Independent Observer’s (IO) Report EIT 2018 Call for Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs)

The report describes the observations, findings, suggestions & recommendations made by Joseph Prieur as an independent observer for the evaluation of proposals submitted in response to the EIT 2018 call for proposals for the designation of 2 new EIT Innovation Communities (KICs), one on Urban Mobility, the other one on Manufacturing. The observer attended all evaluation phases from the remote individual evaluation by experts (remote observation in August/September 2018) through to the consensus phase (October 10-12, 2018 in Budapest) and the hearing phase (December 4-5, 2018 in Budapest), until the decision by the EIT Governing Board (December 5, 2018).