Newsletter – Issue 8/2025 – Closing the Year with EIT Award Winners and New MoUs
EIT Newsletter 09 Dec 2025
Welcome to the latest edition of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) newsletter.
This final update before the holidays brings standout developments from across the EIT Community – from celebrating the 2025 EIT Innovation Awards winners to advancing cooperation with Malta and Hungary through new Memoranda of Understanding that will launch the EIT Regional Innovation Booster pilot in both countries. The EIT Higher Education Initiative Call is now open, offering up to €2 million per project to accelerate innovation and entrepreneurship in European higher education.
Additional highlights include the release of the EIT Education Guide 2025 and the opening of a new EIT Community Hub for the French Outermost Regions. Explore the full newsletter for these stories and more. Wishing all readers a pleasant holiday season.
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) has announced the winners of the 2025 EIT Innovation Awards, honouring Europe’s most promising innovators and entrepreneurs. The ceremony took place today in Budapest, bringing together the EIT Awards, the EIT Jumpstarter Grand Finale, a ...
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) has launched a new call under its Higher Education Initiative (HEI) to boost STEM education, strengthen innovation capacity, and support Europe’s future workforce. For the first time, the call will also deepen cooperation between EIT’s K ...
A key moment at yesterday’s EIT Innovation Awards ceremony in Budapest was the signing of a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) and the Government of Malta. The agreement paves the way for launching the EIT Regional Innovation Boost ...
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) has launched its Education Guide 2025, showcasing how the EIT and its Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs) are shaping Europe’s innovation ecosystem through education. By linking universities, research centres, and businesses, the ...
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) today opened its newest EIT Community Hub specifically dedicated to the French Outermost Regions.The EIT Community Hub, based in Paris, France, will connect regional actors, innovators and partners in the French Outermost Regions with Europe’ ...
From the university lab to TIME Magazine’s Best Inventions list, FibreCoat’s radar-absorbing material is reshaping Europe’s defence and aerospace sectors.FibreCoat, supported by EIT RawMaterials in 2021, has been recognised by TIME Magazine as one of the Best Inventions of 2025. Its breakthrough Rad ...
EIT Community Supernovas, together with the Esade Center for Social Impact and Equinox Equality, is launching the first dedicated tool designed to recognise and reduce gender bias in early-stage investment. The tool accompanies a new report Levelling the playing field showing that progress towa ...
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) and the Hungarian Ministry of Culture and Innovation have renewed their cooperation by signing an updated Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), confirming that Hungary will join the EIT’s Regional Innovation Booster pilot from 2026. Boostin ...
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology–Enterprise Europe Network (EIT–EEN) Cooperation Guidelines (including the 2025 pilot activities) have now been officially signed by the EIT and the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs ( ...
The EIT Deep Tech Talent Initiative is hosting a two-day event, Pledgers’ Share & Connect: Expanding Towards a Broader STEM Community.The event, organised in collaboration with EIT Deep Tech Talent Initiatives's long-standing Pledger University of Barcelona, will take place on 2 and 3 December 2 ...
The EIT Higher Education Initiative Call is now open!The call is offering up to €2 million per project to strengthen innovation and entrepreneurship capacity in higher education across Europe. This call will support projects that enable universities and their partners to develop critical entrepreneu ...
Are you passionate about protecting our planet? Then become a climate ambassador for Europe!Through DesirMED, the EU initiative set up to help people in the Mediterranean regions adapt to climate change, Climate KIC is looking for 100 climate ambassadors. Will you be one of them?Your story and exper ...
EIT Deep Tech Talent Initiative Pledger, CYRUS, is a cutting-edge initiative co-funded by the Digital Europe Programme, and offers free, high-quality cybersecurity training tailored specifically to the needs of the manufacturing and transport industry as well as SMEs.The threat of cyb ...
Would you like to boost entrepreneurship and deep-tech education in Europe?28DIGITAL is seeking to expand the portfolio of Summer School Programmes for 2026!A new Call for Proposal opens up for training providers, universities, business, education and research organizations for the design and implem ...
Are you building an impact-driven startup that wants to grow, without compromising your values? Then the Catalyse NEB Open Call 2026 is right for you!Catalyse NEB is built on the foundation of the New European Bauhaus (NEB) – where innovation meets inclusion, design, and sustainability. It’s E ...
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