Strata has published the ultimate guide to the EIC Pathfinder 2025 with the most important novelties introduced by the European Commission. Let’s take a look at the most important points:
Overview of the EIC Pathfinder 2025
- Additional emphasis on possible solutions that applicants’ technological vision proposals should include,
- The expected outcomes of the EIC Pathfinder include to create high-quality scientific publications, ideally in open access journals; to present a compelling vision for their potential future impact; projects are expected to take steps to ensure their findings can be further developed and adopted in the future,
- Budget amounts to €262 million divided into it two main schemes,
- Four new topics for EIC Pathfinder challenges: Climate-resilient crop biotechnology, Generative AI for medical diagnosis, Autonomous robot collectives, and Waste-to-value technologies.
Budget
The total budget for 2025 under the Pathfinder Programme amounts to €262 million.
Non-reimbursable grants of €3 to €4 million to support early-stage development of future technologies (e.g. various activities at low TRL 1-3), up to proof of concept.
The EIC Pathfinder is divided into two schemes:
- EIC Pathfinder Open (€142 million): it is open to support projects in any field of
science, technology or application without predefined thematic priorities. - EIC Pathfinder Challenges (€120 million): it aims to support coherent portfolios
of projects within predefined thematic areas with the aim to achieve specific
objectives for each Challenge.
EIC Pathfinder Challenges 2025
During 2025, the EIC Pathfinder Challenges fall within the following topics:
Application process in a nutshell
Proposals must meet all the following essential characteristics in order to apply for the
EIC Pathfinder:
- High-risk/high-gain research approach and methodology, with concrete and plausible objectives,
- Concrete, novel and ambitious science-towardstechnology breakthrough, providing advancement towards the envisioned technology,
- Convincing long-term vision of a radically new technology that has the potential to have a transformative positive effect to our economy and society.
About the EIC Pathfinder
The European Innovation Council (EIC) Pathfinder programme is Europe’s flagship innovation programme that provides funding to breakthrough deep tech projects with a high degree of scientific and technological ambition and risk and potential to create new markets (TRL 1-4).
If you want to know more about the application process for the EIC Pathfinder 2025, learn about its novelties in detail, and access Strata’s unique offering, download our guide filling in this form:
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