Background:
EIT Health - a Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) under the umbrella of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) - is focused on promoting entrepreneurship, innovation, and education in the domain of healthy living and active ageing. EIT Health brings together leading organisations along the entire value chain from smaller companies to larger industry, excellent academic and research institutions, as well as public sector organisations, to promote healthy living, support active ageing and improve healthcare by removing barriers to innovation, promoting talent and education, leveraging enabling technologies and exploiting big data. EIT Health’s headquarter is located in Munich and develop its activities across a network of co-location centres in six cities: Paris, London, Barcelona, Rotterdam, Stockholm and Mannheim. In addition, the InnoStars office in Budapest involves partners from Hungary, Wales, Poland, Portugal, Croatia and Italy. EIT Health includes more than 140 partner organisations.
EIT Health comprises 3 pillars: Innovation (Projects), Business Creation (Accelerator), and Education (Campus). EIT Health Innovation projects build on multidisciplinary collaboration of EIT Health non-academic and academic partners and are driven by societal challenges within the thematic scope of EIT Health. The ultimate objective of the projects is the rapid market penetration of innovative products and services. The EIT Health Accelerator creates an ecosystem where innovation can thrive. It gathers the best and brightest health industry entrepreneurs, and provides them with the support, skills and services that they need to get their ideas off the ground and into the market. EIT Health Campus is EIT Health’s brand for excellence in education, which supports students, professionals, executives and citizens in the transformation of health and healthcare by establishing a group of change agents with the necessary knowledge, skills and connections to lead the radical transformation that is needed.
