Register now for the EIT's Innovation Forum - INNOVEIT 2016 in Budapest on April 25 & 26
In 2016, the EIT’s Innovation Forum, INNOVEIT 2016, combines the EIT Awards and the EIT Stakeholder Forum to focus on joining forces for innovation in Europe.
We will explore opportunities to collaborate with the EIT, KICs and other initiatives and activities.
INNOVEIT 2016 will bring together up to 350 entrepreneurs, representatives of business, education and research; EU, national and regional policy makers, and entrepreneurial graduates. Speakers include Commissioner Tibor Navracsics, Commissioner Carlos Moedas and Ken Gabriel. Meet all of our speakers here.
In an inspiring and interactive way, INNOVEIT 2016 will:
- Showcase innovations and ventures emerging from the EIT Community, including how ideas are turned into products and services
- Increase discussion among stakeholders on joining forces for innovation to widen engagement with the EIT and the KICs
- Present the next generation of young entrepreneurs and agents of change.
EIT Stakeholder Forum
The EIT Stakeholder Forum is a platform open to representatives of national, regional and local authorities, organised interests and individual entities from business, education, research, associations, civil society and cluster organisations, as well as other interested parties from across the knowledge triangle.
The EIT Stakeholder Forum:
- Provides information on EIT and KIC activities
- Discusses and receives feedback and input on EIT and KIC activities
- Shares experience, good practice and results
- Contributes to EU education, research and innovation policies
- Ensures synergies and complementarities at EU, national, regional and local levels
- Provides stakeholders with a platform to express their views
- Enables interaction among stakeholders and the EIT Community
Within the EIT Stakeholder Forum, representatives of the Member States meet in a special configuration to ensure a greater flow of information and sharing of experience. This Member State Configuration also ensures appropriate synergies and complementarities between EIT and KIC activities with national programmes and initiatives, including the potential national co-financing of KIC activities.
Participants include:
- National, regional and local authorities
- EU institutional stakeholders (European Parliament, European Commission)
- Organised interests (business, research, education): multipliers and individuals
A meeting of the EIT Stakeholder Forum is convened at least once each year.
EIT Awards
Part of the EIT’s mission is to create an environment that allows entrepreneurship and innovation to flourish - both as a way of thinking and as an activity. To support this, the EIT organises annual awards to recognise and reward the successful start-ups, innovative projects and young entrepreneurial talent that Europe has to offer.
Every year, each of the KICs (currently Climate-KIC, EIT Digital and KIC InnoEnergy) selects two nominees for each award category. The EIT Venture Award, which celebrates breakthrough innovations and exciting start-ups, was introduced in 2012; while in 2013 the EIT CHANGE Award was added to recognise Europe’s newest generation of entrepreneurs and the ideas they produce. In 2015, the EIT introduced the Innovators Award for KIC innovation teams that have developed in an exemplary manner an innovative product, service or process with a high potential for societal and economic impact.
EIT Alumni CONNECT event
Through continuous engagement, the EIT develops the community of graduates from EIT-labelled educational programmes implemented by KICs. The EIT Alumni Connect event will provide a platform for students and alumni from across the KICs to meet, share knowledge, experience and ideas and to continue developing the EIT Alumni Community by engaging students and alumni in developing activities for the community.