The Commission has opened the third set of calls for proposals of the Digital Europe Programme, worth €200 million, under the 2021-2022 Work Programmes. The calls are open to businesses, public administrations, and other entities from the EU Member States, EFTA/EEA countries, and associated countries. This funding will see an investment of €170 million in …
The Commission has granted awards to innovative broadband deployment projects and successful infrastructures at the European Broadband Awards. After a two-year interruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this annual event has returned showcasing best practices and examples of fast and innovative broadband rollout. One winning project gave 93,000 homes in Yvelines high-speed connections thanks to attracting …
The EIT HEI Initiative project INCORE is currently looking for start-ups and small/medium companies interested in receiving support with discovery, incubation and acceleration. Applicants must be based in the outermost regions of the EU: the Azores, Canary Islands, Madeira and La Réunion. The project is currently working with 18 start-ups, who will receive professional help …
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 …
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 …
Academics, innovators, and industry: innovative changes taking hold but more must be done Higher education institution (HEI) experts gathered at a recent EIT Raw Materials-led event to assess the rate of innovation across European HEIs. They agreed that the institutional change and innovations needed to achieve the goals of the European Green Deal are starting …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …