EIT Community at a glance
Data: August 2019
Mission
Our mission is to:
Contribute to the competiveness of Europe, its sustainable economic growth and job creation by promoting and strengthening synergies and cooperation among businesses, education institutions and research organisations.
Create favourable environments for creative thoughts, to enable world-class innovation and entrepreneurship to thrive in Europe.
Partners
Today the EIT Community brings together more than 1500 partners across Europe, making it one of the most successful public private partnership projects within the EU.
1796COMPANIES (including SMEs)
476HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS
421RESEARCH CENTRES
282CITIES, REGIONS, NGOs
Entrepreneurship
EIT Innovation Communities manage an integrated portfolio of entrepreneurship activities, including investment funds, business modelling, access to finance, SMEs support, scouting of entrepreneurs & business Ideas (pre-acceleration services), coaching (acceleration), incubation services, networking events, and entrepreneurial education.
The EIT Community aims to create an entrepreneurial culture and environment in its innovation hotspots
A number of activities in support of the Innovation Communities’ entrepreneurship activities have been set-up, a prime example being the EIT Awards
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