European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT)

European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT)

Utolsó frissítés: 2024 szeptember 20.

EIT at a glance

Europe’s largest innovation network strengthening innovation since 2008

Our mission is to create jobs and deliver sustainable and smart growth. We’re an integral part of Horizon Europe, the EU’s Framework Programme for Research and Innovation.

A model based on partnerships across industries

We’re a unique EU body in that our method for driving innovation involves bringing together organisations across business, education, and research. The goal of these partnerships is to find and commercialise solutions to pressing global challenges. For each global challenge, there is an ecosystem of partnerships called Knowledge and Innovation Communities.

Partnerships that foster talent and ingenuity

To face these global challenges, our community of partners offers a wide range of education courses, business creation and acceleration services, and innovation-driven research projects.

An integral part of Horizon Europe

Our objectives are tied with that of Horizon Europe.

Horizon Europe is the EU’s key funding programme for research and innovation with a budget of EUR 95.5 billion. It is dedicated to tackling climate change and achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals. It is also dedicated to boosting the EU’s global competitiveness and economic growth.

Pillar 3 of Horizon Europe is ‘Innovative Europe”. That’s where we come in as contributors. With our budget of EUR 3 billion, we:

  •     Strengthen sustainable innovation ecosystems across Europe
  •     Foster the development of entrepreneurial and innovation skills in a lifelong learning perspective
  •     Support EU universities in integrating more entrepreneurial education
  •     Bring new solutions to global societal challenges to the market
  •     Create synergies and added value within Horizon Europe

EIT Legal framework
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All other documents can be found in the library.

Legal information relating to the use of the EIT website can be found here.

Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs):

The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) is primarily active in the development of Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs) across the continent. The EIT works through the Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs), which bring together higher education institutions, research organisations and businesses, and their partners. The EIT covers 25% of the expenditure of this long-term R&D collaboration. The remainder is generated by the partnerships.

The KIC partnerships have been set up in response to EIT calls in the following areas:

  •     EIT Climate-KIC
  •     EIT Digital
  •     EIT Food
  •     EIT Health
  •     EIT InnoEnergy
  •     EIT Raw Materials

The position and role of the KICs' members in the association varies. There are the institutions identified in the EIT KIC application as being the main actors of the KICs (hereafter referred to as founding members) (e.g. core/affiliate/formal partner, co-location centre, associate partner/cluster) and the partners at lower levels of the KIC network (hereafter referred to as network members) (e.g. associated partner, network partner).

Activities

Source: https://eit.europa.eu/