INNOVEIT 2015
Tuesday 05 May - Thursday 07 May
Budapest Congress Centre, Hungary
The ‘INNOVEIT 2015 – The EIT Innovation Forum’ combines a set of activities which were organised as separate events in the past: the EIT Stakeholder Forum, the EIT Awards, the EIT Roundtables and the EIT Alumni Connect event. During three days, INNOVEIT 2015 will bring together 600 participants comprised of start-ups, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, higher education and research institutes, EU, national and regional policy makers, as well as over 100 entrepreneurial students and graduates.
In an inspiring and interactive way, INNOVEIT 2015 aims to:
- Promote innovation and encourage entrepreneurship and celebrate entrepreneurial achievements of the EIT community’ ventures and alumni, and highlight successful innovations and the team that produced these;
- Showcase selected achievements from the EIT community and share learnings and good practice;
- Provide a platform for dialogue between the EIT Community and external stakeholders and obtain feedback on the EIT's strategy and EIT-KIC activities, to identify lessons learnt and recommendations for the future;
- Enhance networking and collaboration across the EIT community, as well as with the wider European innovation community.
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, higher education, research, associations, civil society and cluster organisations, as well as other interested parties from across the knowledge triangle. “
The EIT Stakeholder Forum aims to:
- Inform about EIT/KICs activities
- Discuss and receive feedback and input EIT/KIC activities
- Share experiences, good practices and concrete results
- Contribute to EU education, research and innovation policies
- Ensure synergies and complementarities at EU, national, regional and local level
- Give a platform stakeholders to express their views
- Facilitate interaction between stakeholders and the EIT/KIC community
Within the EIT Stakeholder Forum, Member States’ representatives meet in a special configuration, to ensure an appropriate two-way communication, flow of information and experience-sharing with the EIT. This Member State Configuration should also ensure appropriate synergies and complementarities between EIT and KIC activities with national programmes and initiatives, including the potential national co-financing of KIC activities.
Participants to the forum include:
- National, regional and local authorities
- EU institutional stakeholders (EP, Commission, DGs)
- Organised interests (business, research): multipliers and individuals
A meeting of the EIT Stakeholder Forum is convened at least once a year. A first meeting of the Stakeholder Forum was held in 2014 in the form of two half-day meetings with EU Member States and EU umbrella organisations.
EIT Awards
One of the EIT’s main aims is to create an environment that allows entrepreneurship and innovation to flourish - both as a mind-set and activity. In order to support this aim, 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 ICT Labs and KIC InnoEnergy) selects two nominees for each award category. 2012 saw the introduction of the EIT Venture Award, which celebrates breakthrough innovations and exciting start-ups; whilst in 2013 the EIT added the EIT CHANGE Award to celebrate Europe’s newest generation of entrepreneurs and the ideas they are producing. In 2015, for the first time, the EIT will also be awarding an Innovators Award aimed at 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.
For more information and registration visit: http://eit.europa.eu/innoveit#home
