European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT)

The EIT is Europe’s largest innovation ecosystem, made up of 2500+ partners working across more than 70+ innovation hubs in Europe and beyond. 

Their mission is to drive innovation forward, as innovation is key to solving pressing global challenges, ensuring a green and sustainable future for Europe.

The EIT was set up in 2008 to strengthen Europe’s ability to innovate, create sustainable growth and skilled jobs in Europe, as well as to overcome the fragmented European innovation landscape. Together with its partners, the EIT Community offers a wide range of education, innovation and entrepreneurship activities across Europe to empower students, innovators and entrepreneurs to turn their best ideas into innovative solutions and products and services that address the needs of citizens. From student and researcher to entrepreneur, from lab to market and from idea to product and service – the EIT accelerates the transition towards a more innovative and entrepreneurial Europe.

As an integral part of Horizon Europe’s Pillar 3 ‘Innovative Europe’, the EIT contributes to achieving Horizon Europe’s objectives by: 

• strengthening sustainable innovation ecosystems across Europe; 
• fostering the development of entrepreneurial and innovation skills in a lifelong learning perspective and supporting the entrepreneurial transformation of EU universities; 
• bringing new solutions to global societal challenges to the market; 
• creating synergies and added value within Horizon Europe.

The EIT supports multi-disciplinary and pan-European partnerships – the EIT KICs– that bring together innovative companies, research centers and universities. Each KIC focuses on a different societal challenge:

• EIT Climate-KIC: accelerating the transition to a zero-carbon economy
• EIT Digital: driving Europe’s digital transformation
• EIT InnoEnergy: achieving a sustainable energy future for Europe
• EIT Health: giving EU citizens greater opportunities for a healthy life
• EIT RawMaterials: developing raw materials into a major strength for Europe
• EIT Food: leading a global revolution in food innovation and production
• EIT Manufacturing: strengthening the competitiveness of Europe’s manufacturing industry
• EIT Urban Mobility: smart, green and integrated transport
• EIT Culture and Creativity: uniting Europe's creatives
• EIT Water: coming soon!

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