European Commission launches EU Innovation Platform 

A new EU platform designed to support innovators and start-ups across Europe was launched this week at the European Innovation Summit in Brussels. 

Developed by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, the EU Innovation Platform will serve as a central entry point for innovators seeking support to bring their ideas closer to the market.

Developed in the context of the EU Startup and Scaleup Strategy, which aims to streamline existing EU innovation support services and digital tools, the EU Innovation Platform also contributes to the broader ambition of creating a more connected European innovation ecosystem. It seeks to bring resources together in one place through a more streamlined and user-friendly approach.

The key feature of the EU innovation Platform is an intelligent recommendation engine which is based on EU innovations’ needs, sector, geographical location and maturity level. It connects registered users with relevant available services, news, events, or funding calls.

For the time being, the EU Innovation Platform is targeted at EU-funded innovators that have benefitted from EU funding support. In the coming months the Platform will open to EU innovators, business advisory services, investors, corporates, to name a few.

The new platform has already launched the first call for good practices on access conditions for industrial users of the European Strategy on Research and Technology Infrastructures (RTIs) and Startup and Scaleup strategy. The aim is to identify some best-case examples that can help strengthen Europe’s innovation capacity, industrial competitiveness and technology uptake. The call is open to Research and Technology Infrastructure hosts or operators in the European Union or in the countries associated to the EU R&I framework programme Horizon Europe, including Armenia, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.

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