Capacity-Building and transnational cooperation for national contact points (ncps) for the eic and access to risk finance – access2eic
ACCESS2EIC is a 16-months coordination and support action aimed to empower and facilitate transnational cooperation within the network of National Contact Points - NCPs focused on the Horizon 2020 European Innovation Council - EIC Pilot and the specific objective Access to Risk Finance - ARF. It involves a consortium made of formally appointed NCPs under ‘Future and Emerging Technologies – FET’, ‘Innovation in SMEs – SME’ and ‘Access to Risk Finance - ARF’ areas of Horizon 2020. 

Overall, the network will aim at: 

-	developing an improved, more consistent and professionalized NCP service across Europe, thereby helping simplify access to EIC Pilot calls, and lowering the entry barriers for newcomers;

-	identifying and sharing good practices and raising the general standard of support to EIC and ARF programme applicants in close collaboration with other NCPs and EU networks, taking into account the novelties of those instruments and the diversity of actors that make up their constituency.