30/04/2020 (Agence Europe) – The European Commission announced on Thursday 30 April that the European Innovation Council's (EIC) Accelerator pilot programme would be funded with an additional €150 million to fund start-ups and SMEs offering innovations relevant to the response to the Covid-19 pandemic. This budget comes on top of the €164 million granted at the end of March to a previous call for tenders under this programme (see EUROPE B12447A3). Nearly 4,000 companies applied -...