Information about calls open for submission under the European Innovation Ecosystems
Horizon Europe Office in Ukraine informs about 2 calls open for submission under the European Innovation Ecosystems, Pillar III Innovative Europe of Horizon Europe.
- Expanding Academia-Enterprise Collaborations HORIZON-EIE-2024-CONNECT-02-01.
ExpectedOutcome:
Projects results are expected to contribute to four (4) or more of the following expected outcomes:
- Improved integration of research institutions, Higher Education Institutions, vocational schools, and similar organisations into Europe’s innovation ecosystems by establishing better links with start-ups and start-up networks, accelerators and incubators, business angels and investor communities;
- Improved flows of knowledge, skills, and talents between educational institutions and other innovation ecosystem actors at various levels of development, including in the deep tech field in line with the New European Innovation Agenda;
- Improved skills of all involved ecosystem actors to increase innovation potential, inter-sectoral mobility, and market uptake of new technologies; Targeted are skills necessary and responsive to innovation and labour market needs on digital, green, and entrepreneurial skills, networking skills, risk taking, and in particular in the deep tech field;
- Improved connections of educational institutions to high-quality remote testing, validation, and up-scaling of innovations delivered by research and technology infrastructures across the EU;
- Improved competence of students, graduates, researchers, and workforce to launch, run, and lead successful and profitable start-ups, including in the deep tech field;
- Enhanced availability of local talents equipped with skills to support business acceleration and digitalisation;
- Enhanced entrepreneurial activity in developing innovation ecosystems and their upscaling and interconnectedness across the EU supported by citizens and local initiatives in order to build innovative solutions to current and future challenges;
- Increased engagement and connectedness with other ecosystem actors (e.g. other educational institutions, Technology Transfer Offices, Research and Technology Organisations, local and regional enterprises, private companies, start-ups, early-stage companies, accelerators, incubators, etc.) within and between regions;
- Increased youth (self) employability and gender balance in collaborations.
Details: http://surl.li/tozraq
- Mutual learning and support scheme for national and regional innovation programmes HORIZON-EIE-2024-CONNECT-02-02.
ExpectedOutcome:
Projects results are expected to contribute to at least four (4) of the following expected outcomes:
- Reduced fragmentation of innovation ecosystems and national/regional start-up support schemes;
- Increased cooperation, learning, and exchange of knowledge between national and regional innovation support public authorities and agencies in order to ensure that their innovation funding schemes respond to the requirements of the Plug-in certification for step 2 of the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator;
- Improved ongoing and/or set up of new national and regional innovation funding programmes whose criteria are fit to pass the certification for the Plug-in scheme;
- The use, requirements, and access to the Plug-in scheme are well communicated to the innovation ecosystem stakeholders, particularly start-ups and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs);
- A more homogeneous, equal, and aligned approach in the evaluation of projects under national and regional support schemes;
- Enhanced cooperation among national and regional public authorities and agencies and SMEs and start-ups, particularly between innovation ‘leaders’/’strong’ innovators and ‘moderate’/’emerging’ innovator countries;
- Stable pipeline of high-quality projects to the EIC Accelerator Step 2.
Details: http://surl.li/izwlkn