EIT Community definition

EIT Community means the EIT and the active community of all individuals and legal entities which benefited or benefit from the EIT support or financial contribution;
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EIT Community means the EIT and the active community of all individuals and legal
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EIT Community means the EIT and the active community of individuals and legal entities which benefited or benefit from the EIT support or financial contribution (in line with Article 2(8) of the EIT Regulation), e.g. support through an innovation or business acceleration procedure of any of the EIT KICs, or successful completion of an EIT Labelled Educational Programme. When requested, the applicant should be able to prove this link to the EIT Community by providing a supporting document, such as a certificate from an EIT KIC indicating the EIT support, a signed agreement for the financial support received from an EIT KIC, or a diploma
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Examples of EIT Community in a sentence

  • The EIT RIS is the EIT Community’s outreach introduced in 2014 to share good practices and experience emerging from EIT Community activities.

  • The EIT Community brings results: over 600 new products and services launched in the market, more than 1250 start-ups and innovative ventures supported, more than 890 MEUR of external investment; and more than 6.000 created jobs.

  • In this respect, the KIC is required to give prominence to the name and emblem of the EIT on all their publications, posters, programmes and other products realised in line with the EIT Community Brand Book.

  • To promote an entrepreneurial mind-set and a risk-taking culture within the EIT Community, the EIT introduced the EIT Entrepreneurship Award in 2012.

  • The EIT Community is characterised by a focus on results and an ambition to achieve long-lasting impact in the way the EU approaches and manages innovation.

  • The EIT Regional Innovation Scheme was introduced in 2014 to share good practices and experience emerging from the EIT Community activities and to widen participation in our activities across Europe.

  • It operates within the EIT Community that brings together businesses (including SMEs), educational institutions, research organisations, and other innovation stakeholders such as public authorities and NGOs. From this core stems a network that enables national and cross- border collaboration, and offers the benefits of regional ecosystems, partners’ facilities, factories, and classrooms for joint programmes and projects.

  • Therefore, the aim of the EIT RIS is to help disseminate the knowledge and know-how of the EIT Community and widen participation in the KICs across Europe.

  • The EIT Community currently supports 120 early-to-mid stage European start- ups working in the field of AI and already invested over EUR 3 million into these companies.In January 2021 the EIT and the EIC joined forces to fast track support to highly innovative start-ups, as well as to coordinate efforts to support women innovators and innovators from less represented regions115.

  • Within the EIT Community, the EIT Awards play an important role in celebrating achievements and success, identifying role models and increasing opportunities for the further development of the EIT Award winners.