The EIC Pathfinder 2025 Open call has recently announced the winning projects. The EIC has selected 44 new winners to receive €140 million in funding.
The European Innovation Council (EIC) Pathfinder programme provides grants to researchers to take forward breakthrough deep tech projects with a high degree of scientific and technological ambition and risk and potential to create a new market (TRL1-4):
- 44 applications were chosen among 2087 eligible proposals (2.1% success rate),
- Each project will receive €3.7 million on average,
- Participants predominantly come from higher education institutions (48%), private organisations (27%), and research organisations (25%).
- Winners spread across 16 countries, and Germany has been the most awarded country (7 projects, 15.9%).
Awarded projects per country in the EIC Pathfinder 2025 Open
Participants come from 16 countries. The top 4 countries with regard to the number of awarded proposals are Germany (roughly 20%), Italy (13%), and the Netherlands, Spain and France (11% each):
Figure 1. Awarded projects per country.
Awarded projects per area in the EIC Pathfinder 2025 Open
For the EIC Pathfinder Open, selected projects are classified into four different challenges: Health, AI & Quantum, Computing, and Environment.
For this specific call, Health has been the most awarded area (22 projects, 50% success rate), followed by Computing and Environment (8 projects each, 18%), and AI & Quantum (6 projects, 14%):
Figure 2. Awarded projects per area.
The table below shows the full list of winners:
| Acronym | Title | Area | Coordinator | Duration (months) | |
| Legal Name | Country | ||||
| NIRFUS | Intravascular near-infrared fluorescence and ultrasound coronary imaging | Health | TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCH | DE | 36 |
| Fiber3D | Multi-Process Strategy To Embed Optical Fibers In 3D-Printed Metal Parts | Computing | CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS | FR | 48 |
| THz-Skin | THz-FIR Colour Imaging of Skin Condition Based on Analysis of Its Thermal Emission | Health | ITA-SUOMEN YLIOPISTO | FI | 48 |
| FAST | Functionalised Activated Sapphire Thin-disk (FAST) | Computing | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON | UK | 36 |
| ULTRAPURE | INTEGRATED SOURCES FOR ULTRAPURE OSCILLATIONS FROMACOUSTICAL TO LIGHT WAVES | Computing | TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAETBRAUNSCHWEIG | DE | 36 |
| QuPIX | Quantum-enhanced Perovskite crystal scintillators for Innovative X-ray photon-counting in medical imaging and other applications (QuPIX) | Health | TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT | NL | 48 |
| HEARTCORE | HUMAN-BASED ADVANCED CARDIAC SAFETY PLATFORM INTEGRATING MULTILAYER CARDIAC ORGANOIDS, MESH MEA, AND AI-BASED PROARRHYTHMIA RISK ASSESSMENT | Health | MEDIZINISCHE HOCHSCHULE HANNOVER | DE | 36 |
| EUROPA | lasEr-driven Universal Radio-isOtope Production Accelerator | Health | INSTITUT MINES-TELECOM | FR | 48 |
| VIBRANT | Vasculature instructed by bioprinting via volumetric and intravital multiphotontechnologies | Health | UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUMUTRECHT | NL | 48 |
| NanoFlash | Cell-targeted Biophotonic Nanoparticles for Vision Restoration | Health | THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OFCAMBRIDGE | UK | 48 |
| AI-RITMIA | AI-assisted peRsonalized heart-on-chIp as advanced diagnostic Tool for clinical significance assessMent ofInherited cArdiomyopathies | AI & Quantum | POLITECNICO DI MILANO | IT | 36 |
| SuperICQ | Superconducting Integrated Circuits for Scalable Quantum Systems | AI & Quantum | TEKNOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUSVTT OY | FI | 48 |
| PROPANTHERA | Retrograde atrophy induction: a paradigm shift in prostate and pancreatic cancer prevention and therapy. | Health | FUNDACION SECTOR PUBLICO ESTATAL CENTRO NACIONAL INVESTIGACIONES ONCOLOGICASCARLOS III | ES | 36 |
| HoloMorPh | Holographic surface Morphing for ready-to-use planar Photonic components | Computing | UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLIFEDERICO II | IT | 48 |
| INTEGRAL | INTEGRATED PHOTONICS FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING AND LASERSTOWARDS THE NEXT GENERATION OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY | Health | MUNSTER TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY | IE | 36 |
| PHOTONIX | PhotoniX: PHOTOconversion for Novel Integrated X-systems | Health | THE CYPRUS INSTITUTE | CY | 36 |
| OutMARCH | OutMARCH-ing cancer: Towards innovative membrane protein degradermodalities for cancer treatment | Health | UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUMUTRECHT | NL | 48 |
| DRIVIN CAR | DRIVIN’CAR: Developing Robust In VIvo Nanomedicine-based ChimericAntigen Receptor technology | Health | TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEITEINDHOVEN | NL | 48 |
| FeROS | Prodrugs oF antiparasitic RedOx-active compoundS | Health | CENTRE NATIONAL DE LARECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS | FR | 48 |
| NEQIOS | Neuromorphic Quantum-Inspired Optimization and Simulation | AI & Quantum | UNIVERSITEIT TWENTE | NL | 60 |
| VacciNEXT | Next generation therapeutic vaccine for targeted cancer treatment | Health | BASINNOV LIFE SCIENCESUNIPESSOAL LDA | PT | 36 |
| Superspin | Remote Entanglement Between a Superconducting and a Spin Qubit | AI & Quantum | KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FUERTECHNOLOGIE | DE | 36 |
| MECH-QUBIT | MECHanical QUBIT With Enhanced Coherence | AI & Quantum | FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE CIENCIESFOTONIQUES | ES | 48 |
| HeartVision | Illuminating new paths in heart failure therapy | Health | UNIVERSITETET I TROMSOE -NORGES ARKTISKE UNIVERSITET | NO | 48 |
| CHEM-SCAN | HIGH-RESOLUTION FUNCTIONAL OPTICAL IMAGING OFCHEMORESISTANCE | Health | UNIVERSITAET BIELEFELD | DE | 48 |
| GAIA | Bridging Sustainability and Ubiquity in Next-Gen IoT | Environment | FUNDACIO PER A LA UNIVERSITATOBERTA DE CATALUNYA | ES | 36 |
| ULYSSES | Ultrasensitive Luminescence-based Yeast Sensors for Specific Early Cancer Sensing | Health | DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES IN LIFE SCIENCE S.R.L.Società Benefit | IT | 36 |
| TICON | Topological semimetals for ultra-efficient electrical interconnects | Computing | IBM RESEARCH GMBH | CH | 48 |
| SUSHI-PACK | SUSTAINABLE AND HIGH PERFORMANCE PACKAGING FROM SEAWEED AND USED COOKING OILS | Environment | GreenOil srl | IT | 48 |
| ALERT | MULTIANALYTE DIGITAL SENSING WITH QR-CODE MICRONEEDLES FOR MINIMALLY INVASIVE EARLY DIAGNOSIS OF ALZHEIMER | Health | UNIVERSITA DI PISA | IT | 36 |
| CEREBRIS | Multi AI-Agents to Revolutionise the Management of Neurological Diseases | Health | UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND,DUBLIN | IE | 48 |
| STAY2ME | Silicon Through holes by Accumulative interplaY of 2 Micron short pulsEs | Computing | CENTRE NATIONAL DE LARECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS | FR | 48 |
| AMFactory | Engineering bioreactor mass production of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi forEuropean farming | Environment | UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DELOUVAIN | BE | 36 |
| SWIRFlex-DT | Advanced Organic Semiconductor Materials for Flexible SWIR Photodetection | Computing | ETHNIKO IDRYMA EREVNON | EL | 42 |
| GREENDIGO | Biosolutions for Denim Dyeing within the Planetary Boundaries | Environment | NordicBlue | DK | 48 |
| bLOSSom | Self-Sustained Photonic Systems through Autonomous LOSS Harvesting | Environment | FUNDACION CENTRO TECNOLOXICO DE TELECOMUNICACIONS DE GALICIA | ES | 48 |
| RamanProSeq | Plasmonic nanopore technologies for automatic manipulation and Raman spectroscopic sequencing of single proteins | Health | OULUN YLIOPISTO | FI | 36 |
| CarboNcare | CARBON-EFFICIENT BIOPRODUCTION OF CHEMICALS FROM METHANOL | Environment | CHARITE – UNIVERSITAETSMEDIZINBERLIN | DE | 48 |
| PHINDER | Picosecond-scale Photonic Heterogeneous Integrated Neuromorphic Detector | Computing | LULEA TEKNISKA UNIVERSITET | SE | 48 |
| ReWoW | Revolutionizing the Waste of Waste: A new Bioeconomy-based business fordigestate | Environment | UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DEBARCELONA | ES | 36 |
| Q-Vibe | Quantum-enhanced Vibrational microscopy | Environment | POLITECNICO DI MILANO | IT | 42 |
| REMMIA | REcycling perManent Magnets: an Innovative Approach | Health | CENTRE NATIONAL DE LARECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS | FR | 48 |
| SECURE | SYNTHETIC GENE CIRCUITS FOR CLOSED-LOOP THERAPY | Health | RUPRECHT-KARLS-UNIVERSITAETHEIDELBERG | DE | 36 |
| AMSwitch | An Altermagnet Switch | AI & Quantum | CHALMERS TEKNISKA HOGSKOLA AB | SE | 48 |
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