Satellite events

Four satellite events will take place in the morning of the 7th December in Tour&Taxis. While the event "Building Synergies across the Medtech Projects", "EIC Forum" are upon invitation, the "EIC Greenhouse Gas Programme Summit" and "Meet the EIC and help us promote it locally" is open to the audience.

Please note that the official programme of the EIC Summit starts at 2 PM.

European Innovation Council Forum

European Innovation Council Forum

UPON INVITATION - December 7, from 9.00 AM until 12.30 AM.

The EIC Forum has been established under Pillar III of Horizon Europe to promote ‘coordination and dialogue on the development of the Union's innovation ecosystem. The EIC Forum will discuss the development of innovation-friendly regulation, promote the alignment of research and innovation agendas at the national and European level, enhance coordination between national and regional innovation programmes and innovation activities under Horizon Europe.


Building Synergies across the Medtech Projects

UPON INVITATION - December 7, from 9.00 AM until 12.30 AM. 

One of the core missions of the EIC Programme Managers Office is to seek synergies, cross-fertilisation, and cascade effects amongst the projects.
This networking and synergy event will gather the projects of the MedTech portfolio, focusing specifically on Neuro-technologies.

Building Synergies across the Medtech Projects
Meet the European Innovation Council and help us promote it locally

Meet the European Innovation Council and help us promote it locally

December 7, from 9.30 AM until 12.30 AM

Are you a local incubator or innovation centre interested to make Belgian businesses grow? The European Innovation Council can help. There is €10.1 billion available under Horizon Europe (2021-2027) to support innovation from an idea to the market. It’s a unique programme that offers support for research on emerging technologies as well as grants and equity investments for visionary start-ups, SMEs and scale-ups to reach the market. Join our satellite event to learn more!

EIC Greenhouse Gas Programme Summit

OPEN TO GENERAL PUBLICDecember 7, from 9.00 AM until 12.30 AM.

This event will entail fireside chats with business, industrial and regional partners such as Holcim, SUEZ, Trelleborg, Euratex and Helsinki-Uusimaa. GHG awardees will showcase their success stories and best practices/know-how on co-creation activities. To celebrate the breakthroughs and good practices that emerged from the initiative, we invite all EIC beneficiaries to join us on this journey towards carbon neutrality to witness all this first-hand.

EIC Greenhouse Gas Programme Summit
The Coalition of Willing

The Coalition of Willing

UPON INVITATION - December 7, from 15:00 PM until 17.30 PM.

This event will discuss the first actions envisaged by start-up ecosystems, smart cities, and innovative companies as part of the NEIA ‘Coalition of the Willing’. It will be discussed how these actions can enable a co-implementation approach of the NEIA Flagships. Insights of how to improve the collaboration with the European University Alliances will also be presented.