EIT Digital delivering Europe’s next generation innovations and entrepreneurs
Europe’s leading digital innovation organisation today announced its highly ambitious strategic plan 2017-2019; delivering by the end of 2019:
- 200 innovative products and services to be created in addition to the 100 already created so far
- €150 million in VC investments to be secured for scaleups in the Accelerator
- 3,500 students to be enrolled in our MSc and PhD programmes and 100,000 in our online programmes – up from 1,300 MSc and PhD students and 20,000 MOOC participants so far
The unprecedented programme will create jobs, stimulate the economy and improve quality of life in Europe and beyond.
Willem Jonker, CEO of EIT Digital, today announced the details of the organisation’s strategic innovation agenda 2017-2019. This will drive digital innovation and entrepreneurial talent needed to catalyse Europe’s digital transformation. As set out in its Strategic Innovation Agenda, EIT Digital will focus on the core areas that present opportunities for Europe to lead internationally and address pressing social and economic issues.
The Strategic Innovation Agenda 2017-19 consists of two main pillars of activities: generating significant innovations from top European research results through incubation, acceleration, entrepreneurship, market uptake and rapid growth of these innovations and developing European human capital by sourcing and training entrepreneurial digital talents.
Ready for the new Strategic Innovation Agenda with proven track-record
Since the launch of its operations in 2010, EIT Digital innovation and education activities have successfully driven Europe’s Digital transformation creating a total of nine new companies and launching 50 products commercially in 2016. Over 200 startups have been coached by the EIT Digital Accelerator and more than €77 million in capital has been raised for EIT Digital startups. EIT Digital has a network of 130 educational and industrial partners - 19 of the 20 partners added in 2016 were industrial.
In Entrepreneurial Education, 1500 students have studied in one of the eight Master programmes, 160 have enrolled in the Doctoral School in seven countries. Over 20 courses were launched for professional students to enhance their digital competencies, and at the same time, their job market value. Twenty top European universities partner with EIT Digital to provide EIT-labelled programmes. Over 20,000 students have taken EIT Digital’s 25 Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC).
“These achievements are impressive and without them Europe’s digital industry would not be as strong as it is today. The years to date were time for EIT Digital to establish operations and infrastructure. I would like to thank all our partners, students and employees for making this happen. Now we have a solid ground for executing our next three years’ Strategic Innovation Agenda and raise our operations to a totally new level as can be seen in our ambitious targets set for 2017-2019”, Mr. Jonker said.
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