EIC Pathfinder
European Innovation Council (Horizon Europe)
About this opportunity
The EU's high-risk, early-research grant. Feeds the EIC Accelerator later; the direct route for a Ukrainian research team to enter the EU deep-tech pipeline.
EIC Pathfinder is the European Innovation Council's grant for high-risk, early-stage research toward breakthrough deep-tech, funding the science that later feeds the EIC Accelerator's scale-up support. Run by the Commission under Horizon Europe and framed as civil or dual-use, it is directly open to Ukrainian research organisations and SMEs thanks to Ukraine's Horizon Europe association — no separate EU entity needed to apply.
Eligibility
Early-stage deep-tech research grants. Ukraine's Horizon Europe association makes Ukrainian research organisations and SMEs eligible. Civil / dual-use framing.
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