EIT MANUFACTURING SOUTH

The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) is Europe’s largest innovation ecosystem bringing together over 3 400 partners from top business, research and education organisations across Europe in 200+ innovation hubs. The EIT is an EU body and an integral part of Horizon Europe, the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation. Through dynamic pan-European partnerships, called Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs) the EIT Community offers a wide range of innovation and entrepreneurship activities, strengthening Europe’s ability to innovate and powering solutions to pressing global challenges while nurturing entrepreneurial talent to create sustainable growth and skilled jobs in Europe.

EIT Manufacturing is one of the nine innovation communities supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union. EIT Manufacturing’s main goal is to bring European stakeholders focused on manufacturing together in innovation ecosystems that add unique value to European products, processes and services and inspire the creation of globally competitive and sustainable manufacturing. EIT Manufacturing brings together more than 80 members (universities, research institutes and companies).

EIT Manufacturing’s Co-Location Centre South (CLC South), with its headquarters in Milan, Italy is one of the six Co-Location Centres whose mission is fully aligned with the EIT Manufacturing one, that is to bring together leading manufacturing across Europe to integrate innovation and education for an entrepreneurial and sustainable Europe and to fulfill its vision: ‘Global Manufacturing Innovation is led by Europe’. CLC South currently covers the Southern-Europe region comprising: Italy, Malta, Switzerland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro.