Since 2015, the European Commission has been awarding the Innovation Radar Prize to the best EU-funded innovators. This year, 4 prize winners have been recognised for their promising achievements out of a total of 12 finalists. The overall prize went to biotechnology solution provider MetGen and the sustainability technology prize to C2CA Technology.
The next call for proposals will be launched on 18 November 2021. Through this call, the EIT’s HEI Initiative aims to help higher education institutions to design activities that will improve their entrepreneurial and innovation capacity. Detailed information on the call text will not be available until 18 November 2021.
The European Commission's European Innovation Council has selected 65 innovative start-ups and SMEs to receive €360 million of funding for breakthrough innovations. Each company will receive a combination of grant financing and equity investment of up to €17 million to develop and scale up their ground-breaking innovations in healthcare, digital technologies, energy, biotechnology, space and other.
The fifth call of the Smart cluster is now open with a deadline for submitting the project idea (PO) on 24 January 2022. This call is to get the "cluster seal", and will have 2 stages, one of screening of ideas (Project Outline Submission) for 24/01/2022. In a second stage, those who pass the screening, will submit the FPP (Full Project Proposal) by 03/05/2022. The cluster seal will be obtained on 21/06/2022.
Project proposals should be in line with the NGI vision and the topic of trustworthiness and technical assurances. They should have research and development as their primary objective and should be complete and concise (no longer than two pages for the main application). Proposals should have a clear European dimension. Deadline: 1 December 2021
The EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK Awards recognise local authorities that have excelled in raising awareness of sustainable mobility throughout EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK (16-22 September). The Awards are given in two categories: one for smaller municipalities with a population under 100,000 and one for larger municipalities with a population over 100,000.
The Department of Citizen Relations has launched a call for aid, amounting to 20,000 euros, aimed both at entities in Navarra that participate in the Europe + Cerca 2021 itinerary, as well as those that are executing preparatory actions aimed at presenting themselves to calls for EU programs.
The "Europa + Cerca" Program is promoted by the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) of AIN and the University of Navarra in collaboration with the Directorate General for External Action and the Delegation of the Government of Navarra in Brussels. The program includes specific training to improve the proposals of SMEs to the different calls for aid to R&D of the European Union and includes a visit to official institutions (European Commission) as well as meetings with Belgian entities, clusters and organizations and institutions of interest.
The Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda(link is external) (Mitma) in Spain has opened its first call to distribute €1 billion of European funds from the national Recovery and Resiliency Plan among city councils. The main objective of this first support programme is to accelerate the decarbonisation of cities, to improve air quality and to mitigate noise.
Deadlines: Registration - 19/11, Draft proposal 19/11, Final proposal 18/03/22. Although this call is primarily addressed to members of the EIT Raw Materials, any entity could participate in a Consortium on the condition of being a member before May 2022.
The Eurostars-3 programme, aimed at funding market-oriented transnational projects led by the socalled innovative SMEs (SMEs with ambition to collaborate internationally in R&D), has been announced. deadline: 4th November at 14.00 CET
The European Commission has prepared some guidelines to make better know of the five topics that are include in this year’s call for the EIC Pathfinder Challwnges 2021, within Pilar III of Horizon Europe.