EIT Cross-KIC Strategic Education

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Programme Category

EU Competitive Programmes

Programme Name

Horizon Europe (2021-2027)

Programme Description

Horizon Europe is the European Union (EU) funding programme for the period 2021 – 2027, which targets the sectors of research and innovation. The programme’s budget is around € 95.5 billion, of which € 5.4 billion is from NextGenerationEU to stimulate recovery and strengthen the EU’s resilience in the future, and € 4.5 billion is additional aid.

Programme Details

Identifier Code

HORIZON-EIT-2023-25-Cross-KIC-Strategic-Education

Call

EIT Cross-KIC Strategic Education

Summary

Elevate the impact of the EIT education agenda and the KICs EIT Alumni organisations. Contribute to the Digital Education Action Plan implementation in the scope defined by the policy documents. Disseminate results of the EIT KICs’ education activities through the EIT learning platform.

  • EIT Deep Tech Talent for Europe;
  • EIT’s contribution to the European Commission Digital Education Action Plan (DEAP);
  • Joint EIT community activities in the area of education.

Detailed Call Description

Scope: Implementation of the EIT Alumni work programme under the overall steer of the EIT Alumni Board

The expected outcome should be focused (but might not limit) on:

  • Contribution to the EIT Deep Tech Talent initiative in cooperation with relevant partners
  • Contribution to the Digital Education Action Plan (DEAP) including projects such as Girls Go Circular, according to the targets set in the relevant EU policy documents.
  • implementation of the EIT Alumni community’s work programme, in particular through the funding of alumni challenges and projects, EIT Alumni Connect and other events, supporting organisation and coordination of the EIT Alumni Board activities (including meetings), promotion and communication activities related to EIT Alumni Communities, development of tools supporting the EIT Alumni community development, supporting the EIT Alumni sustainability agenda.
  • promoting entrepreneurial education, tech skill development and disseminate good practices and lessons learnt from the EIT community activities, including the EIT Virtual Campus.
  • building synergies between the EIT KIC education activities and alignment with other relevant programmes and stakeholders, including Green Deal and European Skills Agenda.
  • facilitating collaboration and shared services and joint and merged education activities between the KICs and disseminating new effective education methods, technologies, tools and approaches to better deliver entrepreneurial education and skills development.
  • effective management of the activity.

Call Total Budget

For 2023: €.905,000,000. The amount changes one year.

Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan

Described in Chapters 7 and 8 – Invitation to submit proposals for KIC Business Plans 2023-2025 (2023-2024 in case of first wave KICs), for the Cross-KIC activities 2023-2025, and for the Higher Education Institutions (HEI) initiative 2023-2025.

Thematic Categories

  • Education and training
  • Information Technology
  • Research, Technological Development and Innovation

Eligibility for Participation

  • Educational Institutions
  • Large Enterprises
  • NGOs
  • Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
  • Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
  • State-owned Enterprises
  • Training Centres

Eligibility For Participation Notes

In accordance with the Horizon Europe Work Programme 2021-2022 10 and the Draft EIT Single Programming Document 2023-2025, in order to be eligible for funding, the applicants must be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:

  • the Member States (MS) of the European Union (EU) including their outermost regions
  • the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States
  • eligible non-EU countries:
    • Countries associated to Horizon Europe
    • Certain low- and middle-income countries

Legal entities, which are established in countries not listed above will be eligible for funding when their participation is considered essential for implementing the action by the EIT.

Call Opening Date

01/06/2022

Call Closing Date

28/09/2022

National Contact Point(s)

Research and Innovation Foundation
29a Andrea Michalakopoulou, 1075 Nicosia
P.O.Box 23422, 1683 Nicosia
Telephone: +357 22205000
Email Address: support@research.org.cy
Website: https://www.research.org.cy/en/

Contact Persons:
Mr. Marinos Photiades
Scientific Officer
Telephone: +357 22205048
Contact Email: mphotiades@research.org.cy

Dr Charalambos Papatryfonos
Scientific Officer
Telephone: +357 22205016
Contact Email: cpapatryfonos@research.org.cy

(Publish Date: 10/06/2021-for internal use only)

EU Contact Point

Applicants are invited to send in any questions they might have on the EIT Call for Proposals until 3 February 2022 via the following functional mailbox: EIT-KICs-Call-2021@eit.europa.eu.