The European Institute of Innovation and Technology - EIT HEI Initiative is established to support Higher Education Institutions to design activities that will improve their entrepreneurial and innovation capacity.
The EIT HEI Initiative is committed to working together with universities and partners to boost knowledge in Deep Tech fields such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cleantech to power new technologies for a brighter Europe. Through the EIT HEI Initiative, partners will have access to Europe’s largest innovation ecosystem and enhance the quality of their entrepreneurial education programmes, further developing the talent pool of European deep tech innovators.
For the third call for proposals, which deadline was February 2023, EIT announced the 16 winning consortia.
A total of 48 consortia representing over 510 organisations from across Europe applied for this year’s call. As a result, 16 projects, involving 100 HEIs and 79 non-academic organisations (companies, research centres, public authorities and associations), will benefit from maximum funding of EUR 750 000 each. With an even distribution of academic and non-academic organisations, the EIT HEI Initiative is determined to achieve its goal of creating synergies between industry and higher education institutions to boost innovation and entrepreneurship in Europe.
İstanbul Kültür University from Türkiye is among the selected HEIs with the project named BOOSTalent as partner institution.
For more information regarding the selected projects please follow this link.