European Innovation Council

In an exciting development for the Bulgarian company Dronamics, the European Innovation Council (EIC) has allocated an additional EUR 10 million under its EIC Fund for deep tech companies. This substantial investment follows a previous grant awarded to the drone manufacturer in 2022, as announced by Dronamics co-founder and CEO Svilen Rangelov during a recent online press conference.

Prime Minister Nikolai Denkov delivered a notable address at an information day focused on financing high-tech scientific research and innovation, jointly organized by the European Innovation Council (EIC) and the Ministry of Innovation and Growth.

EU Finance Days 2023, a European Commission event, will be held in Athens on March 30 to brief businesses and financial institutions about EU business support programs for the 2021-2027 financing period.

The event is organized by the Commission's services and representations, in collaboration with the European Investment Bank and the Enterprise Europe Network.

BELGRADE - Under economic criteria, a country that wants to become an EU member state must prove that it has a market that is based on competition and economic competence, Serbia's European Integration Minister Tanja Miscevic noted on Wednesday.

Brussels – Slovenian company Biosistemika is one of the EU’s 38 start-up, small and medium-sized companies to benefit from EUR 176 million available to encourage cutting-edge innovation. Biosistemika specialises in digital solutions for laboratories and will receive the funds for DNA data storage.

Ljubljana – The Education Ministry is holding a two-day online conference to mark the start of the EU’s emerging research and innovation programme Horizon Europe. The European Commission representatives and other foreign speakers will present the three pillars of the framework.

The George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology (UMFST) of Targu Mures announced on Thursday that it will participate in a hackathon coordinated by the European Innovation Council within the European Commission to identify and develop innovative solutions that can meet the challenges generated by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

The European high-tech industry is growing 5 times faster than the overall growth of the economy, the EU commissioner said
Bulgarian EU Commissioner Maria Gabriel opened a high-level meeting of the European start-up community in the Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca.

Minister of Research and Innovation Nicolae Hurduc at the meeting of the European Union Council COMPET - Research - Innovation, which he presided in Brussels on Tuesday, pointed out that Innovation and Research are the first of the four pillars of the programme of the Romanian presidency of the Council of the European Union, namely the "Europe of Convergence" pillar.

The prize, run as part of the European Innovation Council (EIC) pilot funded under Horizon 2020, the EU's research and innovation programme, will award €10 million to an innovative, commercially viable and low-cost solution to launch light satellites.