GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

Horizon Europe is the European Union (EU) funding programme for the period 2021 – 2027, which targets the sectors of research and innovation. The programme’s budget is around € 95.5 billion, of which € 5.4 billion is from NextGenerationEU to stimulate recovery and strengthen the EU’s resilience in the future, and € 4.5 billion is additional aid.

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The EIC considers proposals with a requested EU contribution between €500 000 and €2 500 000 as appropriate.

The projects funded through EIC Transition are eligible to receive EIC Booster grants up to €50 000 to undertake complementary activities to explore potential pathways to commercialisation or for portfolio activities Annex 5 to submit an EIC Accelerator proposal.

In addition to funding, projects will receive tailor-made access to a wide range of Business Acceleration Services and matchmaking events.

For the EIC Transition, you can apply as one of the following eligible entities:

• A single legal entity established in a Member State or an Associated Country (‘mono-beneficiary’) if you are a start-up, SME or research performing organisation (university, research or technology organisation, including teams, individual Principal Investigators and inventors in such institutions who intend to form a spinout company). Larger companies (i.e. which do not qualify as SMEs) are not eligible to apply as a single legal entity; or
• A small consortium of two independent legal entities from two different Member States or Associated Countries; or
• A consortium of minimum three and maximum five independent legal entities (‘multi-beneficiary’) following standard rules i.e. must include at least one legal entity established in a Member State and at least two other independent legal entities, each established in different Member States or Associated Countries.

The standard admissibility and eligibility conditions are detailed in Annex 2 and information on eligible Associated Countries in Annex 3 of the EIC Work Programme 2023.

For the EIC Transition, proposal must build on results (at least experimental proof of concept TRL 3, ideally technology validated in the lab TRL 4) already achieved within an eligible project. EIC Transition is restricted to proposals based on results generated by the following eligible projects: 

• EIC Pathfinder projects (including projects funded under EIC pilot Pathfinder, Horizon 2020 FET-Open, FET-Proactive) and FET Flagships calls (including ERANET calls under the FET Work Programme).
• European Research Council Proof of Concept projects.
• European Defence Fund (EDF), including the Preparatory Action on Defence Research, research projects, but only for proposals which are exclusively focused on civil applications (including dual use).