Newsletter - Issue 1/2024 - Announcing The 2024 EIT Awards Nominees
EIT Newsletter03 Jan 2024
The EIT Community wishes you a happy new year! We hope that 2024 will bring you a year filled with innovation, collaboration and incredible achievements. Will this be the year to take your innovation to the next level? We are here to help you. Below you will find the latest from Europe's largest innovation ecosystem. In this edition: our EIT Awards nominees, the continuation of the HEI Initiative and the EIT Summit 2024.
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) is pleased to announce the nominees for the 2024 EIT Awards. In the competition’s tenth year, the EIT Community is celebrating 20 outstanding innovators from 15 countries for their innovative products in areas such as healthcare, mach ...
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) is pleased to announce the launch of its newest innovation hub in Ukraine. The new hub will build on the strong efforts of the EIT Community to support Ukrainian innovators. The EIT Community in 2023 alone has opened over 50 of its education, ...
In a landmark decision, the Governing Board of the European Institute for Innovation and Technology (EIT) has announced the continuation of the ‘EIT Higher Education Institutions (HEI) Initiative’. Due to the remarkable achievement of the programme’s pilot phase, including the training o ...
The EIT Community maintains a steadfast commitment towards Ukraine. Our latest initiative, the Red Kalyna elevates Ukrainian women innovators and their contributions towards their local communities. 30 Ukrainian women were nominated for the EIT Community's Red Kalyna Initiative, aiming to illum ...
The EIT makes CB Insights' top 25 most successful start-up accelerators.The ranking is based on the EIT's portfolio strength and performance, using the 2020 investment class as a basis. Business acceleration makes up a major part of one of three of the EIT's core activities: business creation. To da ...
EIT Alumni Nodes Launch and EIT Alumni CONNECT 2023 took place in Barcelona, Spain, on November 23-24, 2023. The groundbreaking EIT Alumni Nodes initiative was launched at the EIT Urban Mobility CLC South offices (Torre Glòries). This initiative aims to provide physical spaces for EIT Alumni i ...
EIT Digital is going to supercharge European scale-ups with the EIT Digital Champions, a competition that rewards innovative companies with the vital support they need to obtain Series A and B funding.European deep tech companies looking for investment funds to help them scale up and grow are invite ...
During a launch session, the city of Braga unveiled three urban mobility solutions set to undergo testing as part of EIT Urban Mobility’s innovative initiative.The kick-off event was presented by Ricardo Rio, City of Braga’s Mayor, Olga Pereira, Councillor for Mobility of the Municipality of Bra ...
The ground-breaking Girls Go Circular programme, designed to bring greater numbers of women to STEM roles, held its third Women and Girls in STEM Forum on 6 December in Brussels.The initiative achieved a 100 % surge in young women’s participation, and gathered over 800 policymakers, industry leade ...
In a ground-breaking move to drive innovation and sustainability in the energy sector, EIT InnoEnergy and Schneider Electric proudly unveil their strategic partnership in education. This marks a significant milestone in their longstanding association, started in 2010 when Schneider El ...
EIT Health has been selected as the coordinator of the Skills Partnership for the European Health Industry, and in doing so, will collaborate closely with DG GROW and DG EMPL to bring about positive changes and boost skills development in the healthcare industry.Following commitments in other indust ...
EIT Food has announced the expansion of its Food Accelerator Network (FAN) for agrifood-tech start-ups to Brazil. The EIT Food Accelerator Network is a 2-3 month programme for agrifood-tech start-ups, currently delivered through five innovation hubs: Helsinki, Munich, Paris, Bilbao and Haifa. T ...
The EIT Summit will kick-off INNOVEIT 2024, the EIT's series of events showcasing Europe's largest innovation ecosystem.2024's INNOVEIT will build on the success of last year's even series and will focus on the many ways that you can join the EIT Community. We will also showcase the EIT's work in ar ...
The EIT EdTech Conference brings together key actors from across the education and innovation communities that are key to fostering European EdTech innovation.This very first EIT Community European EdTech event, coordinated by EIT Urban Mobility, gathers Higher Education Institutions, EdTech compani ...
Start-ups and scale-ups from the culture and creative sectors and industries are encouraged to apply, along with entities that have participated in other activities implemented in the framework of the EIT Community NEB. More specifically, a dedicated slot will be secured for past participants o ...
The Student Entrepreneur Grant Scheme is a new programme of EIT Urban Mobility to support students/ recent graduates working on innovative projects/ ideas.The programme is designed to empower students with the financial resources they need to work on and develop their projects/ideas. By providing sm ...
EIT Food is looking for organisations that would assume the role of EIT Food Hub, one in each of the countries targeted by EIT Food’s Regional Innovation Scheme. About the CallPotential EIT Food Hubs should be organisations from Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, L ...
If you are a spin-off, start-up, or scale-up in Ukraine's manufacturing sector, see if BoostUp! Ukraine 2024 is right for you!BoostUp! is EIT Manufacturing’s start-up competition format and has fostered business creation in manufacturing across Europe since 2020. In 2024, the competition comes to ...
Pathways2Resilience, the flagship project under the EU Mission for Adaptation to Climate Change led by EIT Climate-KIC, has just launched a call for applications. This call aims to select the first cohort of regions to receive EUR 21 million in direct funding to develop transformative climate adapta ...
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