More than fifty alumni, students and Pioneers into Practice (PiPs) gathered in Wageningen on 14-15 January to launch the Alumni Association in the presence of Climate-KIC and EIT representatives. During a fruitful and energetic weekend the first official Climate-KIC alumni board was formed.

Mary Ritter, the Climate-KIC CEO, described the alumni association as an "important and highly innovative project". In particular, she highlighted the process to become a legal entity and to become affiliate partner in Climate-KIC.

Read more: climate-kic.org

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Wednesday, 25 January 2012 is European Youth Day and Eurofound takes the opportunity to highlight its recent research on the situation of young people, specifically those who are part of the NEET group: ‘not in employment, education or training’.
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Key events presents the priorities and application procedure for latest TEN-T EA managed call.
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Call for Ideas/Participation in Knowledge Sharing at the EIT Headquarters

The EIT is launching a call for participation in knowledge sharing by hosting conferences, seminars, workshops etc at its headquarters in Budapest.

The EIT will provide you with a meeting platform. You organise, we facilitate!

This is another step in getting together the wider community of EIT’s stakeholders.

What does the EIT offer?

• meeting space with technical facilities for up to a maximum of 50 attendees per event
• usage of the EIT logo;
• online promotion of the event via EIT channels (including website and social media); 
• ex-post online dissemination of the events’ results and findings including the EIT and KICs web pages, etc.

Furthermore the EIT might provide catering services to the meeting subject to prior agreement.

How to?

This is a running call. One can always submit an application. The pilot phase ends on 31 December 2012.

Apply here

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Call for Ideas/Participation in Knowledge Sharing at the EIT Headquarters

The EIT is launching a call for participation in knowledge sharing by hosting conferences, seminars, workshops etc at its headquarters in Budapest.

The EIT will provide you with a meeting platform. You organise, we facilitate!

This is another step in getting together the wider community of EIT’s stakeholders.

What does the EIT offer?

• meeting space with technical facilities for up to a maximum of 50 attendees per event
• usage of the EIT logo;
• online promotion of the event via EIT channels (including website and social media); 
• ex-post online dissemination of the events’ results and findings including the EIT and KICs web pages, etc.

Furthermore the EIT might provide catering services to the meeting subject to prior agreement.

How to?

This is a running call. One can always submit an application. The pilot phase ends on 31 December 2012.

Apply here

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The JHA informal Council, taking place at the beginning of each new Presidency, is intended to allow for a free discussion on key issues among ministers of justice and home affairs.
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All organisations participating in the Fundamental Rights Platform were consulted on the initial suggestions for the new , which will determine the areas of the Agency’s work for the period .
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The Hult Global Case Challenge announced a students team from KIC InnoEnergy (one of the EIT’s Knowledge and Innovation Communities) has been accepted and will compete in the 3rd Annual Hult Global Case Challenge (Hult GCC) – an initiative that brings together top students from all over the globe to generate solutions to the world’s most pressing social challenges.

The 2012 Hult Global Case Challenge will focus on breaking the cycle of global poverty through developing sustainable solutions that will provide affordable housing, affordable energy, and affordable education to the bottom of the pyramid. USD 1 million in seed capital is made available annually to provide funding to pilot the very best ideas.

Each team selected was chosen from more than 4,000 applications received. Most colleges and universities had multiple team applicants with one or two teams from each school being chosen. 

The Hult GCC regional competitions will take place on February 24-25, 2012 on Hult International Business School’s five campuses in Boston, San Francisco, London, Dubai and Shanghai. KIC InnoEnergy’s team will compete in London. 

About KIC InnoEnergy’s team

EIT’s KIC InnoEnergy’s team members include:

• Eduardo M. Appleyard – Team Captain – from Canada/Argentina
• Francesco Fuso-Nerini from Milano Italy
• Vincenzo Capogna from Rome, Italy
• Oisin Tummon from South Africa
• Eric Bowler from Chicago, USA

They were all enrolled in KIC InnoEnergy’s Master SELECT.

The objective of the team is to find a solution for Solaraid a UK based NGO for the mass implementation of micro solar products in Africa.

To learn more about the Hult Global Case Challenge, please visit the Hult GCC website, or follow it on Facebook and Twitter.

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For administrative reasons the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) has to cancel and close the call for expression of interest for the establishment of a database of independent experts published in 2009.  Please be informed that the experts’ database will be cancelled and closed by 31 January 2012.

We would like to assure you that the personal data of the experts included in the database was processed pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data by the Community institutions and bodies and on the free movement of such data.  In case you have queries concerning the processing of your personal data, please address them to the EIT’s Data Protection Officer: EIT-DPO@eit.europa.eu.

Please note that in the future the EIT may appoint experts from the European Commission’s databases and/or from the shortlists established inter alia by DG Research and Innovation (more information) and DG Education and Culture.     

We thank you for your interest in working for the EIT as an expert and strongly encourage you to register in the European Commission’s experts’ databases.  We are looking forward for future collaboration with you. 

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The films of the EIT Youth & Entrepreneurship conference have been released.

View the YouTube playlist

View the videos in the Storify of the conference

For any personal request regarding these videos, please contact EIT-conference@eit.europa.eu

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Watch Eurofound’s video on volunteering and care issues; more updates from the Opening Conference of the European Year of Active Ageing and Solidarity to follow next week.
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This report draws on over a decade of research by the FRA and its predecessor, the European Union Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia, to give an analysis of the progress and remaining obstacles in the application of the EU directive.
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Two Delft graduates, named as EIT Awards finalists by the Climate-KIC, are working at Schiphol airport to develop lightweight, flexible solar panel supports.

Thomas de Leeuw and Jan van Kranendonk, who both graduated in December 2011 with a Masters in Mechanical Engineering from Delft University of Technology, were far more ambitious than most students. During their studies they founded the solar energy company Sunuru, wrote their respective Masters theses on the commercial and technical feasibility of Sunuru, and secured a Dutch patent for their product.

Read the full entry on eitawards.eu

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Finnish start-up Blaast, nominated for an EIT Award by the ICT KIC, has an ‘app’ to make your phone a smartphone.

The main aim of Blaast is to bring mobile applications and a smartphone user experience to people who don’t own top-of-the-range phones. With Blaast, the "apps" run in a cloud computing environment – on remote computer servers connected to the phones, rather than on the devices themselves.

Read the full entry on eitawards.eu

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Two Delft graduates, named as EIT Awards finalists by the Climate-KIC, are working at Schiphol airport to develop lightweight, flexible solar panel supports.

Thomas de Leeuw and Jan van Kranendonk, who both graduated in December 2011 with a Masters in Mechanical Engineering from Delft University of Technology, were far more ambitious than most students. During their studies they founded the solar energy company Sunuru, wrote their respective Masters theses on the commercial and technical feasibility of Sunuru, and secured a Dutch patent for their product.

Read the full entry on eitawards.eu

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The third annual review on the implementation of national qualifications frameworks – now available from our publications page as an e-book as well as in pdf format- shows significant progress, and a renewed impetus to link the NQFs to the validation of non-formal and informal learning.
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Active ageing is about getting more out of life as you grow older – at work, private life or in the community. Cedefop studies how guidance and training can encourage older people to stay on at work – and how the workplace can make the best use of their skills and experience. It is presenting its findings at the Danish Presidency conference launching the Year of Active Ageing on 18-19 January.
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