EIT KICs
Knowledge and Innovation Communities – KICs
Their task is to operate top innovation-oriented research in the areas of central economic and social interest and spread model processes in the innovation sector, which have the potential to improve Europe's international competitive ability. The KICs indepedently determine their internal organization and makeup as well as the schedule and work methods. Participants in a KIC can be organizations, which are active in the knowledge triad of university education, research, and innovation. However, at least three partner organizations, located in at least two different EU member states, must be involved.
Projects that are strongly application oriented are generally at the basis of KIC projects, since they can already act a high technology readiness level or TRL. However, it is also possible to have projects funded in the field of teaching – for example massive open online courses or MOOCs – or in entrepreneurship – for example when founding a start up. The types of funding and conditions are different for every KIC.
We currently have a total of eight KICs in the following fields:
- Climate change, EIT-Climate KIC
- Digital technology, EIT Digital
- Sustainable energies, EIT InnoEnergy
- Food for the future, EIT Food
- Healthy living and active aging, EIT Health
- Raw materials, KIC EIT Raw Materials
- Added-value manufacturing, EIT Manufacturing
- Urban mobility, EIT Urban Mobility
Further KICs are being planned:
- EIT Culture and Creative Sectors and Industries CCSI (2022-2023)
- EIT Water, Marine and Maritime Sectors and Ecosystems (2026)
RWTH is involved in the following KICs:
Climate-KIC (RWTH Member From 2012 to 2021)
RWTH was not involved in the following projects as a partner, but nevertheless made a contribution in terms of content by participating in workshops and conferences:
- SSD Malmö: Smart Sustainable Districts Malmö, Prof. Dr. André Bardow
- SSD POD: Smart Sustainable Districts – Programme Outreach & Dissemination, Prof. Dr. André Bardow
- SSD PSD: Smart Sustainable Districts – Programme Service Delivery, Prof. Dr. André Bardow
- SSD Deep Dive London: Smart Sustainable Districts Deep Dive London, Prof. Dr. André Bardow
EIT Health
EIT Raw Materials
RWTH was not involved in the following projects as a partner, but nevertheless made a contribution to the content of the two booster projects by organizing and participating in workshops and conferences and by providing advice:
- WEEE Idea Camp: Next steps in WEEE closing the loop, Prof. Dr. Karl Bernhard Friedrich
- TNTM: TalkNerdyToMe, Prof. Dr. Christian Hopmann
- INTUITION: Information Capturing of industrial needs and solutions in the metallurgical value chain, Prof. Dr. Karl Bernhard Friedrich
- NetFlot: Modelling the Flotation Process, Prof. Dr. Hermann Wotruba
- WEEE Follow Up, Prof. Dr. Karl Bernhard Friedrich
- PMC (Booster Funding): Purified Metal Company, Prof. Dr. Dieter Georg Senk
- talpasolutions (Booster Funding): Sensor data based status monitoring and underground orientation of mining machinery, Prof. Dr. Malte Brettel