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Fifth session of Next LATAM-EU Generation: “Training and Mobility Opportunities for Young Professionals and Entrepreneurs”

Post author By administrador
Post date juillet 29, 2021

The goal of Next LATAM-EU Generation is to foster business cooperation between EU and Latam countries

This event is supported by Red Business Market and the Congreso Iberoamericano de Empresas Familiares y Pymes

A meeting will be held in Medellin (Colombia) in late 2021 to deliver the LATAM Startup Europe Awards

The fifth session of Next LATAM-EU Generation will be held on 10 August on the occasion of World Youth Day (12 August)

Brussels, 29.07.2021 – On Tuesday 10 August 2021, on the occasion of World Youth Day (12 August), Finnova Foundation and Startup Europe Awards will launch the fifth session of Next LATAM-EU Generation, “Training and Mobility Opportunities for Young Professionals and Entrepreneurs”, together with Red Business Market and the Congreso Iberoamericano de Empresas Familiares y Pymes.

The main objectives of Next LATAM-EU Generation are the transfer of knowledge, the dissemination of information on available funding facilities for both continents, and the development of shared projects among Latin American and Europe countries in order to forge business alliances. Each Next LATAM-EU Generation session focuses on a specific world day based on the UN SDGs.

The upcoming event on 10 August will be chaired by Juanma Revuelta, one of the promoters of Next Talent Generation and CEO of Finnova, a foundation which endorses employment and training for young people. “Next Talent Generation enables to find paid internships across Europe in order to reduce the number of unemployed highly qualified young people”, claims Mr Revuelta.

The fifth session of Next LATAM-EU Generation, “Training and Mobility Opportunities for Young Professionals and Entrepreneurs”, will feature Bruno Castro, EU Relations with Latin America Officer at DG EAC (Education and Culture) in the European Commission; Moisés Álvaro, ecosystems developer in Italy and Spain, whose mission is to transfer EIT Climate-KIC strategic programmes to these countries; Lorena Pedrós, start-up advisor at IDEASUPV (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia); Frank Babinger, advisor to the Employability and Entrepreneurship Department of the Vice-Chancellor’s Office in the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), and María José Valero, CEO of Talent Growth Management and ambassador of Technovation Girls Comunidad Valenciana, among others.

Next LATAM-EU Generation was first launched after the success of the Congreso Iberoamericano de Empresas Familiares y Pymes, run by Red Business Market, and which was held on January 2021. It hosted 558 enterprises, more than 60 domestic and international speakers and nearly 9,000 attendees (enterprises). This event showed that transatlantic collaboration is needed in order to face shared challenges in both continents, such as digitalisation, sustainability and circularity after Covid-19.

Josu Gómez Barrutia, CEO of Red Business Market, says that « there is no doubt whatsoever that in an evolving and challenging era in terms of society, economy and geopolitics, creating meeting points, partnerships and strategic connections in the entrepreneurship, business development and cooperation domains between the EU and Latin America is crucial”.

Click here to register for this event.

PREVIOUS SESSIONS

The first LATAM-EU session was held on March 8 on the occasion of International Women’s Day. It was run by several female speakers, such as Patricia Llombart, EU Ambassador in Colombia, Liskel Álvarez, External Actions Senior Officer at Cabildo de Tenerife, and Adriana Vargas, head of Trading Links of the Colombian Mission in the EU. The goal of this event was to discuss the role of women in business cooperation between Latam and the EU, especially as regards innovation and entrepreneurship.

The second session, which was held on April 6 – on the occasion of World Health Day (7 April) –, was named “Challenges and Opportunities for Tourism through Cooperation between Latam and the EU during Covid-19”. Its main topics were the challenges that the tourism sector has to face and how to. This session was attended by Manuel Vegas, president of Asociación Española de Directores de Hotel (AEDH); Antonio López de Ávila, Co-founder and CEO of Toursim Data Driven Solutions (TDDS), and Irene Sánchez, Business Creation Manager at EIT Health Spain.

The third session, which was held on May 11 on Global Recycling Day (17 May), was named “Challenges of Circular Economy in LATAM-EU Cooperation as a Production and Consumption Model for Sustainability”. Speakers included Isabel Silva Souza, Ambassador of the European Commission’s Climate Pact; Álvaro Hernández, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Inboplast; Sharam Yalda, partner of CirCoAX and founder of HumanNation; Alonso Salguero, CEO at GTA Ingeniería y Medioambiente, and Giuseppe Liberati, Executive Director at Bridging Value.

The fourth session of Next LATAM-EU Generation, “Entrepreneurship and Water: a Driver of Economic Recovery and Social Development of Regions and Municipalities” was held on 13 July on the occasion of World Population Day (11 July) and World Oceans Day (8 June). Speakers included Rafael Heredero, Policy Advisor at EurEau secretariat in Brussels, Javier Vázquez Hueso, CEO of EMALGESA and deputy mayor of Algeciras City Council, Luis Lehmann, international expert on circular economy, Miguel Lemos, CEO of Aguas de Gaia, and Ana Beccar Varela, water project manager at The Nature Conservancy.

Next LATAM-EU Generation is made up of nine online events which will take place every second Tuesday of each month. Each event is held on the occasion of an International Day in line with UN SDGs. To top it all off, if the health situation allows it, an on-site event will be held in Medellin (Colombia) to celebrate the final of LATAM Startup Europe Awards.

About Finnova Foundation

Finnova Foundation is a Belgian-Spanish foundation which helps institutions and organisations getting funds for innovative projects. Its objective is to promote private-public cooperation through innovation in order to address social challenges, e.g. employment, training, entrepreneurship, SDGs, circular economy, etc. Finnova is in charge of organising Startup Europe Awards, a joint initiative by Finnova and the European Commission to reward the best European start-ups.

For more information, click on www.finnova.eu

About Startup Europe Awards

Startup Europe Awards is an initiative by DG CONNECT and has been implemented by Finnova Foundation since 2016. Startup Europe Awards are an open innovation mechanism aimed to identify disruptive start-ups and to promote private-public partnerships. They also seek to raise awareness on the importance of self-entrepreneurship as a driving force for job creation. In addition to promoting networks to meet the UN SDGs and the European Green Deal objectives, they also contribute to circular economy, sustainable tourism and fighting against climate change.

For more info, click on https://startupeuropeawards.eu/seua/

About Red Business Market

Business Market is a forum connecting investors, businesses, entrepreneurs and start-ups from Ciudad Real aiming to create a network of business, financing and support for economic and business projects in that area. All this funding can be coupled with venture capital, business angels, personal investments and corporate or financial funds for innovative and disruptive initiatives with an added value which need funding to start operating.

For more information, click on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-vd9gSy19s

About Next Talent Generation

The Next Talent Generation programme was designed to create an European partnership bringing together entities from different backgrounds, e.g. non-profit organisations, enterprises, universities, European institutions, national administrative authorities… to offer training opportunities in the EU in a single platform. This tool seeks to list all programmes offering internship mobility opportunities across Europe in order to foster cross-border mobility and to enhance the level of employability of young people.

Currently, Finnova offers internships in all EU countries through the Programa del Sistema Nacional de Garantía Nacional Juvenil.

For more information, click on https://nextalentgeneration.eu/

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JOURNÉE D’INFORMATION – INFODAY : Ouverture de l’appel à candidature pour l’accélérateur européen CirCoAX, qui mettra à l’échelle les PME de l’industrie de la mode et du textile qui favorisent l’économie circulaire dans le secteur

Post author By administrador
Post date juillet 21, 2021

L’appel sera ouvert dès mercredi, 21 juillet à 17h CET.

Les candidatures sélectionnées recevront un soutien financier de 12 000 EUR.

Les propositions doivent favoriser la transition durable du secteur, à travers l’économie circulaire mais aussi l’innovation sociale.

Les candidats intéressés auront jusqu’au 13 octobre pour envoyer leur candidature.

Lien de registre pour l’infoday: http://registration.nextextilgeneration.eu/

Le mercredi 21 juillet et le 28 juillet à 17h CET, le projet CircularInnoBooster organise une journée d’information concernant l’ouverture de l’appel à propositions pour les PME, les startups et les entrepreneurs du secteur de la mode et du textile intéressés à postuler pour faire partie de son accélérateur CirCoAX.

CircularInnoBooster Fashion and Textile (F&T) est un projet du programme COSME de l’Union européenne, avec une durée initiale de deux ans et un budget de 1 128 000 €. Il est co-financé à 75% par la Commission européenne. Mené par l’IED (Istituto Europeo di Design), en collaboration avec la Fondation Finnova,Texfor, Circulab et The Circular Project avec HumanNation, il vise à transformer les industries très polluantes de la mode et du textile par l’innovation, en encourageant l’esprit d’entreprise pour générer des modèles commerciaux basés sur l’économie circulaire, en transformant les PME et les start-ups en entreprises durables et circulaires. Grâce au modèle d’économie régénérative, le projet vise à devenir une référence pour la transformation totale de l’industrie, des matières premières à la fin de vie des vêtements, en apportant une solution aux problèmes structurels de l’industrie conventionnelle.

En outre, le projet a une perspective sociale importante, favorisant la création d’emplois à valeur ajoutée à tous les niveaux de la production, contribuant à la réalisation de plusieurs des objectifs de développement durable (ODD) des Nations unies, tels que la fin de la pauvreté, la zéro faim et l’égalité des sexes.

Pour atteindre ces objectifs, l’accélérateur CirCoAX a été créé pour fournir aux PME un soutien à la fois financier et commercial afin de leur permettre de faire évoluer leurs propositions. Le modèle économique des applicants doit favoriser l’économie circulaire, en se concentrant sur l’un des domaines suivants : conception et fabrication de la mode, industrie textile, éducation et recherche, diffusion communautaire et plateformes. De même, les candidatures qui apportent une innovation sociale seront évaluées positivement.

Lors de la présentation de l’appel, qui sera dirigée par Sharam Yalda, fondateur de HumanNation et chef de projet de CircularInnoBooster, les représentants des différents partenaires du projet introduiront les points clés que les candidats doivent respecter pour être sélectionnés.

Suite à la soumission des candidatures, qui sera clôturée le 13 octobre 2021, les 30 candidats les plus disruptifs sélectionnés recevront une subvention de 12 000 € pour développer leurs idées innovantes. En outre, grâce à l’équipe d’experts du secteur qui compose le projet, les bénéficiaires auront accès à un mentorat, ainsi qu’à des formations et des ateliers au cours desquels seront partagées les meilleures conseils pratiques et utiles à mettre en œuvre tout au long de la chaîne de valeur. En outre, des connaissances en marketing et des plans d’affaires seront proposés pour assurer le succès et la durabilité des projets une fois le programme terminé.

La participation à cet accélérateur permet non seulement de bénéficier d’un soutien à différents niveaux pour mettre en œuvre de nouveaux modèles d’entreprise en accord avec une transition écologique et circulaire de la mode et du textile, mais leur donne également l’opportunité de s’ériger en projets de référence à l’échelle européenne.

A propos de COSME

COSME est le programme pour la compétitivité des petites et moyennes entreprises de l’Agence exécutive pour les petites et moyennes entreprises (EASME) de la Commission européenne.

Grâce à ce programme, une assistance est offerte aux PME pour développer leurs modèles d’entreprise, accéder aux financements et s’internationaliser. De même, un soutien est offert aux administrations publiques pour améliorer l’environnement des entreprises et faciliter la croissance économique dans l’Union européenne. Au cours de la période de financement 2014-2020, ce programme a alloué 2,3 milliards d’euros pour soutenir les PME.

À propos de l’IED

L’Istituto Europeo di Design est une institution académique qui opère dans les domaines de l’éducation, de la formation et de la recherche dans les disciplines du design, de la mode, de la communication visuelle et de la gestion, couvrant la formation professionnelle et commerciale du design. L’IED dispose de succursales en Espagne (Madrid, Barcelone), en Italie (Milan, Rome et 5 autres villes) et au Brésil (São Paolo, Rio de Janeiro). Il opère dans plusieurs pays de l’UE et du COSME grâce à des collaborations et des accords avec des institutions, des organisations de soutien aux entreprises, des professeurs, des experts et des mentors avec lesquels il a établi des relations. IED s’appuie sur un large réseau de relations dans le secteur des F&T spécifiquement pour ce projet, en s’appuyant sur la R&D dans les domaines du design de mode, du design de produit, du design d’intérieur, des arts visuels, de la communication et de la gestion. https://iedmadrid.com/.

À propos de Finnova

FINNOVA est une fondation qui œuvre à la promotion et au développement de l’innovation et de l’esprit d’entreprise au niveau européen. Basée à Bruxelles, elle opère par le biais de collaborations et de partenariats dans tous les pays de l’UE. L’expertise de FINNOVA dans la conduite d’activités de communication et de diffusion pour les projets de l’UE est associée à une solide expérience dans la création d’entreprises et de programmes de soutien à l’entrepreneuriat, tels que les accélérateurs, les incubateurs et les événements de sélection et de remise de prix/cérémonial. https://web.finnovaregio.org/

À propos de Texfor

TEXFOR est l’association textile de référence en Espagne avec 400 membres. Fondée en novembre 2010 et située en Catalogne, elle regroupe des entreprises de toute la chaîne de valeur du textile, des fils aux tissus en passant par les accessoires, les procédés de finition, l’impression et la teinture pour l’industrie de l’habillement, les textiles de maison et les applications techniques/industrielles. Texfor possède une spécialisation et une expérience, ayant travaillé dans d’importants comités d’experts au niveau européen : Université et formation professionnelle,

Renforcement des capacités financières, collaboration intersectorielle, promotion de la R+D+I, services spécialisés et leadership en matière de durabilité axé sur l’économie circulaire. https://www.texfor.es/

À propos de Circulab

CIRCULAB est un laboratoire et un studio de business design spécialisé dans le développement d’une méthodologie de transformation, d’outils et de programmes pour aider les entreprises à développer des modèles d’affaires circulaires et durables. CIRCULAB a conçu une boîte à outils pour la mise en œuvre de la circularité dans les entreprises et opère dans +23 pays (9 pays de l’UE), soutenant des projets par le biais de +60 consultants CE indépendants certifiés, appliquant la méthodologie et les outils Circ. https://circulab.com/

À propos de The Circular Project, conçu conjointement avec HumanNation

TCP (The Circular Project) est un projet crée pour favoriser et promouvoir la mode durable depuis des différents domaines, en offrant dans le secteur de la mode une stratégie de communication avec une approche transversale et systémique de l’économie circulaire. En même temps, TCP intègre des aspects sociaux, éthiques, environnementaux et économiques. Ayant une forte présence et connections avec le monde de la mode durable, le projet TCP a promu la célébration du Circular Sustainable Fashion Week Madrid, un événement unique. TCP est le siège de l’Association espagnole pour la durabilité, l’innovation et la circularité de la mode, et est ambassadeur de Sannas (Triple Bottom Line Business Association) et collaborateur d’un réseau institutionnel et industriel en Espagne, en Europe et en Amérique latine.

Pour ce projet, The Circular Project travaille avec HumanNation pour la co-conception et le développement du projet. HumanNation est une société de conseil spécialisée dans le développement d’écosystèmes d’innovation et d’affaires transformateurs : la « nouvelle économie ». Basée sur le quatrième secteur économique, la pensée systémique et la co-création, elle favorise la prise de conscience au sein des organisations et des écosystèmes pour respecter les limites planétaires et le tissu social, en créant des économies résilientes au niveau local, avec une perspective globale.

https://thecircularproject.com/

https://humannation.earth

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Fourth session of Next LATAM-EU Generation addresses business cooperation between the EU and Latin America in the water management sector

Post author By administrador
Post date juillet 14, 2021

 The webinar was held on July 13 to commemorate World Population Day and World Oceans Day

 Circular economy and wastewater management project LIFE ECOdigestion 2.0 was the overarching topic throughout the webinar

 The event was supported by Red Business Market and the Congreso Iberoamericano de Empresas Familiares y Pymes

 A meeting will be held in Medellin (Colombia) in late 2021 to deliver the LATAM Startup Europe Awards

Brussels, 14.07.2021 – On Tuesday 13 July, 2021, on the occasion of World Population Day and World Oceans Day, Finnova Foundation and Startup Europe Awards launched the fourth session of Next LATAM-EU Generation: “Entrepreneurship and Water: a Driver of Economic Recovery and Social Development of Regions and Municipalities” together with Red Business Market and the Congreso Iberoamericano de Empresas Familiares y Pymes.

The main objectives of Next LATAM-EU Generation are the transfer of knowledge, the dissemination of information on available funding facilities for both continents and the development of shared projects among Latin American and European countries in order to forge business alliances.

The fourth session of Next LATAM-EU Generation: “Entrepreneurship and Water: a Driver of Economic Recovery and Social Development of regions and Municipalities” was chaired by Finnova – LIFE ECOdigestion 2.0 CEO Juanma Revuelta, who used LIFE ECOdigestion 2.0. to showcase best practices in the wastewater sector. Partnered by Finnova, LIFE ECOdigestion 2.0 aims to control on-demand production of biogas in WWTPs digesters. This project seeks to treat organic waste from livestock farms e.g. swine or chicken manure, waste from the HORECA sector, waste from cooperatives and supermarkets, and solid urban waste in order to foster sustainability and to reduce CO₂ emissions.

Javier Vázquez Hueso, CEO of EMALGESA and Deputy Mayor of Ayuntamiento de Algeciras, which harbours the fourth most important port in Europe and is located between two continents, was the first speaker in the “Institutions” section of the webinar. Mr. Vázquez said that Algeciras will invest €25M in the upcoming years on its water agenda.

Rafael Heredero, Policy Advisor at EurEau, broke down into different sub-topics the European Green Deal, the EU’s strategy to become a resource efficient, competitive and modern economy, which urges to minimise GHG emissions by 2050.

Luis Lehmann, Circular Economy and Sustainable Development Consultant, initiated the “Water and Region Experts” section by pointing out the major problems which affect water in this decade i.e. water pollution, poor quality of water for human consumption and floods. All of these are particularly dangerous for Latin America. “Facing these challenges by implementing a circular economy model to reach sustainable development is a great opportunity, especially for local governments”.

The CEO of Red Business Market, Josu Gómez Barrutia, said that over the past years, “there has been a growing interest in the sustainability and circular economy start-up ecosystem”. According to Mr. Barrutia, the amount of environment-related start-ups in Spain has soared to more than 36%, which has led to a 361% surge in renewable energies and sustainability related patents. This clearly shows the concern of start-ups vis-à-vis the environment.

Ana Beccar Varela, Water Project Manager at The Nature Conservancy, introduced a long-term water funds management strategy. Waters funds are organisations which design and promote financial and governmental mechanisms bringing together public, private and civil society agents to achieve water security based on the comprehensive management of watersheds and the implementation of nature-based solutions.

Diego Correa, CEO of APSU, talked about a microwave reactor APSU is currently using and which extracts biochar from sludge. This project was accelerated by Finnova’s Startup Europe Accelerator and won the Startup Europe Awards competition in the water category in 2017. This sludge represents “one of the greatest dangers to water”. Mr. Correa said this reactor “transforms this sludge into clean energy, eliminates pathogens and extracts biogas with steam in a single process”.

Speaking from Águas de Gaia in Portugal, CEO Miguel Lemos stressed the urgency to take care and to protect water. “Water is necessary for human life. We need to find a social, financial and environmental balance when it comes to water management”.

Sub-director of Agri-food Innovation at Cajamar Ricardo García talked about Almeria’s “agricultural miracle” i.e. its strategic water management system. Mr. García and his team strive to recruit new talent in the agri-food industry of Almeria to copycat this very same system in the rest of Spain and the world.

José Teixeira, Key Account Manager of Buntplanet, discussed how his company has created a unique software based on AI to optimise water management and to prevent leaks by digitalising it.

Adrián Nadal, CEO of Bioferric, talked about Bioferric’s technology to design and assemble water treatment and purification plants. Bioferric won the first edition of Water Accelerathon, an event implemented by Finnova. Thanks to their technology, Bioferric can recover up to 95% of components from effluents.

The last speaker in the “Experts” section was Carlota Corzo, Co-founder of Lazzaro, a technology-based and socially-oriented enterprise specialising in designing software for NGOs (non-governmental organisations) to manage their websites and to raise funds and donations, hence filling the digital divide. “One of our goals is to monitor transactions by using blockchain, as the first reason why people avoid donating to NGOs in Spain is the lack of confidence. We realised only 8% of NGOs are digitalised”.

Adrián Noheda, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Director at Finnova Foundation, wrapped up the “Funds” area by explaining the different EU funding opportunities for all those entrepreneurs wishing to bring their projects into the EU and who participate in companies operating in Member States.

Horizon Europe, the EU’s Framework Programme for Research and Innovation for 2021-2027, has been recently launched. It envisages international cooperation with non-Member States.

The LIFE Programme is the EU’s funding instrument for the environment and climate action created in 1992. For the 2021-2027 period, the programme has a financial envelope of €5.4 billion, which means €1.9 billion more as opposed to the 2014-2020 period. LIFE can be broken down into four sub-programmes whit a co-funding rate of up to 60%: Nature and Biodiversity, Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation, Circular Economy and Quality of Life and Clean Energy Transition.

Mr. Noheda seized the opportunity to use LIFE ECOdigestion 2.0 as a best practice example. This project is a consortium formed by Global Omnium, Finnova Foundation and Aguas do Centro Litoral.

Mr. Noheda also talked about the Innovation Fund, one of the most comprehensive funds in the world for the development of low-carbon innovative technologies. This fund will provide nearly €20 billion for 2020-2030 to commercialise industrial solutions to decarbonise Europe and to help achieve a climate-neutrality transition.

On the other hand, the European Innovation Council (EIC) offers up to €15M-worth investments and up to €2.5M-worth grants for entrepreneurs and SMEs having from 1 to 250 employees and less than €50M revenue.

The fourth session of Next LATAM-EU Generation was closed off by poet and president of Poets without Borders Chema Paz Gago, who read his ecopoem called “False Prestige”.

If you couldn’t attend the event, you can watch it here.

PREVIOUS SESSIONS

The first LATAM-EU session was held on March 8 on the occasion of International Women’s Day. It was run by several female speakers, such as Patricia Llombart, EU Ambassador in Colombia, Liskel Álvarez, External Actions Senior Officer at Cabildo de Tenerife, and Adriana Vargas, head of Trading Links of the Colombian Mission in the EU. The goal of this event was to discuss the role of women in business cooperation between Latam and the EU, with a special focus on innovation and entrepreneurship.

The second session, which was held on April 6 (on the occasion of World Health Day), was named “Challenges and Opportunities for Tourism through Cooperation between Latam and the EU during Covid-19”. Its main topics were the challenges that the tourism sector has to face and how to. This session was attended by Manuel Vegas, president of Asociación Española de Directores de Hotel (AEDH); Antonio López de Ávila, Co-founder and CEO of Toursim Data Driven Solutions (TDDS), and Irene Sánchez, Business Creation Manager at EIT Health Spain.

The third session, which was held on May 11 on Global Recycling Day, was named “Challenges of Circular Economy in LATAM-EU Cooperation as a Production and Consumption Model for Sustainability”. Speakers included Isabel Silva Souza, Ambassador of the European Commission’s Climate Pact; Álvaro Hernández, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Inboplast; Sharam Yalda, partner of CirCoAX and founder of HumanNation; Alonso Salguero, CEO at GTA Ingeniería y Medioambiente, and Giuseppe Liberati, Executive Director at Bridging Value.

Next LATAM-EU Generation is made up of nine online events which will take place every second Tuesday of each month. Each event is held on the occasion of an International Day in line with UN SDGs. To top it all off, if the health situation allows it, an on-site event will be held in Medellin (Colombia) to celebrate the final of LATAM Startup Europe Awards.

About LIFE ECOdigestion 2.0

The main objective of the LIFE ECOdigestion 2.0 project is the real-scale demonstration of an innovative technology for the automated control of waste dosage in anaerobic digesters of WWTPs to maximise the production of biogas on demand as a renewable energy.

LIFE ECOdigestion 2.0 undertakes to turn biogas into a reliable source of energy to supply green power to industries and companies in order to ensure that the EU’s goal to reach at least 27% of renewable energy in 2030 is met. This methodology is especially interesting for Europe, as there are 18.000 water treatment plants accounting for 0.8% of energy consumption.

LIFE ECOdigestion 2.0 kicked off on 1 September, 2020, and will continue up until 29 February, 2024. Its main coordinator is Global Omnium Medioambiente, and its main partners are Finnova Foundation and Portuguese consortium Águas do Centro Litoral. It has a €970,000 budget.

https://www.lifecodigestion.com/

About Finnova Foundation

Finnova Foundation is a Belgian-Spanish foundation which helps institutions and organisations to get funds for their innovative projects. Finnova aims to promote private-public cooperation through innovation in order to address social challenges, e.g. employment, training, entrepreneurship, SDGs, circular economy, etc. As part of its commitment to innovation, Finnova has been organising the Startup Europe Awards since 2016, an initiative from the European Commission.

Finnova’s HQ are located in Belgium and across Spain – Comunitat Valenciana, the Basque Country, Andalusia, Madrid and the Canary Islands. It also has branches in Chile and Panama.

For more info, click on www.finnova.eu

About Startup Europe Awards

For more info, click on https://startupeuropeawards.eu/seua/

About Red Business Market

For more info, click on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-vd9gSy19s

Événements Neuvelles

Ivace supports the cultural and creative industries sector with a new European initiative aimed at rendering them more resilient and competitive

Post author By administrador
Post date juillet 6, 2021

Ivace supports competitiveness, innovation and sustainability in the cultural and creative industries sector by carrying out multi-sector and collaborative actions under different EU programmes

The goal is to find out innovative solutions to the challenges faced by this sector as well as to get EU funding

València (6.7.21) – The Instituto Valenciano de Competitividad Empresarial (Ivace) has just launched a challenge to the cultural and creative industries sector (CCIs) aimed at identifying innovative solutions eligible for EU funding under Horizon Europe, Creative Europe, LIFE, Green Deal or Next Generation EU.

This challenge will take form in an open innovation European programme led by Ivace. According to Júlia Company, General Director at Ivace, “our goal is to support those artists, creators, professionals and organisations that have an innovative project to cooperate and to jointly create products with local and European actors by offering them instruments to become more resilient and competitive”.

On July 15, Ivace will deliver an online presentation on this European programme. “We hope many businesses, professionals and stakeholders from the CCIs sector will join us. We want to find innovative solutions to meet the challenges the CCIs are currently facing”, said Company.

Participants in this programme (http://inscripcion.accelerathon.eu/) will benefit from the Startup Europe Awards methodology by DG CONNECT in order to find out innovative projects in the cultural sector. Startup Europe Awards is being implemented by Finnova Foundation and is backed by SEIMED (European Services supporting Businesses and Innovation), REDIT, Las Naves, el Foro de Agencias de Desarrollo Regional (ADR) (Spanish Association of Development Agencies), EURADA (the European Association of Development Agencies) and Startup Europe Accelerator.

Startup Europe Awards aims to look for disruptive start-ups promoting private-public cooperation, to raise awareness on the importance of self-entrepreneurship as a driving force for job creation and to foster partnership relations to meet the UN SDGs and to carry out the European Green Deal actions to address the circular economy, climate change and sustainable tourism.

Challenges faced by the CCIs

The CCIs are a major source of sustainable growth and job creation across Europe. However, the Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent economic downturn has deeply affected them. As a result of restrictions, many jobs have been lost and the economic activity has been paused.

According to the Reconstruyendo Europa: la economía cultural y creativa antes y después de la COVID-19 report (In English, Rebuilding Europe: The cultural and creative economy before and after the COVID-19 crisis), SMEs account for 90% of all CCI companies. Furthermore, this sector was one of the major sources of job creation in Europe in 2019 (7.6 million jobs created in different areas e.g. architecture, multimedia, advertising, publishing and press, music, the performing and visual arts, radio and videogames). This sector is responsible for creating 8.4 times more jobs than the telecommunications industry.

The CCIs are one of the most diverse and promising sectors, and they are also one of the key contributors to the EU’s GDP, as the turnover generated in this sector in 2019 accounted for 4.4% of the EU’s GDP (€643 billion). Nevertheless, due to the pandemic, in 2020, the cultural and creative economy lost approximately 31% of its revenues.

Register here to attend the webinar on July 15 at 4pm and find out more about this challenge: http://inscripcion.accelerathon.eu/