Pregled razpisa

EIC Transition Open

Kratica razpisa/topic identifier: HORIZON-EIC-2025-TRANSITIONOPEN
Zanimivo za IJS: neposredno
IJS področje razpisa: fizika, kemija, biokemija, materiali in okolje, jedrska tehnika, avtomatika, informacijske tehnologije

Povezava na razpis: HORIZON-EIC-2025-TRANSITIONOPEN
Namen razpisa:

EIC Transition funds innovation activities that go beyond the experimental proof of principle in laboratory. It supports both the maturation and validation of your novel technology from the lab to the relevant application environments (by making use of prototyping, formulation, models, user testing or other validation tests) as well as explorations and development of a sustainable business case and business model towards commercialisation.

Your proposed activities must include further technology development on the results achieved in a previous project and follow user-centric methodologies to increase chances of the innovations future success in the market. EIC Transition projects should address, in a balanced way, both technology and market/business development, possibly including iterative learning processes based on early customer or user feedback. These activities should include, subject to the level of maturity of the technology, a suitable mix of technology development and validation activities to increase the maturity of the technology beyond proof of concept to viable demonstrators of the technology in the intended field of application (i.e., from TRL 4 up to Technology Readiness Level 5 to 6). The activities must in all cases address market readiness towards commercialisation and deployment (market research, value proposition, business case and business model, prospects for growth, intellectual property protection, competitor analysis etc.) and aspects of regulation, certification and standardisation (if relevant), aimed at getting both the technology and the business idea investment ready.

More information can be found in the EIC WP 2025.

General conditions
1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
Your proposal must build on results (at least experimental proof of concept TRL 3, ideally technology validated in the lab TRL 4) already achieved within an eligible project. You can apply for EIC Transition either as:

– A single legal entity established in a Member State or an Associated Country (mono-beneficiary)

– A small consortium of two independent legal entities from two different Member States or Associated Countries or

– A consortium of minimum three and maximum five independent legal entities (multi-beneficiary) following standard rules i.e. must include at least one legal entity established in a Member State and at least two other independent legal entities, each established in different Member States or Associated Countries.

The legal entities may for example be a start-up, an SME or research performing organisation (university, research or technology organisation, including teams, individual Principal Investigators and inventors in such institutions who intend to form a spinout company).

The standard admissibility and eligibility conditions as well as the eligibility of applicants from third countries are detailed in Annex 2 of the EIC Work Programme 2025.

Proposal page limits and layout:

Described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System.

Sections 1 to 3 and the cover page (that includes the information about the related project on which the current EIC Transition proposal is built on) of the part B of your proposal, corresponding respectively to the evaluation criteria Excellence, Impact, and Quality and Efficiency of the Implementation, must consist of a maximum of 22 A4 pages. Excess pages will be automatically made invisible, and will not be taken into consideration by the evaluators. Please also consult Annex 2 of the EIC Work Programme 2025.

2. Eligible Countries
described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes.

A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide.

The eligibility of applicants from third countries is explained in Annex 2 of the EIC Work Programme 2024.

3. Other Eligible Conditions
The EIC Transition is restricted to proposals based on results generated by the eligible projects described in the EIC Work Programme 2025.

4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion
Described in Annex 2 of the EIC Work Programme 2025.

5a. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds
Described in section III of the EIC Work Programme 2025.

5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes
Described in section III of the EIC Work Programme 2025 and the Online Manual.

5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement
Described in section III of the EIC Work Programme 2025.

6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants
Please refer to the Model Grant Agreement (MGA) used for EIC actions under Horizon Europe.

Specific conditions
described in the EIC Work Programme 2025

Call documents

EIC Work Programme 2025

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Standard application form (will be made available in the submission workflow). Do not use previous years template versions as this may lead to incomplete applications.

Standard evaluation form (HE EIC TRANSITION)

Model Grant Agreements (MGA)

Lump Sum MGA

To be an eligible applicant to EIC Accelerator, you must apply as one of the following
eligible entities:
 a single company classified as a SME, and established within a Member State or
an Associated Country (see Annex 2); or
 a single company classified as a small mid-cap (up to 499 employees)
established in a Member State or an Associated Country, but only for
investment component only support or for blended finance in exceptional
cases for rapid scale up purposes; or
 one or more natural persons98 (including individual entrepreneurs) or legal
entities, which are either:
a. from a Member State or an Associated Country intending to establish an SME
or small mid-cap (as defined above) in a Member State or Associated Country
by the time of signing the EIC Accelerator grant agreement or, in case the
equity only is awarded, at the latest at the date of signature of the investment
agreement;
b. intending to invest in an SME or small mid-cap established in a Member State
or an Associated Country and may submit a proposal on behalf of that SME
or small mid-cap, provided that a prior agreement exists with the company.
The grant agreement and/or the investment agreement will be signed with
the beneficiary/ final recipient of funding company only, subject to the
Approach in specific cases relating to a parent or holding company and an
operating company (see below); or
c. from a non-associated third country intending to establish an SME (including
start-ups) or to relocate an existing SME to a Member State or an Associated
Country. The company must prove its effective establishment in a Member
State or an Associated Country at the time of submission of the full proposal.
The standard admissibility and eligibility conditions are detailed in Annex 2.
There are limitations on the number of times you can submit a proposal described in
the section on application submission limits as explained below.

If you are currently a participant in an eligible project funded by Horizon Europe or
Horizon 2020 then you may be able to apply through your existing project under the
Fast Track scheme (see Annex 3). This scheme is managed by the funding body
responsible for the existing project and applies to funding bodies listed in Annex 3.
Applicants may also be able to apply if they have a project financed by an eligible
programme managed by a Member State or an Associated Country under the pilot
Plug-in scheme (see Annex 4).
What support will you receive if your proposal is funded?

Datum odprtja prijav: 22/04/2025
Rok za prijavo: 17/09/2025
Komentar:: 17 September 2025 17:00:00 Brussels time

Program financiranja: EU Horizon
Vir/steber financiranja:
Funding mechanisms/Prednostna naložba:
Vrednost razpisa: 98 000 000 EUR
Kontaktna e-pošta: anamarija.meglic@gov.si

Vpis v bazo CTT:MarijanLeban dne 2025-01-23 20:22:55.530727

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