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project description
ELEVATE is a dynamic EIT Higher Education Initiative designed to accelerate entrepreneurship and innovation capacity across critical sectors: Food Biotech, Biomedicine, Artificial Intelligence, and Creative and Cultural Industries (CCIs). By integrating diverse knowledge areas, the program fosters value creation, generates startups, and develops knowledge-intensive solutions within a unique, interdisciplinary, and co-creation-driven environment.
Spanning six EU regional ecosystems—Portugal’s North, Centre, and Lisbon regions; Italy’s Friuli Venezia Giulia and Emilia Romagna regions; and Central Denmark—ELEVATE leverages distinct regional characteristics and existing structures to drive systematic transformation. It provides a novel acceleration program that bridges academic innovations with market-ready solutions, attracting investment and supporting new ventures. The initiative also enhances the competitiveness of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) by transforming their internal structures to better support technology transfer, entrepreneurship, and graduate employability, notably through an improved core curriculum.
goals
- Accelerate entrepreneurship and innovation capacity in Food Biotech, Biomedicine, AI, and Creative and Cultural Industries.
- Foster value creation, startup generation, and knowledge-intensive solutions by integrating diverse expertise.
- Drive systematic transformation within six EU regional ecosystems (Portugal North, Centre, Lisbon; Italy Friuli Venezia Giulia, Emilia Romagna; Central Denmark).
- Bridge academic innovations with market-ready solutions by attracting investment and supporting new ventures.
- Enhance the competitiveness of HEIs through structural transformation supporting technology transfer, entrepreneurship, and employability.
- Equip graduates with advanced skills and competencies through an improved core curriculum aligned with market needs.
- Foster robust collaboration across a diverse ecosystem of HEIs, industries, municipalities, and investors.
- Develop and implement an innovative acceleration program to support new business creation and serve as a European model.
- Ensure sustainability and scalability by integrating multi-disciplinary modules, IP management, and entrepreneurship skills into a core curriculum.
- Transfer and build upon the successful experience and best practices from the DIP4Agri project for long-term impact.
outputs
- Innovative Startups & New Ventures: Formation and support of new businesses addressing key challenges in target sectors.
- Enhanced Core Curriculum: A multi-disciplinary curriculum integrating entrepreneurship, IP management, and sector-specific knowledge.
- Comprehensive Training Programs: Tailored training for students and staff fostering their contribution to the innovation ecosystem.
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