- The webinar will be held at the European Parliament, within the event “Innovate4change: Transforming Societal Challenges through Social Entrepreneurship”
- The webinar will be used to present the RES4CITY Accelerathon and to answer any questions that may arise
15/02/2024, Brussels. Next Tuesday, February 20th at 12:40 pm (CET) the RES4CITY Startup Europe Accelerathon hybrid webinar will be held from the European Parliament headquarters in Brussels (Belgium). The webinar will be held as part of the event “Innovate4Change: Transforming Societal Challenges through Social Entrepreneurship”, organized by the European project LADESE.
The webinar will serve to present the Accelerathon and resolve any doubts that may arise regarding its development or the challenges posed. This way, those interested will be able to have more information before the registration deadline on Wednesday, March 6th at 23:00 (CET). The CEO of the Finnova Foundation, Juanma Revuelta, will be in charge of presenting the RES4CITY STARTUP EUROPE ACCELERATHON. The head of European projects of the Foundation, Patricia Tejada, and the European projects assistant, Laura Velasco, will develop the main activities of the Accelerathon.
The main objective of the RES4CITY Startup Europe Accelerathon is to promote initiatives to address social challenges through social entrepreneurship. RES4CITY Startup Europe Accelerathon employs an innovative project acceleration methodology that drives solutions and funding for these ideas through an open innovation competition focused on promoting circularity in urban environments.
The Accelerathon is an online competition with training, mentoring and a European acceleration ticket to access European funding programs. The ideas to be developed during the Accelerathon will have to pose solutions that seek to solve one of the following challenges:
- Optimize electric vehicle charging efficiency through smart energy solutions
- Achieve efficient land and soil management by changing business operations in line with the principles of the circular economy
- Designing green hydrogen production projects
- Revalorization of greywater in the urban environment
The Accelerathon is part of the European RES4CITY project, an innovative 2.5 million euro educational project funded 100% by the European Commission through the Horizon Europe Program. RES4CITY brings together 17 partners from eight countries, including the presence of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), the leading UN training body providing innovative learning solutions to individuals, organizations and institutions to improve global decision-making and support country-level action to shape a better future. Project partners include Maynooth University and Tipperary Energy Agency in Ireland, University of Genoa, University of Sassari and Artemat in Italy, University of Coimbra in Portugal, Polytechnic University of Valencia in Spain, the Technical University of Denmark, Grenoble Alpes University and Three o’clock in France, WiTEC and Halmstad University in Sweden, Finnova in Belgium and Global Hope Network International in Switzerland complete the list of beneficiaries of this European project.
About Finnova Foundation
Finnova is a foundation working for the promotion and development of innovation and entrepreneurship at EU level. Based in Brussels, it operates through collaborations and partnerships in all EU countries. Finnova’s experience in leading European project communication and dissemination activities is combined with a strong proven track record in programs supporting start-ups and businesses, such as accelerators, incubators and selection and adjudication of ceremonial events.