Discover opportunities to boost your digital education skills, competences and knowledge through the European Digital Education Hub this autumn. The European Digital Education Hub has already welcomed more than 900 enthusiastic education stakeholders from various sectors across Europe looking to co-create and exchange knowledge. With the help of community experts, in August we provided two online onboarding …
The EIT Community Supernovas welcomes its 2022 cohort for its Rocket Up programme. This first year’s selection will bring pioneering ideas and business to different markets over Europe as they expand through the continent and become the leaders and role models of the future. In the coming months, the chosen start-ups will benefit from top …
Out of 100 applications, the Scale-up Programme has identified the 13 most promising start-ups with solutions for sustainable urban mobility. These companies will now take part in one of the two programme paths. Path A will focus on providing visibility. Path B is oriented towards the performance of a pilot within a European city which …
The ninth edition of the EU Prize for Women Innovators closed on Thursday 18 August, with a record 277 applications submitted. After all proposals have been evaluated, three winners in the ‘Women Innovators’ category will be awarded €100,000 each. To mark the European Year of Youth, three ‘Rising Innovators’ under the age of 35 will …
On 10 August, the European Commission is announcing the 21 finalists in this year’s European Social Innovation Competition – the challenge prize. The shortlisted finalists are all social innovation projects with exciting visions of how to tackle this year’s challenge: “the future of living innovation for affordable and sustainable housing districts”. The theme fulfils the objectives …
The EIC awarded Seals of Excellence to 160 companies who submitted their applications for the EIC Accelerator March 2022 cut-off. These companies’ proposals were judged by independent experts to meet all the EIC’s highly quality standards and deserve funding, but did not get it only due to budget limits. Seal of Excellence, the now well-known quality …
The European Innovation Council (EIC) Business Acceleration Services welcomes all EIC-funded beneficiaries to apply to new open calls that currently have applications open: EIC x REPowerEU, EIC Innovation Bootcamp 4.0 and EIC Corporate Day with Lonza. The EIC aims to support innovators via key matchmaking initiatives. Therefore, beneficiaries are invited to apply to the following open calls: …
The EIC Accelerator, with a unique offer of grants, blended finance and equity investments, has proven to be of high interest for start-ups and SMEs since its launch in March 2021. In particular with the current market context showing a withdrawal of new deep-tech investments by Venture Capital groups, the role of the EIC Accelerator …
On 25 August, the European Commission has launched an online public consultation on the upcoming legislative proposal for a new EU framework for forest monitoring and strategic plans. The aim is to develop an EU-wide forest observation framework to provide open access to detailed, accurate, regular and timely information on the condition and management of EU …
The European Commission has launched an online public consultation on the development of a possible EU Soil Health Law. Soils are the foundation of our food security, providing 95% of the food we eat. Healthy soils are vital for life on Earth. They deliver many essential services, and are crucial to achieve key objectives of the European …