Brussels, October 12, 2016

Brussels, October 12, 2016: €1 billion investment to drive Europe’s digital transformation – Shepard Fox supports EIT Digital presenting its Strategic Innovation Agenda 

EIT Digital, the leading European open innovation organisation fostering digital technology innovation, today presented its Strategic Innovation Agenda at a press conference in Brussels. The agenda describes how EIT Digital plans to invest €1 billion in digital innovation and entrepreneurship from 2017 to 2019. The investments will be made with the goal of a) creating and accelerating digital start-ups and b) growing Europe’s digitally skilled workforce by enrolling students in EIT Digital’s Master, Doctoral and Professional Schools.  – Shepard Fox has been supporting EIT Digital by inviting stake-holders and media to the presentation in Brussels, by drafting the announcement, and by arranging interviews of EIT Digital’s CEO Willem Jonker with Brussel correspondents.

EIT Digital presenting its Strategic Innovation Agenda