t Warsaw │ 25 September 2018

EIT Awareness Day Poland

t Martin Kern, EIT Interim Director Warsaw │ 25 September 2018

Making innovation happen!

European Institute of Innovation and Technology

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EU initiative bringing together the three sides of the ‘knowledge triangle’: business (companies and SMEs), education institutions and research centres.

• Increase the cooperation and integration to facilitate the transition from:

student to entrepreneur

idea to product lab to customer

Vision: become the leading European initiative that empowers innovators

and entrepreneurs to develop world-class solutions to societal challenges,

create growth and skilled jobs.

EIT Innovation Communities

The EIT Knowledge Triangle

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Financial leveraging

Scale-ups

Business creation & acceleration

Research

Innovation

Entrepreneurial education

Global challenges Financial sustainability

Regional cooperation

Cross-KIC cooperation

Policy learnings

SME support

Multiparty communities

EIT Community: Europe’s multipurpose innovation tool

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NAVYA

Country

Description

Aim

EIT Connection

Team

Funding raised

Website

France

Innovative and intelligent driverless shuttle transporting up to 15 passengers

NAVYA ARMA , a 100 % electric and fully autonomous transport vehicle

EIT Digital Accelerator

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€ 34.5 million

www.navya.tech

EIT Digital is supported by the EIT, a body of the European Union

EIT RawMaterials is supported by the EIT, a body of the European Union

ALINA

Country

Description

Aim

EIT Connection

Funding raised

Website

Latvia

Non-toxic building products from clay

Produce clay mineral materials that replace toxic chemicals in building products

EIT RawMaterials Booster

€ 550 000

www.alina-premium.com

“The The EIT Community is an excellent springboard to grow and scale your business”

Solvita Kostjukova CEO, ALINA

Kristina Tsvetanova of EIT Digital-supported

BLITAB Technology wins EU ‘Rising Innovator’ Prize

Our vision is to become the leading European initiative that empowers

innovators and entrepreneurs to develop world-class solutions to societal

challenges, and create growth and skilled jobs.

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EIT Innovation Model

• Independent legal entity, gathering world-

class partners.

• Autonomy & flexibility: to determine

organisational structure and activities

• Long-term strategic approach: set up for a

minimum of 7 years to eventually become

financially sustainable.

• Smart funding & high degree of commitment

of partners: 25%-75%

EIT Model • Effective governance: run by a CEO and a lean

management team

• Innovation Hubs (Co-Location Centres): 5-8 per Innovation Community

• Results & high impact oriented activities: A 7 year Strategy and Annual Business Plans

• Culture: strong entrepreneurial mind-sets and culture

• Synergies & complementarities: at national, European and international level

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EIT Innovation Hubs

Bring ideas and people together in new ways.

Create opportunities for new and existing

organisations to access leading European

teams.

Contribute to the development of a regional

entrepreneurial culture.

Seek synergies and complementarities with

regional, national and EU policies & programmes to

boost innovation and entrepreneurship.

Build trust and openness among their partners.

Facilitate the exchange of ideas and interactions between partners and

other stakeholders.

EIT Raw Materials

EIT Health

EIT InnoEnergy

EIT Food

EIT Digital

EIT Climate-KIC

EIT Community across Europe

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EIT Regional Innovation Scheme

(EIT RIS)

EIT Regional Innovation Scheme Objectives

Objective

• Contribute to enhancing of the innovation capacity in moderate and modest innovators* Member States and Horizon 2020 Associated Countries.

Approach

• Share and transfer good practices of knowledge triangle integration and widen participation in EIT KIC activities.

• Allow for synergies in regions and countries that have been designing Smart Specialisation Strategies.

* European Innovation Scoreboard

1) Bulgaria 2) Croatia 3) Cyprus 4) Czech Republic 5) Estonia 6) Greece 7) Hungary 8) Italy 9) Latvia 10) Lithuania 11) Malta 12) Poland 13) Portugal 14) Slovakia 15) Slovenia

Eligible countries:

EU-13 share of funding and participation

Funding: 8.3% (Horizon 2020: 4.7%)

Participation: 11.3% (Horizon 2020: 7.8%)

EIT Regional Innovation Scheme

* Based on the European Innovation Scoreboard 2017 / Group of Moderate and Modest innovators

16) Spain 17) Romania 18) Albania 19) Armenia 20) Bosnia and Herzegovina 21) Faroe Islands 22) Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 23) Georgia 24) Moldova 25) Montenegro 26) Serbia 27) Turkey 28) Ukraine

EIT Regional Innovation Scheme: Evolution

• Phase 1 - 2015-2016: first pilot activities of EIT RIS: attracting talents to the EIT’s

Innovation Communities activities

• Phase 2 -2018-2020: focus on strengthening local innovation ecosystems (in

2017 a revised approach on EIT RIS implementation)

• To date:

18 countries covered via EIT hubs (all EU Member States), more countries

involved in EIT activities, e.g. education, business creation and fellowships

EIT RIS Strategy per Innovation Community for 2018-2020:

Mobilize local actors/ ensure increased involvement to EIT activities

Share good practices from the EIT Community based on local needs

Alignment and synergies with national smart specialisation strategies

To date: EIT Hubs and Innovation Centres (EIT Digital)

EIT Raw Materials

EIT Health

EIT InnoEnergy

EIT Digital

EIT Climate-KIC

EIT Food

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The EIT in Poland

• EIT Innovation Hubs

EIT Climate-KIC

EIT Food

EIT InnoEnergy

EIT RawMaterials

• Total EIT Grant in 2017: € 9,781,936

• Participating organisations: 81

• Participating SMEs: 27 (33.3 %)

Figures from 2017

BIN-E Poland

Developing the best solution

for waste management, which

automatically segregates and

compresses waste

EIT InnoEnergy Highway® and

PowerUp! Audience Award winner

€ 500 000 +

12 staff

EIT InnoEnergy is supported by the EIT, a body of

the European Union

DR POCKET Poland

Devices that dispense

medications, vitamins and

supplements for immediate

use

EIT Health InnoStars and

HeadStart winner in

Digital Health

€ 250 000 +

10 staff

EIT Health is supported by the EIT, a body of the

European Union

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What can the EIT Community do for

you?

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Master programmes

• International cooperation and industry involvement

• Mobility, internships and scholarships/ fellowships

Doctoral programmes and schools

• Training on specific skills and competences

• Mobility, internships and scholarships/ fellowships

Executive training & post-doctoral courses

Continuous professional development courses

& modules

Learning modules and MOOCs;

alumni and outreach activities

Main EIT Community education activities

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EIT Label Master and Doctoral programmes

• 5 quality criteria

• EIT Overarching Learning Outcomes

• Robust entrepreneurship education

• Highly integrated, innovative "learning-by-doing" curricula

• Mobility, European dimension and openness to the world

• Outreach strategy and access policy

The next generation of

entrepreneurs, innovators &

change-makers

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What does the EIT Community offer entrepreneurs?

Access to the EIT Community network

• Mentoring and business coaching to prepare and implement business plans

• Meeting potential business partners and new customers

• Raising company’s own profile through the KICs’ partners

• Access to new technologies

• Exploring markets beyond the home market

• Thematic specialisation

Comparative advantages

• Market-focus

• Shorter time to market

• Bridging the gap between academia and business

• Proximity to finance sources: seed funding, VC, etc.

Benefits of business engagement

The EIT Community provides:

Grants

Investors

Customers

Experts and scientists

Potential partners

Market-orientated support services

Life-long learning

Ideation Pre-incubation

Start-ups Scale-ups

Innovation projects SME and Partner support

Innovation-driven research

New products, services, processes

and business models

Transdisciplinary and multicultural teams working

together on societal challenges

Example: EIT Climate-KIC Innovation Projects

• Pathfinder: Ideator programme

• Demonstrator: Confirming

whether innovations have a real

market potential

• Scaler: Bringing proven

innovations to the market

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Opportunities for all innovators!

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