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Supplier sought to help organise Jumpstarter final online

September 29, 2020

EIT Health InnoStars is seeking proposals for assistance in organising an online event: the EIT Jumpstarter Grand Final, the culmination of our award-winning pitch competition taking place on 25 November 2020. EIT Jumpstarter is a pre-accelerator programme led by EIT Health and involving other EIT Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs) with the goal of boosting innovation and entrepreneurship […]

Staying in the lab AND bringing the idea to the market at the same time is possible.

September 14, 2020

What did you do over the weekend? Well, we did something cool: we ran the first online mini-Ignition event as a collaboration of Commercialization Reactor and six EIT Communities in the framework of the EIT Jumpstarter programme. During the past two days, scientific teams worked together with a pool of young entrepreneurs to find partners […]

Sailing through the summer with EIT Jumpstarter

August 28, 2020

90 start-ups out of 120 has been already chosen for the next phase of the 2020 EIT Jumpstarter programme. The teams coming from Central, Eastern and Southern Europe were selected to join the local training. Summer holidays are around the corner – 90 start-up teams out of the 120 entering the EIT Jumpstarter programme have been selected to the […]

EIT Jumpstarter wins Emerging Europe award

July 15, 2020

The award recognises the programme’s work to increase young people’s opportunities, awareness, self-confidence and engagement in society. EIT Jumpstarter is a pre-accelerator programme, led by EIT Health and involving other EIT Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs), with the goal of boosting innovation and entrepreneurship in Central-Eastern and Southern Europe. The programme seeks to validate early-stage innovative […]

EIT Jumpstarter programme starts its 2020 journey

May 27, 2020

The fourth edition of EIT Jumpstarter, one of the most well-known pre-acceleration programmes in Europe, has just kicked off virtually. The programme is the entry-point of scientific innovators aiming to create their businesses. This year, there has been an enormous increase in applications – out of 348 applications, 120 were selected predominantly from Central-Eastern and […]

Extended deadline for EIT Jumpstarter 2020

March 20, 2020

EIT Jumpstarter supports innovators based in Central-Eastern and Southern Europe working in healthcare, agri-food, raw materials, energy, urban mobility and manufacturing industries. Due to the recent developments of Covid-19, EIT Jumpstarter team has extended the deadline of the 2020 edition until 5th April. The programme targets scientific project teams, innovators, scientists, PhD students or Master’s […]

EIT Jumpstarter is back in 2020

February 4, 2020

EIT Jumpstarter, recognized as the 2019 Best Association Training Initiative in Europe, is one of the widest cross-industrial programmes designed for early-stage innovators who want to gain traction and jumpstart their business. The fourth edition will be organised in collaboration with six knowledge and innovation communities: EIT Health, EIT Raw Materials, EIT Food, EIT InnoEnergy, […]

EIT Jumpstarter rewards the best European early-stage innovators in health, food and raw materials sectors, prize fund reaches €70,000

November 15, 2019

Yesterday, in Riga, Latvia, the EIT Jumpstarter Grand Final took place as the side event of Digital Freedom Festival. In total 18 teams from 10 countries, shared their innovative solutions in healthcare, food industry and raw materials sector. The 1st place in Health category won iLoF with a product that screens patients for Alzheimer’s Clinical […]

Jumpstarter, EIT’s Cross-KIC initiative, wins European Association Award

August 23, 2019

Jumpstarter, a competition and training programme for start-ups run cooperatively by EIT Health, EIT RawMaterials and EIT Food, won the Best Association Training Initiative category in the European Association Awards, presented during a ceremony in Brussels on 28 March 2019. The European Association Awards celebrate the vital work that the European Associations do on behalf of their […]