За нас

Emkice KIC is a regional Knowledge & Innovation Center and VET provider that designs and delivers practice-oriented programs at the intersection of digital transformation, green transition, and industrial competitiveness including craftsmanship. Operating from offices in Brussels, Geneva, Trieste, and Skopje, we partner with universities and VET centers, municipalities and public agencies, chambers of commerce, SMEs and startups to translate European policies and research into skills, pilots, and market outcomes.

Size & Network. Emkice KIC is the initiator and co-founder of the European Excellence Center Science and Tech SPACE Park and the ACRID Network, engaging 23 senior leads and 148+ international experts across 23 thematic working groups present in 10 EU associate/candidate countries (Western Balkans, Türkiye; from 2023 also Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia; from 2025 Switzerland). The network spans agriculture and bio-economy; climate, energy and mobility; circular economy; environment and waste; digitalization and AI; entrepreneurship and finance; health, pharmacy and toxicology; food and feed safety; rural development and tourism; leadership; public-policy evaluation; raw/critical materials; transport and automotive design; micro-credentials and VET; municipalities and smart cities; and specialized task forces in animal biotechnology and livestock sciences, zootechnics and indigenous meat production, and conflict resolution, migrant and refugee integration.

Domains of Expertise. Emkice KIC works across Circular Economy, Climate Change and the European Green Deal; industrial policy and technology; industrial design and product development; innovation management; transport and mobility; renewable energy and smart electricity; health and medicine; agriculture, livestock and food systems; science diplomacy; and smart specialization.

Services.
• VET courses and micro-credentials for startups, investors, engineers and public managers (EU MFF 2021–2027 priorities).
• Access-to-finance and angel/early-stage analytics, investment readiness and mentoring.
• Curriculum and training material development, teacher training and train-the-trainer.
• EU project design and evaluation (centralized/direct programmes), impact and dissemination.
• Studies and market/needs analyses, science and policy reports; desk research.
• Open innovation workshops, methodologies, and facilitation; entrepreneurship mentoring.
• Technology and platform development (e-learning portals, collaboration tools).
• Industrial design and product development, MVPs and pitching for investment.
• Soft-skills and engineering-skills workshops, including QA for dissemination with international reach.

Illustrative outputs include multi-country e-learning platforms and communication portals (e.g., www.platform.acrid.eu, SEBCoVE, ELeVATE, Mobuilding, ZeroWaste; all the web portals of the networks for consumer organizations in South-East Europe).

Quality & Compliance. Program design follows EQF/EQAVET and micro-credential best practice; data handling and project delivery comply with GDPR, ethics, and Do No Significant Harm (DNSH) principles. Project governance applies standardized RACI, milestone and KPI frameworks; where relevant we align with partner quality systems (e.g., ISO-based institutional QA).