EIC Pathfinder
Offers frontier research in the European Union through grants for foundational development across disciplines.
EIC Pathfinder is the European Innovation Council’s early-stage research route for breakthrough technologies at TRL 1 to 4. It funds research teams working in any scientific field through Pathfinder Open, and it also runs Pathfinder Challenges for predefined thematic areas. The program sits inside the EIC portfolio as the route for very early, high-risk research that still needs a scientific basis…
Each grant below is a distinct funding opportunity with its own eligibility, scope, and deliverables.
Funds bottom-up research for breakthrough deep-tech, any field of science.
Supports cognitive AI development focused on trustworthy deep reasoning, abstraction, and planning capabilities.
Supports developing advanced materials for miniaturised energy harvesters to power IoT and sensor networks autonomously.
Supports translating decades of ageing biology into biotech or pharma proofs-of-concept that prevent, delay or revert age-related disease.
Funds European consortia developing breakthrough solutions across AI, climate, energy, materials, medical, and quantum fields.