EIT MOVES TOWARDS ESTABLISHMENT WITHOUT SUPPORT FROM EUROPEAN ACADEMICS
July 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL and CHRISTOPHER JONES WHEN the idea of creating a European Institute of Technology (EIT) was tabled by the European Commission last year, it provoked intense criticism amongst the European academic community. But now, 18 months after the first formal proposals were released, the EIT looks likely to be established anyway. The European Union (EU) Council of Ministers has backed a draft regulation giving the EIT an initial Euro 308.7 million seed budget over six years from January 2008, which the Commission wants expanded to Euro 2.4 billion from a ...
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