Hei Boogie-U

BOOstinG Innovation and Entrepreneurship through European Universities

EIT HEI INITIATIVE

Innovation Capacity Building

for Higher Education

The EIT’s HEI Initiative: Innovation Capacity Building for Higher Education was launched by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) and is led by EIT RawMaterials − one of the EIT’s Knowledge and Innovation Communities. The initiative is part of the EIT’s 2021–2027 EIT Strategy and it aims to help higher education institutions to build the capacity to innovate and to teach innovation and entrepreneurship.

In March 2020, the HEI Initiative launched a Pilot Call for Proposals, inviting higher education institutions to design activities that will improve their entrepreneurial and innovation capacity. The BOOGIE-U is one of the funded pilot projects.

We want to align the experiences and competencies acquired by the three KIC partners (mainly involved in the Digital, RawMaterials and Manufacturing KICs, but also more recently in EIT Food) in cutting edge entrepreneurial and innovation education to the model of challenge-based innovation explored by the ECIU University alliance, where all consortium partners, together with other European HEIs, will create a playground for solving multi-disciplinary societal challenges in entrepreneurial ways while providing personalized learning and new business opportunities for different stakeholders: students, young researchers, start-up personnel, company and public administration employees needing an upskill in innovation and entrepreneurship.

The BOOGIE-U project contributes to EU efforts to boost EU sustainable economic growth and competitiveness by executing novel models for increasing Innovation and Entrepreneurial (I&E) capacity within the consortium. In doing so, the project aims to contribute to the evolution of local innovation systems.
BOOGIE-U ensures alignment with EIT KICs strategic agenda and in particular to EIT Digital Node network.
BOOGIE-U is a strong alliance between KIC partners and non-KIC partners enabling all members to jointly address the need to boost innovation and entrepreneurship in their institutions and regions while decreasing the intra-EU innovation divide.
The BOOGIE-U project is connected to ECIU University WP3 “Challenge-Based education” and WP5 “Challenge-Based Innovation”.