The 2027 #iCapitalAwards finalists have been named! 📍 Capital of Innovation finalists: 🇪🇸 Madrid 🇫🇷 Montpellier 🇪🇸 Valencia 🚀 Rising Innovative City finalists: 🇫🇮 Oulu 🇩🇪 Regensburg 🇮🇹 Taranto More on them & the award ceremony happening in Grenoble: link.europa.eu/J68dW8

🚀 Save the date!! 🚀 Discover the EIC’s 2027 funding opportunities at our upcoming online Info Day. Get an overview of the main funding schemes, explore what’s new for 2027 and learn about support available. 📅 19 November 💻 Online Register: link.europa.eu/dV4Dqb

Need fresh expertise to move your innovation forward? Bring new talent on board! 🚀 Through @InnoNext_EU, eligible EIC-supported companies can host talented researchers and innovators for 3–6 months, fully funded. Become an InnoNext host and connect: link.europa.eu/8t8Dfm

📢 EIC awardees & EIC Ecosystem Partners! Join the next EIC ACCESS+ Peer Learning Workshop to help align #eicBAS services in the EIC Service Catalogue with awardees’ needs at each stage of growth. 🗓️ 29 October | 🕒 10:00–12:00 CET | 💻 Online Apply now: tinyurl.com/4647u868

🌱On #WorldFoodDay, meet 3 agri-innovators backed by EIC Pathfinder! 🇮🇱 SafeWax: crop coatings, 🇫🇮 RE-IMAGINE-CROPS: precise fertiliser use, and 🇧🇪 AMFactory: beneficial fungi. 🤝 See them at the AU-EU-Med Innovation Fair 🇮🇹 on 25 Nov. 🔗tinyurl.com/5cemz7kc

Looking to unlock the capital needed to scale your deep-tech company? 🚀 Join the online info session on the Scaleup Europe Fund to learn how it supports European growth-stage companies in strategic technologies 📅 4 November 💻 Online Register by 2/11: link.europa.eu/PtKWkd

What makes a city truly innovative? 2026 #iCapitalAwards winner & host of the 2027 awards ceremony says putting people at the heart of progress. Grenoble believes innovation goes beyond technology and economic growth. 👀 Who will be next? Stay tuned for the the 2027 finalists!

New to the EIC Business Acceleration Services? Here's how to get support: 📩 Request anytime: coaching, investor readiness, procurement or specialist services. 📣 Apply: EIC Corporate Days, trade fairs, missions, trainings and more. Guide: tinyurl.com/5js5twrr #eicBAS

The results are in! 🚀 The EIC Pathfinder Open 2026 call has selected 43 projects, each eligible for up to €4M in grant funding. Bringing together 218 organisations from 30 countries, the selected projects show the power of European research. More: link.europa.eu/rVyPxH

AI is stepping out of the screen. 🤖 But what does that look like? We asked the people making it happen in our new series: EIC Unscripted 🎤 At the EIC Advanced Innovation Challenge Physical AI kick-off meeting, we asked our awardees to explain Physical AI Watch to learn more

Struggling to find the right support for your innovation? 🤔 Join the 4th EIC ACCESS+ Peer Learning Workshop, a session bringing together EIC awardees and EIC Ecosystem Partners to match the support available in the EIC Service Catalogue. More: tinyurl.com/37zr5wfk #eicBAS

After Tokyo 🇯🇵, the EIC Business Acceleration Services keeps moving! 🌍 This October, find us in Milan 🇮🇹, online sessions, Silicon Valley 🇺🇸 and Singapore 🇸🇬 - creating connections and opportunities for EIC awardees worldwide. 🔗link.europa.eu/R9BXBk #eicBAS

Europe’s deep tech meets Japan’s industry 🇯🇵 17 EIC-backed companies met with @JETRO_info – Collaborate & Invest Japan (@JETRO_InvestJP) and Japanese industry leaders in Tokyo for a Multi-Corporate Day to scope collaborations & business deals. tinyurl.com/9hh72as9 #eicBAS

This EIC backed company is all about cybersecurity. 🔏 Meet @AliasRobotics, a Spanish deep-tech company developing AI-powered cybersecurity for robotic systems. With EIC support, it accelerated R&D, grew its team & brought its idea closer to market. ➡️ link.europa.eu/D67vwW

AI can generate. But can it truly reason, plan and be trusted? 🤖 The EIC Pathfinder Challenge DeepRAP: Deep Reasoning, Abstraction & Planning towards trustworthy Cognitive AI Systems is supporting research to push the boundaries of cognitive AI. Apply: link.europa.eu/DKkW4c