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A Czech candidate nominated for European Prize for Women Innovators

06/02/2025

The co-founder of a Czech innovative start-up RoboTwin Megi Mejdrechová has been nominated for this year´s European Prize for Women Innovators. The prize is jointly awarded by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) and the European Innovation Council (EIC).

Megi Mejdrechová is nominated in the EIT Women Leadership category intended for exceptional representatives of the EIT community. The other two categories are the Women Innovators Prize for women who strarted up successful innovative companies and the Rising Innovators Prize for female innovators under 35.

The awards will be presented on April 3rd during the EIC Summit in Brussels. Further details are available here.

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Regiostars Awards 2025: meet the winners

06/12/2025

Six innovative EU-funded projects were honoured at the 2025 RegioStars Awards on 15 October 2025 in Brussels, held during the 23rd European Week of Regions and Cities. With a record 266 applications from all over Europe, projects were recognized across five thematic categories,...

Hop-on facility - 2025 call outcomes

02/12/2025

The Hop-on call HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-03-ACCESS-01 was open since 6 May 2025 and by the deadline on 4 September 2025, 61 proposals were submitted. The call budget allowed for funding of 90 projects. At the beginning of December, the applicants were informed on call evaluation...

Convergence of the Czech Republic's participation in the Framework Programmes exists, but may face structural limitations

02/12/2025

On October 16, 2025, Daniel Frank published an analysis entitled Convergence of EU-13 Countries in EU Framework Programmes: Trends, Divergences and Limits, with the main finding that "EU-13 are demonstrably strengthening in Horizon Europe, and their convergence towards...

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