The EIC Tech to Market (T2M) Venture Building Programme aims to support EIC Pathfinder & Transition beneficiaries in their journey to transform their scientific results into innovations which may result into a successful spin-off company. This programme is a free service for EIC beneficiaries, and will allow you to work with top-tier experts in innovation and venture building.
Are you an EIC Pathfinder or Transition beneficiary? Then, we invite you to express your interest in the programme. This is a unique opportunity for EIC-backed projects. You can benefit from tailor-made support to explore and, maybe even, kickstart your own innovation journey. Ultimately, this can lead to starting a company based on your ideas! At this point, there are no strings attached: we ask you if you would like to join the “Tech Demo Days”; after that, you can move ahead in this innovation and venture building journey.
Do you want to take the first step in exploring your innovation idea with us?
Express your interest and we’ll get in touch with you very soon!
What’s in it for you, EIC Pathfinder and Transition beneficiaries?
- TAILORED SUPPORT: Receive tailored support to your needs and maturity level.
- TOP-LEVEL EXPERTS: Access critical expertise to help you turn your leading promising research results into innovation.
- GROW YOUR TEAM: Cover any gaps of expertise with experienced talent scouters. You are in control, with the possibility to be involved in the venture and/or partner with seasoned entrepreneurs to take the technology to market.
- VALIDATED BUSINESS MODELS: Build the new venture based on validated business models.
- BOOST YOUR VISIBILITY: Find opportunities to exchange with leading stakeholders, such as corporates and investors, that can get to know your solutions and advise on how to improve them.
How does the Venture Building process work?
1. Tech Demo Days
You will have the opportunity to present your technology to innovation experts and receive their feedback in terms of market potential and time to market.
2. Opportunities’ exploration
Successful results, selected by the EIC, should move on to validate their market attractiveness, corporate interest and team expertise for their targeted applications, exploring potential market opportunities.
3. Team creation
If your team requires certain skillsets, particularly but not only on the business level, tailor-made scouting will be provided with particular attention to matchmaking and bonding with existing members over the succeeding months.
4. Venture support services
Finally, if your case is among the most mature ones, you will gain access to on-demand venture support services to shape your business, ranging from legal to financial advisory, branding and human resources among others.
Eligibility criteria
We are looking for EIC Pathfinder and Transition Beneficiaries working as researchers or early-stage entrepreneurs in EIC-funded projects. It is recommended that candidates coming from research/academic institutions involve their corresponding Technology Transfer Office (TTO) in this process.
How can you take part?
The EIC T2M Venture Building Programme will be receiving expressions of interest for participation on a rolling basis, with monthly cut-offs. Each month, the programme’s team will review the applications received and group them according to thematic area. Once a thematic area is ready to be kicked off, participants will be contacted to initiate the venture building process.
These are the thematic areas in which your innovation should be framed to be grouped for the Tech Demo Days phase:
- Advanced materials for energy and environmental sustainability
- Architecture engineering construction technologies
- Artificial Intelligence
- Energy systems and green technologies
- Food chain technologies, novel and sustainable food
- Health and biotechnology
- Medical technologies and medical devices
- Mobility
- Quantum tech and electronics
- Renewable energy conversion and alternative resource exploitation
- Responsible electronics
- Space systems and technologies
Express your interest now by filling in our form.
Next cut-off date:
- Artificial Intelligence - 26 April
If you'd like to schedule a brief call with the programme's team to get more information, please refer to our helpdesk by choosing “EIC T2M Venture Building Programme” as contact category and add "Info call" to your subject.
Additional information
About the EIC Business Acceleration Services
This opportunity is brought to you by the EIC Business Acceleration Services through its Tech 2 Market programme. To explore further opportunities, keep an eye on our events page.
About the EIC Tech to Market (T2M) Venture Building Programme
The EIC Tech to Market Venture Building Programme aims to help build start-ups to exploit promising research results through venture building services, comprising a range of activities from identification of promising business ideas to venture creation and development.
Need help?
For additional information, please refer to our helpdesk by choosing “EIC T2M Venture Building Programme” as the subject.
DISCLAIMER: This information is provided in the interest of knowledge sharing and should not be interpreted as the official view of the European Commission, or any other organisation.