EIT Digital is a European education and innovation organisation that aims to strengthen Europe’s position in the digital world, namely by developing talent and supporting entrepreneurship and innovation in the digital field. It operates a Knowledge and Innovation Community that links education, research and business to create an ecosystem of innovation:
- Digital Technology
- Digital Cities
- Digital Industry
- Digital Wellbeing
- Digital Finance.
In terms of education, it supports and promotes short courses through the Coursera platform, offers master’s programmes in emerging technologies through the EIT Digital Master School in collaboration with more than 20 universities in Europe.
Since 2010, it has trained more than 3,500 students in innovation and entrepreneurship, supported more than 780 startups and scaleups in their international growth, created more than 250 startups and supported the commercial launch of more than 540 products and services.