EIT Urban Mobility is now a part of the Smart Cities Marketplace

EIT Urban Mobility is happy to announce that it will be a part of a 10-partner consortium led by VITO.be for the management of the Smart Cities Marketplace. The Smart Cities Marketplace is a major market-changing undertaking that aims to bring cities, industries, SMEs, investors, researchers, and other smart city actors together, to advance the market …

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EIC – EIT Digital Venture Acceleration Programme: EIT Digital announces the 10 winners that will receive scaleup support

EIT Digital and the European Innovation Council (EIC) have launched a year-long collaboration pilot aimed at creating new synergies between the two organisations, enabling their supported startups, scaleups, and teams to benefit from each other’s programmes, services, and support activities. A key component of this pilot is the EIC and EIT Digital Venture Acceleration Programme, an …

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Perfect connections at European level

Pôle MecaTech, a Belgian competitiveness cluster from the Walloon region, strives to increase their members’ innovation, production and service capacities to raise their profiles on the European and world market. EIT Manufacturing and Pôle MecaTech will collaborate more intensely in the future, just having agreed on a network partnership. Rooted in a region with amazing innovation …

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EIT Urban Mobility: Extra investment opportunities to start-ups incorporated in RIS countries

All over Europe, entrepreneurs are working on innovative solutions to cope with urban mobility challenges. However, circumstances differ across the continent resulting in unequal number and quality of funding opportunities for locally emerging businesses. Through the Regional Innovation Scheme (RIS), EIT tackles such disparities by spreading its activities more evenly. More precisely, the RIS region defines …

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EIT to launch EIT Community RIS Hubs covering all RIS-eligible countries and territories!

The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) is scaling up and consolidating its on-the-ground presence across the Regional Innovation Scheme (RIS) by establishing a network of EIT Community RIS Hubs in over 20 countries across Europe. The EIT RIS is an EIT instrument dedicated to tackling Europe’s persistent innovation divide. By connecting regional actors, innovators, and partners to Europe’s largest …

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The European Commission signs grant agreements with 30 projects under Horizon Europe: Civil Security

The projects will begin their research on a range of topics such as reducing crime, enhancing privacy, and managing responses to natural disasters—contributing to EU policy, priorities, and Missions. Background Five calls for applications for funding under Horizon Europe – Cluster 3: Civil security for society opened on the 30th of June 2021 and closed on the 23rd of …

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European Health Union: A new EU approach on cancer detection – screening more and screening better

Αs part of the EU Cancer Screening Scheme to be put forward under Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan, the Commission presents a new approach to support Member States increasing the uptake of cancer screening. Focusing on detection of cancers at an early stage, the objective of the proposed recommendation is to increase the number of screenings, covering more target …

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EU innovation performance continues to improve in spite of challenges

The Commission has published the 2022 edition of the European Innovation Scoreboard, which reveals that the EU’s innovation performance has grown by about 10% since 2015. Compared to 2021, innovation performance in 2022 has improved for 19 Member States, and declined for eight. Compared to the EU average, global competitors such as Australia, Canada, Republic of …

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Get ready for the European Sustainable Energy Week 2022

The 16th edition of the European Commission’s biggest event dedicated to energy efficiency and renewable energy, the European Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW), started on Monday 26 September. As it did before the pandemic, this 4-day policy conference took place in Brussels, but all sessions can also was attended online. In addition, there was a digital fair …

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