Second community workshop: European Digital Education Hub

The Hub’s second community workshop will take place on 27-28 October 2022 in Brussels. Its topic will be ‘Digital Education in Times of Crises: Emergency Education Enablers’. The current conflict in Ukraine will be the starting point from which participants can share insights and develop policy recommendations on emergency education enablers. While the first community workshop in Tallinn …

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VR/AR Industrial Coalition: Statement to support the European VR/AR ecosystem

The Virtual and Augmented Reality Industrial Coalition has developed a roadmap outlining the next steps for VR/AR in Europe endorsed by the Commission over 40 EU organisations operating and investing in these technologies. The Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR) ecosystem comprises a high number of small and medium enterprises and only a few large market …

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Meet the winners of #ChallengeMyCity 2022

#ChallengeMyCity has selected seven start-ups to test their mobility solutions in Milan, Toulouse, and Madrid. The winners will each receive around €50,000 in funding from EIT Urban Mobility to implement a solution to an urban mobility challenge faced by the city and the opportunity to showcase their product in a real environment through a 6-month …

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European Biodiversity Partnership launches a new research call on transnational biodiversity monitoring

The European Biodiversity Partnership Biodiversa+, co-funded by the European Union, has launched a call for research proposals on “Improved transnational monitoring of biodiversity and ecosystem change for science and society”. This call aims to support transnational research projects (3-years duration) addressing one or more of the three (non-exclusive) themes below: THEME 1 – Innovation and …

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55 ERC Grantees Are Set to Explore Their Research’s Commercial Potential

Proof of Concept Grants funded by the European Research Council (ERC) have just been offered to fifty-five successful frontier researchers. Worth €150 000 each, the grants will be used to explore the commercial or societal potential of the results of their research projects. This funding is part of the EU’s research and innovation programme, Horizon …

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EU and Thailand Signs Partnership for Colloaboration In Frontier Research

A new initiative between the European Union and Thailand was launched to encourage collaboration between leading Thai researchers and European Research Council (ERC) grantees and their teams. This joint scheme is the first of its kind targeting researchers in Thailand. It will promote cooperation between the Thai Programme Management Unit for Human Resources & Institutional …

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EIT Digital presents new report on the Future of Education for Digital Skills

To close the digital skills gap, Europe must modernize its outdated public digital education programs, integrate and streamline private digital education initiatives, and better coordinate pan-European digital skills initiatives, networks and ecosystems. The digital transformation, accelerated by the COVID-19 induced digital surge of the past two years, requires a skills revolution in Europe. It is …

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EIT Food announces three new investments into high-performing agrifood start-ups

Three top performing start-ups selected from EIT Food’s existing entrepreneurship programmes will receive up to EUR 500K in financial support. With 28 investments in total, EIT Food has one of the world’s largest investor portfolios specialising in agrifood early-stage ventures. EIT Food, the world’s largest food innovation community, has today announced three new investments in high …

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Best of The Baltics | sTARTUp Days

EIT Urban Mobility was thrilled to be in Estonia last week mingling with the best of the Baltic’s (and beyond) start-up scene. The three-day event is the largest one in the region bring together the start-up ecosystem in the city of Tartu, Estonia. Our Partners, the University of Tartu were one of the key organisers of …

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European Innovation Procurement Awards (EUIPA) 2022: Discover this year’s semi-finalists

14 applicants made it to the final stages of the second edition of the prize. Supported by the European Innovation Council under Horizon Europe, the European Innovation Procurement Awards recognise powerful cases of public and private buyers  promoting innovation procurement practices across Europe. It also emphasises the importance of close buyer–supplier cooperation in bringing the innovative solutions to the …

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