Results of the second call for proposals of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) Higher Education Initiative (HEI) have been published! In total, 56 applications from an impressive total of 683 organisations, including 311 higher education institutions (HEIs) and 372 non-academic organisations have been submitted.

After careful evaluation by a panel of independent experts, 26 applications have been selected: visit the EIT HEI Initiative website for more information about each funded project.

The next call for proposals will be launched towards the end of 2022. In preparation of the call, EIT RawMaterials will organise an information event as part of the INNOVEIT Weeks 2022. The hybrid event (Stockholm or online) will be held on 15 September 2022 and will cover three main topics:

• Best practices and methodologies from the EIT’s HEI Initiative for increasing the innovation capacity of HEIs;
• Building effective, sustainable innovation and entrepreneurship courses for the 21st century;
• Fostering T-shaped students in deep tech.

More information about this event, incl. registration link, is available here.

Sources: EIT, Euresearch