The ESRF signs a Memorandum Of Understanding with the European Innovation Council

The EIC aims to identify research breakthrough technologies and innovative solutions and support their maturation and market outreach by providing funding, facilitating access to scaling up services, enabling win-win partnerships and acquisition of investment, among others.

In 2022, the EIC launched a two-year programme called Ecosystem Partnerships and Co-investment Support, with the goal of providing sector-specific and niche services and investment opportunities to EIC Beneficiaries.

The ESRF and the European Innovation Council and SME Executive Agency (EISMA) have just signed a Memorandum of Understanding that brings to life this collaboration. In particular, the ESRF will offer five tailor-made services for EIC beneficiaries, such as consultancy to support innovation using advanced analytical techniques and fast-track advanced synchrotron X-ray analytics and materials characterisation.

"Through this MoU, the ESRF supports the use of X-rays by European industry and boosts Europe's competitiveness in ground-breaking domains by simplifying the access of the EIC innovators to ESRF-Extremely Brilliant Source.", say Gema Martínez-Criado and Michael Krisch, directors of research at the ESRF.  

Ed Mitchell, head of the business development office, adds: “EIC is the gateway to European deep-tech enterprises, especially disruptive SMEs, and by partnering with the EIC, ESRF can better reach out to this rapidly developing innovation ecosystem".

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