The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) is a new organisation recently launched by the EU targeting European competitiveness through better integration across the so called “knowledge triangle” of higher education, research and innovation.
EIT ICT Labs aims at radical transformation of Europe into a knowledge society with an unprecedented proliferation of internet-based services and will establish a new partnership between business and academia based on trust, transparency and mobility of ideas and people. The consortium connects world leading companies, globally renowned research institutes and top-ranked universities all dedicated to speeding up innovation to address the grand challenges facing our society. Committed to an efficient open innovation model, EIT ICT Labs will generate faster transformation of ideas and ICT technologies into new products, services and businesses, boosting Europe’s future competitiveness in all sectors of society.
EIT ICT Labs builds on five co-location centres – Berlin, Eindhoven, Helsinki, Paris, and Stockholm – to create a world-class network of innovation hotspots. These main hotspots are complemented with our extensive network of local and international innovation partners. Professor Peter Apers, scientific director of CTIT (University of Twente) and director of 3TU.NIRICT, is coordinator of the EIT ICT Labs activities in the Netherlands. NIRICT is core partner of ICT Labs. Other Dutch core-partners are Philips (Eindhoven), TNO-ICT (Delft), Novay (Enschede), CWI (Amsterdam), and the Embedded Systems Institute (ESI, Eindhoven).
Contact information:
Drs. Iddo Bante
053 489 3998
i.bante@utwente.nl
