The aim of the partnership is to support digital innovation and the development of entrepreneurial talent in order to strengthen both economic growth and the quality of life throughout Europe. EIT Digital invests in strategic areas to accelerate the market uptake and scaling of deep-based digital technologies, focusing on Europe's strategic and societal challenges: Digital Tech, Digital Cities, Digital Industry, Digital Wellbeing, and Digital Finance. The KIC was established in 2010.

In order to build a strong digital Europe, EIT Digital will address the following challenges in the period 2021-2027:

• Bring European values ​​to the digital world,
• Further address fragmentation in support of digital enterprises and entrepreneurs (building the Digital Single Market),
• Raise investment in research and development of digital technologies with an emphasis on software,
• Strongly increase deep tech innovation investments, so as to take mature research results out of the labs and into the market, especially by means of entrepreneurship
• Adapt the European education system to the digital reality, to equip people with the right digital skills and to deploy digital technology to support education.

The partnership website is here. Contacts within the Czech Republic are mediated by the innovation hub EIT Digital managed by the South Moravian Innovation Centre (JIC). You can view the presentation with the offer of services and relevant contacts from March 10, 2021 here (Block 5).