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What is the EIT's HEI Initiative?

The EIT's HEI Initiative helps higher education institutions build the capacity to teach innovation and entrepreneurship

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Third call for proposals

Boost your organisation’s deep tech talents

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Call for Proposals
Mariya Gabriel

Universities have a critical role to play in the development and growth of local and regional innovation ecosystems.

This new initiative will help them boost their entrepreneurial capabilities at all levels and unlock their innovation potential.

Mariya Gabriel
Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth

What our community thinks

During these first months with the EIT, we have been feeling very supported. They have been caring and helpful with onboarding us into the EIT procedures.

Katre Elias
Project Manager, UNIcorn project

What our community thinks

The agile EIT HEI Initiative team and RiEcoLab allow us to implement institutional change and build innovation capacity, while positioning our HEIs as ecosystem integration labs for spin-offs, start-ups and scale-ups.

Dr T. Bartosz Kalinowski and Dr Adrian Solomon
Coordinators, RiEcoLab project

What our community thinks

EUACCEL has opened up new European spaces and broadened the portfolio of international entrepreneurial and innovation offers for our academic and non-academic staff, students, and start-ups. As a result, we have managed to expand our international network and offer a dynamic framework to other existing regional and international initiatives.

Prof. Dr Thomas Stumpp
Vice President for Business, HM Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences

What our community thinks

The pilot phase of INVENTHEI has allowed us to boost the international orientation of our entrepreneurship initiatives, learn from our partners’ best practices and capitalise our local initiatives. INVENTHEI has impacted our community by enlarging and modernising our entrepreneurship training, reinforcing academia-business networks, and exposing our students and staff to prominent innovation ecosystems.

Prof. Joana Resende
Vice-Rector for Entrepreneurship, Knowledge Valuation and Strategic Planning, University of Porto

Latest news

Call 3 results announcement
Published: 23rd May 2023

Press Release: EIT boosts deep tech training in higher education

EIT HEI Initiative Call 3 results
Published: 21st March 2023

Over 500 organisations apply for the EIT HEI Initiative’s third call for proposals

Published: 8th December 2022

EIT HEI Initiative encourages Ukrainian organisations to apply for its latest call for proposals

Call 3 results announcement
Published: 23rd May 2023

Press Release: EIT boosts deep tech training in higher education

EIT HEI Initiative Call 3 results
Published: 21st March 2023

Over 500 organisations apply for the EIT HEI Initiative’s third call for proposals

Published: 8th December 2022

EIT HEI Initiative encourages Ukrainian organisations to apply for its latest call for proposals

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