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European Commission opens EIC Fund investment guidelines to defence and larger tickets

The European Commission revised EIC Fund investment guidelines for the EIC Accelerator and STEP Scaleup schemes, explicitly making defence related activities eligible and allowing larger ticket sizes for scaleups; no new budget envelope was announced.

Verified AI-drafted European Innovation Council news page, 27 August 2026

What it does not test. This does not establish that any defence company has yet received EIC Fund money under the revised rules.

How this item counts. No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0. EU-wide rule change opens EIC funding to defence, but no firm funded yet, no tech shifts. European Sovereignty Index

How this item was made. Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above and published under the editor’s responsibility without a person reading it first. How the record is made

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