This tender aims to follow up with the work developed by the EIC with large corporations and support the announcement made in the Startups and Scaleups Strategy on the creation of a European Corporate Network. The general objective is to increase the industrial uptake of deep tech innovations in Europe by supporting the collaboration between large corporations and deep tech startups/scaleups, in particular EIC-backed start-ups, scale-ups and SMEs. Specific objectives: - Develop and upgrade the EIC (Multi-)Corporate Days activities. - Offer expert dedicate assistance to EIC Awardees and committed large corporations to develop Proofs of Concept (PoCs), Pilots and other activities translatable into scalable impactful businesses. - Provide comprehensive support for the establishment and management of the new “European Corporate Network”, including fora and working groups to facilitate the development and sharing of best practices in corporate venturing and facilitate the organisation of activities designed following the findings and conclusions of the ECN. - Position the EIC as a centre of excellence for corporate-startup collaboration.
Physical reporting meetings (kick-off, 5 interim, 1 final) at the Contracting Authority's premises in Brussels when decided by the Contracting Authority — costs borne by the contractor, no additional reimbursement Organisation and physical attendance at EIC Corporate Days and Multi-Corporate Days at partner corporation headquarters (minimum 40 engagement activities over 36 months) At least 2–3 Multi-Corporate Day engagement activities per year outside the EU-27 (e.g. Japan) Annual on-site meeting of the EIC network of corporate practitioners (location unspecified) At least one annual CEO Network meeting in connection with the World Economic Forum Annual meeting in Davos (or similar level event) Securing and covering entry cost for an EIC representative at at least 3 high-level European events per year related to Corporate venturing Online management meetings called by the Contracting Authority at least once per week Preparation of selected EIC Awardees (online) — application, selection, preparatory coaching, and follow-up phases of EIC Corporate Days/MCDs are conducted online Steering Committee meetings when not requested to be held in Brussels Where possible, video conference tools will be used to enable or smoothen communication and reduce travel costs and greenhouse gas emission
Tenderers can be natural or legal persons. Tenderers are not obliged to take a specific legal form to submit their tenders. Where tenderers submit a tender through an entity, which lacks legal personality (e.g., a branch), the compliance with the exclusion criteria, selection criteria, the rules on access to procurement as well as the absence of restrictive measures shall be assessed at the level of the tenderers. Tenderers do not need to prove specific legal and regulatory capacity to perform the contract.
Tenderers must comply with the following selection criteria in order to prove that they have the necessary economic and financial capacity to perform the contract.
The tenderer must prove experience in the field of business training/coaching/mentoring to private companies working on deep tech areas and have a capacity to mobilize experts for the establishing business deals.
The tenderer must prove experience in the field of business analysis on international deep tech companies.
The tenderer must prove experience in the fields of organisation/logistics of high-level international business events.
The tenderer must prove experience in the field of managing high-level networks and communities, working groups etc. of high-level business stakeholders online and onsite.
The tenderer must prove experience in the field of Venture clienting.
The tenderer must prove capacity to work and draft reports in English.
At least 1 lead project manager responsible for the project management, including the full overseeing of the contract service delivery, coordinating the contractor's staff, activities and communication, and become the operational contact point of the contractor/consortium for the Contracting Authority.
At least 1 senior expert in high level business partners' search and onboarding, in charge of the search, onboarding and follow up of business partners/large corporations.
At least 1 senior expert in business matching conversion, development support and Venture clienting, responsible for the support provided for selected EIC Awardees after the matching & pitching day in all the activities to be organised. He/she will be supporting/mentoring EIC Awardees and corporations by acting as 'adviser', counsel and strategist also on legal and financial matters with the objective of facilitating the progression of that interaction towards concrete business impact and industrial adoption.
At least 1 senior expert in business and investment readiness through training and coaching, responsible for the preparation of the selected EIC Awardees to profit their participation in the programme activities, including the preparatory workshop and trainings organised before each programme activity.
At least 1 senior operational expert, responsible for the coordination and operational management of the support needed for the ECN management, including stakeholder engagement with senior corporate representatives, organisation of high-level meetings and events, preparation of supporting materials, coordination of follow-up actions, and management of related administrative, logistical and communication tasks.
At least 1 senior expert in logistics and event organisation, responsible for logistics and organisation of all the events of the programme, specially the corporate, multicorporate and the other adapted/experimental formats.
At least 1 senior expert in community management and communication, responsible for the management of the EIC-CPP communication/dissemination of the programme, including all its activities, the dissemination of their impact and the editing/check of all the content published about the programme. She/he will be the unique contact point for communication activities with the Contracting Authority.
At least 1 expert in data collection and reporting, responsible for data collection and reporting from all the activities of the programme.
At least 1 expert in IT management, responsible for IT management, alignment with the EIC IT environment and in particular in designing and managing platforms or features within platforms.
At least 1 professional graphic designer, responsible for all the graphic publications of the programme and its match with the Contracting Authority requirements.
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Involved entities (see Section 2.4) and all subcontractors, including those which do not need to be identified in the tender (see Section 2.4.2), must not be subject to professional conflicting interests which may negatively affect the contract performance. Where the contracting authority has established such conflicting interests, it may conclude that the tenderer or an involved entity does not possess the required professional capacity to perform the contract to an appropriate quality standard.
Published 17 June 2026 · rebuilt nightly from the official notice.