About EIT (infovisual)

Making Innovation Happen!

Our vision is to become the leading European initiative that empowers innovators and entrepreneurs to develop world-class solutions to societal challenges and creates growth and skilled jobs.

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.

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EIT Community

The EIT Community is a growing, evolving and thriving community that brings together like-minded individuals from the EIT, existing and upcoming Innovation Communities, and the EIT Alumni Community.

EIT - Making innovation happen!
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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

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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

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A number of activities in support of the Innovation Communities’ entrepreneurship activities have been set-up, a prime example being the EIT Awards

ABOUT THE EIT AWARDS

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Education

EIT-label educational programmes at Master and PhD levels encourage students to become more creative, innovative and entrepreneurs.

EIT-label programmes ensure that students demonstrate skills and competences in all the following areas:

  • Innovation
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Leadership
  • Creativity
  • Research
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Innovation Communities
  • EIT 2008
  • 3 2010
  • 5 2014
  • 6 2016
  • 8 2018

EIT 2014-2020

The EIT is an integral part of the Horizon2020.

Within this programme, the EIT has been allocated more than 2.4 billion EUR to achieve its goals and to further develop its activities between 2014 and 2020.

It is almost an 800% increase since the EIT’s first funding period (2008-2013).

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