Mês: Julho 2016

El director de fondos europeos de Finnova, Juan Viesca y la responsable de comunicación de emprendimiento de Finnova, Catalina Valencia han sido invitados al programa Emprendedores que dirige Esteban Rodrigo en la emisora NewsFM. Durante la entrevista, Juan Viesca contó a los oyentes sobre los diferentes programas  de financiación que ofrece la Unión Europea para proyectos innovadores como Erasmus para Jóvenes Emprendedores, Instrumento Pyme, Fast Track to Innovation, Programa LIFE, entre otros. También destaco los proyectos H2020 y específicamente a NOBEL GRID, en el que participa Finnova y está liderado por el grupo valenciano ETRA, como un tractor de startups y emprendimiento en el desarrollo de software y dispositivos en el campo de las smart grids o redes eléctricas.

Por su parte, Catalina Valencia presentó el programa StartUp Europe Accelerator para jóvenes españoles con ideas emprendedoras innovadoras y animó a los oyentes a participar en el Jueves Europeo de la Diputación de Valencia co-organizado por Finnova. También habló sobre el itinerario Capacities de Finnova y el programa EU Training Platform, que ofrecen asesoría e información para aprender a redactar proyectos europeos “se tenga o no un proyecto propio, pues también puedes ayudar a otros emprendedores con sus respectivas memorias”.

Juan Viesca aseguró que “si los emprendedores valencianos no aprovechan los recursos que ofrece la Unión Europea, otros sí lo harán”, mientras que Catalina Valencia alentó a las startups a quitar prejuicios sobre la imposibilidad de entrar en un proyecto europeo “es complejo, pero vale la pena intentarlo. Tenemos varios casos de éxito como Ekuore o Latipp que así lo demuestran”.

En este programa, el último de la temporada de Emprendedores, también participó Carmina Abad de AVACIP, quien brindó valiosos consejos a los emprendedores sobre imagen y presencia pública a la hora de presentar su proyecto ante posibles inversores.

Aquí podrás escuchar el programa completo de Emprendedores NewsFM del 27 de julio.

Finnova participates in the radio show “Entrepreneurs” by Esteban Rodrigo in NewsFM

The director of European funds for Finnova, Juan Viesca and the communication manager in entrepreneurship for Finnova, Catalina Valencia have been invited to radio show Entrepreneurs  directed by Esteban Rodrigo at NewsFM station. During the interview, Juan Viesca told about different funding programs that the European Union provides for innovative projects such as Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs, SME instrument, Fast Track to Innovation, LIFE Program, among others. He also highlighted the H2020 projects and specifically NOBEL GRID, which Finnova participates and is led by ETRA Valencian group, such as a tractor for startups and entrepreneurship in developing software and devices in the field of smart grids.

Meanwhile, Catalina Valencia encouraged listeners to participate in the European Thursday of the Council of Valencia co-organized by Finnova and also presented StartUp Europe Accelerator a program for young Spanish entrepreneurs. She talked about the Capacities itinerary of Finnova and the EU Training Platform, offering training to learn to write European projects “it it works if you have or not your own project, because you can also help other entrepreneurs with their memories. “

Juan Viesca said that “if the Valencians entrepreneurs do not take advantage of the resources that the European Union offers, others will” while Catalina Valencia encouraged startups to remove prejudices about the impossibility of entering a European project “is complex, but It’s worth a try. We have several success stories as Ekuore or Latipp to prove it. “

In this program, the last of the season, also participated Carmina Abad from AVACIP, who gave valuables advices to entrepreneurs about public image and presence in presenting their project to potential investors.

 The Nordic Web is a digital media focused on the improvements that Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland have made to the Internet and technology, which are extremely impressive. The Nordic Web takes an in-depth look at the Nordic technology scene, and provides data-driven insight and analyses on one of the World’s most interesting and important startup ecosystems.

From now onwards, The Nordic Web is a new media partner for the StartUp Europe Awards 2016 (SEUA16), which is an initiative promoted by the European Commission and implemented by the Foundation Finnova, with the support of StartUp Europe. This initiative aims at gathering all the startups awards organisers across Europe under the umbrella of the StartUp Europe Awards Alliance. Thus, the winners from the startups awards held in each member state will become national candidates for the final phase of the StartUp Europe Awards to be held in December 2016.

As media partner for the StartUp Europe Awards, The Nordic Web will follow the progress of the startups coming from Sweden, Finland and Denmark in their progress through the SEUA16.

More info: www.startupeuropeawards.eu

Be tuned:

• @StartUpEUAwards
• StartUp Europe Awards

http://be.linkedin.com/in/startupeuropeawards

Croatia Week Online Magazine is one of the world’s leading portals with dedicated nosiness news and with an especial focus on entrepreneurship in Croatia. Based in the Croatian capital Zagreb, their team of journalists and contributors provide a combination of current events and interesting interviews and reviews to give you a unique insight into Croatian life today. Croatia Week currently is read in over 70 countries around the globe and is considered one of the most respected sources for Croatian news in the English language.

From now onwards, Croatia Week Online Magazine is a new media partner for the StartUp Europe Awards 2016 (SEUA16), which is an initiative promoted by the European Commission and implemented by the Foundation Finnova, with the support of StartUp Europe. This initiative aims at gathering all the startups awards organisers across Europe under the umbrella of the StartUp Europe Awards Alliance. Thus, the winners in each member state’s startups awards will become national candidates for the final phase of the StartUp Europe Awards to be held in December 2016.

As media partner for the StartUp Europe Awards, Croatia Week Online Magazine will follow the progress of the national Croatian startups in their progress through the SEUA16.

More info: www.startupeuropeawards.eu

Be tuned:

• @StartUpEUAwards
• StartUp Europe Awards

http://be.linkedin.com/in/startupeuropeawards

FrenchWeb.fr is a digital media focusing on different initiatives concerning French actors around the world. This media has gathered the most important French professionals, entrepreneurs, experts and investors from France to provide the audience with the latest news in the innovation sector.

From now onwards, French Web is a new media partner for the StartUp Europe Awards 2016 (SEUA16), which is an initiative promoted by the European Commission and implemented by the Foundation Finnova, with the support of StartUp Europe. This initiative aims at gathering all the startups awards organisers across Europe under the umbrella of the StartUp Europe Awards Alliance. Thus, the winners in each member state’s startups awards will become national candidates for the final phase of the StartUp Europe Awards to be held in December 2016.

As media partner for the StartUp Europe Awards, Frenchweb.fr will follow the progress of the national French startups in their progress through the SEUA16.

More info: www.startupeuropeawards.eu

Be tuned:

• @StartUpEUAwards
• StartUp Europe Awards

http://be.linkedin.com/in/startupeuropeawards

The Institute of Entrepreneurship Development (iED) is a Greek Organization committed to the promotion of innovation and the enhancing of the spirit of entrepreneurship. This organisation has just been added into the StartUp Europe Awards Alliance, being the Greek representative in this European competition rewarding entrepreneurship in the EU. This Alliance aims at gathering all the startups awards organisers around Europe in four levels (local, provincial, regional and national). The winners from each member state’s national contest in the eight categories (Cities, Creative Industries, ICTs, Green, Energy, Tourism, Social Innovation and Water) will come to the European final ceremony to be held in December 2016.

The iED’s main mission is to recognise entrepreneurship as a crucial factor for the development and cohesion of societies, by developing research and being in a position to provide innovative solutions that ease the growth of healthy entrepreneurship and promote employment. They adopt an anthropocentric approach and cooperate with social, academic and business partners, from Greece and abroad, aiming at producing know how, promoting entrepreneurial culture and enhancing the effectiveness and viability of enterprises.

StartUp Europe Awards is an initiative promoted by the European Commission and implemented by the Foundation Finnova, with the support of the StartUp Europe, aiming at rewarding and promoting the entrepreneurship in the European Union.

StartUp Europe Awards Alliance counts on a new member: Digital African Woman. This startups awards is the first startups awards organiser from Belgium joining the Alliance. That means that, their winners will go through the next phase of the StartUp Europe Awards.

“The Digital African Woman” is an initiative to open up a dialogue that slowly tackles the challenge of inequality and empower women globally through technology. “The Digital African Woman” aims to introduce and create an atmosphere where women of Africa, diaspora and beyond can learn, engage and become empowered to participate more actively within their respective societies. This program addresses issues ranging from tech career and entrepreneurship, to self-esteem, and gender equality. They aim to not only create an atmosphere that promotes eventual growth and empowerment, but also seek to draw out already accomplished women in Diaspora to give support and insights that will grow the community of women in tech and entrepreneurship; while developing an active ecosystem with excellent networks to provide a push for other women on jump starting a tech career or business move.
#DAW2016 will launch in Brussels, Belgium, with free online business training for selected female led startups from June -Sept, and culminate in a 2 day event on September 21-22nd 2016. #DAW provides the opportunity for aspiring tech entrepreneurs to learn, engage and develop their entrepreneurship skills with immersive training while maximizing the power and use of technology. They bridge the gap between investors, corporates and these promising tech startups, by:
1. Providing access to funding, specialized training, and Acceleration.
2. Providing an ecosystem supported by our top network partners.
3. Providing world-class training, business mentoring on ideation, team development and value propositioning through our top MIT master trainer and developers.
4. Providing personalized development opportunities to our top 10 selected teams of excellent entrepreneurs globally through our Startup boot camp, pitch challenge and Accelerator.
5. We also provide ongoing business development training including access to mobile technologies and enterprise technology through our EAMI Global mentorship platform & tech sponsor networks.

Yourszene, Walls &Walks and Roots of Hope were presented today in front of experts of Bozar. BOZAR is the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels. An Art Deco masterpiece by Victor Horta, the Centre of Fine Arts is one of the jewels of Belgium’s cultural and architectural heritage. The Brussels Centre for Fine Arts is not simply an architectural masterpiece, but also an arts centre simmering with international cultural and artistic activities: more than 250 annual chamber music and symphony orchestra concerts; around twenty thematic and individual exhibitions of ancient and contemporary art, and exhibitions by very young artists; with contemporary theatre and dance, writers and film-makers.

Walls and Walks is a project aiming to create workshops for children and teenagers. The main goal is to raise awareness about the importance of art, architecture and culture in everybody’s personal growth. Yourszene will become an online platform for the companies and enterprises to sell and promote their shows. It will also become a database of all actors involved in the sector; companies, professionals, performers, producers, shows, locations, festivals, etc. Roots of Hope is a big format exhibition where Nayra’s sculptures will inspire the attendees to trigger a discussion about society. 

Emprendedores creativos del programa Creative StartUp Europe Programme de Finnova presentaron sus proyectos hoy en Bozar

Yourszene, Walls &Walks y Raíces de Esperanza se presentaron hoy ante expertos de Bozar. Bozar es un centro de Bellas Artes de Bruselas. Un obra maestra de arte deco hecha por Victor Horta, el Centro de Bellas Artes es una las joyas de la arquitectura del patrimonio  cultural de Bélgica. Este centro no es, sin embargo, una simple obra de arte, sino también un centro de arte en el que las actividades culturales y artísticas se dan cita: más de 250 conciertos anuales de música de cámara y orquestas sinfónicas; alrededor de 20 exhibiciones individuales de arte contemporáneo y antiguo, y exhibiciones de jóvenes artistas; con danza y teatro contemporáneo, escritores y realizadores cinematográficos.

Walls and Walks es un Proyecto que pretende crear talleres para niños y adolescentes. El principal objetivo es incrementar la concienciación sobre la importancia del arte, la arquitectura y la cultura en el crecimiento personal de cualquier persona. Yourszene se convertirá en una plataforma digital para las compañías y las empresas para promover sus actuaciones. También se convertirá en una base de datos para todos los actors involucrados en el sector; compañías, profesionales, artistas, productores, festivales, etc. Raíces de Esperanza es una exhibición de gran format en la que las esculturas de Nayra inspirarán a los asistentes a discutir sobre las valores de la sociedad.

From now onwards, StartUp Europe Awards counts on a new media partner for the StartUp Europe Awards. Founded in 2012, this digital media focuses on the technological sector in Portugal, and covers the startups ecosystem existing in Portugal in deep, with a special focus on new products and services, events and latest news.

Thus, StartUps Portugal joins the StartUp Europe Awards as media partner for Portugal. The role played by this digital media will be covering the progress of the Portuguese startups going through the European phase of StartUp Europe Awards.

If you are a media focused on Entrepreneurship in your country and you want to join this EU movement, do not hesitate to join us!!

www.startupeuropeawards.eu

Madrid, June 29 2016

From now on, the main news agency of Spain, Agencia EFE, through its web EFE Emprende, joins the exclusive network of StartUp Europe Awards Media Partners in Spain. The EFE Emprende team writes and manages information related to entrepreneurship from the EFE Agency, and also provides tools to develop a business plan, a map of entrepreneurship and deliver interviews with ecosystem actors who have managed to launch their entrepreneurial idea.

EFE is a media company with a global network of journalists who distributes 3 million news per year in different media: multimedia, photographs, audio, video and arriving daily to more than two thousand media in the world. In Spain, it has offices in the capitals of the 17 autonomous communities, plus Ceuta and Melilla, and sub-delegations in other Spanish cities.

EFE EMPRENDE de la Agencia de Noticias EFE, se suma como media partner de StartUP Europe Awards 

Madrid, 29 de Junio 2016

A partir de hoy, la principal agencia de noticias de España, Agencia EFE, a través de su web EFE Emprende, se suma a la red exclusiva de Media Partners de StartUp Europe Awards en España. El equipo de EFE Emprende escribe y gestiona información relacionada con el emprendimiento desde la Agencia EFE; además de brindar herramientas para desarrollar un proyecto empresarial, generar un mapa de emprendimiento y ofrecer entrevistas a protagonistas del ecosistema que han logrado poner en marcha su idea emprendedora.

La Agencia EFE es una empresa informativa multimedia con una red de periodistas mundial que distribuye 3 millones de noticias al año en los diferentes soportes informativos: texto, fotografía, audio, vídeo y multimedia, que llegan diariamente a más de dos millares de medios de comunicación en el mundo. En España cuenta con delegaciones en las capitales de las 17 comunidades autónomas, además de Ceuta y Melilla, y subdelegaciones en otras ciudades españolas.

Brussels, June 23 2016

Eight creative entrepreneurs who had received a training session on how to pitch their project to investors defended their ideas in the Instituto Cervantes of Brussels, in an event jointly organised with the Foundation Finnova.

This action is part of the activities of Creative StartUp Europe. Nine creative and cultural entrepreneurs are taking part of the first edition of this program, which main objective is the promotion of the professional development in the field of culture and creativity of young Spaniards living in Belgium. Through ‘Creative StartUp Europe’, the high importance of culture and innovation is recognised as a tool for the social and the economic development. Moreover, the new generations receive support and are boosted to work on cultural projects abroad.

These 9 entrepreneurs do have very different start-ups, with projects such as the creation of Spanish audio-guides for museums, a social network for the scenic arts or the creation of a high format exhibition with sculptures, among others. Due to the big variety of these projects, Finnova provides them with customised coaching sessions, including:

• Communication mentoring: elevator pitch, investors pitch, informative pills, how to pitch in front of a camera, how to manage social networks, how to write a press release, etc.
• Legal and financial counselling: individualized sessions about Spanish-Belgian taxation, intellectual property, drafting contracts, business plan, etc.
• European Sphere: how to expose your project in the European institutions, how to access a traineeship within the institutions, etc.
• Start-ups accelerator: advice in order to find a co-working, contacting investors, networking, development of new strategies, mobility programs, how to come back to Spain, etc.

With this program, we aim to facilitate and support cultural and artistic initiatives of young entrepreneurs, helping to the future employability of young Spaniards in the Belgian cultural sector.

The program is oriented to Spanish young entrepreneurs living in Belgium with a concrete idea or project in the field of cultural and creative industries, regardless of the development stage of the project. Furthermore, multiple projects can belong to ‘Creative Startup Europe’.

Emprendedores creativos defendieron sus proyectos ante inversores en el Instituto Cervantes de Bruselas (Bélgica)

Bruselas, 23 de junio de 2016

Ocho emprendedores creativos que recibieron formación sobre cómo defender sus proyectos frente a inversores, defendieron sus ideas en el Instituto Cervantes de Bruselas, en un evento organizado conjuntamente con la Fundación Finnova.

Esta acción es parte de las actividades programadas dentro de Creative StartUp Europe. Nueve emprendedores creativos y culturales están participando en esta primera edición del programa, cuyo objetivo principal es la promoción del desarrollo profesional en el campo de la cultura y la creatividad de jóvenes españoles viviendo en Bélgica. A través de Creative StartUp Europe, la alta importancia de la cultura y la innovación es reconocida como una herramienta para el desarrollo social y económico. Además, las nuevas generaciones reciben apoyo y son impulsados para trabajar en proyectos culturales en el extranjero.

Estos nueve emprendedores tienen proyectos muy diferentes, que van desde la creación de audio-guías en español para museos, redes sociales para artes escénicas o la creación de una exhibición con esculturas en gran formato, entre otros. Debido a la gran diversidad de estos proyectos, y a pesar de que sus necesidades son tan diferentes como específicas, Finnova les ofrece sesiones de formación personalizadas, incluyendo:

• Formación en comunicación: elevator pitch, investor pitch, píldoras informativas, cómo enfentarse a la cámara, cómo gestionar las redes sociales, cómo escribir una nota de prensa, etc.
• Asesoría legal y financiera: sesiones individualizadas sobre la tasación Belgo-Española, propiedad intelectual, redactar contratos, plan de negocio, etc.
• Ámbito europeo: cómo presentar tu proyecto a las instituciones europeas, cómo acceder a períodos de prácticas en las instituciones, etc.
• StartUp Accelerator: asesoría para encontrar espacios de co-working, contactar inversores, relaciones de trabajo, desarrollo de nuevas estrategias, programas de movilidad, cómo regresar a España, etc.

Con este programa, pretendemos facilitar y apoyar las iniciativas culturales y artísticas de jóvenes emprendedores, contribuyendo así a la empleabilidad de jóvenes españoles en el sector cultural belga.

El programa está orientado a los jóvenes emprendedores españoles viviendo en Bélgica con una idea o proyecto concreto en el campo de las industrias creativas o culturales, independientemente de la fase de desarrollo del proyecto. Además, muchos proyectos pueden pertenecer a Creative StartUp Europe.