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Greenlight for EIT Water

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  • Agro-Food, Environment
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The EIT will launch a new Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) in the water, marine and maritime sectors and ecosystems. The new EIT KIC will develop an integrated approach across freshwater, marine and maritime sectors, supporting entrepreneurial education and skills development, innovation projects as well as the ideation, development, deployment and commercialisation of new technologies, products and services.

At the beginning of 2025, the EIT will publish a call for proposals inviting applicants to submit their vision for EIT Water. In line with the EIT Strategic Innovation Agenda, the new KIC will be selected in 2025 and launched in 2026. Read more - here.

To provide interested organisations with more information about the EIT’s upcoming Call for Proposals, the EIT is hosting a series of online info seminars in autumn 2024:

  • Innovating with the EIT and creating a new partnership. 18 September 2024 (10:30 – 12:00 CET). More information - here.
  • Key EIT activities. 25 September 2024 (10:30 – 12:00 CET). More information - here.
  • Nuts and bolts of the EIT granting model. 2 October 2024 (10:30 – 12:00 CET). More information - here.

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