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Call 3:  Open Call for Group Leaders and Local Nodes (SoE)

Objective

The present Open Call aims at selecting one Organisation per each group of countries for the role of the Group Leaders (GLs) and one Organisation per each EEN Consortium for the role of the Local Nodes (LNs) in order to develop tight collaboration with local EEN nodes to provide the most adequate support to Seal of Excellence companies (Seal of Excellence laureates from EIC Accelerator, awarded no later than June 2021), based on context as well as to ensure the long-term sustainability of the activity.

Who’s eligible and what’s its role? (Group Leader & Local Nodes)

Group Leader

Group Leader (GL): The present call for the Group Leaders is open exclusively for EEN members that are full partners of established EEN Consortium at the time of the present application. Further eligibility conditions are available in Section 2.2.1 of the Open Call.

• GL will be responsible for coordinating and supporting LNs within the designated region (see map in the Open Call).
• GL will provide support to LNs in their cooperation with SoE SMEs in obtaining financing from private as well as public sources.
• GL will prepare and update on a regular base the list of possibilities of funding from public sources.
• GL will be responsible for adding local investors and public funders to e-community, adding and onboarding SoE startups to e-community, e-pitches planning, training and coaching services of selected SoE startups and logistic details.
• GL will be responsible for participating in onboarding webinars and coaching workshops organized by EEN2EIC in the context of this project.
• GL will be responsible for supporting EEN2EIC in preparation of the e-pitching calendar.
• GL will organize e-pitches ( 3 events minimum per year within the duration of contract for 3 years, so at least 9 events in total) with coordination of EEN2EIC and LNs.
• GL will be responsible for selecting companies from nominations provided by LNs and provide the pre-pitch coaching for selected companies.
• GL will be responsible for inviting local and national investors to the e-pitches.
• GL will be responsible for monitoring and updating the information about the regional / national EU innovation funding programmes relevant to SOEs.
• GL will follow up the pitching companies and will provide additional matchmaking services for introduction the companies to the investors.
• GL will provide all necessary data and contacts needed for reporting to EEN2EIC, European Innovation Council (EIC) and EEN.
• GL must be active in the implementation of the project and must coordinate their actions with Coordination office.
• GL will be a member of the selection committee for Local Nodes in their groups

Application process and deadline

Applications have to be submitted using the online form before the deadline of 17th of November 2025 at 17:00 Brussels time.

List of approved GLs – third round

Open call 3Ter

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Addendum_Open Call 3 Group Leaders and Local Nodes (SoE) 

List of approved GLs

List of approved GLs – second round

Reporting Form – GLs