CloudEARTHi: Innovation capacity building for the use of Big Data in Environmental Sciences, Sustainability and Circular Economy in HEIs and their entrepreneurial ecosystems

该项目将汇集五所高等教育机构（HEIs）和一个商业伙伴的联盟，以审查，评估和改善机构创新和创业实践。该联盟的愿景是在大数据、环境科学、可持续发展和循环经济领域建立高等院校、学生和企业的创新能力。该领域被评估为联盟的关键优势，对于社会理解、适应和缓解气候危机和更广泛的可持续发展问题至关重要。建设社会所有行为体的创业和创新能力。该项目得益于与EIT Climate-KIC、EIT Digital和EIT RawMaterials的目标保持一致，其成果将支持这些知识和创新社区（KIC）的战略目标。该联盟受益于高级别机构对改善创新活动的承诺，以及在建立企业与行业伙伴关系、培养学生和学术创业精神、并提供世界领先的教育和教学。该项目使用EIT的知识三角模型来建设创新能力，支持研究机构和企业以知识为基础和数据驱动的整合，通过多学科方法推进学科领域大数据的使用。该项目绘制了EIT知识三角组成部分之间的四个知识差距：·在提高数据的采用及其在高等院校学科领域的作用方面的差距;·研究教育差距;·商业与教育之间的差距;·社会需求与所有其他组成部分之间的差距。弥合这些差距将有助于社会采用更明智和数据驱动的决策方法，充分利用大数据在气候变化、可持续性和向循环转变方面的潜力。该联盟认为，高等院校最适合成为变革和创新的催化剂。与企业建立伙伴关系并培养其创业能力是成功的关键。

The project will bring together a consortium of five higher education institutions (HEIs) and one business partner to review, assess and improve institutional innovation and entrepreneurship practices. The consortium’s vision is to build capacity for innovation across HEIs, students, and businesses in the area of big data, environmental science, sustainability, and circular economy.This area has been assessed as a key strength of the consortium and is essential to society in order to understand, adapt to, and mitigate against the climate crisis and wider sustainability issues, building entrepreneurial and innovation capacity across all actors in society. The project benefits from an alignment with the goals of EIT Climate-KIC, EIT Digital and EIT RawMaterials, and its outcomes will support the strategic aims of these Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs).The consortium benefits from high-level institutional commitment to improving innovation activities, as well as an impressive track record in building academia-industry partnerships, nurturing student and academic entrepreneurship, and delivering worldleading education and teaching. The project uses the EIT’s knowledge triangle model to build innovation capacity, supporting a knowledge-based and data-driven integration of research institutes and businesses to advance the use of big data in the subject area through a multidisciplinary approach.The project has mapped four knowledge gaps between the components of the EIT knowledge triangle:• a gap in improving the adoption of data and its role in the subject area across HEIs;• a research-education gap;• a business-education gap;• a gap between society’s needs and all other components.Bridging these gaps will help society to adopt a more informed and data-driven approach to decision-making, leveraging the full potential of big data in relation to climate change, sustainability, and the shift to circularity.The consortium believes that the HEIs are best placed to become catalysts of change and innovation. Partnering with businesses and nurturing their entrepreneurial capacities is key to success.