EIT Higher Education Initiative Call for Proposals 2025
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 entrepreneurial skills and mindsets, launch new innovation structures and programmes, and strengthen strategic collaboration with industry and society.
Funding can support:
- Developing and implementing innovation action plans
- Designing and delivering entrepreneurship programs
- Training and mentoring
- Establishing new innovation structures
- Building partnerships and ecosystems
- Supporting technology transfer and startups
Who can apply?
Funding is available to partnerships (consortia) led by higher education institutions, working together with other organisations to build innovation capacity.
To apply for funding, you need to form a partnership, or ‘consortium’. We fund projects led by higher education institutions, working together with businesses and other organisations to build innovation capacity in higher education.
Your consortium must:
- Have at least 5 partner organisations, all based in Horizon Europe-eligible countries
- Include at least 3 HEIs from 3 different Horizon Europe eligible countries For Topic 2, all 3 HEIs must be either members of the same European Universities alliance established under the European Universities Initiative, or were members of the same European Universities alliance after 1 January 2019
- Include at least 1 business partner
- Include at least 1 other non-HEI partner (business or other)
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