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• EEPA 2019 European deadline – Top national projects selected July 18, 2019
  The European Enterprise promotion Awards (EEPA) have received all of the 2019 entries for this year’s European level of the competition. On 3 July 2019, the EEPA Secretariat received contributions from across Europe for the prestigious EEPA 2019 jury to consider for the European shortlist. This year a total of 51 national winners were presented […]
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• EIC funded urban farming company Infarm raises € 88 million in series B July 16, 2019
  EIC pilot-funded Infarm has raised €88 million from Atomico in a series B funding round. The company makes vertical urban farms where plants are grown efficiently and sustainably, directly at the point of sale. The vertical farms are modulable and contain a whole ecosystem for specific plants (water, temperature and lighting). Thanks to sensors, the performance of the farms are remotely […]
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• INNOSUP-1: providing innovation support for SMEs July 11, 2019
  ‘INNOSUP-1’ is the Horizon 2020 funding programme of cluster-facilitated projects for new industrial value chains. The programme supports SMEs to develop new value chains that cross business sectors. It boosts innovation by combining expertise from different domains. 13 INNOSUP-1 projects have been supporting SMEs to date and five more were launched in May 2019. What […]
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• EU Social Innovation Competition 2019 – Meet the semi-finalists June 27, 2019
  The 2019 edition of the European Social Innovation Competition, launched by the European Commission on 28 February 2019, at an event in Ljubljana, Slovenia, is well underway and has selected 30 semi-finalists. These 30 semi-finalists from across Europe have undergone mentoring with local coaches, and will attend the Social Innovation Academy in Turin, Italy from […]
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• Youth Essay Competition – What can you expect from the SME Assembly? June 20, 2019
  The SME Week Youth Essay Competition is an opportunity to make your voice heard in front of the people that matter for entrepreneurship and industry. Once a year, entrepreneurs, policy makers, innovators and other SME stakeholders, gather at the prestigious SME Assembly, to tackle issues facing industry, gather new ideas and share experiences to help […]
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• 2019 innovation scoreboards: The innovation performance of the EU and its regions is increasing June 18, 2019
  Europe needs to deepen its innovation capability to compete on global markets and maintain and improve the European way of life, as called for by the European Council as recently as June 2018 and March 2019. That is why the Juncker Commission has set a new level of ambition for the EU and its Eu […]
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• European cluster conference: Connecting Ecosystems June 13, 2019
  The 6th edition of the European cluster conference took place during 14-16 May 2019 in the palace of Parliament in Bucharest, hosted by the Romanian Presidency of the Council of the EU. The event theme was ‘Connecting ecosystems: bridge. inspire. change.’ The conference was organised by the European Commission’s Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, […]
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• SME Week Newsletter 2019: Issue #4 June 7, 2019
  Youth Essay Competition 2019 – Launch Youth are the future, and their voices, opinions and energy are what will shape the future of entrepreneurship and enterprise in Europe. Aiming to tap into this energy, the European Commission has launched the next edition of the annual Youth Essay Competition to find out what the leaders of […]
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• EIC: 261 proposals seek funding under Fast Track to Innovation May 31, 2019
  The European Commission received 261 proposals for Fast Track to Innovation (FTI) before the latest cut-off date on 25 May 2019. FTI promotes close-to-the market innovation activities open to all types of participants. The programme offers € 3 million to consortia composed of 3 to 5 partners including mainly industrial participants. FTI is fully bottom-up. As there […]
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• EEPA 2018 Testimonial: i²c STARTacademy – “Investing in Entrepreneurial Skills” Winner 2018 May 28, 2019
  Today on Promoting Enterprise it is time to reveal the story of another European Enterprise Promotion Award (EEPA) 2018 winner. TU Wien i²c STARTacademy from Austria won the Investing in Entrepreneurial Skills category with their innovative research commercialisation format for TUW scientists who want to transfer their technology and research results into successful products or […]
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