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Newsletter - Issue 7/2020 - €60 million for innovators awarded under EIT Crisis Response Initiative

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€60 million for innovators awarded under EIT Crisis Response Initiative

Almost 1 500 innovators from 44 countries applied for the EIT’s EUR 60 million Crisis Response Initiative. Download Press Release as a PDF The funds have now been unlocked by the EIT Governing...

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European Commission welcomes four new members to the EIT Governing Board

The four new members are Martina Larkin, Paul Rübig, Nektarios Tavernarakis and Attila Végh. The EIT Governing Board oversees the strategic direction of the EIT as well as the selection of...

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EIT Food Accelerator Network announces its third cohort of disruptive agrifood startups

Leuven, 10 June 2020 – EIT Food (The Food Innovation Community of the European Institute of Innovation & Technology) announced the 60 high-impact agrifood startups that have been selected to join...

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EIT Digital to teach 3 000 schoolteachers in Europe about cybersecurity

According to the European Commission, there is a need to create a cybersecurity education programme for primary and secondary schoolchildren. A pilot held in Germany last year is now being developed...

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Hyperloop can play major role in Schiphol airport becoming sustainable multi-modal hub

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol will expand its involvement in hyperloop. This continues the partnership with EIT InnoEnergy supported Hardt Hyperloop, that was first announced in 2018. Since...

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EIT RawMaterials: Closing material loops with Petrit-T – turning industrial side streams into acoustic panels and cement

Sixty tons of industrial side streams can be used as raw material. To move society toward a circular economy and reduce society’s use of virgin raw materials, industry by-products (side streams)...

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European Youth Parliament partners with EIT Health

The EYP brings together young people from all over Europe to address challenges such as healthcare EIT Health will be contributing its expertise about healthcare technology and innovation to a new...

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Citizen activation is essential for Europe to meet its climate ambition

EIT Climate-KIC provides ideas for action under the European Climate Pact. The debate on how to achieve ambitious climate targets is often dominated by a technocratic discourse centred around...

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EIT Manufacturing's Gazelle Accelerator: Creating European Gazelles to boost Europe’s manufacturing sector

Close to 30 participants in the first edition – call for next round starts in September The 2020 Gazelle Accelerator programme organized their 1st matchmaking event mid-June, with already 27 start-ups...

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EVENTS

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EIT @ The Brussels Times online event: The use of tech for a better world

How can new technology best be applied to advance UN development goals? How can international organisations promote the use of technology in support of the UN Sustainable Development Goals? Join The...

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EIT Urban Mobility: ‘Mobility Talks’ episode 3 – Blockchain in mobility: use cases, challenges and opportunities

Learn how blockchain technology is relevant to the urban mobility industry, and get to know start-ups working on blockchain-based use cases. Blockchain technology has entered into many sectors with...

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OPPORTUNITIES

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EIT Innovation Communities launch Cross-KIC Sustainable Cities Calls

Cross-KIC Sustainable Cities aims at strengthening collaboration across Innovation Communities for European carbon neutral cities by 2030. All the Innovation Communities of the Cross-KIC Sustainable...

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EIT RawMaterials Summer School “Digitizing the circular economy”

Metallurgy is a key enabler of a circular economy (CE), its digitalization is the metallurgical Internet of Things (m-IoT). In short: Metallurgy is at the heart of a CE, as metals all...

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Sweden trailblazes the way for sustainable energy entrepreneurs amidst COVID-19

EIT InnoEnergy and Skellefteå Kraft launch accelerator programme to drive energy innovation in Northern Sweden Launching Accelerate Skellefteå, a unique accelerator programme for start-ups in...

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EIT Urban Mobility: Register now for the novel design thinking methodology for urban mobility challenges

The Urban Mobility Integration (UMI) project partners are launching a free 4-day workshop on a novel design thinking methodology for urban mobility challenges. The workshop will be...

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EIT Community Covid-19 response

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Repurposing a medical device that could potentially improve lung function in COVID-19

The current approach to management of COVID-19 involves managing symptoms while the disease runs its course. But with millions of cases worldwide and the death toll continuing to rise, the race...

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French lung specialist supports Madrid healthcare on ventilator use

In the most severe cases, patients with COVID-19 experience severe respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation. Respiratory failure is the main cause of death in critically ill COVID-19...

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Working together to protect those on the frontline

While governments worldwide continue with attempts to contain and manage the coronavirus outbreak, the pandemic is revealing the fragility of health systems in many countries. Healthcare workers have...

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Launching an online evidence platform to support COVID-19 research

In response to the global spread of COVID-19, researchers worldwide rapidly began gathering evidence to better understand the virus and the disease it causes. While scientific knowledge about the...

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