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Innovation

Cultural Heritage Innovation Grants 2026

Single Market Programme. Cascade funding. CR.EU.IN.HERITAGE: Cultural Heritage Innovation Grants – STEP 2. Cross-sectorial and cross-border EU INnovation partnership for cultural HERITAGE value chain (CR.EU.IN.HERITAGE).

Perform Europe 2026–2028

Creative Europe Programme. Cascade funding. Open Call of Perform Europe 2026–2028. Perform Europe supports partnership proposals which reinvent the way we tour across borders.

From lab to market

Horizon Europe. Coordination and Support Actions. From lab to market: Strengthening the role of Technology Transfer Offices in bringing knowledge to the market. Call for proposals HORIZON-EIE-2026-03-CONNECT-01.

Batteries and Mobility 2026

Horizon Europe. Research and Innovation Actions. Batteries and Mobility. Calls for proposals: Integrated Production and Product Development for Next-Generation Lithium-based Batteries for Mobility (BATT4EU and Made in Europe Partnerships). HORIZON-CL5-2026-10-D2-03 Flagship-pilot: large-scale demonstrations of CCAM (CCAM Partnership). HORIZON-CL5-2026-10-D6-01 Geopolitical competition and socioeconomic resilience in CCAM: an innovation and policy roadmap for EU leadership (CCAM Partnership). […]

Proposal Programme for agile and rapid defence innovation

Proposal for a Regulation on establishing the Programme for agile and rapid defence innovation (AGILE).    

EU companies increase research and development investments in key sectors

EU companies drove strong research and development (R&D) growth in energy, health, aerospace and defence in 2024, according to the 2025 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard published today. While the report highlights Europe's leadership in key industries, it also underscores the intense pressure from global competition, particularly in the information and Communication technologies (ICT). In […]

European Innovation Scoreboard 2025

The EU's innovation performance has made steady long–term progress, increasing by 12.6 percentage points since 2018. This latest edition of the European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS) reveals significant shifts in national innovation performance. Thirteen Member States improved their score since last year, with Malta (+7.6 points) and Luxembourg (+5 points) seeing the largest gains. Since 2018, […]

EIF uses NextGenerationEU funds to mobilise €2.5 billion of new financing for Spanish small businesses

The EIF has announced the signature of guarantee agreements with Andbank (via Actyus Growth Finance), BBVA, CaixaBank, EBN Banco, ICF, Inveready, Kutxabank, MicroBank, Santander, Tresmares and Unicaja (via Seneca Direct Lending). The guarantees are being made possible by a contribution from the Regional Resilience Fund financed by NextGenerationEU, together with own funds from the EIF. […]

Winners of the 2025 EU Prize for Women Innovators

At the European Innovation Council (EIC) Summit taking place in Brussels today, the Commission announced the winners and runners-up of the 11th European Prize for Women Innovators. The prize is awarded to women from across the EU and countries associated to Horizon Europe, who have founded a successful company and brought innovation to the market. […]

EU invests €4.8 billion of emissions trading revenues in innovative net-zero projects

Today, the Commission has selected 85 innovative net-zero projects to receive €4.8 billion in grants from the Innovation Fund, helping to put cutting-edge clean technologies into action across Europe. For the first time, projects of different scales (large, medium and small, alongside pilots) and with a cleantech manufacturing focus are awarded under the 2023 call […]

Commission joins forces with venture capital to support deep tech innovation in Europe

Today, the Commission has launched a Trusted Investors Network bringing together a group of investors ready to co-invest in innovative deep-tech companies in Europe together with the EU. The Union's investment comes from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Fund, which is part of the EU research and innovation programme Horizon Europe. The first group comprises […]

Independent experts call for increased investment to strengthen Europe's research and innovation leadership

More excellent research, impactful innovation and technology scale-ups are needed to make Europe more globally competitive, secure and sustainable. These are among the twelve expert recommendations presented today to the Commission to strengthen Horizon Europe, the EU research and innovation programme, and its successor. The recommendations have been drafted by an independent group of 15 […]
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