Press release -
Six innovation centers selected as ARISE Europe cooperation partners of EIT Digital
EIT Digital is happy to announce that as a result of its open call and selection process, the following innovation centers have been selected as ARISE Europe cooperation partners of EIT Digital:
- BGI Lisbon, Portugal
- Inits Vienna, Austria
- RubixLab Bratislava, Slovakia
- ABC Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Startup Wise Guys Tallinn, Estonia
- Found.ation Athens, Greece
By collaborating with EIT Digital, the selected organisations will get connected to the (more than 130) EIT Digital partners representing global companies, leading research centers and top ranked universities. Through EIT Digital’s business developers, startups will enjoy faster access to the wider European market and investors. Practical cooperation means joint coaching of start-ups and co-branded events to mobilize the local stakeholders.
“The selected Innovation Centers have strong success stories and local ecosystems. We are excited to start working together and contribute to making their territories and the whole Europe THE place for digital Innovation”, explains Fabio Pianesi, Research Director of EIT Digital.
ARISE Europe is a programme of EIT Digital to jointly stimulate, with local champions, regional growth in EU countries where EIT Digital is not present. The Call for Applications gathered 43 applications from 14 countries. More information on ARISE Europe: https://www.eitdigital.eu/about-us/arise-europe/
Contact:
Fabio Pianesi, Research Director, EIT Digital
fabio.pianesi@eitdigital.eu
Tel: +39 3346475693
Topics
- Education
Categories
- european eco-system
- start-ups
- europe
- innovation
- arise europe
- rubixlab
- bgi
- inits
- abc accelerator
- startup wise guys
- found.ation
- fabio pianesi
About EIT Digital
EIT Digital* is a leading European open innovation organisation. Our mission is to foster digital technology innovation and entrepreneurial talent for economic growth and quality of life in Europe. We bring together entrepreneurs from a partnership of over 130 top European corporations, SMEs, start-ups, universities and research institutes.
EIT Digital invests in strategic areas to accelerate the market uptake of research-based digital technologies and to bring entrepreneurial talent and leadership to Europe. Our innovation and education activities are organised in and around our co-location centres, where students, researchers, engineers, business developers and entrepreneurs come together to drive the digitalisation of society.
EIT Digital is a Knowledge and Innovation Community of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). Since 2010, EIT Digital is consistently mobilising talents, ideas, technologies, investments and business across Europe and beyond to stimulate disruptive digital innovation. The headquarter is in Brussels with co-location centres in Berlin, Eindhoven, Helsinki, London, Paris, Stockholm, Trento, as well as in Budapest and Madrid.
* EIT ICT Labs is now EIT Digital, see the transformation here.
