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Innovative Europe

The task of the third pillar is to stimulate market-creating breakthroughs and ecosystems that facilitate innovation.

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European Innovation Council (EIC)

EIC offers support for pioneering and market creation with diversification potential that is too financially risky for private investors. The council also helps innovators to create the markets of the future, mobilize private funding and expand.

The EIC has two complementary tools that can be used to bridge the gap between idea and project worth investing in. These are:

  • Pathfinder offers funding (from early technology to funding technology).
  • Accelerator only offers funding and mixed financing (from pre-commercial technology to funding and distribution-ready technology).

European Innovation Ecosystem (EIE)

European innovation system emphasized in Pillar 3 and aim at links between regional and national innovation actors.

European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT)

The EIT's role lies in bringing together key actors in research, education and business to work towards common objective that promote innovation.

Contact 

Here you will find the contact information to your National Contact Points for Innovative Europe

Innovative Europe

EU SME Support provides free advisory services to small and medium-sized enterprises seeking EIC funding. To receive advice, please complete the form at the bottom of the following page: EU SME Support.
You will be contacted within 48 hours.

European Innovation Council (EIC)

Marie Vaadre

National contact point (NCP)

+46 8 473 32 17

European Innovation Council (EIC Pathfinder)

Ann Maudsley

National contact person at Vinnova

+46 8 473 32 86

European Innovation Council (EIC)

Hilda Hellgren

Program manager

+46 8 473 31 13

European Innovation Ecosystems (EIE)

Marie Vaadre

National Contact Point at Vinnova

+46 8 473 32 17

European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT)

Jeannette Spühler

National Contact Point (NCP)

+46 8 473 32 57

Last updated 2 June 2026