Calling Europe’s innovation leaders to join the EIT Governing Board
Are you a leading scholastic, innovator, entrepreneur or scientist searching for an opportunity to assist Europe recover from the crisis through development?
Do you want to help Europe shift to a greener, healthier and more sustainable future? The European Institute of Development and Technology (EIT) has a chance for you.
The EIT is choosing up to 4 new members for its Governing Board. The Call of Expression of Interest is now open: use until 30 September 2020 and help drive Europe’s capability to innovate.
The EIT Governing Board consists of 12 European development leaders appointed by the European Commission for a four-year required. The Board supplies the EIT’s strategic leadership and is independent in its decision-making. More specifically, the Board is accountable for the selection, designation and evaluation of the EIT’s Knowledge and Innovation Neighborhoods.
The EIT is the EU’s most knowledgeable and biggest innovation network that powers innovators and business owners throughout Europe to provide special solutions to pushing global obstacles. The Institute makes development occur through an unique design that supports the development of long-term European partnerships– EIT Knowledge and Innovation Communities– where businesses, education and research carefully work together.
The EIT’s reasoning is: development needs a pipeline of ideas, skill and a supporting ecosystem. With Europe’s most skilled and biggest development network of more than 60 EIT Development Hubs, gathering over 2000 partners, the EIT provides innovators what they need to prosper. The Institute uses a broad range of activities to help business owners turn their concepts into items, services and tasks, consisting of entrepreneurial education programmes, start-up and velocity assistance and innovation-driven research study projects.
Given that 2010, the EIT Community has brought over 900 brand-new services and products to the market, trained thousands of business owners and has actually backed over 2 000 endeavors that have actually brought in EUR 1.5 billion in external financial investment. Fulfill some of the EIT Neighborhood supported business owners:
The European Commission has actually presented the EIT’s technique for 2021 to 2027 that will even more increase the EIT’s aspiration and required.
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Selection Procedure
The choice treatment for as much as 4 brand-new members of the EIT Governing Board starts with this Require Expressions of Interest. Each member has a four-year, non-renewable mandate and Members are appointed in a personal capability, acting individually and in the general public interest.
Following the closure of the Call on 30 September 2020, a Steering Committee will examine the submissions and talk to the highest-scoring candidates. The Steering Committee will then prepare a shortlist of candidates to be proposed as new members. The EIT Governing Board will examine and approve the shortlist and foward it to the European Commission.
The new members of the Governing Board will be designated through a Commission Choice, anticipated in 2021. In its visits, the Commission provides regard to the balance between college, research study, development and service experience in addition to gender and geographical balance.
More details is offered in the EIT Governing Board’s choice on the selection procedure.
About the Steering Committee
For this treatment, the EIT Governing Board’s Steering Committee consists of EIT Governing Board members Agnès Paillard, Romana Jordan and Nektarios Tavernarakis as well as an Observer from the European Commission.
The Steering Committee identifies a list of approximately 4 prospective candidates. The Steering Committee will ensure the independence, authenticity and trustworthiness of the process. More info about the members of the Steering Committee is readily available.
The EIT Governing Board’s decision on the consultation of the Steering Committee is available.