European Alliance for Innovation


European Alliance for Innovation is an international professional community and a nonprofit organization. The goal of EAI is to empower the global ICT research and innovation community, and to promote cooperation between European and International ICT communities.
The headquarters of EAI is located in Ghent, Belgium. Other offices are located in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, Shanghai, China, and Boston, United States. The office in Bratislava was created in cooperation with the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava by signing a Memorandum of Understanding.
The organisation was founded by professor Imrich Chlamtac in 2010 and currently EAI has over 150.000 subscribers globally.
The company organizes events and conferences and provides support for the members, trying to improve the rate at which innovations reach the market.

Publication activities

EAI publishes scientific magazines and journals through its own community-driven publication platform called European Union Digital Library. For online publications EAI uses its e-Scripts system, while EUDL houses a database of peer reviewed scientific publications.

Event activities

EAI organizes over 70 conferences and summits every year. These include:
The European Alliance for Innovation has set up strong collaboration and a strategic partnership with the International Federation of Inventors' Associations.