The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) aims to strengthen Europe's innovation capacity by connecting higher education, research, and business. It has launched several Innovation Communities that bring together partners from multiple countries to develop solutions for societal challenges like climate change, health, digital technologies, and more. The EIT is seeking to establish two new Innovation Communities in urban mobility and manufacturing. It provides funding and support for entrepreneurship training, business startups, and knowledge sharing across Europe and beyond. The EIT aims to empower innovators and help bring their solutions to market.

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Making innovation happen!
Martin Kern – EIT Interim Director
05 December 2017

2. European Institute of Innovation and Technology
• 1
st
EU initiative bringing together the three sides of
the Knowledge Triangle: business (large corporates
& SMEs), education institutions, research centres.
• aim to increase the co-operation and integration
between higher education, business and research
to facilitate the transition from:
student to
entrepreneur
idea to product lab to customer
Our vision is to become the leading European initiative that empowers
innovators and entrepreneurs to develop world-class solutions to societal
challenges, and create growth and skilled jobs.

3. EIT Priorities 2014 - 2020
growth & impact of
first 3 innovation
communities
5 new Innovation
Communities EIT Community
good practices
Inc. EIT Regional
Innovation Scheme
(EIT RIS)
Sharing and
Disseminating
Fostering
EIT Climate-KIC
EIT Digital
EIT InnoEnergy
1 2 3
Creating
EIT Health
EIT Raw Materials
EIT Food
EIT Manufacturing
EIT Urban Mobility
2014
2016
2018

4. Innovation Eco-systems and Knowledge
Triangle Integration

5. EIT Innovation Communities
EIT Climate-KIC EIT Digital EIT InnoEnergy
EIT Raw Materials EIT Health EIT Food

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EIT’s 2018 Call for two new
Innovation Communities
EIT Urban Mobility*
Smart, green and
integrated transport
EIT Manufacturing
relaunch*
Added-value
manufacturing
* Subject to the outcome of the EIT’s mid-term evaluation by
the European Commission.

7. EIT Model
• Innovation Hubs (Co-location Centres): each
EIT innovation community consists of
innovation hubs leveraging on existing
capacities and building pan-European networks.
• Smart funding & high degree of commitment
of partners
• Results & high impact oriented activities: EIT
innovation communities implement a Business
Plan with measurable results and impact.
• Long-term strategic approach: each
EIT innovation community is set up for
a minimum of 7 years to eventually
become financially sustainable
• Outreach incl. EIT Regional Innovation
Scheme
• Culture: EIT innovation communities
are shaped by strong entrepreneurial
mind-sets and culture.

8. Boosting innovation and entrepreneurship in
Europe
Growth and jobs for Europe
Start-ups and spin-offs
New products, services, processes and
business models introduced in the
market to tackle societal challenges
Next generation of entrepreneurs,
innovators and change agents
EIT making innovation happen!
EIT business incubation &
acceleration
EIT innovation & entrepreneurship
activities
EIT entrepreneurial degrees &
courses

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EIT’s Innovation Hubs
Bring ideas and people
together in new ways.
Create opportunities
for new and existing
organisations to access
leading European
teams.
Contribute to the
development of a regional
entrepreneurial culture.
Seek synergies and
complementarities with
regional, national and EU
policies & programmes to
boost innovation and
entrepreneurship.
Build trust and openness
among their partners.
Facilitate the exchange of
ideas and interactions
between partners and
other stakeholders.
Co-location Centres

10. EIT Community across Europe
EIT Raw Materials
EIT Health
EIT InnoEnergy
EIT Food
EIT Digital
EIT Climate-KIC

11. Today, the EIT Community brings together more than 1,000 partners:
Overview of EIT Community Partners
Figures – July 2017
139
65
58
231
93
50
36
51
55
51
24
19
37
32
64
49
13
17
2 2
0
50
100
150
200
250
EIT Climate-KIC EIT Digital EIT Health EIT InnoEnergy EIT Raw Materials
Business
Higher Education
Research
Cities, Regions, Ngos
75
9
141
/ SME
16
5

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EIT Achievements & Results

13. Kristina Tsvetanova of
EIT Digital-supported
BLITAB Technology wins
EU ‘Rising Innovator’ Prize
Our vision is to become the leading European initiative that empowers
innovators and entrepreneurs to develop world-class solutions to societal
challenges, and create growth and skilled jobs.

14. EIT Awards 2017
EIT VENTURE AWARD
Hans Constandt
(Founder and CEO)
Ontoforce
• Aim: To heal patients with
smarter data and have a global
impact on bringing drugs to
market faster
• EIT Community connection:
EIT Health
EIT CHANGE AWARD
Florence Gschwend
(Co-founder and Director of Operations)
Chrysalix Technologies
• Aim: To use any type of woody material to produce the
chemicals, materials and fuels of a cleaner tomorrow
• EIT Community connection: EIT Climate-KIC
EIT INNOVATORS AWARD
Martin Steinberg
Stockholm3 Test (STHLM3)
• Project aim: To predict the
risk of aggressive prostate
cancer at biopsy by analysing
five protein markers, more than
100 genetic markers, and
clinical data
• EIT Community connection:
EIT Health
EIT AUDIENCE AWARD
Carsten Mahrenholz
(Co-founder and CEO)
COLDPLASMATECH GmbH
• Aim: To pioneer the next step in modern medicine, treat
chronic wound patients, and kill multi-resistant bacteria
• EIT Community connection: EIT Health

15. tado°
Description
Aim
EIT Community
connection
Team
Revenue
growth
VC funding
Website
Intelligent climate control
Make users’ homes and places of work more
comfortable, and help them to save money
and energy (30% saving on heating costs)
EIT Climate-KIC Accelerator
130 staff
630% in 2014, 350% in 2015
>75 million euro
tado.com
EIT Climate-KIC is supported by the EIT, a body of the European
Union
“EIT Climate-KIC has not only supported us
within its financial funding programmes, but has
also offered us a great platform to exchange
knowledge”
Stefanie Sedlak
PR and Communication Manager
tado°

16. Skeleton Technologies
Country
Description
Aim
EIT Community
connection
Team
VC funding
Website
Estonia
Ultracapacitor power cells with curved
graphene technology
Provide ground-breaking energy
storage solutions
EIT InnoEnergy Innovation Projects
100
41.7 million euro
skeletontech.com
EIT InnoEnergy is supported by the EIT, a body of the European
Union
“EIT InnoEnergy business networks have led to
successful business relationships with leading
power and automation companies, railways service
providers and transmission system operators.”
Taavi Madiberk, CEO of Skeleton Technologies

17. EIT Community Achievements
The EIT’s Innovation Communities are growing into thriving
European innovation hubs:
1224
number of graduates
up from 776
2242
number of business
ideas incubated
up from 1217
number of start-ups created
up from 213
1232
number of knowledge
transfers/adoption
up from 723
430
number of new or improved
products, services and
processes launched
Up from 212
305
Figures – August 2017
as compared to September 2016

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EIT Regional Innovation
Scheme (RIS)

19. EIT Regional Innovation Scheme (EIT RIS)
Objective
• Contribute to enhancing the innovation capacity in moderate and modest
innovators* EU Member States and Horizon 2020 Associated Countries.
Approach
• Share and transfer good practices of knowledge triangle integration emerging
from the EIT Community’s activities and widen participation in KIC activities.
• Strengthen local innovation ecosystems by engaging local organisations and
individuals in KIC activities, transfer good practices and know-how to the local
innovation ecosystems and provide tailor-made services to address innovation
gaps, as well as linking local ecosystems to the European ecosystems.
* European Innovation Scoreboard

20. EIT Regional Innovation Scheme
Eligible countries:
EU-13 share of funding and participation (EIT-KIC grants 2015)
Funding: 8.3% (Horizon 2020: 4.7%) - Participation: 11.3% (Horizon 2020: 7.8%)
* Based on the European Innovation Scoreboard 2017/
group of Moderate and Modest innovator
1) Bulgaria
2) Croatia
3) Cyprus
4) Czech Republic
5) Estonia
6) Greece
7) Hungary
8) Italy
9) Latvia
10) Lithuania
11) Malta
12) Poland
13) Portugal
14) Slovakia
15) Slovenia
16) Spain
17) Romania
18) Albania
19) Armenia
20) Bosnia and
Herzegovina
21) Faroe Islands
22) Former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia
23) Georgia
24) Moldova
25) Montenegro
26) Serbia
27) Turkey
28) Ukraine

21. EIT RIS cooperation entities

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EIT Strategic
Innovation Agenda
2021-2027

23. • The EIT vision is to be a global innovation leader delivering
world-class solutions to societal challenges that create jobs
and improve the quality of life of citizens.
• The EIT’s mission is to strengthen Europe’s innovation
capacity by connecting and empowering people and
organisations to create, educate and innovate.
Our Future Ambition:
EIT Vision 2030 and Mission

24. EU-level goals the EIT will be contributing to:
• Contribute to sustainable European economic growth, jobs and competitiveness,
• Reinforce the innovation capacity of the EU, its Member States and regions,
• Address major societal challenges.
The specific objectives of the EIT will be to:
• Foster and strengthen sustainable innovation ecosystems by connecting people,
disciplines, sectors, organisations and resources,
• Enhance and bring solutions to societal challenges to the market by integrating
business, education and research,
• Promote skills and competences for a strong inclusive entrepreneurship and
innovation culture,
• Share innovative practices and learning and contribute to innovation policy in Europe.
EIT Future Objectives

25. EIT Strategic Innovation Agenda 2021-2027
Main Content Elements I
• Increased global ambition
„Our vision is to become a global innovation leader delivering
world-class solutions to global societal challenges that create jobs
and improve the quality of life of citizens”.
• EIT intervention logic and clear EU added value
• We foster sustainable Innovation Ecosystems
• We reduce fragmentation and enhance innovation capacity;
• We contribute to solving societal challenges.
• Strengthened place in the EU innovation landscape

26. EIT Strategic Innovation Agenda 2021-2027
Main Content Elements I
Four strengthened objectives and key elements of delivery:
1. We foster, grow and further strengthen sustainable pan-European
innovation ecosystems by connecting people, disciplines, sectors,
organisations and resources
2. We deliver new solutions to global societal challenges to the market
by integrating business, education and research
3. We nurture entrepreneurial talent and enhance skills and
competences for a strong inclusive entrepreneurship and innovation
culture
4. We share innovative practices and learnings widely, deliver thought
leadership and contribute to innovation policy design in Europe

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EIT Education Activities

28. Master and doctoral studies
• International cooperation, industry
involvement
• Training on specific skills and
competences
• Mobility, internships and scholarships/
fellowships
Executive training and post-doctoral
courses
Continuous professional development
courses/modules
Learning modules and MOOCs
Alumni and outreach activities
Overview of main EIT Education Activities
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2
3
4
5

29. EIT Label – flagship education initiative
 The EIT Label is a quality seal awarded to an excellent master
and doctoral programmes with strong focus on innovation and
entrepreneurship education element.
 EIT educational programmes are carried out at the KIC
universities by their faculties but with the EIT specific learning
outcomes and other quality criteria that are required for the EIT
Label.
 A student graduating/being admitted within the validity period of
an EIT-labelled programme (irrespective of whether the period of
study was commenced prior to/completed after the validity
period) can be awarded an EIT Label certificate.

30. EIT master and doctoral programmes
Distinctive features
 Specific innovation and entrepreneurship activities focused
on linking the research to the broad needs of KIC participants;
 Robust entrepreneurship education is a standard part of the
programmes;
 Highly integrated, innovative "learning-by-doing" curricula;
 Strong focus on industry and business involvement in all
stages of education lifecycle (from designing modules’
content to participation in delivery);
 Focus on international AND trans-organizational mobility,
European dimension and openness to the world;
 Direct access to other KICs activities (incubators, accelerators)
 Graduates can benefit from being part of growing EIT Alumni
community of innovators, entrepreneurs and experts

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• Challenge: Quantitative and qualitative skills mismatch.
• Mission: Equip young people with entrepreneurial and STE(A)M skills.
• Objective: Support national (STE(A)M) skills strategies in EU member states.
Implementation of Pilot Skills Strategies in Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania
2018-2019
Aug.
2018
EU Skills for the Future Initiative
Preparation
Stakeholder
meetings
Development of skills
strategy by national
triple helix partners
Implementation Evaluation
Launch
Signing the
implementation
plan
Pilots
Implementation of
one-year pilots
supported by the
initiative
Upscaling
Development
multi-year plans
based on
evaluation
Aug.
2017

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EIT - Women Leadership & Entrepreneurship
https://eit.europa.eu/women-entrepreneurship - https://eitalumni.eu/community/womeneit/
EIT Awards nominees from 10% female in 2016 to 40+% in 2017. One winner out of Four. EIT KICs show same
positive trends in their respective European level Venture and Business Idea competitions. EIT and KICs Alumni
associations / communities involved in gender equality.

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