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If you are a member of the press and interested in speaking to an EIT representative about the EIT Awards 2020, or would like to reserve an interview in the available times below, please consult the press agenda and contact us:

Caroline Vandenplas, Head of Communications Section
Email: press@eit.europa.eu | Tel: +36 303 857 398

Press agenda (8-9 December 2020)

All the information on the media programme can be found below. Through specific sessions, journalists will have the opportunity to virtually meet leading participants and personalities, with interview opportunities including:

• The EIT Award nominees themselves, discover more about them in the interactive brochure
• Martin Kern, EIT Director
• Gioia Ghezzi, new Chair of the EIT Governing Board

Tuesday 8 December 2020

• 10.00 - 13.00: Public pitching/presentation
• 14.00 - 16.20: Meet the EIT Awards nominees: 'speed-dating' between nominees and journalists. Interview opportunities

Wednesday 9 December 2020

• 14.00 - 15.00: Interview opportunities
• 16.00: EIT Awards Ceremony
• 17.15: Closing press conference
• 17.45 - 18.30: Interview opportunities
• 18.00 - 19.00: Meet the winners - bilateral interviews