Open call: Join the EIC Pathfinder Beneficiaries’ Day 2024

Calling all the EIC Pathfinder researchers (from graduate students to team leaders and the coordinators)! The  Pathfinder Unit of the European Innovation Council (EIC) is inviting you to attend the EIC Pathfinder beneficiaries’ Day 2024, held online on 20 November 2024, to learn more about all the available services to you to support the exploitation of your Pathfinder results and on proactive project management.

Join the event to discover the range of services at your disposal to ease the first steps of the path to market of your Pathfinder results. The event will be opened by the EIC Board President providing an opportunity to participants to hear about the EIC Board, the role and vision of the EIC Board President. Feature sessions will cover the EIC Business Acceleration, the EIC Women Leadership Programme, the Horizon Results Booster, the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), the European IP Helpdesk, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) services, and few more. Participants will learn on when, for what, who and how one can apply to a given service as well as on the expected outputs. You will also hear about the proactive project and portfolio management implemented by EIC Programme Manager with the EIC Pathfinder PO support. During the event, you will have the opportunity to ask questions to the speakers via Slido and will learn for example but not exclusively on: 

1. obligation of EIC Pathfinder grantees on protection and exploitation of Key Exploitable Results (KERs); 

2. what is needed, what it takes to protect and translate a Pathfinder KER into a product or service for the market (e.g. IPR rights, value proposition, different business models, market analysis, build a team, regulatory issue, etc.) and specifically which first steps shall be taken; 

3. which services are available to you if you are a graduate student or post-doctoral researcher and you wish to proceed with the commercialisation of your research results; 

4. which services are available to you if you are an Associated Partner; 

5. what proactive management of Pathfinder Open projects is and what it practically means if your project is part of an EIC Pathfinder Challenge portfolio; 

6. what proactive management of Pathfinder Open projects is.

Who can participate? 

All researchers of an EIC Pathfinder project including graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, senior researchers and team leaders in addition to the coordinators are strongly encouraged to follow the event.

Where can you find the agenda? 

The agenda is attached here below. Follow the event page, the EISMEA LinkedIn, EISMEA and EIC X accounts for news and updates.

Do you need to register? 

The event is free of charge, but registration is required and is upon invitation. The coordinator of each Pathfinder project will receive an invitation to register up to 4 researchers and team leaders, including itself, from their project. Please notice that there is a limited number of attendees allowed, and registration will be accepted on a first come first served basis until the maximum capacity is reached or by October 31, 2024. If you are the coordinator, and you didn’t receive the invitation, feel free to contact us via helpdesk, selecting the category “EIC Pathfinder Beneficiaries’ Day”.