and provide better, more efficient services. Therefore, innovation procurement would boost transforming research into innovative solutions targeted at societal needs, and support innovative companies to commercialise their ideas. […]
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HORIZON EUROPE: Enhancing synergies between the EIC and Startup Europe
Scope To support scaling up of companies in Europe, the EIC is seeking to build synergies with the wider European startup ecosystem via a new wave of actions under the Commission’s existing Startup Europe initiative. The actions will act as a catalyst to fulfil the potential of European startups, in delivering market-ready applications and technology solutions that […]
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Horizon Europe: Strategic Digital and Health Technologies
Scope The EIC Accelerator Challenges supports companies (principally start-ups and SMEs) to scale up high impact innovations with the potential to create new markets or disrupt existing ones in identified areas of strategic relevance. Like EIC Accelerator Open (Section II.3 of the EIC Work Programme 2021), the EIC Accelerator Challenges focus on innovations building on […]
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