2014 KIC selection criteria published

The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) has published the selection criteria for the 2014 call for Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs).

As established in the EIT’s Strategic Innovation Agenda and Horizon 2020, the first two new KICs, to be created in 2014, will address the thematic fields of innovation for healthy living and active ageing and raw materials (sustainable exploration, extraction, processing, recycling and substitution).

The first step in the process leading up to the designation of the new KICs in December 2014 is the publication of the selection criteria. These criteria build on the principles set in the EIT Regulation and the EIT’s core values of impact, excellence and partnership. Aligned with the EIT’s mission, these criteria will ensure that the designated KICs have all the elements that make a KIC a KIC.

The EIT will then publish the Framework of Guidance, the EIT Financial Rules and the EIT Principles for financing, monitoring and evaluating KIC activities in January 2014 followed by the launch of the Call on 14 February 2014.

The EIT spurs innovation and entrepreneurship across the EU. To further enhance its impact and to incentivise the innovations needed to meet new societal challenges, the EIT will gradually expand its portfolio of KICs from 2014 to 2020 to a total of five.