IMPORTANT NOTE: the 2018 Call for Proposals is now closed. The evaluation of the proposals is complete and two new Innovation Communities were designated on 5 December 2018. Information on the winning partnerships can be found below.

Find out more about the two winning EIT Innovation Communities.

• EIT Manufacturing
• EIT Urban Mobility

The below section  is dedicated to the EIT's 2018  Call for Proposals launched on 12 January 2018, and completed on 5 December with the designation of EIT Manufacturing and EIT Urban Mobility. Below you can find all the official updates and documents relating to the Call. 

As established in the EIT’s Strategic Innovation Agenda and in the Horizon 2020 Regulation, the next innovation communities to be established by the EIT in 2018 will address the thematic fields of:

All official updates and documents relating to the Call will be made available on this page. 

Information Day: watch the videos

The following documents may be useful for potential applicants: 

• EIT Information Day presentations (13 February 2018)
• Read the Call for Proposals (published on 12 January 2018 and amended on 7 March 2018)
• Download the Call for Proposals, Annexes and Templates here
• Read the Framework of Guidance for the EIT’s 2018 Call for Proposals
• Read the 2018 Call Evaluation Criteria 
• Watch the EIT's webinars on the 2018 Calls for Proposals
• Presentation on the EIT’s 2018 Call for Proposals - Manufacturing (Webinar - 7 September 2017)
• Presentation on the EIT’s 2018 Call for Proposals - Urban Mobility (Webinar - 6 September 2017)
• 2018 Call for Innovation Communities Leaflet
• SIA thematic factsheet on Urban Mobility (April 2017)
• SIA thematic factsheet on Added-Value Manufacturing (April 2017)
• 2016 Call for KICs
• EIT Monitoring Strategy
• ‘Decision of the EIT Governing Board on ‘Principles on KICs' Financial Sustainability' 
• EIT Regional Innovation Scheme (EIT RIS) Implementation Guidance Note 2018-2020
• EIT privacy statement concerning management of grants 

All information and documents can also be found on the H2020 Participants’ Portal. The Call was also published in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Read the Independent Observer’s Final Report on the conduct of the evaluation process and application of the evaluation criteria by the evaluators.

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