With a total budget worth €167 million, the EIC (European Innovation Council) has selected 44 new projects from 436 evaluated proposals under the October 2022 EIC Pathfinder call::
- Each of the 44 awardees will receive on average grant of €3.8 million,
- 79.5% of the successful projects are coordinated by RTOs (Research and Technology Organizations),
- 16% of the participants are SMEs.
EIC Pathfinder October 2022 cut-off
From 436 eligible proposals, 44 became beneficiaries of the grant, which indicates a success rate of 10%.
Apart from the €3.8M grant, awardees will also receive access to tailored-made coaching under the EIC Business Acceleration Services and potential fast track access to the EIC Accelerator.
The awarded projects belong to different areas such as computing, AI (Artificial Intelligence), healthcare, or cleantech, but the most awarded area has been healthcare (43%).
9 out of the 44 approved applications have been submitted by companies as coordinators (that is, 20.5%), while the remaining 35 applications have been submitted by an RTO as coordinator, either by universities, institutes for research or research centers (79.5%).
Figure 1. Winners per coordinator type
In this call, the geographic focus of the selected projects spread across 18 countries. The top 3 countries with regard to the number of awarded proposals are Italy (18%), Spain (13.63%), and Germany (11.36%), while more than half of the countries only got one application successful:
Figure 2. Winners per country
The table below includes the full list of winners:
| Acronym | Title | Coordinating organisation | Country coordinator | Duration (months) |
| VanillaFlow | Artificial Intelligence Guided Development of Vanillin-based Flow Batteries | Ecolyte GmbH | AT | 36 |
| KERMIT | Kidney Disease Sweat sensor patch for Early diagnosis and Remote MonIToring | SILICON AUSTRIA LABS GMBH | AT | 36 |
| MI-DNA DISC | MIcrobe-synthesised DNA NAnostructures for DIsplay-controlled Storage Cartridges | AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GMBH | AT | 48 |
| Mi-Hy | Microbial Hydroponics: Circular Sustainable Electrobiosynthesis | KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN | BE | 48 |
| HEISINGBERG | Spatial Quantum Optical Annealer for Spin Hamiltonians | UBITECH LIMITED | CY | 48 |
| ECOMO | Electrobiocatalytic cascade for bulk reduction of CO2 to CO coupled to fermentative production of high value diamine monomers | TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN | DE | 36 |
| SULPHURREAL | An innovative thermochemical cycle based on solid sulphur for integrated long-term storage of solar thermal energy | DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUR LUFT – UND RAUMFAHRT EV | DE | 36 |
| CARDIOREPAIR | Comprehensive Analysis of RBM20-induced Dilated Cardiomyopathies using Omics Approaches and Repair Interventions | EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY | DE | 60 |
| VOCORDER | Towards the ultimate breath analysis -based continuous healthcare | ARGOS MESSTECHNIK GMBH | DE | 42 |
| MuSiC4Diabetes | Unobtrusive Continuous Multi-Metabolite Monitoring for a Physiological Care of Insulin-treated Diabetes | FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV | DE | 48 |
| AELECTRA | A new Electrochemical concept for Mid- to Long-term storage of EleCTrical energy in green liquid Ammonia | AARHUS UNIVERSITET | DK | 48 |
| SUPERVAL | SUstainable Photo-ElectRochemical VALorization of flue gases | FUNDACIO PRIVADA INSTITUT CATALA D’INVESTIGACIO QUIMICA | ES | 36 |
| CONFETI | Green valorization of CO2 and Nitrogen compounds for making fertilizers | UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA | ES | 36 |
| ICONIC | Integrated COnversion of NItrate and Carbonate streams | FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES | ES | 36 |
| PUSH-CCC | PUSHING THE LIMITS OF LARGE-SCALE ENERGY STORAGE: OPTIMIZED COMBINED CYCLE CAES | RIEGOSUR, S.A. | ES | 48 |
| HIPERZAB | High performing electrically rechargeable zinc-air batteries for sustainable mid-term energy storage | CENTRO DE INVESTIGACION COOPERATIVA DE ENERGIAS ALTERNATIVAS FUNDACION, CIC ENERGIGUNE FUNDAZIOA | ES | 48 |
| WOUNDSENS | A Paradigm Shift in Health Monitoring with Electrospun Enzymatic Neomaterials | EVOENZYME SL | ES | 48 |
| HYDROCOW | Hydrogen oxidizing bacteria engineered to valorize CO2 for whey protein production | SOLAR FOODS OY | FI | 48 |
| MIRACLE | MultiomIcs based Risk stratification of Atherosclerotic CardiovascuLar disEase | ITA-SUOMEN YLIOPISTO | FI | 48 |
| STIMULUS | Speckle Technology and Digital Biomarkers of Microvascular Function for Monitoring Cardiovascular Diseases | TURUN YLIOPISTO | FI | 48 |
| NaV1.5-CARED | NaV1.5 regulation fine-tuning as a therapy for cardiac Conduction and Arrhythmic diseases at Risk of suddEn Death | INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE | FR | 60 |
| HYPERION | Proof of concept of affordable and scalable DNA data storage by developing a writing technology based on enzymatic DNA synthesis with a very dense semiconductor integrated circuit (CMOS chip) | DNA SCRIPT SAS | FR | 48 |
| VeriQuB | Efficient Verification of Quantum computing architectures with Bosons | INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET AUTOMATIQUE | FR | 48 |
| DISCO | DNA-based Infrastructure for Storage and Computation | NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND MAYNOOTH | IE | 60 |
| DiDAX | Computational, Chemical and Biotechnology Solutions to Improved DNA Data Storage: from In-Product Information and Cryptography to Long-Term Archiving | TECHNION – ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | IL | 48 |
| Muspell | Medium to long term thermal energy storage system with embedded heat pumping capability | ACCADEMIA EUROPEA DI BOLZANO | IT | 48 |
| M-TES | Metallic phase change material-composites for Thermal Energy management based on Selfencapsulated microstructure | POLITECNICO DI MILANO | IT | 36 |
| IMPACT | Cardiogenomics meets Artificial Intelligence: a step forward in arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy diagnosis and treatment | UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA | IT | 36 |
| IV-Lab | In-vessel implantable smart sensing device for personalised medicine | FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA | IT | 48 |
| Q-ONE | Quantum Optical Networks based on Exciton-polaritons | CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE | IT | 48 |
| ARTEMIS | moleculAR maTerials for on-chip intEgrated quantuM lIght sourceS | CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE | IT | 48 |
| IQARO | SpIn-orbitronic QuAntum bits in Reconfigurable 2D-Oxides | CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE | IT | 48 |
| FERROMON | Ferrotransmons and Ferrogatemons for Scalable Superconducting Quantum Computers | UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II | IT | 24 |
| TargetMI | A Multi-Omics Approach for Novel Drug Targets, Biomarkers and Risk Algorithms for Myocardial Infarction | UNIVERSITA TA MALTA | MT | 60 |
| B-specific | B-specific: B-cell related gene and protein markers with prognostic and therapeutic value for CVD | UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN | NL | 48 |
| DCM-NEXT | Enabling advances in diagnosis, patient stratification and treatment for dilated cardiomyopathy patients and families. | ACADEMISCH MEDISCH CENTRUM BIJ DE UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM | NL | 48 |
| Breath-Sense | Miniaturized plasma emission spectroscopy-based breath analysis for unobtrusive at-home monitoring and prediction of COPD exacerbations | Respiro B.V | NL | 42 |
| QuKiT | Quantum bits with Kitaev Transmons | TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT | NL | 48 |
| ReZilient | Redox-mediated hybrid zinc-air flow batteries for more resilient integrated power systems | SINTEF ENERGI AS | NO | 48 |
| Blood2Power | Blood as energy source to power smart cardiac devices | I3S – INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACAO E INOVACAO EM SAUDE DA UNIVERSIDADE DO PORTO | PT | 36 |
| MINICOR | MILD Combustion with Nitrogen and Carbon Dioxide Reforming | LUNDS UNIVERSITET | SE | 60 |
| DURA-store | A dynamic, ultra-stable, random-access RNA retrieval database | KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET | SE | 60 |
| PEARL-DNA | Interoperable end-to-end platform of scalable and sustainable high-throughput technologies for DNA-based digital data storage | BIOSISTEMIKA, RAZISKAVE IN RAZVOJ DOO | SI | 36 |
| NEO | Next Generation Molecular Data Storage | IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE | UK | 36 |
2023 EIC Pathfinder Challenges call will open for applications on 20 June with a deadline of 18 October 2023, 17.00 CET.
