Deadline: 28/10/2024 23.59 – CET
Calling Europe’s innovation leaders! Join the EIT Governing Board!
Do you want to accelerate Europe’s transition to a greener, healthier, and more sustainable future? You can make that happen as one of four new EIT Governing Board members.
This Call for Expression of Interest is now open to leaders with a strong track record of bridging the worlds of business, education and research. Apply by 28 October 2024 and help boost Europe’s ability to innovate.
The EIT Governing Board consists of 15 European innovation leaders with four year terms (which might be extended once by a two-year period) and an observer from the European Commission. The Board provides the EIT’s strategic leadership and is independent in its decision-making. More specifically, the Board is responsible for the selection, designation, funding, and evaluation of the EIT’s Knowledge and Innovation Communities as well as for monitoring and fostering their performance.
The EIT strengthens Europe’s ability to innovate by powering solutions to pressing global challenges and by nurturing entrepreneurial talent to create sustainable growth and skilled jobs in Europe. The EIT is an EU body and an integral part of Horizon Europe, the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation.
The Institute supports dynamic pan-European partnerships, EIT Knowledge and Innovation Communities, among leading companies, research labs and universities. Together with their leading partners, the EIT Community offers a wide range of innovation and entrepreneurship activities across Europe: entrepreneurial education courses, business creation and acceleration services and innovation driven research projects.
The EIT Governing Board’s Advisory Group to select new Board members consists of: Pia Sandvik (chair), Janis Grevins (member), and Inga Skisaker (member). The Advisory Group identifies a list of potential candidates and will guarantee the independence, transparency, legitimacy, and credibility of the process.
For more information on how to apply, please click the Apply button.