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 power 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. Its 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 200 members (universities, research institutes, and companies).

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