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A global payments provider bringing merchants reliable, faster, cheaper and more secure direct account-to-account payments based on open-banking (EVERIFIN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Slovakia
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2480000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2480000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

A unique financial deep-tech innovation based on PSD2 (EU Payment Services Directive 2) resulted in an next-generation payments technology EVERIFIN, developed by a female-lead Slovak company Usability Engineering Center. Everifin is offering merchants faster, cheaper and more secure payments both in-store and online. Our unique cardless technology uses existing interbank settlement infrastructure and therefore allows merchants to get money within 10 seconds (instead of current average of 17 days), significantly improving their cashflow. By making funds immediately available, an estimated capital of 160 bn EUR can be unlocked in Europe to boost our economy – this is “money on the way” when the consumer made a payment, but the merchant is waiting for the money to arrive. As proven by leading European international e-commerce players engaged in our pilot operations, Everifin payments are 50-90% times cheaper than payments based on card schemes. During the pilot operation we processed over 10’000 payments with volume of 1M EUR across different EU countries. Together with our pilot partners, we validated this technology as the most secure payment technology currently available on the market. We are a payment institution licensed in 30 EEA countries (EU, Liechtenstein, Iceland, Norway) building EVERIFIN as a financial platform that not only facilitates payments but also delivers e-invoices & stores digital receipts in one fully integrated process. With digital receipts, we solve an underestimated environmental problem of 250 bn receipts produced annually in the EU. These receipts are printed on toxic thermal paper and 90% of them ending up in trash right after printing. With 1% increased adoption of e-invoicing we can save annually appx. 800 000 trees! In this EIC-A project, we aim to scale-up our business within 5 years to in the EEA region and other non-EEA jurisdictions with total annual revenues of 50M EUR.

Keywords: open banking payments
VRNow - The Next Breakthrough in Healthcare (Virtual Reality-based comprehensive approach which helps significantly reduce phantom pain due to limb loss and improve mental health issues). (VRNow)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Ukraine
Call: EIC Accelerator 2025 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2025-ACCELERATOR-01, 2025)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 3500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

VRNOW - a Virtual Reality-based simulator for rehabilitation that actively addresses several common war-related rehabilitation challenges (severe amputations, mental health issues among civilians, combatants and veterans). Our solution transforms rehabilitation into a smart process — starting with phantom pain therapy due to limb loss, continuing with the mental health issues therapy. VRNow addresses a critical unmet need in European trauma rehabilitation: phantom limb pain affects 60-80% of 185,000+ annual amputations, yet no existing solution provides effective evidence-based treatment. Our patent-protected VirtualLimbMode technology (UA Patent 158352) uses neuroadaptive virtual reality to create realistic missing limb visualization, enabling neural pathway re-establishment and measurable pain reduction. Proposal objectives: achieve CE Mark certification for a medical device for EU market entry, scale validated technology from pilot deployment across 6 Ukrainian trauma centers to commercial European launch, establish manufacturing and distribution infrastructure in Poland serving Central-Eastern Europe, and generate regulatory-grade clinical evidence through comparative effectiveness studies demonstrating superiority over standard care. Market context: the ongoing war in Ukraine has exposed critical gaps in European trauma care capacity preparedness, and accelerated focus on rehabilitation innovation, while EU regulatory frameworks increasingly favor evidence-based digital therapeutics addressing urgent medical needs. Market opportunity spans post-amputation trauma rehabilitation, prosthetic adaptation training, and motor rehabilitation in conflict-affected regions and aging populations. Technology readiness: granted utility model patent, real-world validation complete; CE certification documentation in preparation; distribution partnerships are being secured in Poland and Germany.

Keywords: phantom pain limb loss amputee ageing healthcare system medical devices neurodegenerative disorders orthopaedics patient care rehabilitation virtual extended reality artificial intelligence
Governance-by-design and accountability of Autonomous Agents –through intrinsic participatory real-time governance in alignment with EU AI Act (GAF)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: EIC Accelerator 2025 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2025-ACCELERATOR-01, 2025)
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Europe faces an urgent choice: lead the world in trustworthy AI governance, or cede control to foreign platforms. With the EU AI Act entering force in August 2026, enterprises must demonstrate continuous, auditable oversight of autonomous AI systems—yet today's governance tools offer only post-fact audits and static guardrails. The result: organizations either avoid deploying agentic AI due to regulatory risk, or adopt it unsafely, exposing themselves to catastrophic vulnerabilities. MeaningStack is Europe's first real-time governance infrastructure for autonomous AI—designed to restore human oversight at the speed of machine cognition. Unlike existing tools (HumanLoop, Langfuse, Portia AI) that monitor outputs or enforce hardcoded approvals, MeaningStack embeds Steward Agents™ that "think over the thinking" of AI systems, evaluating decision quality as reasoning unfolds, alerting stakeholders to drift or violations, and creating immutable audit trails. This allows CFOs, risk officers, and operations leaders—not just developers—to see and influence how AI agents reason and act in live environments. Our "Governance-in-a-Box" approach provides pre-built compliance frameworks (HIPAA, GDPR, SOX, PCI-DSS, ISO 42001) that enterprises can deploy in weeks, not months. Validated at TRL 5 in financial oversight, risk forecasting, and clinical triage, MeaningStack has proven it can detect protocol deviations and incomplete reasoning before they cause harm. We now seek €2.5M in EIC blended finance to reach TRL 8, deploy enterprise pilots with Fortune 500 partners in regulated industries, and establish Europe's leadership in trustworthy, sovereign AI infrastructure—before U.S. hyperscalers or Chinese platforms dominate this critical market. Without MeaningStack, Europe risks becoming dependent on foreign governance solutions that don't align with European values or regulatory frameworks. With it, we create Governance-as-Protocol—positioning Europe as the global standard-setter

Keywords: ai governance eu ai act ai risk and compliance ai safety autonomous agents agentic environments resilience eu infrastructure sovereignity digital governance responsible trustworthy ai
Building the 21st century wind turbine (21 Wind)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Germany
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The ongoing reliance on fossil fuels and limitations of existing renewable solutions lead to continued high emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases and worsen the ongoing climate crisis. More diverse and better renewable energy generation systems are needed. Kitekraft develops a novel wind energy system for onshore or offshore locations. Our Airborne Wind Energy Systems reduce the material footprint compared to conventional wind turbines by 90% by replacing hardware with software. The systems operate fully autonomously. This not only leads to a smaller carbon footprint, but also to a simplified value chain from material sourcing, over logistics, to installation, and O&M. Even after decommissioning our systems can simply be recycled thanks to being built mostly from aluminum. Besides that, the compactness also reduces the visual impact on close-by habitants which will result in less public opposition and a faster permitting process. Kitekraft targets the global wind market of over €100B (2020) with two business models, either selling turnkey systems or selling the energy directly. First products in the range of 100-500kW will be designed for distributed energy resources (DER) applications such as microgrids, later MW-scale systems are intended for utility applications. We have signed LOIs ($330M), PPAs, and one MOU ($4M) with customers and investors and are officially feeding into the German power grid at our demonstrator site in Oberbiberg, south of Munich. Kitekraft was founded in 2019 as a spin-off of the Technical University of Munich and has a team of 10 led by Maximilian Isensee (Co-CEO, COO) and Dr.-Ing. Florian Bauer (Co-CEO, CTO). Kitekraft supports the EU Green Deal, the REPowerEU, and the Fit for 55 goals and strengthens the EU’s technological and industrial sovereignty, competitiveness, and green industry profitability by further decoupling its energy production from countries that supply us with fossil fuels.

Keywords: wind energy,green energy,renewable energy,environment,sustainability,wind turbines,airborne wind energy,drone tech,co2 footprint,green deal,noise reduction,electricity generation
Friction Stir Welding of Innovative High Strength Aluminium Alloys (REFORMS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Destination: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Poland,Slovenia
Call: ERA Fellowships (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-TALENTS-02, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2027-03-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 194742.0
EU funding (EUR): 194742.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

As the world's second most widely used metal (after iron), aluminium (Al) and its alloys play a crucial role in decarbonizing the transportation sector and achieving climate neutrality for both the EU and our world. Essentially, Al-alloys reinforced with quasicrystalline (QC) phases have the potential to be used as the main structural material in e-vehicles due to their strength, lightness, corrosion resistance, recyclability and formability. However, during the joining process of larger parts, the realised temperature may affect the microstructure and mechanical properties due to the strong flow of the material and the transformation of intermetallic phases. In this project, the process parameters of friction stir welding will be defined to obtain high-quality joints. The joints will be developed using an interdisciplinary approach combining reliable microbeam analysis technique electron backscatter diffraction, product and process engineering to determine optimal process parameters as well as tool design and management to obtain process automation. The collaboration between the Academic Centre for Materials and Nanotechnology (ACMiN) of AGH University of Krakow and non-academic partner Iskra ISD will provide the researcher with the highest possible skills and competencies that will contribute to EU competitiveness and growth in the field of novel alloys reinforced with QC. Working closely with industrial partner Iskra ISD, the developed technology will be carefully validated. Completion of the project will represent a major step forward in the applicability of novel Al-alloys and contribute to a significant reduction in resource consumption and GHG emissions.

Keywords: electron backscatter diffraction,microscopy,metastable quasicrystals,reduction of co2 emission,high strength lightweight materials
PATS: Eliminating pesticides! (PATS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: EIC Accelerator Challenge: Novel technologies for resilient agriculture (HORIZON-EIC-2023-ACCELERATOR-01, 2023)
Start date: 2023-12-01
End date: 2025-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2497500.0
EU funding (EUR): 1319500.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

PATS provides a fully automatic insect control solution, which combines automated monitoring and AI solutions with high control methods such as bat-like hunt drones and ultrasonic predator-prey confusion. Our vision is to revolutionize agriculture by combining biology with technology. We offer an ecosystem of innovative solutions designed to enable organic farming and significantly reduce insecticide usage. By integrating biological control with our technological methods, we aim to cut insecticides by 75% and achieve a 10% reduction by 2030. Our control methods effectively tackle hard-to-manage pests that previously necessitated insecticides. The collateral damage from these chemicals disrupts biological control, not just for these pests but also for others. Our automated monitoring provides precise data on flying pests, natural predators, and pollinators. This granular data empowers farmers to optimize biological control, improving its efficiency and making it a sustainable choice.

Keywords: automation,control engineering,crop protection,insect control,vision,drones
SMArt Plant Protection (SMAPP LAB)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Hungary
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Founded in 2020, SMAPP LAB is at the forefront of agricultural innovation, creating the world's first affordable and scalable insect monitoring technology. Committed to enhancing farm productivity with advanced technology, our proprietary sensor system collects and intelligently analyses data to offer crucial decision support to farmers. This ensures optimal pesticide application times for efficient pest control. After 4 years of rigorous R&D, we've launched pilots in 10 countries, actively monitoring 13 insect species across 250,000 hectares – a major milestone towards transforming global agricultural practices.

Keywords: integrated pest management sustainable agriculture agritech insect monitoring
Building the nExT generaTion of marine Eco-friendly wind faRm (BETTER)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Doctoral Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Italy,Norway,France,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Germany,Portugal
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-DN-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-03-01
End date: 2029-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3587378.4
EU funding (EUR): 3587378.4
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

The demands on marine space in the EU and worldwide waters have never been greater, driven by the need to provide energy security, develop essential renewable energy infrastructure, create social and economic value and ensure the restoration and future resilience of marine biodiversity and ecosystem services. Whilst Offshore Wind Farms (OWFs) play a key role in combatting climate change, they are not only vulnerable to climate change-induced hazards but also impact marine biodiversity. Focusing solely on engineering aspects to optimise risks and reliabilities in the design of OWFs without addressing the impact on marine biodiversity is sufficient for meeting the requirements of resilient and sustainable development in future OWFs. Therefore, an urgent shift is necessary from the conventional engineering-oriented design approach and mindset to a more comprehensive approach that integrates both engineering aspects and environmental considerations. BETTER assembles a diverse, multidisciplinary team to train a new generation of Doctoral Candidates (DCs) capable of addressing ambitious scientific objectives. The training environment is highly integrated, cross-disciplinary, and intersectoral, enriched through secondments with non-academic partners. This collaborative approach advocates for a paradigm shift in OWF design, promoting a comprehensive strategy that integrates engineering with deep considerations for environmental impacts. BETTER emphasises critical learning, fostering solutions for climate-resilient OWF construction and sustainable marine development. By providing a collaborative, cross-disciplinary training environment, BETTER equips the 15 DCs with the skills, knowledge, and perspectives to navigate the intersection of engineering, environmental sustainability, and marine biodiversity. In doing so, BETTER addresses immediate challenges and lays a foundation for a sustainable and resilient future for offshore wind energy and marine ecosystems.

Keywords: marine biodiversity offshore geohazards gis mapping
The LPS-code: uncovering meta-level chemical structures that establish LPS as friend or foe (LPS-CODE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Synthetic Chemistry and Materials
Panel description: New materials and new synthetic approaches, structure -properties relations, solid state chemistry, molecular architecture, organic chemistry
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2024-ADG, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2030-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The lipopolysaccharide endotoxins (LPSs) are ubiquitous microbial cell surface glycolipids of Gram-negative bacteria and are key molecular actors in the interaction with eukaryotic hosts. Traditionally, studies have focused on the role of LPS as dangerous and potent molecules with the ability to boost innate immunity in eukaryotes and cause sepsis in humans and severe pathologies in plants. In recent years, however, it has become clear that LPS is not always working as a microbial weapon. Indeed, LPS also covers the surface of symbiotic and beneficial bacteria. However, a precise chemical and molecular information on this duality remains elusive. Two central questions remain unsolved with the required chemical precision: i) which are the key features of the molecular interactions between LPSs and the host receptors; ii) how the subsequent signalling pathways lead to either pathogenicity or symbiosis in mammals and in plants. Indeed, despite the harmful image of LPS, disentangling these features of LPS chemistry could inspire new avenues for the employment of LPS and LPS-like molecules as a novel generation of therapeutics in medicine and agriculture. Thus, the key objective of LPS-CODE is to unravel the key features of the molecular interactions between LPS and the host receptors and decipher the subsequent signalling pathways in both animals and plants. This will be achieved by identifying the key microdomains within the LPS molecules that establish beneficial or detrimental interactions with the host, eventually driving elicitation or suppression of host innate immunity. LPS-CODE is grounded on (bio)-organic chemistry and chemical biology, with strong emphasis on glycan chemistry and structural glycosciences to decode the microbial language and thus decipher the chemical epitopes common to either all “friendly” or pathogenic LPS in the interaction with both plants and animals. With this, we will finally be able to make the conceptual leap to conceive new molec

Keywords: carbohydrates,lipopolysaccharides,structural glycoscience
First Regenerative sOlid-STate Barocaloric refrIgeraTor (FROSTBIT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: France,Slovenia,Spain,United Kingdom
Call: EIC Pathfinder Challenge: Clean and efficient cooling (HORIZON-EIC-2023-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2028-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3427222.5
EU funding (EUR): 3427222.5
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

Greenhouse gas emissions for refrigeration systems worldwide were in 2019 equivalent to the whole EU emissions. Long-term sustainability requires improvements in energy efficiency, with a huge return on investment obtained from even slight improvements. The mechanocaloric effect, which refers to adiabatic temperature changes induced by stress or pressure, is one of the most promising energy-saving new technology for cooling systems. Mechanocaloric research produced in only 14 years highly performing materials, overcoming electrocaloric and magnetocaloric materials. Furthermore, mechanocaloric materials use non-critical, cheap, abundant and non-toxic elements. Recent papers evidenced colossal barocaloric effects around the Spin CrossOver (SCO) temperatures for some molecular complexes. The FROSTBIT project overall objective is to develop the first operative refrigerator based on a radically new solid-state technology by using barocaloric materials in a regenerative cooling device. In more specific objectives, the project aims to 1) Design sustainable syntheses of compounds for barocaloric applications, exploring synthetic pathways to optimize costs and low environmental impact/low carbon footprint vs. barocaloric performances; 2); Shape SCO materials in order to obtain densified objects with centimetric sizes, study extensively their thermal, mechanical and barocaloric behaviour and explore the optimization of those properties through the preparation of composites ceramics 3) Model, design and build the constituting elements of a barocaloric refrigerator: barocaloric regenerator, thermal and pressure fluid circuits. While the technology could potentially address a wide range of temperature, as an initial step we propose to specifically design and build a refrigerator yielding 100 W of cooling power at room temperatures and providing a temperature span of at least 20 K with a target COP between 4 and 6 (corresponding to 30% of Carnot efficiency).

Keywords: solid state refrigeration,barocaloric effect,spin crossover,sintering,ceramics,regenerative cooling,ceramics,composite,pressure studies