The European Innovation Council has chosen 45 new disruptive projects to receive €138 million in grants. The funding will be provided through the EIC Pathfinder Open:
- 45 applications were chosen among 1110 evaluated submissions, leading to a success rate of roughly 4% (7% lower compared to the 2023 call).
- Winners spread across 25 countries, with the highest number coming from Italy, Spain and Austria.
- Participants mostly come from higher education (46%) and research organisations (22%) and SMEs (22% of participants).
Successful projects belong to a wide range of areas such as health (21 projects, 46%), artificial intelligence (4 projects, 9%), computing (8 projects, 17%), environment (5 projects, 11%), and energy (8 projects, 17%).
It is worth noting that 90% of winning projects are led by RTOs while only 10% by companies (39 institutions and 4 private companies).
Participants from 25 countries are involved in the awarded projects, showing a strong international profile of consortia. The top 4 countries with regard to the number of awarded proposals are Italy (15%), Spain (11%), Germany and France (6% each):
The table below includes the full list of winners:
| Acronym | Title | Coordinating organisation | Country coordinator | Duration (months) |
| CIELO | Cavity-Integrated Electro-Optics: Measuring, Converting and Manipulating Microwaves with Light | INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AUSTRIA | AT | 36 |
| ESOHISTO | Hybrid endoscope for esophageal in vivo histology and histochemistry | MEDIZINISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN | AT | 48 |
| QOSiLICIOUS | Quantum-Optic Silicon as a Commodity: Extending the Trust Continuum till the Edge of ICT Networks | AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GMBH | AT | 48 |
| QuSPARC | Quantum technology with a spin-photon architecture for thousand-qubit chipsets at telecom wavelengths | OESTERREICHISCHE AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN | AT | 36 |
| TriFluorium | Tribo-Reactor for fluorine circularity by urban mining | AC2T RESEARCH GMBH | AT | 48 |
| BiCeps | Bioinspired cellular actuators | VYSOKE UCENI TECHNICKE V BRNE | CZ | 48 |
| BioSinFin | Bioinspired Singlet Fission Photon Multipliers | TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN | DE | 48 |
| BoneOscopy | Live Cell Spectroscopy Analysis for Personalised Particle Radiation Therapy of Metastatic Bone Cancer | DEUTSCHES KREBSFORSCHUNGSZENTRUM HEIDELBERG | DE | 60 |
| LongDip | Multivariate optoacoustic sensor for longitudinal diabetes monitoring | HELMHOLTZ ZENTRUM MUENCHEN DEUTSCHES FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM FUER GESUNDHEIT UND UMWELT GMBH | DE | 48 |
| Heat2Battery | All in One: Harvesting of waste heat with solid thermal battery | DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET | DK | 48 |
| SafeTouch | SELF-DISINFECTING, SMART MICROFILMS FOR HEALTHCARE & COMMUNITY ACQUIRED INFECTIONS | ETHNICON METSOVION POLYTECHNION | EL | 36 |
| TorPropel | Toroidal Propellers for Efficient and Sustainable Aviation | PANEPISTIMIO IOANNINON | EL | 36 |
| EcoSentinel | Ecological Sentinel | FUNDACIO PRIVADA UNIVERSITAT I TECNOLOGIA | ES | 36 |
| NanoBiCar | NanoBiCar: A novel immunotherapy for infectious diseases | UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA | ES | 36 |
| SONOCRAFT | High-throughput ultrasound-based volumetric 3D printing for tissue engineering | UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA | ES | 48 |
| SYNFEED | Synthetic proteins for sustainable animal feeding | UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA | ES | 48 |
| WATERsense | Ultrasensitive nanoplatform enabling on-site and continuous water pollutant detection based on analyte fingerprinting. | UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA | ES | 48 |
| EQUSPACE | ENABLING NEW QUANTUM FRONTIERS WITH SPIN ACOUSTICS IN SILICON | JYVASKYLAN YLIOPISTO | FI | 48 |
| RE-IMAGINE-CROPS | RE-IMAGINE-CROPS – A real-time mobile multimodal positron emission tomography and multiphoton endoscopic technology for REalistic in-field quantitative IMAGING of CROPS | EURO-BIOIMAGING ERIC | FI | 36 |
| ELEQUANT | Entangled Flying Electron Quantum Technology | CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS | FR | 48 |
| PELVITRACK | PELVIc Floor Evaluation live TRACKing – Real-time prediction of perineal trauma | INSTITUT MINES-TELECOM | FR | 48 |
| SpinDataCom | SPIN-V(E)CSELS FOR ULTRAFAST AND HIGHLY-EFFICIENT SPACE AND EARTH DATA COMMUNICATIONS | CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS | FR | 42 |
| QCEED | Quantum Dot coupling engineering (and dynamic spin decoupling/deep nuclei cooling): 2-dimensional cluster state generation for quantum information processing | UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK – NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK | IE | 48 |
| DDG-MRI | DDG-MRI for cancer detection – A novel medical imaging approach that correlates to FDG-PET without ionising radiation | HADASSAH MEDICAL ORGANIZATION | IL | 36 |
| BactEradiX | Advanced nanomaterials to target genomic and Z-DNA for bacterial biofilm eradication | ALMA MATER STUDIORUM – UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA | IT | 48 |
| BANTER | Bimodal Ammonia Nuclear Thermal and Electric Rocket | UNIVERSITA DI PISA | IT | 48 |
| ERMES | INFORMATION TRANSFER BETWEEN MEDICAL DOCTORS AND IMPLANTED MEDICAL DEVICES VIA ARTIFICIAL MOLECULAR COMMUNICATION | UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI CATANIA | IT | 36 |
| LEAF | SeLf-powered self-rEshaping Autarkic skin For wireless motes – LEAF | FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA | IT | 36 |
| MULTISCOPE | MULTIMODE NONLINEAR FIBER BASED ENDOSCOPIC IMAGING AND TREATMENT | UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA | IT | 36 |
| MUSMET | Musical Metaverse made in Europe: an innovation lab for musicians and audiences of the future | UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TRENTO | IT | 48 |
| Spectra- BREAST | Multimodal Hypersprectal Imaging and Raman Spectroscopy for Intraoperative Assessment of Breast Tumor Resection Margins | ISTITUTI CLINICI SCIENTIFICI MAUGERI SOCIETA’ PER AZIONI SOCIETA’ BENEFIT | IT | 48 |
| THREAD | Thermite reactions assisting satellite demise | POLITECNICO DI MILANO | IT | 42 |
| VALERIA | Van der Waals materials for integrated nanophotonics | UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA | IT | 48 |
| VirHoX | Hacking the ribosome to map virus-host associations | UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA | IT | 48 |
| iNSIGHT | INTELLIGENT ENCAPSULATION AND SCREENING PLATFORM FOR PRECISION DELIVERY OF PROBIOTICS TO IMPROVE GUT HEALTH | WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY | NL | 48 |
| ReverseStroke | Restoring movement lost to stroke | ONWARD MEDICAL NV | NL | 60 |
| ELLIPTIC | ExpLoring Lithium tantalate on Insulator PhoTonic Integrated Circuits | NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU | NO | 36 |
| OPTIPATH | ADAPTIVE OPTICAL METASURFACES FOR REAL-TIME, LABEL-FREE AND NON-DESTRUCTIVE 7D DIGITAL PATHOLOGY | SINTEF AS | NO | 36 |
| SCALPEL | Specific Conjugation of Antibodies to Lipid Photo-peroxidised cancer tissues for their immunogenic ELimination | OSLO UNIVERSITETSSYKEHUS HF | NO | 54 |
| CancerScan | Smart pathology slide scanner for diagnosis and patient-specific treatment recommendation in oncology | NEOVIVUM TECHNOLOGIES DOO NOVI SAD | RS | 36 |
| 1MICRON | NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR 1 MICRON RESOLUTION BIOMEDICAL IMAGING | KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN | SE | 48 |
| TauEB | Tau-E Breakthrough (TauEB): Infinite clean energy through fusion power to the grid & beyond | KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN | SE | 36 |
| VOLUMINEX | Instrument-free 3D molecular imaging with the VOLumetric UMI-Network EXplorer | KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN | SE | 60 |
| REMEDY | Archibiome tattoo for resistant, responsive, and resilient cities | INNORENEW COE CENTER ODLICNOSTI ZA RAZISKAVE IN INOVACIJE NA PODROCJU OBNOVLJIVIH MATERIALOV IN ZDRAVEGA BIVANJSKEGA OKOLJA | SI | 48 |
| IMProGlyco | Inhibitor-Mediated Programming of Glycoforms | UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS | UK | 36 |
