EUCLID

EUCLID (Entrepreneurial Universities driving/fostering CLimate Innovation & Digitalisation) is an EPICUR project that builds an alliance-wide pipeline from innovation and entrepreneurship learning to market-ready ventures.

About the project

EUCLID strengthens EPICUR’s alliance-wide innovation capacity by connecting entrepreneurship education, EIT Label-aligned learning, Lab-to-Market acceleration, vertical incubation and structured cooperation with the EIT Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs).

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Datas

Funding call: December 2025
Duration: September 2026 – August 2028 (Phase 1)
Project funding: up to €1,999,202
Lead partner: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)
Coordinator: Professor Ioannis T. Rekanos, Vice-Rector for Research and Innovation, AUTH – euclid@auth.gr
Programme: EIT-HEI-2025-BUILDING-SYNERGIES (Topic 2)

The EUCLID Innovation Academy

At the centre of the project is the EUCLID Innovation Academy, an alliance-wide learning offer for students, researchers, academic staff and non-academic staff.

It delivers practical, challenge-driven training in innovation and entrepreneurship, helping participants develop skills that can be applied across digital, climate and health-related innovation contexts.

From lab to market

EUCLID also develops an EIT Label-aligned non-degree education pathway and a Lab-to-Market acceleration pipeline. Through hackathons, acceleration cycles, mentoring, investor-readiness support, demo days and pilot awards, it helps promising teams move from learning and research outputs towards market-facing development.

By working with 28DIGITAL, EIT Climate-KIC and EIT Health, EUCLID aims to make EPICUR a stronger bridge between university talent, regional ecosystems and the wider EIT innovation community.