Interview with Johan Kortas, EIT Digital’s Action Line Leader Digital Wellbeing This Summer, the EIT Digital Academy is conducting two Summer Schools about Digital Wellbeing. The first one is recently held in Lisbon. The second one has... | Continue reading
Predictive maintenance for printers, a new activity being supported by EIT Digital as part of its OEDIPUS High Impact Initiative, will bring a shift in the performance and durability of commercial printing equipment.In the current commercial... | Continue reading
EIT Digital is proud to see the EIT Digital Accelerator being ranked among the Top 20 Global Accelerators in the annual Gust report that was released today. The EIT Digital Accelerator focusses on late stage startups (scaleups) and has been ranked...Worldwide top 20 accelerators … | Continue reading
Europe’s expanding interactions with Silicon Valley are highlighted in the latest report by the Bay Area Council Economic Institute, titled “Innovation Bridge: Technology, Startups, and Europe’s Connection to Silicon Valley.”During the event that...Golden Gate - Tech Bridge | Continue reading
"I acquired the right ammunition"More than forty students from all around the world gathered in Trento during the first two weeks of July for the EIT Digital Summer School on Cybersecurity and Privacy, organized as part of the Digital...Samridhi Singhi | Continue reading
The Dutch ICT-magazine Computable has shortlisted two Dutch scaleups in the EIT Digital ecosystem - Storro and Plugify - as potential winners of the annual Computable Award for best startup inthe Netherlands. The winner will be revealed on October... | Continue reading
Henrik Abramowicz, the leader of Digital Infrastructure Action Line at EIT Digital, stresses that it is crucial for Europe to support the digitisation and modernisation of vertical segments and society at large by providing a modern digital...The first of three Digital Infrastruc … | Continue reading
Guillaume Toublanc has been appointed as Director of EIT Digital France.EIT Digital's mission is to catalyse European digital innovation champions. In France, EIT Digital focuses on accelerating the growth of French startups in Europe and European...Guillaume Toublanc | Continue reading
EIT Digital hosted a panel on "Digital Trust" as part of Almedalen Week - "Almedalsveckan", also known as the "Week of Politics" - is an annual event taking place in and around Almedalen, in the town of Visby on the...FLTR: Åsa Schwarz (Knowit Secure AB), Daniel Akenine (Microso … | Continue reading
Stéphane Péan, Digital Cities Action Line Leader at EIT Digital, warns policymakers to be aware of digital cities and the new opportunities they provide. He explains this in an interview regarding two Summer Schools on Digital Cities that he is... | Continue reading
EIT Digital met with Gonçalo Amorim, Executive Director at BGI, innovation partner of EIT Digital in Portugal. Portugal is part of ARISE Europe, EIT Digital's implementation of the EIT Regional Innovation Scheme (RIS). ARISE Europe is designed to...Gonçalo Amorim, Executive Direc … | Continue reading
At the beginning of 2017, EIT Digital launched ELEMENT, a new Innovation Activity to facilitate faster, earlier diagnosis and intervention for cognitive decline, which affects nearly 44 million people worldwide. The innovation activity ELEMENT has... | Continue reading
Eric Thelen has been appointed Director of the EIT Digital Silicon Valley Hub. EIT Digital's Silicon Valley Hub establishes a two-way bridge between the European EIT Digital ecosystem and the San Francisco Bay Area supporting the exchange are of...Eric Thelen | Continue reading
The thriving German Internet of Things scaleup, SAT4M2M, has joined the EIT Digital Accelerator to benefit from various support, such as preparation for international growth in fast growing markets (Europe, Asia, US) and access to EIT Digital's... | Continue reading
Block Chain, Big Data, Healthy Lifestyle or Internet of Things. How will these developments impact Europeans companies? How can European companies profit from digital innovations and improve their customers' lives? These questions and more will be... | Continue reading
Seven hand-picked EIT Digital scaleups from Digital Infrastructure and Digital Cities Action Lines, as well as, one High Impact Initiative were invited to pitch their products and solutions to the Belgium City of Ghent on June 9. Ghent, the largest...Ghent, Belgium | Continue reading
People are living and working longer according to a report in The Lancet from February 2017. This trend is likely to increase as healthcare expands and new medicines and technologies allow people to live longer and better lives than ever... | Continue reading
Citizens of Helsinki today took part in the first "Ambiciti" walk organised in Finland. The walk was open to all interested in the urban environment and wellbeing and was organized by EIT Digital, Forum Virium Helsinki and Ambiciti, the... | Continue reading
After just a few months since its launch, CEDUS (City Enabler for Digital Urban Services), an Innovation Activity by EIT Digital is gaining important international recognition. The initiative, which will allow urban services providers and decision... | Continue reading
In the future, renting equipment will be facilitated by digital solutions, which will speed up the service tremendously and benefit all parties. Having this in mind, the EIT Digital Advanced Connectivity Platform for Vertical Segments High Impact... | Continue reading
French Alumni scaleup of EIT Digital Accelerator, Julie Desk who has been developing an AI-based personal assistant has raised €2.5 million led by Side Capital, Entrepreneur Ventures and SAAS Lab. With this new investment, the startup wants to... | Continue reading
Saving the environment, reducing paper usage in factories and generating value for workers and management. That’s the purpose of Industrial Paperless Production Process (IPPP), a new activity launched by EIT Digital as part of its Digital Industry... | Continue reading
Event will inaugurate new Co-Location Centre at the start of London Tech WeekEIT Digital will open its new Co-Location Centre in the heart of London’s Knowledge Quarter at the start of London Tech Week on 12 June. Deputy Mayor of London Rajesh... | Continue reading
EIT Digital together with Portuguese-based accelerator, Building Global Innovators BGI, is launching the 2017 Portuguese Scaleups Report today. After scanning hundreds of candidates, the report depicts in detail the 25 most promising Portuguese...Portuguese Scaleups Report 2017 | Continue reading
The EIT Digital Hadoop Innovation Activity HopsWorks is even more confident about the prospects for dissemination of its "Hops" platform and gaining Venture Capital now that it has won the IEEE International Scalable Computing Challenge... | Continue reading
The Dutch ICT-magazine Computable, has nominated 20 startups for the annual Computable Award for best startup in the Netherlands. Three out of these 20 are part of the EIT Digital ecosystem: Onegini, Storro and Plugify. On Friday, June 2, the jury... | Continue reading
Attacks against critical infrastructures can have significant impact and cause material and financial losses. An attack against an electricity network, made in December 2016 in Ukraine, caused a major blackout, a type of event with an estimated... | Continue reading
EIT Digital, Mind the Bridge and Startup Europe are co-organising the 2017 edition of Startup Europe comes to Silicon Valley (SEC2SV) - the premier programme for future European startup unicorns to engage with key US industry players. This is the...Frédéric Plais, CEO of Platform … | Continue reading
Seeing the work and results of the EIT Community in action; this was the purpose of today's visit by Tibor Navracsics, Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport, and Markku Markkula, President of the European Committee of the Regions, to...Zoltán Horváth (EIT Digital B … | Continue reading
The first Finnish scaleup to join EIT Digital Accelerator scaleup program ever, retail analytics company Innorange, has been acquired by a fellow Finnish firm Visit Intelligence for an undisclosed amount. In 2016 Visit Intelligence made a capital...Innorange is the leading provid … | Continue reading
EIT Digital and Startup Estonia today signed a Memorandum of Collaboration to help the Estonian innovation ecosystem develop further during Estonia’s EU presidency and also play an increasingly important role in the international digital... | Continue reading
CrowdInsights is a Digital Cities Action Line Innovation Activity* that actively monitors urban environments detecting the composition, dynamics and movements of crowds. It provides data to support decision-making for city planners and...CrowdInsights provides a solution that int … | Continue reading
Engines are warming up, as company executives, researchers and opinion leaders get ready for Manufacturing Performance Days (MPD), an invitation-only event set to take place on May 29-31 in Tampere, Finland. Close to 1,000 participants, up from... | Continue reading
French scaleup, CopSonic has joined the EIT Digital Accelerator to accelerate their plans for growth and gain access to new European markets and financing. Founded in 1989, CopSonic enables highly-secured communication and interaction between...CopSonic is a technology that allow … | Continue reading
The strongest career networks are just as good as the Alumni that are involved in it, such as the EIT Digital Alumni Foundation that creates a vibrant and active community. Today, the representatives of the new Alumni Board have been selected:... | Continue reading
Birds, turtles and other animals like fish have a sense that human beings lack: a sense of orientation. Now, Dr Julia Wache, a 2017 graduate of the EIT Digital Doctoral School, has co-founded feelSpace, a company that produces a vibrotactile compass...Julia Wache completed a Mast … | Continue reading
Automatically shift flexible loads to keep energy consumption and prices at reasonable levels. This is the key benefit that Smart De-Centralized Self-Optimization on a Chip (SDSO), a new Innovation Activity launched by EIT Digital as part of the...'Smart De-Centralized Self-Optim … | Continue reading
Finnish mobile health platform developer Wellmo has raised €1.3m in its first significant round of funding. The funding by institutional and private investors will be used for Wellmo’s continued global expansion.Wellmo has developed a..." | Continue reading
EIT Digital, Mind the Bridge and Startup Europe are co-organising the 2017 edition of Startup Europe comes to Silicon Valley (SEC2SV) - the premier programme for future European startup unicorns to engage with key US industry players. This is the... | Continue reading
"Now I have a PhD in Computer Science!"Teresa Macchia (31) graduated from the EIT Digital Doctoral School in March 2017. Having a PhD in Computer Science is quite a special achievement for her, because previously she didn't have a...Teresa Macchia received her PhD for the EIT Dig … | Continue reading
Bookit, Finnish pioneer of safe mobile engagement, has joined EIT Digital as a partner. EIT Digital is a leading open innovation organisation that brings together a partnership of 130 top European corporations, SMEs, start-ups, universities and...Bookit, Finnish pioneer of safe m … | Continue reading
EIT Digital has developed a protective monitoring application to help to improve the safety of lone and remote workers, such as fire, rescue, security, community or social workers. The application monitors location and vital signs of people working... | Continue reading
A matchmaking event organised by EIT Digital in Berlin, saw four EIT Digital cybersecurity scaleups pitching their services, products as well as themselves as prospects for corporate investments to cybersecurity experts and decision makers of one of...Cleafy CEO Matteo Bogana (on … | Continue reading
EIT Digital, Mind the Bridge and Startup Europe are co-organising the 2017 edition of Startup Europe comes to Silicon Valley (SEC2SV)- the premier programme for future European startup unicorns to engage with key US industry players. This is...Awingu CEO Walter Van Uytven | Continue reading
On May 1st 2017, Gian Mario Maggio took office as the new EIT Digital Node Director for Italy.Gian Mario Maggio will bring to the role more than twenty years of international experience in industry and academia. He has gained extensive...Gian Mario Maggio | Continue reading
Launched in 2016 by EIT Digital as a Digital Wellbeing Innovation Activity*, start-up company Prindit has developed cloud-based services to help employers boost performance and wellbeing at work. The system proactively creates conditions... | Continue reading
EIT Digital has launched a new Innovation Activity, dubbed “Telecom Diagnostics”, which will develop a new commercial solution to capture all telecoms diagnostic information in a single platform. The end result? A fully interactive, self-learning,...EIT Digital innovation turns a … | Continue reading
Meet our studentsEIT Digital Master Schools offers a two years programme in 19 of the best Europeans universities, providing ICT and entrepreneurship training. Every year, 500 graduates join the alumni network and begin a career in the best...Andra Lungu with classmates | Continue reading