EIT Thematic Innovations cross-KIC cluster

Topic description

ExpectedOutcome:

Thematic Innovations activities are aimed at developing highly innovative products and/or services or sustainable education and skill development programmes with high societal impact potential (contributing to the EIT core KPIs and the financial sustainability of the participating KICs), with a clear cross-KIC value demonstrated and addressing EU/EIT priorities. These are bottom-up initiatives, selected by the EIT on a competitive basis.

• Relevant and appropriate Thematic Innovation proposals for 2023-2025, demonstrating theirs excellence (including objectives and ambition; methodology; cross-KIC relevance, financial sustainability, relevance with objectives of the Strategic Agendas of participating KICs in the consortium), its impact (including KIC’s pathways towards impact; measures to maximise impact - dissemination, exploitation and communication) and its quality and efficiency of the implementation (including work plan and resources; capacity of participants and KIC Partnership as a whole).
• to address societal challenges of participating KICs and demonstrate the Knowledge Triangle Integration (KTI) approach, contributing to achieving the future high-level results and impacts included in the EIT Impact Framework.
• Objectives in the Thematic Innovation proposals should be described according to the SMART criteria (specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time-bound) and clearly linked with the Strategic Agendas of participating KICs.

Proposed topics should be aligned with the participating KICs Strategic Agendas.

A total budget of a project proposal should not be lower than EUR 3,000,000 and higher than EUR 8,000,000.

The EIT plans to select up to five thematic innovation activities.

In response to this topic applicants should evidence a contribution to the EIT Impact Framework, the EIT’s strategic objectives and the EU’s key strategic agendas. The expected impact should be defined upfront, should be measurable and achievable within the frame of the project duration. The project’s activities should be designed accordingly. The Cross-KIC activity should demonstrate in the proposal how the cross-KIC activity contributes to KICs' financial sustainability and how it contributes to the EIT core KPIs.