We are delighted to announce that the @EIT Higher Education Initiative has awarded INNO-STEM BRIDGE funding as part of their Call for Proposals 2025.

INNO-STEM BRIDGE — Building Sustainable Innovation Ecosystems and Fostering Deep Tech Entrepreneurial Talents in STEM — will help partner universities move STEM talent and research closer to real market and societal value.

The project builds a Lab-to-Market pathway that connects STEM education, challenge-based co-creation, prototyping and validation, deep-tech acceleration, technology transfer, and market uptake. This support gives our consortium the resources and access to the wider EIT HEI community needed to strengthen innovation capacity across higher education institutions and their ecosystems.

The INNO-STEM BRIDGE consortium brings together partners from academia, innovation support, industry collaboration, and ecosystem development:

• Zhytomyr Polytechnic State University, Ukraine
• Chernihiv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine
• Amplifiers, Ukraine
• Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine
• KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
• Eskişehir Osmangazi University, Türkiye
• Foundation “Prof. Dr. Dimitar Stamboliev”, North Macedonia
• M6 Educational Centre, North Macedonia

Together, we will work on practical mechanisms that universities need to turn knowledge into validated solutions: entrepreneurship and IP learning for STEM students and staff, real industry and public-sector challenges, acceleration for promising teams, TTO/KTO professionalisation, and stronger cross-border partnerships.

We are pleased to join the EIT Higher Education Initiative community and contribute to a European network that sees universities not only as places of education and research, but as active engines of innovation, entrepreneurship, and regional development.

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@EIT Higher Education Initiative