As of November 2018, the SME Instrument and Fast Track to Innovation (FTI) have become the central part of the European Innovation Council (EIC), which has meant several changes for SME Instrument specifically. These modifications are as follows: - Full bottom-up selection approach: the removal of pre-defined topics -as foreseen in previous Work Programmes- shall help foster the process of developing market-creating innovations, by linking different technologies, industry sec