Deadline: 28-Sep-22
The European Commission (EC) is offering grants for the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) Cross-KIC Strategic Education.
Objective: Elevate the impact of the EIT education agenda and the KICs EIT Alumni organisations. Contribute to the Digital Education Action Plan implementation in the scope defined by the policy documents. Disseminate results of the EIT KICs’ education activities through the EIT learning platform.
Scope
- EIT Deep Tech Talent for Europe;
- EIT’s contribution to the European Commission Digital Education Action Plan (DEAP);
- Joint EIT community activities in the area of education;
Funding Information
The check will normally be done for the coordinator if the requested grant amount is equal to or greater than EUR 500 000, except for:
- public bodies (entities established as a public body under national law, including local, regional or national authorities) or international organisations; and
- cases where the individual requested grant amount is not more than EUR 60 000 (lowvalue grant).
Expected Impact: to be defined by applicants addressing the specific objectives of the activity, its scope and expected outcomes but focusing on elevating the impact of the EIT education agenda and the KICs EIT Alumni organisations. The impact description should be supported by results KPIs and qualitative and quantitative description of the long-term impact in line with the impact KPIs in the EIT Impact Framework. The Cross-KIC activity should demonstrate in the proposal how the cross-KIC activity contributes to KICs’ financial sustainability and how it contributes to the EIT core KPIs.
Expected Outcomes
The expected outcome should be focused (but might not limit) on:
- Contribution to the EIT Deep Tech Talent initiative in cooperation with relevant partners
- Contribution to the Digital Education Action Plan (DEAP) including projects such as Girls Go Circular, according to the targets set in the relevant EU policy documents.
- implementation of the EIT Alumni community’s work programme, in particular through the funding of alumni challenges and projects, EIT Alumni Connect and other events, supporting organisation and coordination of the EIT Alumni Board activities (including meetings), promotion and communication activities related to EIT Alumni Communities, development of tools supporting the EIT Alumni community development, supporting the EIT Alumni sustainability agenda.
- promoting entrepreneurial education, tech skill development and disseminate good practices and lessons learnt from the EIT community activities, including the EIT Virtual Campus.
- building synergies between the EIT KIC education activities and alignment with other relevant programmes and stakeholders, including Green Deal and European Skills Agenda.
- facilitating collaboration and shared services and joint and merged education activities between the KICs and disseminating new effective education methods, technologies, tools and approaches to better deliver entrepreneurial education and skills development.
- effective management of the activity.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- the Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions;
- the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States;
- eligible non-EU countries:
- countries associated to Horizon Europe;
- low- and middle-income countries.
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