EIT Cross-KIC Strategic Outreach

• further development of EIT community Hubs in USA (Silicon Valley), United Kingdom (London), Israel (Tel Aviv), and setting up of other potential locations of strategic interest;
• developing and start implementing activities contributing to the respective Hub’s financial sustainability and where possible to the KICs’ financial sustainability;
• linking the innovation ecosystem of Europe with that of the selected outreach locations;
• supporting EIT and overall EU innovators and entrepreneurs in the selected outreach locations, e.g. access to new partners and markets, soft landing services;
• development of the methodology and preparation a market study and business model for other strategic outreach locations in line with the EIT’s strategic priorities.
• alignment with the EU principles on Global Approach in R&I and the EIT Strategic Framework for EIT Community Global Outreach Activities.

to be defined by applicants addressing the specific objectives of the activity, its scope and expected results in the context of elevating the impact of the EIT Community and improving its financial sustainability through expanding the KICs operations beyond Europe. The impact description should be supported by results KPIs and qualitative and quantitative description of the long-term impact. The results KPIs should be accompanied/ justified by the outputs KPIs (for example in relation to the financial sustainability area to indicate revenues to be generated by each location in short-term). 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.