Press Releases 11 Dec 2020
Amsterdam, Netherlands, 11 December 2020 – Two EIT Climate-KIC supported innovators have won awards at its prestigious annual innovation prize, The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) announced on Wednesday.
Chaitanya Dhumasker, MonitorFish (Germany) and Cristina Aleixendri Muñoz, Bound4Blue (Spain) were awarded the EIT Change and EIT Woman awards, respectively. Chaitanya Dhumasker also came second in the EIT Public award, which saw over 5,000 votes being cast online.
Andreu Martínez Climent, ACORYS (Spain), Filippo Bosco, BluSense Diagnostics (Denmark), and Karthik Laxman Kunjali, Stockholm Water Technology (Sweden) were also awarded top prizes out of 26 finalists, for innovations in the fields of climate, health, manufacturing and innovative energy.
10 Dec 2020 | News
EIT to increase its focus on education and less innovative regions from 2021
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology awards its best innovators as director Martin Kern tells Science|Business about future plans in the upcoming Horizon Europe research programme
EIT Director Martin Kern. Photo: EIT.
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) is to scale up education initiatives and work on broadening its geographical reach in the EU’s upcoming Horizon Europe research programme, EIT director Martin Kern told Science|Business.
EIT is still waiting for EU policymakers to sort out the final details of its mandate in Horizon Europe, but the direction is already clear, Kern said. On education, EIT will boost cooperation with universities starting in 2021. The aim is to help graduates acquire targeted innovation skills, “and also deliver the skills that students need to become entrepreneurs themselves,” he said.