What can you expect as part of EIC Pathfinder?
With its Pathfinder programme the EIC supports the exploration of bold ideas for radically new technologies. It welcomes the high-risk / high gain and interdisciplinary cutting-edge science collaborations that underpin technological breakthroughs.
Pathfinder goes beyond what is already known. Visionary thinking can open up promising avenues towards powerful new technologies.
Applicants participating in EIC Pathfinder projects are typically visionary scientists and entrepreneurial researchers from universities, research organisations, start-ups, high-tech SMEs or industrial stakeholders interested in technological research and innovation.
Projects typically involve consortia of researchers and other partners from at least three different countries, but there are also opportunities for individual teams and small consortia (two partners).
Grants of up to 3 to 4 million euro support early stage development of future technologies (e.g. various activities at low Technology Readiness Levels 1-3), up to proof of concept. Pathfinder projects can also receive additional funding for testing the innovation potential of their research outputs.
EIC Work Programme 2023
The EIC Work Programme opens funding opportunities worth over €1.6 billion in 2023. For the EIC Pathfinder, €343million is available for multi-disciplinary research teams to undertake visionary research with the potential to lead to technology breakthroughs.
Funding opportunities
The EIC Pathfinder programme consists of a combination of both open and challenge driven funding.
Open Funding
EIC Pathfinder Open provides funding for projects in any field of science or technology, based on high-risk/high-gain science-towards-technology breakthrough interdisciplinary research.
The total indicative budget for this call is EUR 179.5 million.
Previous years challenges
2022 EIC Pathfinder Challenges
Carbon dioxide and nitrogen management and valorisation
Mid to long term and systems integrated energy storage
Cardiogenomics
Towards the healthcare continuum: technologies to support a radical shift from episodic to continuous healthcare
DNA-based digital data storage
Alternative approaches to quantum Information processing, communication, and sensing
2021 EIC Pathfinder Challenges
Awareness inside
Tools to measure & stimulate activity in brain tissue
Emerging technologies in cell & gene therapy
Novel routes to green hydrogen production
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