The service supports EIC Beneficiaries of EIC Pathfinder, Transition, and Accelerator programmes requiring multi-technique materials characterisation to advance innovations in functional materials, polymers, biomaterials, coatings, catalysts or nanostructures. The first phase of the service is a free initial consultation and feasibility assessment to define the Beneficiary’s goals, evaluate sample properties and design the most suitable multi-technique approach across the more than 60 advanced analytical instruments available at CERIC. The implementation phase provides a complete analytical characterization involving advanced complementary techniques such as spectroscopy, scattering, imaging and microstructural analysis. CERIC’s in-house experts carry out the experiments and integrate the results into a technical report highlighting composition, structure, behaviour and limitations in order to define optimisation pathways to enhance the Beneficiary’s competitiveness. The technical report may include recommendations on development adjustments, material modifications or next-step experiments to be carried out. The service will help EIC Beneficiaries to reduce uncertainty in materials development, support design decisions and facilitate TRL progression toward proof-of-concept or prototypes, according to the stage of development of the Beneficiary’s innovations. More information about the service: https://www.ceric-eric.eu/industry/services-for-eic-beneficiaries/.