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11

Nov

EIC – Novel funding opportunities 2026

11 November 2025 15:00 to 16:00 | Workshop

This is an early alert! Welcome to a meeting where we will talk about upcoming novel funding opportunities from the European Innovation Council (EIC). In particular, we will talk about Pathfinder Open, Pathfinder Challenges, EIC Transition, and the new instrument, EIC Advanced Innovation Challenges (AIC), a.k.a “the ARPA-model”.

EIC is targeting innovative academic researchers such as NanoLundians and EIC is looking to fund breakthrough technologies and game-changing innovations.

LU Research Services will be presenting opportunities in 2026 focusing on Pathfinder Open, Pathfinder Challenges, EIC Transition, and the new instrument, EIC Advanced Innovation Challenges (AIC), a.k.a “the ARPA-model”.

We will learn about the ARPA-style mechanisms aiming to drive breakthrough innovation through structured, staged-based support and closer integration of user and demand perspectives. PIs from NanoLund will share experiences from working with similar funding programmes. We will also discuss what it takes to prepare competitive applications and talk about what kind of support you need. 

Welcome to an interesting afternoon. And of course, there will be coffee and cookies!

/NanoLund Grants Office in collaboration with LU Research services and LU Innovation. 

Please note that deadlines this spring 2026 are 1 March (EIC-AIC) and 6 May for Pathfinder Open. Pathfinder Challenges and Transition have deadlines in October resp. September 2026.

About the event

Location:

k-space, Q-building at Solid state physics, Professorsgatan 1b

Target group:

Researchers

Language:

In English

Contact:

anna-karin [dot] alm [at] ftf [dot] lth [dot] se