Matching people's potential
Promoted by EIC and EIT InnoNext concretises multidisciplinary collaboration among qualified researchers, start-ups and SME through “Innovation internships”.
Discover who can apply
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Learn how to participate in our innovation program:
explore opportunities and get your questions answered.
📅 May 12th 2025 15:00 CET – session for Visiting Talents
📅 May 19th 2025 15:00 CET – session for Hosting Companies
Who is this for?
• European qualified start-ups and companies
• European qualified researchers and innovators
What to get?
A fully funded scientific collaboration within the European research ecosystem.
How to join?
Apply to InnoNext and
• promote your competencies
• create opportunities to collaborate
Applications are now open!
Who Can Apply
Visiting Talents
Are you a researcher driven to transform cutting-edge ideas into real-world solutions? InnoNext initiative addresses researchers and innovators working at the frontiers of scientific and deep-tech R&D, ready to move breakthrough technologies from lab to market.
Apply to InnoNext if you are:
- EIC Pathfinder PhD candidates
- EIC Pathfinder Postdoctoral researchers
- EIC Transition researchers
- Students or graduates from EIT Label Master’s or Doctoral programmes
- EIT Alumni members
- Researchers from other postdoctoral training programmes funded by the EIT Community
- Other KICs education programmes
- PhD and/or postdoctoral researchers participating in projects funded by the European Research Council (ERC)
- Fellows participating in Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships
- Fellows participating in Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Networks
- Fellows participating in Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) COFUND
- PHD and/or postdoctoral researcher participating as a consortium member in a project funded by the Research Infrastructures part of Horizon Europe
Hosting Companies
Are you an innovative start-up or SME willing to access new ideas and insights from the cutting edge of research and accelerate the development of your solutions? InnoNext initiative connects start-ups with researchers at the forefront of scientific and deep-tech R&D.
Apply to InnoNext if your company is:
- Start-ups and SMEs supported by the EIC Accelerator (including H2020 SME instrument)
- EIC awarded Seal of Excellence companies
- Start-ups and SMEs supported by EIC Transition
- Start-ups and SMEs supported by EIC Pathfinder
- Start-ups and SMEs supported by the EIT Community and business creation services
- Start-ups and SMEs created as a result of receiving support from KICS
- Start-ups, scale-ups and SMEs that have been partners of KICs for Innovation activities
- Start-ups and SMEs supported by the EIT Community and its business creation services
- Businesses founded with support from Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs)
- Companies that have partnered with KICs for innovation activities
- Start-ups or scale-ups with at least one co-founder who is an EIT Alumni member
5 European partner programmes supporting InnoNext
+70 companies ready to host top-tier talents
+200 top talents excited to co-create with startups and SMEs
28 fields of application where matching happens
27 European countries engaged
