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On 20th-22th June, Brussels will hold the 12th edition of the Policy Conference of the European Sustainable Energy Week 2017 (EUSEW) under the theme “clean energy for all Europeans” and organised by the European Commission. The event is one of the most important European conference dedicated to sustainable energy policy issues.

Finnova Foundation will participate in the Policy Conference since it will present the NOBEL GRID project, in which is partner, 21 and 22 of June in the Networking Village and in the Speakers’ Corner.

There, some novelties and tools of NOBEL GRID will be showed to the audience, like the EMA App, the Energy Monitoring and Analysis App for domestic and industrial consumers and prosumers, to manage and monitor electricity consumption and production data and participate actively in the energy market.

Visitors could also contact Finnova (through twitter or email), as part of the networking opportunities, to get information about the Startup Europe Awards 2017, Startup Europe Accelerator, Startup Europe Accelerator proposals and other initiatives in which the foundation is working on clean energy.

Also, within the framework of the EUSEW 2017, other activities will be carried out such as the Networking village, the EUSEW Awards competitions and the Energy Days.

NOBEL GRID will   participate in two Energy Days, “NOBEL GRID & WISEGRID projects: Smart energy for European consumers” 20th in Manchester (UK) and the “Workshop: Clean Integrated Energy System for all European” on 27th in Madeira (Portugal).

The EUSEW 2017 is a unique event to show to stakeholders, in Europe and aboard, the developments and benefits of a project that aims to provide new cost-effective business models for flexible smart grids.

Bruselas acoge la conferencia sobre Energía limpia para todos los europeos

Bruselas acoge la 12ª edición de la Conferencia Política de la Semana Europea de la Energía Sostenible 2017 (EUSEW) del 20 al 22 de junio bajo el lema “Energía limpia para todos los europeos” y organizada por la Comisión Europea. El evento es una de las más importantes conferencias europeas dedicada a la política energética sostenible..

La Fundación Finnova participará en la conferencia de alto nivel para presentar el proyecto NOBEL GRID, en el que es socio, los días 21 y 22 de junio en el Networking Village y el Speakers’ Corner.

Allí se mostrarán a la audiencia algunas novedades y herramientas de NOBEL GRID, como EMA App, la aplicación de monitorización y análisis de energía que brinda a los consumidores y prosumidores domésticos e industriales información y recomendaciones en tiempo real para mejorar su eficiencia energética, maximizar el uso de renovables y minimizar el coste de la factura eléctrica.

Los visitantes también podrán contactar a Finnova (a través de twitter o correo electrónico), como parte de las oportunidades de networking de la conferencia, para obtener información sobre Startup Europe Awards 2017, Startup Europe Accelerator, propuestas Horizonte 2020 y otras iniciativas en las que la fundación está trabajando en materia de energía limpia.

Además, dentro del marco del EUSEW 2017, se llevarán a cabo otras actividades como la entraga de premios EUSEW y los Días de Energía, que dan la oportunidad a cualquier ciudadano europeo organizar un evento en relación a la energía limpia durante todo el mes de junio.

NOBEL GRID organiza dos Días de la Energía, “Proyectos NOBEL GRID & WISEGRID: Energía Inteligente para los consumidores europeos”el día 20 en Manchester (Reino Unido) y el “Taller: Sistema de Energía Integrado Limpio para todos los europeos” el día 27 en Madeira (Portugal).

EUSEW 2017 es un evento único para mostrar a las partes interesadas  a nivel europea e internacional los desarrollos y beneficios de un proyecto que pretende proporcionar nuevos modelos de negocio rentables para las redes eléctricas inteligentes.

Finnova organized yesterday 8^th June a workshop entitled “Green Jobs and Entrepreneurship: Public-private partnership and EU funds”. This event took place in the context of the Green Week of the European Commission, which was focused this year on “Green Jobs for a greener future”.

The speakers of today’s event were specialists from different fields, including public administration, renewable energies, research, circular economy and training programmes. Most of them highlighted the variety of opportunities existing in Europe regarding entrepreneurship and jobs creation. Bartolomé Nofuentes, the Representative of European Issues in the County Council of Valencia, dealt with the way public administrations can conjugate innovation, entrepreneurship and funding in order to foster green jobs.  On the other hand, Alvaro Sanchez, doctor of the technological institute of the University Pontficia Comillas of Madrid, explained that the actual and future changes in the field of energy and information and communication technologies are creating new opportunities for entrepreneurs and start-ups to growth. He added that we have to take advantage of these opportunities now, in few years it will be too late” for this reason he explained that “It is extremely important that all citizens get involved”.

This workshop also emphasizes the importance of European and Spanish training programmes fostering entrepreneurship and the creation of green jobs. “Today there are many opportunities to have training experience in the European Union” stated Juan Manuel Revuelta, the General Director of Finnova.  The Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs programme is a good example of an initiative boosting entrepreneurship, “the company is benefiting from the new entrepreneur’s ideas and the entrepreneur benefits from company’s experience, it’s a win-win situation” explained Alberto Navarro, the responsible of Employment and Youth of the EU Training Platform.

Finally, there are European funds that enable to boost green jobs, such as the SME Instrument, Horizon 2020 or LIFE Programme. These funds allow to develop innovative projects leading the way to sustainable and green growth. Nobel Grid is a good example – a European project which offers advanced tools and ICT services to all actors in the Smart grid and retail electricity market in order to ensure benefits from stable grids and clean electricity. Nobel Grid received 11, 7 million euros from the Horizon2020 programme. As Ana Nava, the energy expert of Nobel Grid, said “this project will create a lot of green jobs” and can lead the way to other innovative projects. Juan Manuel Revuelta added that “Spain is the leader in obtaining these European funds”.

This Green Jobs day organized by Finnova Foundation was supported by the Spanish programme Hablamos de Europa, a meeting point for Spanish citizens to speak about the European Union and to share their experiences.

Europa ofrece un entorno de oportunidades para la creación de empleos verdes.

Finnova organizó ayer, 8 de junio, un workshop con el título “Empleos Verdes y Emprendimiento: Partenariado Público-Privado y Fondos Europeos”. Este evento se enmarca dentro de la Semana Verde de la Comisión Europea, que este año se centraba en “Empleos Verdes para un futuro más verde”.

Los ponentes del evento son especialistas de distintos sectores, incluyendo la administración pública, energías renovables, investigación, economía circular y programas de formación. La mayoría de ellos destacaron la variedad de oportunidades existentes en Europa en relación al emprendimiento y la creación de empleo. Bartolomé Nofuentes, Diputado de Asuntos Europeos en la Diputación Valenciana, abordó la manera en que las administraciones públicas pueden conjugar la innovación, el emprendimiento y la financiación para fomentar empleos verdes. Por su parte,  Álvaro Sánchez, doctor del Instituto Tecnológico de la Universidad Pontificia de Comillas de Madrid, explicó que los actuales y futuros cambios en los campos de la energía y las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación, están creando nuevas oportunidades para permitir a los emprendedores y las startups crecer. Añadió, “Tenemos que aprovechar estas oportunidades ahora, en algunos años será ya demasiado tarde”, por esta razón explicó que “la involucración de todos los ciudadanos es vital”.

Este taller también puso énfasis en la importancia de los programas de formación europeos y españoles que fomentan el emprendimiento y la creación de empleos verdes. “Existen múltiples oportunidades para formarse en la Unión Europea” indicó Juan Manuel Revuelta, el Director General de Finnova. El programa Erasmus para JóvenesEmprendedores es un buen ejemplo de iniciativa de impulso del emprendimiento, “la empresa se beneficia de las ideas del nuevo emprendedor y el emprendedor participa de la experiencia de la empresa, es un win-win” explicó Alberto Navarro, el responsable de Empleo y Juventud de EU Training Platform.

Por último, existen fondos europeos que impulsan el empleo a través de la capacitación, como es el caso delInstrumento PyME, Horizonte 2020 o el programa LIFE. Estos fondos permiten desarrollar proyectos innovadores abriendo el camino para un crecimiento verde y sostenible. Un ejemplo es Nobel Grid, un proyecto europeo que ofrecerá herramientas avanzadas y servicios de TIC a todos los actores en la red eléctrica inteligente y a los mercados eléctricos para garantizar los beneficios resultantes de estas redes estables, además de ofrecer energía limpia. Nobel Grid recibió 11.7 millones de euros del programa Horizonte 2020. Como expuso Ana Nava, experta en energía en el proyecto Nobel Grid “este proyecto va a generar muchos empleos verdes” y puede servir de ejemplo a otros proyectos innovadores. Juan Manuel Revuelta añadió que “España es líder en la obtención de fondos europeos”.

Esta jornada sobre empleos verdes organizada por la Fundación Finnova fue apoyada por el programa español Hablamos de Europa, un punto de encuentro para ciudadanos españoles para hablar de la Unión Europea y compartir sus experiencias.

Finnova organized yesterday 8^th June a workshop entitled “Green Jobs and Entrepreneurship: Public-private partnership and EU funds”. This event took place in the context of the Green Week of the European Commission, which was focused this year on “Green Jobs for a greener future”.

The speakers of today’s event were specialists from different fields, including public administration, renewable energies, research, circular economy and training programmes. Most of them highlighted the variety of opportunities existing in Europe regarding entrepreneurship and jobs creation. Bartolomé Nofuentes, the Representative of European Issues in the County Council of Valencia, dealt with the way public administrations can conjugate innovation, entrepreneurship and funding in order to foster green jobs.  On the other hand, Alvaro Sanchez, doctor of the technological institute of the University Pontficia Comillas of Madrid, explained that the actual and future changes in the field of energy and information and communication technologies are creating new opportunities for entrepreneurs and start-ups to growth. He added that we have to take advantage of these opportunities now, in few years it will be too late” for this reason he explained that “It is extremely important that all citizens get involved”.

This workshop also emphasizes the importance of European and Spanish training programmes fostering entrepreneurship and the creation of green jobs. “Today there are many opportunities to have training experience in the European Union” stated Juan Manuel Revuelta, the General Director of Finnova.  The Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs programme is a good example of an initiative boosting entrepreneurship, “the company is benefiting from the new entrepreneur’s ideas and the entrepreneur benefits from company’s experience, it’s a win-win situation” explained Alberto Navarro, the responsible of Employment and Youth of the EU Training Platform.

Finally, there are European funds that enable to boost green jobs, such as the SME Instrument, Horizon 2020 or LIFE Programme. These funds allow to develop innovative projects leading the way to sustainable and green growth. Nobel Grid is a good example – a European project which offers advanced tools and ICT services to all actors in the Smart grid and retail electricity market in order to ensure benefits from stable grids and clean electricity. Nobel Grid received 11, 7 million euros from the Horizon2020 programme. As Ana Nava, the energy expert of Nobel Grid, said “this project will create a lot of green jobs” and can lead the way to other innovative projects. Juan Manuel Revuelta added that “Spain is the leader in obtaining these European funds”.

This Green Jobs day organized by Finnova Foundation was supported by the Spanish programme Hablamos de Europa, a meeting point for Spanish citizens to speak about the European Union and to share their experiences.

Europa ofrece un entorno de oportunidades para la creación de empleos verdes.

Finnova organizó ayer, 8 de junio, un workshop con el título “Empleos Verdes y Emprendimiento: Partenariado Público-Privado y Fondos Europeos”. Este evento se enmarca dentro de la Semana Verde de la Comisión Europea, que este año se centraba en “Empleos Verdes para un futuro más verde”.

Los ponentes del evento son especialistas de distintos sectores, incluyendo la administración pública, energías renovables, investigación, economía circular y programas de formación. La mayoría de ellos destacaron la variedad de oportunidades existentes en Europa en relación al emprendimiento y la creación de empleo. Bartolomé Nofuentes, Diputado de Asuntos Europeos en la Diputación Valenciana, abordó la manera en que las administraciones públicas pueden conjugar la innovación, el emprendimiento y la financiación para fomentar empleos verdes. Por su parte,  Álvaro Sánchez, doctor del Instituto Tecnológico de la Universidad Pontificia de Comillas de Madrid, explicó que los actuales y futuros cambios en los campos de la energía y las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación, están creando nuevas oportunidades para permitir a los emprendedores y las startups crecer. Añadió, “Tenemos que aprovechar estas oportunidades ahora, en algunos años será ya demasiado tarde”, por esta razón explicó que “la involucración de todos los ciudadanos es vital”.

Este taller también puso énfasis en la importancia de los programas de formación europeos y españoles que fomentan el emprendimiento y la creación de empleos verdes. “Existen múltiples oportunidades para formarse en la Unión Europea” indicó Juan Manuel Revuelta, el Director General de Finnova. El programa Erasmus para JóvenesEmprendedores es un buen ejemplo de iniciativa de impulso del emprendimiento, “la empresa se beneficia de las ideas del nuevo emprendedor y el emprendedor participa de la experiencia de la empresa, es un win-win” explicó Alberto Navarro, el responsable de Empleo y Juventud de EU Training Platform.

Por último, existen fondos europeos que impulsan el empleo a través de la capacitación, como es el caso delInstrumento PyME, Horizonte 2020 o el programa LIFE. Estos fondos permiten desarrollar proyectos innovadores abriendo el camino para un crecimiento verde y sostenible. Un ejemplo es Nobel Grid, un proyecto europeo que ofrecerá herramientas avanzadas y servicios de TIC a todos los actores en la red eléctrica inteligente y a los mercados eléctricos para garantizar los beneficios resultantes de estas redes estables, además de ofrecer energía limpia. Nobel Grid recibió 11.7 millones de euros del programa Horizonte 2020. Como expuso Ana Nava, experta en energía en el proyecto Nobel Grid “este proyecto va a generar muchos empleos verdes” y puede servir de ejemplo a otros proyectos innovadores. Juan Manuel Revuelta añadió que “España es líder en la obtención de fondos europeos”.

Esta jornada sobre empleos verdes organizada por la Fundación Finnova fue apoyada por el programa español Hablamos de Europa, un punto de encuentro para ciudadanos españoles para hablar de la Unión Europea y compartir sus experiencias.

• The President of the European Parliament has opened the final ceremony of StartUp Europe Awards 2016 at the European Parliament.

• This initiative is organized by the StartUp Europe Accelerator by Finnova Foundation. 

• Robocamp, Tespack, INZMO, Windcity, NeuronGuard, VyzVoice, CityCrop, TempBuddy, Waynabox and APSU have been awarded as the best startups in Europe in the 10 different categories.

• The “Best Public Administration for startups Award” has gone to the Lisbon City Council, the Consorcio Zona Franca de Vigo and the Central Denmark Region; they have been recognized for their effort in supporting entrepreneurship in their respective territories.

Brussels, 8^th of June, 2017. The StartUp Europe Awards initiative, promoted by the European Commission, supported by the President of the Committee of the Regions and implemented by the StartUp Europe Accelerator by Finnova Foundation, have recognised for the first time in a collaborative and inter-European way the best startups in Europe in 10 categories, in the so-called “Eurovision for startups”.  The President of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani, opened the final ceremony of StartUp Europe Awards 2016. “We should cultivate good ideas and help them to grow. We need to invest more in digital technologies and create a genuine European single market where our young companies can develop”, assured Tajani.

StartUp Europe Awards presents a prize methodology for startups at local, regional and national level, fostering the open innovation and the collaboration between the different actors of the European ecosystems, through the private-public partnership to support entrepreneurs. “Besides, it creates a network of contacts that will allow to inspire and give visibility to all the local startups so that, by using this network, they can scale their services and products at a global level”, has stated Juanma Revuelta, the Director of Finnova’s Startup Europe Accelerator.

The European winners of StartUp Europe Awards 2016 according to the 10 categories are: Robocamp (Creative Category), Tespack (Energy), INZMO (Fintech), Windcity (Green), NeuronGuard (Health), VyzVoice (ICT), CityCrop (Smart Cities), TempBuddy (Social), Waynabox (Tourism) and APSU (Water). Ekuore (Health), Human Surge (Social) and APATEQ (Water) have received the Extraordinary Awards, a special prize created to recognise the effort of those startups whose score was very high and got very close to the final recognition.

The startup Audified Reality from Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) won the “Best European Neighbour StartUp Europe Award”.

Waynabox received a European acceleration ticket of 10,000 € from Amadeus Company, to continue their internationalization in 2018, delivered by Elizabeth Aston, Senior Adviser, Industry Affairs.  “Amadeus continually invests in innovation with a total bugdet of over 4 billion during the last 10 years. Innovation is about doing things differently – having a different business model, a different approach to customer service and this is what Waynabox does” stated Aston.

The startup APSU also received a European acceleration ticket of 10.000 € for presenting their project to different European calls as LIFE or EUROSTARS. The award has been delivered by Rafael Páez Santana, Counsellor of innovation and Employment from the Cabildo de Fuerteventura.

The Commissioner of Investigation, Science and Innovation, Carlos Moedas, delivered the award of ICT Category to VyzVoice. “I want to create the kind of environment where the entrepreneurial spirit can flourish […] Entrepreneurs are the stars, we’re there to help and support them”, said Moedas in his motivational speech.

The Vice-President for Communication of the European Economic and Social Committee, Gonçalo Lobo Xavier, who handed in the award for Fintech and Tourism categories, considers “StartUp Europe Awards a very interesting way to promote entrepreneurship and the quality of the work developed in Europe. We have very good examples of solutions that can change peoples’ lives for the better and this is a huge achievement when we talk about innovation, science and entrepreneurship: to address the citizens!”

StartUp Europe Awards delivered the recognition to the “Best Public Administration for the Startups”, a pioneering prize which aims to recognise the best programmes or public services supporting entrepreneurs and innovation in municipality, province and region categories.  The winner in Municipality category is Lisbon City Council; in the province category is Consorcio Zona Franca de Vigo and in the Region category is Central Denmark Region.

These awards were delivered by the first Vice-President of the Committee of the Regions, Karl-Heinz Lambertz who stated “the European Committee of the Regions encourages cities and regions to implement entrepreneurship-friendly policies through our European Entrepreneurial Region (EER) initiative. We actively promote and support efforts to create smarter EU cities and regions”.

The president of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani, delivered the award “Best Media Partner” to the TV Program Emprende of Spanish Television (RTVE) for their commitment to the dissemination of the entrepreneurship and the startups.

Finally, the Ambassador of Spain in Belgium, Cecilia Yuste, handed in the award to Jesús Brotons “Brainiac Beats”, winner of the Music Contest Award, for creating the music for StartUp Europe Awards, representing the values of union, community and entrepreneurship.

The winners of StartUp Europe Awards will obtain great visibility all around Europe thanks to the Media Partner Alliance of StartUp Europe Awards formed by 21 media members. The startups will also have access to a programme of mentoring (information in internationalization, European funds like SMEs Instrument of 50.000 € to 2, 5 million € of non-refundable subsidy, international communication, legal barriers to innovation, etc.), through the StartUp Europe Accelerator of Finnova Foundation, which will allow them to boost their projects and to make them more viable worldwide.

StartUp Europe Accelerator is the unique accelerator specialized in European opportunities funding, which helps the entrepreneurs to internationalize their business through European projects.

Thanks to the initiative StartUp Europe Awards, the winning startups will be able to participate in business missions focused in internationalization in India, Africa, LATAM and Silicon Valley.

To close the ceremony, the president of the organisation “Mind the Bridge”, Alberto Onetti, presented the last report of “Scaleup Europe” by Startup Europe Partnership (SEP).  This report includes new data about Scaleups and capital raised in Europe, plus a comparison among regions, countries and sectors. The maturity of the EU scene, the potential impact of Brexit, and recent growth ends the report, along with a survey of the largest verticals present in Scale-up Europe, and which countries these verticals are most represented in.

About StartUp Europe Awards

StartUp Europe Awards is an initiative that seeks to identify and recognise local models of success which become an example to other entrepreneurs, to the public administrations for developing custom-made programmes to stimulate its growth and to the investors for approaching local ecosystems.

“From the Commission, we want that entrepreneurship generating growth and employment is not only present in a few cities or regions. Thus, more people can benefit from the impact” assures Isidro Laso, Head of StartUp Europe’s Sector – European Commission.

More than 20 local events and 14 national awards have been celebrated under StartUp Europe Awards´ frame in 2016, with 91 startups winners and 84 that made it to the final. 21 media partners of the whole Europe, as The Independent in Ireland or Emprende TVE in Spain, they have helped to give visibility to this initiative. 9 members of the European Parliament have come together in the StartUp Europe Awards as ambassadors, supporting the local events with their presence and following closely the progress of the startups.

StartUp Europe Awards is an initiative promoted by the European Commission and it is supported by the President of the Committee of the Regions, several members of the European Parliament as Ambassadors and implemented by the Finnova Foundation in collaboration with Startup Europe.

Press Contact:

Catalina Valencia.

Tel: (+34) 636889177

eustartup@finnova.eu

INFORMATION ABOUT THE WINNERS

INFORMATION ABOUT STARTUP EUROPE AWARDS 2016 WINNERS

STARTUPS BY CATEGORY

Creative:

Robocamp

Country: POLAND

www.robocamp.eu

RoboCAMP enhances STEM education using LEGO robot building and visual programming. RoboCAMP Lesson plans, developed by psychologists and engineers, are an innovative way of developing children’s creativity using LEGO bricks and science. We encourage children to observe the world and to work together to find novel solutions to problems encountered in everyday life. The course consists of a series of small projects that use mathematics, physics, mechanics and basic programming.

Contact: Wojciech Syrocki.

wojciech.syrocki@robocamp.eu

+48 513 042 612

Energy:

Tespack

Country: FINLAND

www.tespack.com

Tespack is a company specialized in the future of wearables, focusing on the most important part of technology: energy generation on-the-go. We have launched our first product line, Tespack Smartpacks, so you would never lose your power again. Simply collect your energy from the sun, store it in one of our powerful mobile chargers and charge all your devices, even laptops, on the move. Our products are currently available in retails stores such Intersports in Finland, Scandinavian Outdoor Store, Microsoft Store and Vodafone online store in the Netherlands. We work closely with bigger brands and companies such as TomTom and our products are currently being used and tested by military special forces and the UN. We also cooperate with universities in Amsterdam, Helsinki and London.

Contact: Caritta Seppa

caritta.seppa@tespack.com

(0034) 652 54 34 41 (00) 358 40 572 9707

  Fintech:

INZMO

Country: ESTONIA

www.inzmo.com

INZMO is an insurance app providing fast and easy access to all everyday insurance products – insure your commute or even next trip. INZMO provides you any personal insurance cover in seconds.

Contact: Meeri Klausen

meeri@inzmo.com

00372 5334 5334

Green:

Windcity

Country: ITALY

www.windcity.it

Our vision is “Variable Geometry for Variable Wind”, and we pursue it through our patented disruptive energy conversion concept which allows us to maximize production in any variable wind. Thanks to Windcity’s simple mechanics technology, we are able to harvest up to 80% more energy compared to competitors.

We contribute to a shift towards the Circular Economy by recovering and exploiting a relevant yet so far underestimated  class of wind, that of variable wind. Our arms are designed to adjust the blades’radius and inclination, allowing our turbine to work in complete autonomy without the need of any additional energy source.

Windcity turbines are particularly suited for urban and suburban areas, where wind streams are disrupted by cities’ orography while, at the same time, being generated by vehicular flows. By recovering such wasted resource into energy, we strive to turn cities into sustainable realities.

Contact: Tommasso Morbiato

tmorbiato@windcity.it

+39 340 5826531

Health:

NeuronGuard

Country: ITALY

www.neuronguard.com

Neuron Guard is a life-saving medical device with the aim to revolutionize the treatment of brain damages and improve the life of patients, with also a significant reduction of healthcare costs.

The Acute Brain Damage is one of the most emerging challenges of modern Emergency Medicine. We have to act soon because after just 8 minutes a portion of the brain is irreversibly compromised. Early on-site treatment is the key to protect the brain.

The solution is composed by a cooling/warming collar powered by a smart control unit (the size of a small briefcase). The collar transforms the neck into a natural heat exchanger. It is quicker to act on brain tissue but can also function as total body temperature adjusting device if required. The control unit collects all the data of the treatment and transmits them to the Emergency Response System. We are the only NON-INVASIVE DEVICE capable of both COOLING and WARMING.

Contact: Mary Franzese

mary.franzese@neuronguard.com

(+39) 331 2631016

ICT:

vyzVoice

Country: LUXEMBOURG

www.vyzvoice.com

vyzVoice mission is to revolutionize the relationship between people and their connected device data by providing a highly secured cloud-based application infrastructure to manage their connected things. Our infrastructure is based on powerful analytics and real-time data empowering our customers to make thoughtful and smart decisions.

vyzVoice provides flexible and intuitive solutions suitable for any user in any market. We, as a team, work together with our customers to define the best applications enabling them to take out the most valuable and actionable insights from their data. vyzVoice is committed to provide high quality standards, first class services and embedded security to its customers.

Contact: Patricia Delaney

patricia.delaney@vyzvoice.com

+ 352 691 233 948

Smart Cities:

CityCrop Automated Indoor Farming

Country: Greece

www.citycrop.io

CityCrop is a venture aiming at modernizing and democratizing farming, as key to a healthier and greener living. The team’s vision is to bring fresh and healthy eating in every household by developing the first fully automated indoor garden, based on the technique of hydroponics. The CityCrop device and mobile app allows users to grow fresh and healthy food all year long as well as control and monitor their crop with just a click of a button.

Contact: Christos Raftogiannis

craftogiannis@citycrop.io

+306985127667

Twitter handle: @CityCrop

Social:

TempBuddy

Country: Ireland

www.tempbuddy.com

TempBuddy’s award-winning real-time workforce software enables staffing companies get their best people to the right place at the right time.

TempBuddy’s multi-award winning workforce management software is designed to get the best people to the right place at the right time, paid promptly and accurately using smart mobile technology. Our revolutionary SaaS recruitment software integrates real-time availability, scheduling, deployment, time capture, pay and bill and compliance into one intuitive tool. The US patent-pending mobile worker app and recruiter platform have been developed to simplify the entire process and experience, helping improve productivity, achieve growth and cut costs. Our game-changing platform and worker app have already been adopted by users in over 310 cities across 3 continents, and by over 30 UK recruitment companies.

CEO: Roderick Smyth

Contact: Fernanda Victal

f.victal@tempbuddy.com

+353 1 517 5989

Tourism:

Waynabox

Country: SPAIN

www.waynabox.com

Waynabox is the startup winner in TOURISM Category from Spain that has revolutionized the tourism industry through a new experience focalized on the emotions. To begin, you must go to the website, indicate the number of travellers, and choose the leaving airport and the number of days of your trip. Also, you have the possibility of deleting the cities that you do not want to visit. Two days before flying, they will reveal your destination, flights and housing and they will deliver an exclusive trip guide.

Our desire is to offer emotions and we realized that the best way to do so is through surprise trips. That’s why our mission is to revolutionize the traditional way of travelling and offer to all you young spirits a new and surprising plan to break your routines and live a great experience.

Contact: Pau Sendra

pau.sendra@waynabox.com

(0034) 617 379 602

Water:

APSU

Country: SPAIN

www.apsu.es

APSU is the startup winner in WATER Category from Spain. It is a company and a project that develops water technologies, where with just equipment it is possible to warm and to decontaminate water by an efficient way. The challenge of this initiative is to take care of the health by prominent energy efficiency, dissolving also in the process salts and limes of water, doing this use an intelligent application. Nowadays, they work in the development of prototypes of this technology.

Contact: Diego Correa

diegocorrea@apsu.es

(0034) 678660328

Best European Neighbour Startup

Audified Reality

Country: MACEDONIA

A project for creating special glasses that will enable the visually impaired people to recognize objects that are located around them.

Contact: Igor Kirovski

kirovski_igor@yahoo.com

+389 72 253 524

Extraordinary StartUp Awards

A special prize created to recognise the effort of those startups whose score was very high and got very close to the final recognition.

SOCIAL

Human Surge

http://www.humansurge.org/en

HumanSurge seeks to improve the quality and timeliness of humanitarian response through enhanced surge capacity of humanitarian responders, professionals and organizations, to the ultimate benefit of affected populations. HumanSurge is driven by social impact, not by profit.

HumanSurge will bring together experienced humanitarian professionals from various disciplines on a single platform where they can signal their immediate availability for deployment in emergencies, thereby enabling organizations to complete specialized response teams overnight. HumanSurge is created by individuals committed to social causes, dedicating their time and resources to develop new solutions that will unite and empower humanitarian professionals, in order to improve the way in which humanitarian aid is delivered in the future.

WATER

APATEQ

http://www.apateq.com/

APATEQ provides oil-water separation systems for oilfield operators as well as compact wastewater treatment plants for special and demanding applications and pre-treatment systems for industrial wastewater. Our technical team gathers members, each with decades of experience in water and wastewater treatment or global product industrial manufacturing and commercialization

HEALTH

EKuore

https://www.ekuore.com/

eKuore is a technologic company that designs, develops and markets medical devices (mhealth), that connects health to new mobile technologies. Since company´s foundation, in 2012, have been developed the first wireless electronic stethoscope eKuore Pro for medical field and the stethoscope eKuore Vet for Veterinary field. eKuore´s purpose is to continue developing mHealth devices that revolutionize the sanitary teleassistance field, which allow of the patient to be controlled and monitored in quick and easy way and a low cost. Other future Project of eKuore is developed a Negative Pre-Diagnosis Platform, which will allow to help health professionals to detect when the patient has a cardiac anomalies.

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Emprende TVE

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www.rtve.es/emprende

Emprende TVE helps entrepeneurs to improve their business and get presence in the media.

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• Municipality: Lisbon City Council

PORTUGAL

www.cm-lisboa.pt

LISBON MICRO-ENTREPRENEURSHIP is an important part of a global strategy of supporting local entrepreneurship as a dynamic engine of the city´s economy. We found that there were o­ffers for a younger target, but lacked social responses to other public who wanted to have new professional opportunities and install a small business.

Contact: maribel.ferreira@cm-lisboa.pt

• Province: Consorcio Zona Franca de Vigo

SPAIN

www.viavigo.es

BUSINESS ACCELERATION PROGRAMS VIAGALICIA. This Program allows identify and channel all the resources and tools of the ecosystem (public and private), with the objective of making them available to the goals of the entrepreneurs, to

accompany them in their validation, implementation, ­financing and maturation.

Contact: tete@zonafrancavigo.com

• Region: Central Denmark Region

http://www.centraldenmark.eu/english/centraldenmarkandmidjutland/

The Game Hub Scandinavia project is the successor of Scandinavian Game Developers that won the Regio Star Awards 2015 in the Smart Growth category. The project created 53 new companies and more than 200 jobs in the partnership. Besides, in Denmark alone, it attracted around 60 million DKK in external investments, as a municipal guarantee convinced a local building society and local developers, that the infrastructure around the incubator would be a worthwhile investment opportunity. The Game Hub Scandinavia project has set an even more ambitious goal: from delivering actual change to becoming “the pebble that starts the avalanche”. One of the indicators of success in the project has been to create 398 new jobs, 100 new companies as well as establishing business and educational business relationships with China to open up the Chinese market to the game developers of the project incubators.

Contact: ti@videndjurs.dk

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Brainiac Beats

SOCIAL NETWORKS STARTUP EUROPE AWARDS 2016

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El pasado miércoles, 31 de mayo, Finnova asistió a la jornada informativa de LIFE que tuvo lugar en el marco del “Green Jobs Summit” de la Comisión Europea.

Daniel Calleja, el Director General de Medio Ambiente de la Comisión Europea, abrió el día destacando la importancia de la creación de empleos verdes y del crecimiento sostenible. En su opinión, hemos de usar los retos relacionados con el medio ambiente y la economía circular como herramienta para incrementar el crecimiento de empleos en la Unión Europea.

La Convocatoria de propuestas de proyectos LIFE 2017 siguió esta idea. La sesión se centró en las nuevas oportunidades de proyectos para crear empleos verdes y crecimiento y se compuso de dos partes principales: la explicación del programa LIFE y consejos para obtener la financiación, y la presentación de tres ejemplos de éxito de proyectos LIFE.

Los distintos ponentes, especialistas del programa LIFE, hablaron sobre los principales objetivos del programa. Reforzaron las novedades del Nuevo LIFE 2014-2020, particularmente el establecimiento de los subprogramas de Medio Ambiente y Acción climática y las nuevas estructuras del proyecto. Para este año, no se han hecho grandes cambios, solo algunas aclaraciones, aunque sí hubo un aumento del presupuesto para subprogramas de medio ambiente y clima desde 337 millones de euros hasta 373.

Convocatoria LIFE 2017

Fuente: Fabio Leone, Jefe del Sector, Unidad LIFE y Eco-Innovación, EASME, LIFE 2017 Convocatoria para Propuesta de Proyectos, Green Jobs Summit, 31 de mayo de 2017.

Fabio Leone, el jefe de sector de la unidad LIFE y eco-innovación, destacó la importancia de los proyectos de cierre de mercado que corresponden a proyectos que implementan soluciones medio ambiental o de clima en condiciones de cierre de mercado, lo que corresponde al corto y medio plazo. Este tipo de proyectos son especialmente adecuados para subprogramas de recursos eficientes de medio ambiente y de mitigación de los cambios climáticos.

Los ponentes también dieron recomendaciones sobre el diseño del proyecto y aspectos financieros para incrementar las probabilidades de tener su proyecto aprobado, dado que están sujetos a muchos retos. De acuerdo con Fabio Leone, hay una importante competición entre los proyectos, y esto lleva mucho tiempo y dinero para presentar una buena y bien prepara propuesta.

Tips para el diseño del Proyecto

Fuente: Fabio Leone, Jefe del Sector, Unidad LIFE y Eco-Innovación, EASME, LIFE 2017 Convocatoria para Propuesta de Proyectos, Green Jobs Summit, 31 de mayo de 2017.

Al final de la sesión 3 exitosos proyectos LIFE fueron presentados, y cada director de proyecto ofreció consejos para presentar un proyecto exitoso.

LIFE para Danube Sturgeons es un proyecto que pretende “la protección sostenible de Danube Sturgeons a través de la prevención, combatiendo la usurpación y el comercio ilegal. Su consejo para desarrollar una proyecto LIFE de éxito era entender realmente dónde está el problema.

BIOHEC-LIFE es un proyecto belg-francés que produce biocombustible con aceite utilizado de restaurantes e industrias. Este proyecto ha sido presentado dos veces al programa LIFE. Por esta razón, el consejo de Michel Millares, director del proyecto, es no abandonar y no olvidar nunca los puntos fuertes del proyecto.

LIFE Steppe Farming es un proyecto desarrollado en Castilla- La Mancha en España, que tiene como objetivo proteger a los pájaros de la estepa con la ayuda de comunidades agrícolas. La directora del proyecto, Blanca Hurtado, recomienda pensar en una perspectiva a largo plazo, y que todos estos proyectos puedan tener un impacto en las políticas EU.

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Last Wednesday, the 31st of May, Finnova Foundation attended to the LIFE info day taking place during the Green Jobs Summit of the European Commission.

Daniel Calleja, the Director General of the Directorate General for Environment of the European Commission, opened the day by highlighting the key importance of the creation of green jobs and sustainable growth. According to him, we have to use the challenges related to environment and circular economy as an instrument to create growth and jobs in the European Union.

The LIFE 2017 Call for Project Proposals session followed this idea. It was focused on the new project opportunities to create Green Jobs and Growth and was composed of two main parts: the explanation of the LIFE programme and tips to obtain it, and the presentation of three examples of successful LIFE projects.

The different speakers, specialists in the LIFE programme, told the main objectives of the programme. They enhanced the novelties of the New LIFE 2014-2020, in particular the establishment of the Environment and Climate action subprograms, and the new structures of the project. For this year no major changes were made, only a few clarifications, and they increased the budget for environment and climate subprograms from €337 million to more than €373 million.

Life Call 2017

Source: Fabio Leone, Head of Sector, Unit LIFE and Eco-Innovation, EASME, LIFE 2017 Call for Project Proposal, Green Jobs Summit, 31^st of May 2017.

Fabio Leone, the Head of Sector of Unit LIFE and eco innovation, highlighted the importance of Close to Market projects which correspond to projects implementing environmental or climate solutions in close to market conditions, which means in the short and medium term. These kind of projects are especially suitable for environment resource efficiency and climate change mitigation subprograms. Source: Fabio Leone, Head of Sector, Unit LIFE and Eco-Innovation, EASME, LIFE 2017 Call for Project Proposal, Green Jobs Summit, 31^st of May 2017.

The speakers also provided advice about project design and financial aspects to increase the chances of projects which are subject to many challenges. Indeed, according to Fabio Leone there is important competition between the projects and it takes a lot of time and money to submit a good and well prepared proposal.

Tips about project design:

Source: Fabio Leone, Head of Sector, Unit LIFE and Eco-Innovation, EASME, LIFE 2017 Call for Project Proposal, Green Jobs Summit, 31^st of May 2017.

At the end of the session three successful LIFE projects were presented, and each project manager offered a tip to present a successful project proposal.

LIFE for Danube Sturgeons is a project which aims to the “sustainable protection of lower Danube Sturgeons by preventing and counteracting poaching and illegal wildlife trade”. Her tip to develop a successful LIFE project was to understand really well the problem and to look back after the start of the project.

BIOHEC-LIFE is a French-belgian project producing Biofuel with used oil coming from restaurant and industries. This project has been submitted twice to the LIFE programme, for this reason, the advice of Michel Millares, project manager, is of never giving up, and never forgetting the strengths of the project.

LIFE Steppe Farming is a project developed in Castilla-La-Mancha in Spain which aims to protect steppe birds with the help of farming communities. The project manager, Blanca Hurtado, recommends to think in a long-term perspective, and that all these projects can have an impact on EU policies.

Brainiac Beats o El Cerebro es el artista almeriense de 36 años que ha sido reconocido como “MUSIC CONTEST WINNER” en Startup Europe Awards 2016, por lo que su música formará parte de la ceremonia del 7 de junio.

Nos habla acerca del origen de su nombre artístico: “En el verano de 1997, cuando empecé en la música junto a mi grupo “Rhajha”, mis compañeros me re-bautizaron como El Cerebro, ya que siempre tenía planes en mente y nuevas ideas. Unos años después, mi amigo Nick de Canadá, me dio la idea de coger el sobrenombre Brainiac para trabajos más internacionales.”

Señala, además, que la pasión por la música le llega a los 4 o 5 años, cuando junto a su padre escuchaba distintos estilos: desde el folclore de todos los países a música clásica: “Me fui interesando naturalmente por la cultura del hip hop y sus diferentes facetas, como el graffiti. Al principio solo me dedicaba a grabar fragmentos de música en cassette que en un futuro podría utilizar para modificar o remixear y hacer mis primeras creaciones.”

El Cerebro comenta que pasó algunos años aprendiendo a tocar el piano y estudiando solfeo, y que no fue hasta los 17 cuando empezó a coleccionar discos, aprender a pinchar y hacer scratch.

Se dedica además a mezclar y masterizar audio profesionalmente en su propio estudio: “Trabajo con todo tipo de clientes, pero sobre todo dentro del ámbito de la música negra (hip hop, r&b y musica urbana). Cuando vivía en Madrid me lancé a abrir mi propio sello discográfico para poder editar en vinilo mi música y la de otros talentos cercanos. Ahí desarrollé tareas de administración, contabilidad, management, promoción, etc… A día de hoy otras facetas de mi trabajo implican el asesoramiento a otros artistas y productores, tanto en desarrollo artístico como en marketing digital.”

Como todo artista, necesita inspiración y comenta, “Procuro que la inspiración me pille siempre trabajando, como decía Picasso. Abro el programa de creación musical y, cargando algunos instrumentos, voy jugando hasta que un sonido me hace imaginar algo más que podría acompañarle. Para la música de SEUA16 imaginé algo bastante épico y orgánico a la vez que elegante, pero sobre todo moderno y contemporáneo por la juventud emprendedora; de ahí que utilizara piano y cuerdas para dar un tono más formal, y batería como instrumento más impactante y actual.”

Considera importante el hecho de haber sido seleccionado como “banda sonora” de un proyecto que premia empresas como la suya, de jóvenes que tienen una visión de negocio y la ponen valientemente en práctica. “Durante mi trayectoria he colaborado con muchísimos proyectos ya que llevo casi 20 años en la industria musical. Es un gran paso para mi carrera que mi música haya sido seleccionada por primera vez para un proyecto Europeo. Creo en el ideal de que la unión hace la fuerza, el sentido de comunidad y lo que se persigue con la Unión Europea, por lo que este premio es un placer y un verdadero honor.

Por último, confiesa: “La crisis me trajo a Bélgica, como a todos. Pero en realidad necesitaba emprender una nueva aventura con mi mujer, salir de la “safe zone” para aprender y motivarme con nuevos retos. Si volviera atrás en el tiempo lo volvería a hacer una y mil veces porque el crecimiento personal y profesional que me ha proporcionado Bélgica desde que llegué, ha sido enorme.”

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Brainiac Beats or The Brain is the 36-year-old artist from Almería who has been recognized as “MUSIC CONTEST WINNER” for the Startup Europe Awards 2016. Consequently, his song will be part of the musical representation of the ceremony of 7^th June.

He tells us about the origin of his pen name: “In the summer of 1997, when I started in the music world with my group “Rhajha”, they christened me with a new name, The Brain, because I was always creating new plans and having new ideas. A few years later, my friend from Canada, Nick, gave me the idea of being nicknamed Brainiac for international works.

He claims that passion for music started at the age of 4 or 5, when he listened to different styles of music with his father, from folklore coming from everywhere to classical music: “I got interested naturally in the hip hop culture and in its different facets, like the graffiti. At first, I only recorded fragments of music in a cassette that it could use afterwards to modify or remix and so doing my first creations.”

The Brain tells that he spent some years learning to play the piano and studying solfeggio. It was not until he was 17 when he started collecting CD’s, learning to DJ and to scratch.

He also mixes and masters audio professionally in his own study: “I work with all kinds of clients, but especially in the area of black music (hip hop, R&B and urban music). When I was living in Madrid I released my own record label to be able to edit my own music in vinyl. There, I developed tasks of administration, accountancy, management, promotion, etc… Currently, I also work as adviser other artists and producers, both in artistic development and in digital marketing”.

As every artist, he needs inspiration and says, “I try that the inspiration can always find me working in something, as Picasso said. I open the musical creation programme and I start to lead some instruments so I play with them until a sound makes me imagine something more than might accompany it. For the music of SEUA16, I imagined something epic and organic and at the same time elegant, but especially modern and contemporary for the entrepreneurial young people; that is why I have used piano and strings to get a more formal tone, and a drum-set as more striking and current instrument.”

He considers important the fact of being selected as “soundtrack” of a project that rewards companies of young people that have a business vision and put it bravely into practice. “During all my work trajectory I have collaborated with many projects in almost 20 years in the musical industry. It is a great step for my career that my music has been selected by the first time for a European project. I believe in the ideal of which union is strength, the sense of community and what is chased by the European Union, for what this prize is a pleasure and a real honour.

Finally, he confesses: “The crisis brought me to Belgium, as everybody. But actually I needed to undertake a new adventure with my wife, to go out of “safe zone” to learn and to explain myself by new challenges. If I could go back in the time, I would turn it to doing one and thousand times because the personal and professional growth that has provided Belgium to me since I came, has been enormous. “

European Green Week 2017 will take place from 29 May to 2 June in all around Europe with the theme of ‘Green jobs for a greener future’, with a special focus on how EU environmental policies are creating green jobs and contributing to economic, sustainable and socially responsible growth in the EU. Besides, it will also highlight the demand for new types of green skills in many professional sectors.

Organised by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Environment, this key event in the environment policy calendar attracts policymakers, leading environmentalists, stakeholders and other interested parties from across Europe and the globe.
In addition to, the EU Green Summit will take place in Brussels on 30-31 May, the programme will also feature a series of partner events and actions taking place across Europe during the months of May and June. As well as being invited to take part in person, stakeholders and the general public are encouraged to become ‘virtually’ involved by participating in a wide range of on-line and social media activities.

Finnova foundation will participate in the Summit in Brussels and the networking session of the 31^st. From Brussels, Finnova will cover the high level event and inform about the most relevant issues and debates via Twitter.

The EU Green Summit of Brussels will gather many distinguished political figures  such as Karmenu Vella, Commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs & Fisheries, European Commission, Valdis Dombrovskis Vice-President of the European Commission, The Hon. José Herrera, Minister for Sustainable Development, the Environment and Climate Change of Malta, or Daniel Calleja Crespo, Director-General Directorate-General for Environment of the European Commission.

This year LIFE Programme will be very relevant since it is celebrating 25 years. The EU has been supporting nature, environment and climate action for 25 years and to celebrate this milestone there will be different session during the Summit.

A programme in which Finnova is familiar with since its team has more than 20 years of experience working in LIFE projects consortium. ECOBUS, HTWT,  Ecodiptera, TRAGAMOVIL , Enebro Marino or ECORRAE are some examples of  the most remarkable projects.

The total budget for subsidies in LIFE Programme 2017 is 373.000.000€ for all the environment and climate subprograms (so-called traditional projects).

Los empleos verdes llegan a Europa

La Semana Verde Europea 2017 tendrá lugar del 29 de mayo al 2 de junio en toda Europa con el tema “Empleos verdes para un futuro más verde”, cuyo objetivo será destacar cómo las políticas medioambientales de la Unión Europea crean empleos verdes y contribuyen a la economía verde socialmente responsable. Además, también destacará la demanda de nuevos tipos de habilidades verdes en muchos sectores profesionales.

Organizado por la Dirección General de Medio Ambiente de la Comisión Europea, este es un  evento clave en el calendario de políticas medioambientales pues atrae a los responsables de la formulación de políticas, los principales expertos, partes interesadas de toda Europa y del resto del mundo.

Además, en este marco se celebrará la Cumbre Verde Europea en Bruselas los días 30 y 31 de mayo y se la Comisión invita a los países miembros a organizar eventos y acciones paralelas en Europa durante los meses de mayo y junio.

La Fundación Finnova participará en la conferencia de alto nivel de Bruselas y en la sesión de networking organizada el 31. Desde Bruselas, Finnova cubrirá el evento de alto nivel e informará sobre los temas y debates más relevantes a través de Twitter.

La Cumbre Verde de la UE de Bruselas reunirá a destacadas figuras políticas como Karmenu Vella, Comisario de Medio Ambiente, Asuntos Marítimos y Pesca de la Comisión Europea, Valdis Dombrovskis Vicepresidente de la Comisión Europea, Hon. José Herrera, Ministro de Desarrollo Sostenible, Medio Ambiente y Cambio Climático de Malta, o Daniel Calleja Crespo, Director General de Medio Ambiente de la Comisión Europea.

Este año el Programa LIFE será muy relevante ya que celebra 25 años. La UE ha estado apoyando la naturaleza, el medio ambiente y el clima durante 25 años y para celebrar este hito habrá diferentes sesiones informativas durante la conferencia.

LIFE es la herramienta de financiación para el medio ambiente por excelencia de Europa, en la que Finnova está muy familiarizado pues su equipo tiene más de 20 años de experiencia trabajando en el consorcio de proyectos LIFE. ECOBUS, HTWT, Ecodiptera, TRAGAMOVIL, Enebro Marino o ECORRAE son algunos ejemplos de los proyectos más notables.

El presupuesto total para subvenciones del Programa LIFE 2017 es de 373.000.000 € para todos los subprogramas medioambientales y climáticos (denominados proyectos tradicionales).

The Innovation and Networks Executive Agency of the European Commission has selected NOBEL GRID, in which Finnova is partner, to exhibit its tools and ICT services in the Eighth Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM8) in Beijing on 6–8 June.

Between more than 200 European projects just two were selected by the Commission to show the best smart grid innovations in Europe during the CEM8.

The annual meeting of energy ministers and other high-level delegates from the 24 member countries and the European Union will provide an opportunity to leverage high-level political will and private sector leadership to drive ambitious, real-world clean energy policies and actions.

“This is a great opportunity to spread all our developments achieved so far that provide advanced tools and ICT services to all actors in the Smart Grid and retail electricity making it making it more secure, stable, sustainable and clean. Specially, to present our work and achievements towards protection and empowerment of the European consumers and prosumers (households and businesses) on the energy transition”, explained Lola Alacreu, Coordinator of NOBEL GRID.

Between 7-8 June, visitors could find out NOBEL GRID project funded by Hoizon 2020 Programme at the “Technology Exhibition”, where the project will be exhibited at the booth BC23+24 of the European Commission.

The CEM8 aims to demonstrate and celebrate the “Revolution Now of rapidly decreasing costs and increasing deployment of clean energy technologies and the national and global value propositions of economic opportunity, health and welfare, and energy security of the transition to modern, clean, and efficient energy”, as organisers explain.

Besides the vision for the ministerial is to deepen and broaden government participation and leadership in the CEM forum to drive greater progress in the global clean energy transformation, strengthen action-oriented partnerships and collaborations and launch new, high-impact CEM campaigns that tap into globally relevant and timely clean energy areas and that encourage concrete commitments.

The Technology Exhibition will feature companies and projects from around the world demonstrating breakthrough clean energy technologies, products, and business models, as well as startups working to drive change in the clean energy sector and the worldwide economy in the years and decades to come.

In this regard, “NOBEL GRID is also presented as an innovation platform to drive new spin-off projects, SMEs and Startups to develop advanced tools and ICT services to all actors in the Smart Grids”, explains Juan Manuel Revuelta, General Director of Finnova.

The 4,300-square-meter exhibition will cover six key sectors, such as renewable energy, energy-efficient technologies and facilities, energy storage technologies and facilities, digital energy and smart grid, electric vehicles and related technologies and finance and business model innovation.

NOBEL GRID seleccionado para participar en la 8ª Conferencia Ministerial de Energía Limpia en China

La Agencia Ejecutiva de Innovación y Redes de la Comisión Europea ha seleccionado al proyecto NOBEL GRID, en el que Finnova es socio, para exponer sus herramientas y servicios TIC en la Octava Conferencia Ministerial de Energía Limpia (CEM8, en sus siglas en inglés) en Beijing del 6 al 8 de junio.

La Comisión Europea ha seleccionado sólo dos proyectos, entre más de 200, para mostrar las mejores innovaciones europeas en materia de redes eléctricas inteligentes durante la CEM8.

La reunión anual de ministros de energía y otros delegados de alto nivel de 24 países y la Unión Europea brindará la oportunidad de aprovechar la voluntad política y el liderazgo del sector privado para impulsar políticas y acciones ambiciosas y reales en materia de energía limpia.

“Esta es una gran oportunidad para difundir todos nuestros desarrollos logrados hasta el momento, los cuales proporcionan herramientas avanzadas y servicios TIC a todos los actores de las redes eléctricas inteligentes, haciéndola más segura, estable, sostenible y limpia. Y especialmente dar a conocer nuestro trabajo y logros para la protección y el empoderamiento de los consumidores y prosumidores europeos (hogares y empresas) en la transición energética “, explica Lola Alacreu, Coordinadora de NOBEL GRID.

Entre el 7 y el 8 de junio, los visitantes podrán conocer de primera mano el proyecto NOBEL GRID financiado por el programa Horizonte 2020 en el área de exposiciones de la Conferencia Ministerial, donde el proyecto se exhibirá en el stand BC23 + 24 de la Comisión Europea.

La conferencia pretende demostrar y celebrar la “revolución de la disminución de los costes energéticos y el aumento del despliegue de tecnologías limpias. Así como, destacar iniciativas que promueven la  transición a tecnologías modernas, limpias y eficientes que permitan ofrecer oportunidades de crecimiento y desarrollo, seguridad energética y mejora en la salud y bienestar de la ciudadanía”, como explican los organizadores de la conferencia.

Además, el evento pretende profundizar y ampliar la participación de gobiernos y líderes para  impulsar un mayor progreso en la transformación global de energía limpia, fortalecer las asociaciones y colaboraciones orientadas a la acción y lanzar nuevas campañas de alto impacto que promuevan compromisos concretos.

La Exposición de Tecnología, donde se encontrará NOBEL GRID, recogerá empresas y proyectos de todo el mundo con innovadoras tecnologías, productos y modelos de negocios del campo de la energía limpia, así como startups que impulsan el cambio en este sector de y la economía mundial de cara a las décadas venideras.

En este sentido, “NOBEL GRID también se presenta como un proyecto tractor para spin-offs, Pymes y Startups para desarrollar herramientas y servicios avanzados ara todos los actors de las redes eléctricas inteligentes”, señala Juan Manuel Revuelta, Director General de Finnova.

La exposición de 4.300 metros cuadrados abarcará seis sectores clave, como las energías renovables, las tecnologías e instalaciones de eficiencia energética, las tecnologías e instalaciones de almacenamiento de energía, la energía digital y la red inteligente, los vehículos eléctricos y la innovación en los modelos financieros y empresariales.