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Open Call - EIC GHG Co-creation with Unilever: Working together towards a zero-carbon future

The EIC created a new Story 9 September 2021
The manifesto for environmental stewardship and action has shown how dependent we are on each other to achieve sustainable development and collective wellbeing. With this in mind, multiple European corporates, regions and industrial organizations are taking action to reduce their climate impact.
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World Ocean Day: A new wave of inventions saving our oceans from pollution

The EIC created a new Story 8 June 2021
In the light of this World Ocean Day, we have outlined 3 EIC-funded innovations creating better ways to monitor, understand, protect and preserve our oceans and seas.
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Stories: 3 EIC Young Entrepreneurs under 30 share their wisdom and advice about business

The EIC created a new Story 2 September 2021
Monika Tomecka, Josefien Groot and André Mão-de-Ferro have more in common than their age range. They all started their own startups in their early 20s, facing the challenges and learning curve from the young entrepreneurship experience. Discover their journey and tips about business.
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Stories: Fintech apps are on the rise. Discover 4 EIC fintech innovations putting financial power in our pockets

The EIC created a new Story 4 February 2022
From payments and banking to investment apps and crypto, the EIC has funded many successful fintech applications over the last few years. Discover 4 EIC banking startups changing the way we bank.
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Story: Meet Bill: The Robot that will help passengers get around the airport

The EIC created a new Story 29 January 2020
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The EIC-funded company BotsAndUs announced a partnership with British Airways to provide a solution that will reduce travel stress by assisting all passengers with relevant information to their journey and airport stay. The robot Bill will interact with customers in multiple languages and escort them to locations such as cafes, toilets, meeting rooms and family check-in zones.
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Stories: Polish Banks go paperless with EIC-funded Blockchain solution from Billon Group

The EIC created a new Story 8 May 2020
Can a blockchain innovation build paperless offices across businesses and organisations? The British-Polish fintech Billon Group says yes. The company provides a Blockchain Platform powered by distributed ledger technology (DLT), based on a new type of architecture storing full documents entirely in the blockchain.
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Stories: Electro-Intrusion develops a game-changing technology (not only) for automotive industry

The EIC created a new Story 16 March 2021
Electro-Intrusion develops a low-cost and environment friendly technology for conversion of abundant waste energy into useful electricity.
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Stories: EIC-funded company Q-bot gets £3.6m funding from Saint-Gobain

The EIC created a new Story 13 January 2020
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The world-leading manufacturer is investing in UK robotics company Q-Bot, as part of a £3.6m Series A investment.
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EIC GHG Co-creation with Unilever: Sustainable progress with well-thought-out moves

The EIC created a new Story 3 February 2022
Following the EIC GHG Co-creation with Unilever online event, we met with Roy Horne, Ice-cream R&D at the company to provide us with some insights.
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Green Innovations: EIC company Carbon Clean Solutions is helping industries cut their carbon footprint

The EIC created a new Story 27 March 2020
The past five years were the five hottest years since record-keeping began in 1880. It has become clear that the current Global Warming is caused by greenhouse gases emissions like carbon dioxide and methane. And the burning of fossil fuels by industries is the main contributor to this. But Carbon Clean Solutions Ltd. is reducing industrial CO2 emissions with an innovative technology. The company is of one of the few startups in the world specialised in carbon capture.
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Stories: Robots in a rush: time-aware AI aids human-machine interaction

The EIC created a new Story 25 May 2020
Time is an illusion, breakfast time doubly so. In future, human workers might not be alone in experiencing frenetic mornings thanks to EU-funded researchers who have equipped robots with human-like time perception capabilities – and tested them in the kitchen.
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Stories of Impact: HELIOX Conductive Fast Charge System for Buses

The EIC created a new Story 10 July 2018
On 2017, Heliox has received an order for a further 23 x 450kW Opportunity Charge System and 86 x FAST DC 30kW CCS bus chargers from Connexxion (Transdev), to power the largest single fleet of opportunity charged electric buses in the world.
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Stories: Get to know the EIC champions featured in the Tops of the European Startup Prize for Mobility

The EIC created a new Story 25 March 2022
For the 4th year, the European Startup Prize for mobility (EUSP) has opened applications for startups from all over Europe. Three EIC-funded companies were selected for the Top 50 – Addionics, DiGas and Velco – and Zeleros is in the Top 10, with the opportunity of taking part in the Grand Ceremony.
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Stories: A new research fights against touch deprivation

The EIC created a new Story 2 March 2021
TOUCHLESS, a new project supported under the EU’s Horizon 2020 EIC Pathfinder funding programme, proposes innovation in haptic technologies used in virtual social interactions. It could help people who cannot fulfil their need for touch, e.g. because of social distancing rules.
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Stories: Five EU projects join forces to develop an Environmental Intelligence system

The EIC created a new Story 26 March 2021
The collaboration agreement between 5 EIC Pathfinder/FET Proactive projects has been signed. Its main aim is to deliver a blueprint for a full-fledged system for environmental intelligence.
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Stories: EIC-funded company Oxford Endovascular raises €8 million to develop medical device that prevents brain haemorrhage

The EIC created a new Story 25 May 2021
The British MedTech startup is a spin-out from Oxford University and it is developing a treatment for brain aneurysms. Discover how their innovation is overcoming challenges with existing medical devices in the EIC Community.
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Stories: The new EIC Pathfinder project PLATFORMA will focus an innovative method for screening cosmetics, pollutants and therapeutics

The EIC created a new Story 7 September 2020
The PLATFORMA project will produce novel high-content phenotypic platforms for screening cosmetics, pollutants and new therapeutics. The project builds on the results of the Pathfinder (FET-Open) project, MESO-BRAIN, which developed functional 3D human-stem-cell-derived neural networks of defined and reproducible architecture, based on that of a brain cortical module that will display in vivo connectivity and activity.
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Stories of Impact: Nuritas lands €30m backing from European Investment Bank

The EIC created a new Story 6 December 2018
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European Innovation Council (EIC) pilot’s funded company Nuritas, Dublin-based start-up backed by U2’s Bono and The Edge as well as Salesforce’s Marc Benioff, has become the first Irish biotech to gain direct support from the European Investment Bank (EIB) with a new funding round worth €30m.
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European Maritime Day: 4 EIC start-ups exploring a sea of sustainable opportunities

The EIC created a new Story 20 May 2022
For this year’s European Maritime Day, we got in the innovation boat with 4 EIC-funded companies. Keep reading to learn more about the growing potential of a healthy blue economy in Europe.
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Stories: CustoMem changes name to Puraffinity and announces successful fundraise to accelerate its growth

The EIC created a new Story 4 August 2019
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European Innovation Council pilot's funded company CustoMem that develops advanced materials for selectively removing target chemical compounds from water, has announced an oversubscribed seed round of $3.55m from leading sustainability investors.
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Stories of Impact: EIC pilot funded company Nova Innovation wins European Commission’s the Enterprise Europe Network Award 2018

The EIC created a new Story 26 October 2018
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The European Innovation Council (EIC) pilot funded company Nova Innovation is flying the flag for Europe’s renewable energy industry after winning the Enterprise Europe Network Award 2018 for its ground-breaking projects in tidal energy and micro-grids.
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Stories of Impact: Billon won at Singapore FinTech Festival

The EIC created a new Story 20 November 2018
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EIC pilot funded company Billon is one of the three winners of the Global FinTech Accelerator by Monetary Authority of Singapore, part of Singapore FinTech Festival. The company was awarded for its zero-cost transaction DLT platform, opening the $3T micropayments market to financial institutions. The 12-week acceleration program and the jury's verdict confirm Billon's solutions to be a great fit for ASEAN market.
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News: Billon and Monese make it to FinTech50 2018 Yearbook

The EIC created a new Story 2 October 2018
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Two SME Instrument-funded companies make it to the list of 50 hottest fintech companies in Europe. Both companies use blockchain technology to fight financial exclusion.
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Stories of Impact: Lightpoint Medical secures £5 Million for product commercialization

The EIC created a new Story 12 December 2018
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European Innovation Council pilot’s funded company Lightpoint Medical, a leader in intraoperative molecular imaging and sensing, has secured £5 million in equity finance to fuel the company’s commercial growth. Investors included existing and new shareholders Cambridge Capital Group, Venture Founders, Coutts Investment Club, Envestors, Fund Twenty8, SyndicateRoom, and Oxford Technology. 
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