The European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT)is launching the EIT Campus – bringing together all EIT entrepreneurship education and skill development activities offered by the Institute and its nine Knowledge and Innovation Communities (EIT KICs). 

As part of the launch, the EIT is introducing an online platform that will be home to over 250 courses in the thematic areas tackled by the EIT Community. The first courses featured on the platform are in the areas of climate, food, urban mobility and raw materials and support the skills transition for a greener and healthier Europe.  

EIT Campus offers one central entry point for students and professionals willing to expand their knowledge on diverse topics, while keeping an eye on innovation and entrepreneurship. The training offers and opportunities provided by EIT Campus will widen their horizon in domains that are crucial for our future. 

In addition to business creation and acceleration, and innovation projects, entrepreneurship education serves as one of the main pillars of support the EIT Community offers to thousands of innovators across Europe. Over the past decade, the EIT Community has developed a wide range of cutting-edge educational activities based on partnerships between universities, companies, and research centres. Since 2018, the EIT has channelled over EUR 350 million of funding towards entrepreneurship education activities across all EIT Knowledge and Innovation Communities powering the next generation of European talents. 

Education activities under the EIT Campus will offer services for the following learners:   

• For secondary school studentsthrough the EIT Girls Go Circular project, committed to help young girls develop tech and entrepreneurship skills related to the green and digital transition. 
• For university studentsthrough the EIT Label, over 60 graduate degree programmes developed with 200 universities active in the EIT network. The EIT Community counts over 4.500 graduates from EIT Label master and doctoral degrees.  

• For professional learnersthrough the EIT’s variety of non-degree courses and workshops accessible online for a wide range of learners in the thematic areas tackled by the EIT Community. To date, over 100.000 learners have participated in EIT online educational activities. Professional learners will also benefit from the targeted skills development programmes including the new EIT Deep Tech Talent Initiative set to skill one million talents in deep tech fields and the European Battery Alliance Academy, working with EU Member States and industry partners to train and upskill 800.000 workers across the entire battery supply chain.   

• ForHigher Education Institutions (HEIs):  through the EIT HEI Initiativehelping faculties build the capacity to teach innovation and entrepreneurship while reimaging the role of universities as regional engines of innovations. Currently 50 projects involving over 290 Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and 300 non-academic organisations are part of the EIT HEI Initiative. In the past year alone, projects have trained over 9 900 students, academic and non-academic staff and have supported over 310 start-ups and scale-ups.   

To learn more about EIT education services, or to join Europe’s largest innovation community, please click here. 

Source: EIT