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Artificial Intelligence activities in EIT

Michal Gorzynski | EIT House| November 23rd 2018

European Institute of Innovation and Technology

• 1st

EU initiative bringing together the three sides of the Knowledge Triangle:

business (large corporates & SMEs), education institutions, research centres.

• Aim to increase the co-operation and integration between higher education,

business and research to facilitate the transition from:

student to entrepreneur

idea to product lab to customer

Our vision is to become the leading European initiative that empowers innovators

and entrepreneurs to develop world-class solutions to societal challenges, and

create growth and skilled jobs.

• Independent legal entity gathering world-class

partners.

• Autonomy & flexibility: to determine

organisational structure and activities

• Long-term strategic approach: set up for a

minimum of 7 years to eventually become

financially sustainable.

• Smart funding & high degree of commitment of

partners: 25%-75%

EIT Model

• Effective governance: Run by a CEO and a lean

management team

• Innovation Hubs: 5-8 per EIT Innovation

Community

• Results & high impact oriented activities:

a 7-year strategy and annual business plans

• Culture: Strong entrepreneurial mind-sets and

culture

• Synergies & complementarities: At national,

European and international level

EIT Innovation Communities

6

AI - Innovation projects

• EIT Health

• Early Lung Cancer Diagnosis Using Artificial

Intelligence and Big Data

• DeTecT2D

• Deep-Learning MR-only Radiation Therapy

• EIT Climate-KIC

• ZRR Municipal Waste

• EIT Food

• SmartFoodLogging (SFL)

AI - Education projects

• EIT Health

• Healthcare Upgraded- Hello AI Summer School.

• SMART-UP Lab

• The Cross-KIC Human Capital Activity led by InnoEnergy

• EIT RawMaterials

• IDEACamp

Start ups supported

• EIT RawMaterials

• Pollen Metrology

• EIT InnoEnergy

• DCbrain

AI and the EIT Awards winners 2018

Ioannis Tarnanas Altoida EIT Innovators Award

Bieke Van Gorp Fibricheck EIT Venture Award

Isabel Hoffmann Tellspec EIT Woman Award

Success Stories

ADPS Country

Description

Aim

EIT Connection

Website

Switzerland

The Alzheimer's Disease Prediction Service (ADPS) employs an easy smartphone test to predict whether someone is likely to develop Alzheimer’s in the next six years.

To make brain health measurable and actionable to detect Alzheimer’s disease at an early stage.

EIT Innovators Award Winner 2018 / EIT Health Accelerator / European Health Catapult.

Altoida.com

EIT Health is supported by the EIT, a body of the European Union

EIT Innovators Award winner 2018

Tellspec

Country

Description

Aim

EIT Connection

Website

USA

A non-destructive, real-time portable NIR spectrometer coupled with a mobile app, to test the authenticity of the label in white fish, and test for the use of extra water in frozen fish, and at the same time delivering the nutritional value and the shelf life of the fish scanned

To provide detect fish fraud in less than a minute through a portable system able to reliably measure fish composition.

EIT Woman Award Winner 2018/ EIT Innovators Award Nominee/Rising Food Stars

www.tellspec.com

EIT Health is supported by the EIT, a body of the European Union

EIT Woman Award winner 2018

Tellspec’s patent-protected tools combine Near Infrared Spectroscopy NIR, bioinformatics

techniques and Artificial Intelligence-based algorithms to analyze foods at the molecular level

in real time.

FibriCheck Country

Description

Aim

EIT Connection

Website

Belgium

A medically certified screening and monitoring application on prescription for the detection of irregular heart rhythms, including atrial fibrillation.

To bring certified digital solutions to everyday practice.

EIT Venture Award Winner 2018 / EIT Health Accelerator / European Health Catapult

https://fibricheck.com/

EIT Health is supported by the EIT, a body of the European Union

EIT Venture Award winner 2018

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