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EIT Awareness Day in Lithuania

The Ministry of Economy and the Ministry of Education and Science together with the Agency for Science, Innovation and Technology (MITA) are organizing a conference to raise awareness of the EIT and its KIC’s role on 23th of May, 2013 in Vilnius. The participants will get first-hand information from EIT representatives and the existing KICs on how the concept works in practice and what future activities are planned.

The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) has the objective of strengthening Europe's innovation capacity through the so-called KICs (Knowledge and Innovation Communities) covering the knowledge triangle of research, higher education and innovation. The EIT is no new funding instrument for individual projects, but supports the set-up and the activities of the KICs across Europe. The KICs are the EIT's operational units and work in cross-disciplinary areas of strategic importance. In the KICs, the three sides of the knowledge triangle are interconnected allowing for new forms of cooperation and synergies. An emphasis is placed on generating growth by placing emphasis on entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial education and nurturing start-ups. So far, the following three KICs have been established in Europe: Climate-KIC (Climate Change Mitigation) EIT ICT Labs (Information and Communication Technologies) KIC InnoEnergy (Sustainable Energy). Several new KICs are expected to be launched in the period of 2014-2018 (Innovation for Healthy Living and Active Aging, Raw Materials, Food4Future, Urban Mobility, Added-value Manufacturing, Smart Secure Societies).

The conference language will be English.

For more information on this event and on how to register, please contact Raimonda Petkeviciene:

  • Phone: +370 5 2644711
  • email: raimonda.petkeviciene@mita.lt