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

该项目将召集一个由五所高等教育机构和一个商业伙伴组成的财团，审查、评估和改进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，在高等教育机构、学生和企业之间建立创新能力。该领域已被评估为该联盟的关键优势，对于社会理解、适应和缓解气候危机和更广泛的可持续性问题，在社会所有参与者中建立创业和创新能力至关重要。该项目受益于与EIT气候与创新社区、EIT数字化和EIT原材料的目标保持一致，其成果将支持这些知识与创新社区（kic）的战略目标。该联盟受益于高等院校对改进创新活动的承诺，以及在建立学术与产业合作伙伴关系、培养学生和学术创业精神以及提供世界领先的教育和教学方面令人印象深刻的记录。该项目使用EIT的知识三角模型来构建创新能力，支持以知识为基础和数据驱动的研究机构和企业的整合，通过多学科方法推进大数据在学科领域的应用。该项目绘制了EIT知识三角各组成部分之间的四个知识差距：•在改善数据的采用及其在高等教育院校学科领域中的作用方面的差距；•研究与教育的差距；•商业教育差距；•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型方面的全部潜力。该联盟认为，高等教育机构最适合成为变革和创新的催化剂。与企业合作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.