#Horizon Europe

Securing funding for deep tech hardware startups in Europe represents a unique set of challenges, often requiring a strategic pivot from purely academic research to commercial productization. While founders frequently leverage various non-dilutive grants across Europe to finance early feasibility studies, the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator stands out as …

Horizon Europe presents an unprecedented opportunity for funding large-scale deep tech innovations, but securing and managing these multi-million euro grants requires navigating the complex dynamics of international consortia. These collaborative projects inherently involve bridging the gap between academic institutions, focused on fundamental research, and industrial partners, driven by commercial productization …

A blueprint for filling out the mandatory "Impact" and "Knowledge Utilization" tables in EU proposals. It provides concrete text templates explaining how an open-hardware or studio-backed productization model proves a definitive pathway from TRL 4 to TRL 8, directly satisfying European Commission reviewers.

For European Tech Transfer Offices (TTOs), supporting Principal Investigators (PIs) in securing major funding is a core objective. Grants like the NWO (Dutch Research Council) and Horizon Europe are the lifeblood of deep tech research. However, the evaluation criteria for these massive funding vehicles have shifted dramatically in recent years …

For researchers applying for EU funding, the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) scale is an unavoidable metric. Originally developed by NASA, the TRL scale has been fully adopted by the European Commission to evaluate the maturity of a project. In software or materials science, climbing this scale can sometimes feel like …

Securing a Horizon Europe grant for deep tech hardware requires navigating one of the most rigorous evaluations in the academic world: the Impact section. When developing complex physical instruments—whether it is a custom metrology module for semiconductor yield management or a novel nanoparticle deposition system—Principal Investigators often fall …