Deadline: 21 May 2025
Do you have an ambitious vision for a novel future technology that could make a real difference to people’s lives? Do you see a plausible way of achieving the scientific breakthrough that will make this technology possible? If your answer to each one of these questions is yes, then EIC Pathfinder Open may be the right call for you.
The EIC Pathfinder Open supports projects in any field of science, technology or application without predefined thematic priorities.
The overall objective of the EIC Pathfinder for advanced research is to develop the scientific basis to underpin breakthrough technologies. It provides support for the earliest stages of scientific, technological or deep-tech research and development.
You should apply if you are looking for support from EIC Pathfinder Open to realise an ambitious vision for radically new technology, with potential to create new markets and/or to provide solutions for global challenges. EIC Pathfinder Open supports early stage development of such future technologies based on high-risk/high-gain science towards-technology breakthrough research.
EIC Pathfinder Open involves interdisciplinary research and development. By bringing diverse areas of research together, often with different perspectives, terminologies and methodologies, within individual projects and within a portfolio of projects, really new things can be generated, and entirely new areas of research can be opened up. It is up to you to compose the team that you need, that you can learn from, and that you can move forward with.
Funding Information
- The total indicative budget for this call is EUR 142 million.
- For this call, the EIC considers proposals with a requested EU contribution of up to EUR 3 million as appropriate.
Eligible Projects
- Before applying to this call, you should verify that your proposal meets all the following essential characteristics:
- Convincing long-term vision of a radically new technology that has the potential to have a transformative positive effect to solving a challenge in the economy and society.
- Concrete, novel and ambitious science-towards-technology breakthrough, providing advancement towards the envisioned technology.
- High-risk/high-gain research approach and methodology, with concrete and plausible objectives.
Eligibility Criteria
- This call is open for collaborative research. Your proposal must be submitted by the coordinator, on behalf of a consortium including as beneficiaries, at least three legal entities, independent from each other and each established in a different country as follows:
- at least one legal entity established in a Member State; and
- at least two other independent legal entities, each established in different Member States or Associated Countries.
For more information, visit European Commission.
