Deadline: 16-Jan-23
Would you like to boost entrepreneurship and deep-tech education in Europe? Then, the EIT Digital Entrepreneurial Academy is looking for digital deep-tech education providers to support the development and deployment of programmes and summer courses with business-oriented components.
To this end, the EIT Entrepreneurial Academy launches this ‘Invitation to submit Summer School proposal.’
EIT Digital is seeking to expand the current portfolio of two-week summer school programmes between July and mid-August 2023. The key ingredients for a strong and impactful summer school are:
- The Topic. Evidence of the attractiveness of the topic, based on market studies of learning needs, must be demonstrated. A popular topic is Digital Wellbeing. Other disruptive deep-tech topics will also be considered.
- The Location. An easily accessible location in Europe with the potential to attract many participants.
- Support to the marketing campaign. The proposal must provide details on how the Partner will support EIT Digital to increase the number of paying participants during the marketing and sales campaign.
- Collaboration with Industry. Partners teaming up with organisations demonstrating a strong local industrial network able to support the recruitment of participants (for instance via pre-paid scholarships) will score higher in the review process. These organisations can be, for instance, regional funds, education funds, associations of startups/companies operating in one specific sector, etc.
Focus Areas
- The process is guided by the EIT Digital Strategic Innovation Agenda 2022-2024 (SIA), which identifies the five focus areas of our strategy: Digital Tech, Digital Industry, Digital Cities, Digital Wellbeing and Digital Finance.
As a result, entrepreneurial education proposals are expected to be aligned with these areas.
Funding Information
- The maximum EIT funding amount is 65,000 € per Summer School programme proposal.
- The Partner’s co-funding requirement at the Activity level is minimally 60% of the total budget of the KIC Added Value Activity (KAVA).
Eligibility Criteria
- EIT Digital is a Partnership-based organization. Therefore, applicants are expected to be (or become) a Partner of EIT Digital.
- For Partners from the UK and Switzerland
- Since the UK and Switzerland have not concluded an association agreement with Horizon Europe at the time of the publication of this document, we advise Partners from these countries to connect with the relevant Node Directors of EIT Digital to confirm under which conditions they can participate in the Entrepreneurial Academy in 2023 and receive cost reimbursement.
For more information, visit EIT Digital.