In 2018 companies in Europe will need to comply to the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Companies that look beyond basic compliance can build sustainable business models to outperform their competitors. The EIT Digital Professional... | Continue reading
Brussels, October 30, 2017 - EIT Digital’s partner KONE, a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, has joined forces with Estonian startup Indoor Ninja, a developer of cloud-based visitor management service, in an effort to improve and...With their newest solution, … | Continue reading
EIT Digital Stockholm node hosting the IoTHack Challenge as part of the Digital Infrastructure Action Line’s Advanced Connectivity Platform for Vertical Segments High Impact Initiative (aka HII ACTIVE). This challenge is being... | Continue reading
Brussels, October 26, 2017 - EIT Digital and Neulogy are proud to announce their new collaboration to help the Slovak innovation ecosystem develop further and play an increasingly important role in the European digital landscape. Neulogy is one of... | Continue reading
On 13 November the EIT Digital Professional School launches a course on how to design the appropriate technological infrastructure for an inclusive smart city. In this course project leaders and engineers learn how to build thorough urban systems...Technological challenges of par … | Continue reading
EIT Digital ACTIVE High Impact Initiative took a lead role at this month’s IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) in Montreal, with its High Impact Initiative, the Advanced Connectivity Platform... | Continue reading
The 3rd edition of Startup Europe Comes to Silicon Valley (SEC2SV) took place a month ago and hosted a full week of pitches, mentoring sessions, panels, workshops, networking activities and the European Innovation Day Conference, in which more than...San Francisco, famous Golden … | Continue reading
Politicians, companies and ordinary people haven't seen the best of the digital transformation yet, says Risto Siilasmaa, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Nokia, in an interview in response to his keynote speech on digital transformation at the...Risto Siilasmaa, Chairman of … | Continue reading
Swedish scaleup Aifloo develops e-health systems based on artificial intelligence, increasing safety and independence for elderly and chronically ill patients by detecting and analysing behaviours and alerting relatives or caregivers to potential...Aifloo founders, FLTR: Felix Et … | Continue reading
Every now and then, a new term is coined that nicely summarizes a concept that is hardly novel. One such recent term is "deep tech". A recent report puts it well: Deep tech innovations are defined as disruptive solutions built around...Chahab Nastar, Chief Research and Innovation … | Continue reading
Daniel Michel, Head of Access to Finance of EIT Digital Accelerator explains the value of using a European accelerator and gives methodological advice to scaleups willing to take a step further in their development: What are the main challenges of...Daniel Michel, Head of Access … | Continue reading
136 tech companies from 20 countries are in the running in Europe’s most prestigious scaleup competition, the EIT Digital Challenge. Digital technology ventures are competing in five categories. In each category, the best five teams will be invited... | Continue reading
EIT Digital Master School student in Embedded Systems"I like the concept of a European school based on a network of prestigious European Universities"The 24-year old Louis Durand is travelling while studying to get to learn all about...Louis Durand (EIT Digital Master School stud … | Continue reading
EIT Digital is opening a new innovation space at the offices of its partner Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam on 2 November. With this top location in the financial heart of the Netherlands, EIT Digital wants to boost the...EIT Digital is opening a new innovation … | Continue reading
The best companies who report mental health enjoy up to three times more profit Three in four companies fail to make any mention of mental health in their reporting Research findings welcomed by Mind, the UK's leading mental health charity Soma... | Continue reading
EIT Digital sees growth potential for regional startups in Europe by interconnecting with its wider European network. Last month, EIT Digital organised a Meet&Match tour together with the ARISE innovation partner ABC Accelerator based in...EIT Digital’s representative Thomas Koes … | Continue reading
Last weekend of September marked the first-ever Startup Wise Guys CEO Getaway – a three-day event hosted by Campus Madrid and organized by B2B accelerator Startup Wise Guys, in collaboration with EIT Digital and Microsoft. The event gathered... | Continue reading
EIT Digital scaleup DigiFlak, the Estonian manufacturer of USB / NFC devices for strong password-free multifactor network access authentication and U.S. Cryptographic Appliance manufacturer Engage Black, have successfully integrated Engage Black’s... | Continue reading
New cohort of technical talents to be educated as European innovators and entrepreneursFrom October 19-21, approximately 300 international EIT Digital Master School students studying in one of our European partner universities will gather in...EIT Digital Master School students | Continue reading
The new EIT House, at the proximity of the European Union decision-making nucleus in Brussels, on Rue Guimard was officially opened on Tuesday, 26th September. The EIT House provides a new event and co-working space in Brussels for the EIT, EIT...The EIT House opening climaxed on … | Continue reading
The EIT Digital Innovation Activity 'ki elements' showcases its first prototype called DELTA in Nice at the Institut Claude Pompidou on Innovation Alzheimer Open Day. In the beginning of 2017, EIT Digital launched ELEMENT, a new Innovation... | Continue reading
French scaleup, GREENERWAVE has joined the EIT Digital Accelerator to accelerate their plans for growth.Founded in November 2015 in Nice (South of France), GREENERWAVE has patented a unique technology to, simply, synchronize electromagnetic waves...GREENERWAVE has patented a uniq … | Continue reading
EIT Digital announces the first commercial application of its SIOTAD innovation activity, designed to support sustainable and efficient agriculture. The business champion of the initiative, French startup Bilberry, signed a deal with Agrifac, a...SIOTAD will allow farmers to save … | Continue reading
Belgian scaleup Cloudalize, has joined the EIT Digital Accelerator to reinforce its European development ambitions.Cloudalize is the developer of the GPU Desktop-as-a-Service Platform, MyGDaaS Platform. It instantly deploys powerful cloud-based...The MyGDaaS Platform instantly de … | Continue reading
French scaleup, METRON joined the EIT Digital Accelerator to reinforce its European development.Since 2013, METRON has re-shaped the way energy data is used in industries. The platform developed by METRON values high volume of data daily generated... | Continue reading
EIT Digital is introducing its 'I4.0 Production Monitoring Solution', a new initiative launched as part of its Oedipus High Impact Initiative, and designed to help manufacturers quickly assess whether their machines are performing well or need some... | Continue reading
EIT Digital met with Aleš Filipenský, Executive Director at JIC, innovation partner of EIT Digital in Czech Republic. The country is part of ARISE Europe, EIT Digital's implementation of the EIT Regional Innovation Scheme (RIS). ARISE Europe is...Aleš Filipenský, Executive Direct … | Continue reading
To improve communication with refugees coming to Europe, EIT Digital has launched a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) and crowd-based innovation, named "Capiche". Originating from the European Refugee Information and Communication Service..."Not knowing the local language often le … | Continue reading
New cohort of technical talents to be educated as European innovators and entrepreneursAll EIT Digital Master School students studying in one of our European partner universities, gather in Helsinki for a three-day event with introduction and..."Learning to think as an entreprene … | Continue reading
The EIT Digital SenseMaking Service Innovation Activity works for launching a Social SenseMaking service capable of determining the causes and effects of web chatter, such as Twitter, Tumblr, blogs, etc. The service delivers an analysis by making... | Continue reading
The first customer delivery of the EIT Digital Rapidly Deployable Networks Innovation Activity has been executed by the Finnish lead partner, Bittium Wireless Ltd. The Innovation Activity was launched in January 2017 to develop rapidly... | Continue reading
The French alumni scaleup of the EIT Digital Accelerator, Vulog, has raised $20 Million to accelerate its growth and to open a first office in the United States. EIT Digital congratulates Vulog on its fundraising. Public carsharing is a... | Continue reading
The EIT Digital Challenge 2017 is now open for applications. Late stage startups - so called scaleups - can apply with their successful deep technology products in one of the following five categories: Digital Industry, Digital Cities, Digital...3yourmind, former EIT Digital Chal … | Continue reading
The 3rd edition of Startup Europe comes to Silicon Valley (SEC2SV), the premier program for future European startup unicorns ready to welcome 15 companies from 9 countries.For the third consecutive year, SEC2SV is ready to welcome a selection of...SEC2SV 2017 will take place betw … | Continue reading
BeCamGreen is a Digital Cities’ Action Line Innovation Activity that is creating a tool that identifies the kind of vehicle and its number of passengers in a real-time, automatic and precise way.This solution will redefine the way traffic... | Continue reading
Anna Melne, Strategy Director at PHD Latvia, a communications planning and media buying agency, considers herself very lucky to be selected for the Summer School Digital Industry on "Retail, Markets, Consumer Engagement". Unlike most of..."The Retail, Markets, Consumer Engagement … | Continue reading
Meet our students: Thomas Langerak, EIT Digital Master School student in Human Computer Interaction and Design"What will be left of humankind if computers can do it all?"Thomas Langerak envisions himself becoming a professor on the...Thomas Langerak | Continue reading
How do you get new and innovative blockchain applications? Simple, put EIT Digital Master School students and business people in a sweltering Budapest Summer School on Digital Finance for two weeks, and you get eight solutions to four real-life...Students working | Continue reading
"PhD Candidates must really feel strongly about digital transformation and believe that they can make a difference"The EIT Digital Doctoral Schools offers, as one of the few European academic institutions, Industrial Doctorates. Within...Roberto Saracco, Head of EIT Digital Docto … | Continue reading
Cities in Europe face challenges with traffic and pollution and so on. These challenges make it harder to live in the cities. Policymakers are searching for answers to the question what creates a vital urban life? EIT Digital finds this an... | Continue reading
Urban service providers get lots of data from various sources. The problem is that these data have been designed independently of one another. So, urban service providers need a way to open up, analyse and exploit all these scattered urban data. The... | Continue reading
The EIT Digital Doctoral School offers an Industrial Doctorate position to foster Autonomous Driving. The doctoral candidate will seek to apply Artificial Intelligence techniques to advance the deployment of Autonomous Driving with the support of... | Continue reading
Cars as we know them will not exist anymore in the near future. Instead we will see vehicles becoming part of a complex interconnected world. EIT Digital is committed to leverage the potentials of the future 5G network to accelerate the transition... | Continue reading
Retailers love to identify customers’ needs so they can respond to them. The newly opened Industrial Doctorate position is about helping in this. The Doctorate aims at developing a new generation of recommendation systems, leveraging on the larger... | Continue reading
Sofia is surprised to have ended up at the EIT Digital Master School after studying philosophy, psychology and international relations in the United States. But her passion for design, human behaviour, technology and entrepreneurship led...Sofia Johansson | Continue reading
One of the sectors most affected by the “digital transformation” is certainly manufacturing. “Paradigmatic shifts in industry bring along new challenges for aspiring entrepreneurs,” says Digital Industry Action Line Leader for EIT Digital, Petri... | Continue reading
Imagine a 58-year-old professional, with his own consultancy firm in energy policyadvising international agencies and ministries, in a classroom full of young technical master school students. How would you feel? To Dr Roland Clarke, director of... | Continue reading
EIT Digital Master School Students have created an innovative app called App’ero for bargoers across the world, which has recently been announced as second runner up in JA Europe’s Enterprise Challenge 2017 in Helsinki.App’ero allows users to find... | Continue reading