About the Flagship
Innovation depends on the successful nurture, attraction and retention of talented individuals and a diverse array of skills. High quality education and attractive working conditions are thus key to attracting and ensuring a flow of highly skilled and talented individuals that can contribute to achieving wider policy priorities including the twin transition and a competitive edge in strategic value chains. In the light of the adopted New European Innovation Agenda, actions have been established to ensure European retain and attract talent from across Europe and beyond.
The European Institute for Innovation and Technology (EIT) is implementing The Deep Tech Talent Initiative by skilling one million people in deep tech fields over the next three years. This pioneering talent development initiative will secure the future of Europe’s competitiveness and address the most pressing global challenges by promoting cutting-edge technologies and a sustainable entrepreneurship and innovation culture in education and training.
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Innovation Internship Scheme
Evaluation and announcement of results
Start of the scheme
The European Innovation Council (EIC) will launch the Next Generation Innovation Talents Scheme in the first quarter of 2024. The Scheme will offer over 600 internships in EIC and EIT supported companies to researchers and aspiring innovators from various Horizon Europe funded programmes. It will allow to the participating companies and interns to benefit from each other’s knowledge and experience thus boosting further the research and innovation potential of the EU. The scheme will be implemented in collaboration with the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) and its Knowledge and Innovation Communities, the European Research Council, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions and the Horizon Europe Research Infrastructure programme.
Digital Europe programme
Publication of Digital Work programme 2023-24
Publication of call
The European Commission will continue to provide training support to Higher Education Institutes (HEIs), including European Universities Alliances, businesses and research and innovation centres through the Digital Europe programme. This will include the training of specialists in fields such as data science, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and microelectronics to support the future deployment of such technologies across all economic sectors.
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Launch Innovation Talent Platform
Launch of the first phase of the Platform
Launch of the second phase of the Platform
Implementation phase
In partnership with interested Member States and stakeholders, European Commission will design an EU-wide Innovation Talent Platform, a matching tool to help European businesses, including startups, to find the talents that they are not able to find in the European labour market. This will increase the mobility of skilled individuals towards and within Europe through international recruitment and by supporting matchmaking between EU-based employers and qualified nationals of non-EU countries wishing to work and move legally to the EU.
Stock options
Endorsement of the Working Group by the EIC Forum Plenary
Kick off meeting and launch of the Working Group
Working Group progress and report
The European Commission has established a working group on employees’ stock options under the EIC Forum to explore approaches to tackle the administrative barriers that currently limit the uptake of employees’ stock options across the EU. The Forum will in the first instance allow the Commission and Member States to exchange information and share best practice with a view to facilitating a coordinated approach across the EU.
Establish women leading deep-tech innovation
Kick-off meeting and launch of the programme
Awards Ceremony
The EIC Women Leadership Programme is a skills and networking opportunities enhancement initiative for female researchers and entrepreneurs of EIC beneficiaries. It stimulates women to advance in their careers by leading the transition of their research to market, creating their own spin-off or spin-outs, and taking over leading positions in existing companies and helps women entrepreneurs reinforce their leadership role and obtain follow up investments.
The programme consists of joint training sessions, individual personal mentoring and business coaching and networking opportunities. Two cohorts supporting more than 130 participants have been implemented so far. In the last cohort, EIC has partnered with EIT and included a limited number of participants coming from EIT supported companies. The partnership continues for the third cohort, onboarding 50 participants and taking place between April and June 2023. Participants of the last cohort reported 31% total increase of skills.
Establish a peer learning education and innovation practice community
Launch
End date
The European Commission, in partnership with the OECD, is establishing a peer learning education and innovation practice community. To cultivate the competencies needed to drive deep-tech innovation and foster the twin green and digital transition, this Community will contribute to more effective policymaking by spurring innovation in education. Interested stakeholders (education institutions, policy-makers and businesses) will reflect on a holistic approach towards (i) fostering innovation skills and mindsets from an early age, (ii) supporting higher education institutions in integrating innovation in their curriculum and (iii) expanding the role of higher education institutions and adult learning providers in up- and reskilling strategies.
Extending the EIT Girls Go Circular Project to cover all EU Member States
Launch
26.000 girls trained in 15 countries
End date
The Girls Go Circular Project aims to equip by 2024 40,000 schoolgirls, aged 14-19, across Europe with digital and entrepreneurial skills through an online learning programme about the circular economy. In addition to expanding the project to all EU Member States, innovative learning materials with a focus on deep tech, aligned with the EIT Deep Tech Talent Initiative, will raise girls’ awareness about deep tech subjects.
So far, over 26 000 girls have been trained in 15 countries, including Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Serbia, North Macedonia, Armenia, Moldova and Ukraine.
In 2023, Girls Go Circular will expand to Germany, France, The Netherlands, Belgium, Estonia, Ireland, Austria and Luxembourg.
In 2024, all other EU Member States will follow in order to provide these learning opportunities to girls everywhere in the EU.
The Erasmus+ Alliances for Innovation foster Europe’s innovation capacity through cooperation and flow of knowledge among higher education, vocational education and training (both initial and continuous), and the broader socio-economic environment.
From 2023, the Erasmus+ Alliances for Innovation will support the development of entrepreneurial skills with a particular focus on deep tech skills. This will support and complement the development of incubators within HEIs, in close cooperation with the entrepreneurial sector, to help student
entrepreneurs turn their ideas into businesses, as announced in the European strategy for universities.
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Member States and Associated Countries actions supporting the New European Innovation Agenda
At the Competitiveness Council in December 2022, following the adoption of Council Conclusions on New European Innovation Agenda (NEIA), the Commission launched a call to governments to announce actions in support of the NEIA. This announcement was based on the understanding that full support and engagement from the Member States and Associated Countries is needed to ensure the implementation of the NEIA.
The actions were gathered through the EIC Forum, a group of Member States and Associated Countries' public authorities and bodies in charge of innovation policies and programmes, with the aim of promoting coordination and dialogue on the development of the Union's innovation ecosystem.
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Austrian Business Agency (ABA) - Work in Austria | 'Work In Austria' is Austria’s center of competence for the search for international talent provides support international experts from all over the world including residence titles, work location and living conditions etc. | National | Ongoing | Website |
'Female Innovators Programme‘ (FFG-Innovatorinnen-Programm) | Targeted support for highly qualified female professionals in applied research and innovatin in areas including design and activites, at leadership, networking etc. | National | Ongoing | Website |
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Flanders AI academy | To develop deeptech skills in Artificial Intelligence for researchers to boost academic carreers in AI areas, and to cooperate on a multidisciplinary basis in areas of machine learning, algorithms, data science and to provide AI training for companies. | Regional | Ongoing | Website |
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Cyprus startup visa scheme | Strengthening the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem and attracting technology talents (including deep tech talents). | National | Ongoing | Contact |
Certificate for Innovative Companies | Enhance innovative SMEs with tax incentives to attract talent and investments in research and innovation. | National | Ongoing | Website |
Cyprus Scientific Visa | To encourage qualified Third Country Nationals to come and work as researchers by facilitating by the provision of a special visa / Temporary Residence Permit. | National | Ongoing | Website |
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Research Fellowships CZ | To contribute to the development of internationalization of the research and innovation environment, including the career growth of researchers and innovators). | European | Ongoing | Contact |
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Industrial Ph.D and postdocs | Innovation Fund Denmark supports both Industrial PhD projects and Industrial postdoctoral projects within green rtechnologies,life sciences, and digitalisation. | National | Ongoing | Website |
Innoexplorer - programme | Program that aims to mature entrepreneurship based on knowledge and research results from the public Danish research and education institutions and hospitals. | National | Ongoing | Website |
InnoFounder | To accelerate the development of innovative entrepreneurial ideas from the early stages to encourage financial sustainability through sales or raising additional public or private investment. | National | Ongoing | Website |
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i-PhD | To support PhD candidates or young researchers willing to explore the possibility to turn their research results into a DeepTech start-up. | National | Ongoing | Website |
FrenchTech VISA | To attract international tech talent to France, the French Tech Visa provides a simplified procedure for inidviduals working in the Tech ecosystem. | Ongoing | Website |
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Technology Transfer Program | To facilitate the commercialization of scientific projects that respond to market needs. Within the framework of the program, technologies/innovations with potential for commercialization are selected for support. | European | Ongoing | Website |
Georgia Acceleration Program | The program involves the training of startups throughout Georgia and the region by '500 Global', a global venture capital company. | National | Ongoing | Website |
IT specialists training program | The program will provide professional training to qualified personnal in the most demanding and highly paid professions in the labor market. | National | Planned for future | Website |
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Umbrella portal of the German government "Make it in Germany" | This the German government's online umbrella portal for skilled workers from abroad on how to apply and complete the immigration formalities and make their way to Germany. | European | Ongoing | Website |
ProRecognition: Advice on the recognition of foreign professional qualifications | Advice for prospective immigrants on the opportunities for professional recognition while still in their home country. | European | Ongoing | Website |
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Industrial PhDs | This action refers to the funding of an Industrial PhD scheme, for industrially focused research projects which will be conducted jointly by a private sector company, Industrial PhD student and university. | National | Ongoing | Website |
Collaborating professors | Transfer of teaching and/or research experience from abroad to national HEIs. | European | Ongoing | Contact |
Visiting professors/Visiting Researchers | Strengthen connections between universities and the market, to facilitate knowledge transfer and boost innovation through funding of distinguished academic staff and researchers in foreign academic institutions to join Greek universities. | European | Ongoing | Website |
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Tyndall National Institute | Delivery of Tyndall's International Positioning, and People and Culture Strategic Goals, inlcuding attract and retain the best deep-tech talent, developing career development pathways and strategic partnerships. | National | Ongoing | Website |
Innovators’ Initiative | Enterprise Ireland Innovators’ Initiative will attract high calibre individuals and teams who will be supported to generate new product and process ideas, new IP and in some cases, the creation of high-potential-start-ups (HPSUs). | National | Ongoing | Website |
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Recruitment of ERC ‘researchers of excellence’ | Facilitating the recruitment of excellent researchers through a recruitment procedure by “direct call” to facilitate the recruitment of researchers permanently engaged abroad in research or teaching activities. | National | Ongoing | Contact |
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EUMaster4HPC | Advanced education and training in High Performance Computing (HPC) and its applicability to HPDA and AI is essential for strengthening the world-class European HPC ecosystem. | European | Ongoing | Website |
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Participation in the European University Ulysseus | To develop an excellence-recognized European University built upon the European values of social cohesion and respect for human rights. | European | Ongoing | Contact |
Digital Academy | The Digital Academy will provide strong support to the process of digital transformation, including by creating opportunities for new forms of knowledge transfer, business, integration and focusing on the most relevant topics in the field | National | Ongoing | Website |
Participation in EIT HEI Initiative - ABCD project (University of Montenegro) | Regional / European | Ongoing | Website |
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Establishment of FAB LABS and MAKER SPACES | To provide suitable laboratory environments for developing innovative products and services in priority areas of science and technology. These laboratories will also be a place for cooperation between enetrprises, higher education and scientific institutions, and civil society organizations. | National | Ongoing | Contact |
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White paper “Outlook on skills needs in Norway” | The report reviews the most important skills needs moving forward and provides direction for the government's policies in the coming years. | National | Ongoing | Contact |
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Specialised funds for Technology Transfer | Promote the capitalisation of technology-based and innovative companies located in Spain, particularly public-private venture capital initiatives that invest in technology-based companies at the very early stages of development. | National | Ongoing | Website |
EOTEC Calls (CDTI) | Support the creation and consolidation of deep-tech-based companies thorugh financial grants for hiring a PhD holder for two years to enhance growth potential. | National | Ongoing | Website |
Plan for attracting and retaining scientific and innovative talent | Encourage the return, retention, and attraction of scientific and innovative talent to Spain through action measures on the development of scientific careers and removing barriers to international scientific talent. | National | Website |
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Switch to Sweden | The purpose is to facilitate for international talents to find suitable employers to more easily integrate in Sweden in a long-term perspective instead of leaving Sweden. | National | Ongoing | Website |
Vinnova call ”Attract, integrate and retain international excellence” | Financial support for employers to recruit research talent and MSCA Fellows. | National | Ongoing | Website |
Mobility x-Lab Sourcing Project - Lindholmens Science Park AB | To attract and retain innovative startups from India to collaborate with MobilityXlab's partner companies (CEVT, Ericsson, Polestar, Volvo Cars, Volvo Group, Veoneer and Zenseact) with the area of sustainable transport. | Regional | Ongoing | Website |
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TÜBİTAK 2209-B Industry Oriented Research Supporting Programme for University Students | The program aims to encourage students to carry out research projects that have the potential to be applied in industry and/or to solve the R&D problem of an industrial organization. | National | Ongoing | Website |
TÜBİTAK 2210 D - National Industrial MSc/MA Scholarship Program | MSc scholarships to graduate students to contribute to the improvement of human resources regarding Türkiye's research priorities in industrial fields. | National | Ongoing | Website |
TÜBİTAK 2244 - Industrial Doctorate Fellowship Program | PhD scholarships to graduate students to contribute to the improvement of human resources regarding Türkiye's research priorities in industrial fields. | National | Ongoing | Website |