Mês: Junho 2017

On 26th-27th June, FINNOVA exhibited the smart energy solutions of the project NOBEL GRID in the 6th Annual Conference InnoGrid2020+ in Brussels organised by the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E) and the European Distribution System Operators for Smart Grids (EDSO)

This year the InnoGrid2020+ focused on the arising network of networks where power grids and transport, telecom and IT, digital and physical link up in an unprecedented manner in order to face the European energy transition.

The conference gathered more than 30 high-level representatives like Vice-President of the European Commission for Energy Union Maroš Šefčovič, MEP Kaja Kallas, EC Digital Single Market Deputy Head of Cabinet Kamila Kloc, ACER Director Alberto Pototschnig, Jean-Michel Glachant from the FSR, Michael Walsh from Smart Wires, EDSO Chair João Torres and ENTSO-E President Peder Andreasen.

Finnova Foundation , as partner of NOBEL GRID, presented the main innovations and smart energy solutions of the project in the networking exhibition of InnoGrid2020+, where more than 20 European R&D projects were exhibited.

“Smart Energy gives people more control over the way citizens and private sector use energy so NOBEL GRID works on smart energy solutions that provides better quality of life, promoting active participation of final consumers and fostering European competitiveness in the sector”, explained Lola Alacreu coordinator of NOBEL GRID.

Unavoidably, the panel session debated about “Clean Energy for all Europeans” package of the European Commission, which contains several legislative proposals and has three main goals: putting energy efficiency first, achieving global leadership in renewable energies and providing a fair deal for consumers.

In this regarding, the TSOs and DSOs agreed the importance of “putting the consumers in the centre of the new energy system” as pointed out Peder Andreasen, President of ENTSO.

“TSOs (Transmission System Operators) and DSOs (Distribution System Operators) can reach together the challenge of the energy transition and become leaders within the European Union”, added Christian Buchel, Vice-Chair of EDSO for Smart Grids.

Those panellists debated also about regulations, the active system management, the role of data hubs and the EU rules related to cybersecurity and privacy, as well as, the hard and soft technologies that can enable a smart and sustainable energy system.

NOBEL GRID is a project led by the industrial and technological company ETRA, with the aim of offering tools to achieve safer, more stable, more sustainable and cheaper electric networks. The project is funded by the Research and Innovation Programme of the European Commission, Horizon2020, with 13,8 million euros. Nobel Grid is currently the most relevant innovation project of the European Union: 21 partners from 11 European countries participate, among which there are 5 pilot sites. The project started in January 2015 and will have a duration of four years. Nobel Grid aims to be protagonist in this innovative market through the creation of the most competitive and reliable Smart Meter, the implementation of new services for all the actors implied and the creation of reliable solutions and tools which will be tested in real conditions in different scenarios.

Las soluciones energéticas inteligentes de NOBEL GRID llegan a la 6º edición de InnoGrid2020+

Entre los días 26 y 27 de junio, FINNOVA presentó en Bruselas las soluciones energéticas inteligentes del proyecto NOBEL GRID en la sexta edición de la Conferencia Anual InnoGrid2020+ organizada por la Red Europea de Operadores de Redes de Transporte de Electricidad (ENTSO-E) y los Operadores Europeos de Sistemas de Distribución de Redes Inteligentes (EDSO).

Este año la InnoGrid2020 + se centró en la emergente red de redes, donde las redes eléctricas y de transporte, las telecomunicaciones y las tecnologías de información se unen de manera sin precedentes para hacer frente a la transición energética europea.
La conferencia reunió a más de 30 representantes de alto nivel, como el Vicepresidente de la Comisión Europea de Energía Maroš Šefčovič, el Eurodiputado Kaja Kallas, el Jefe Adjunto del Consejo de Ministros del Mercado Digital Kamila Kloc, el Director de ACER Alberto Pototschnig, el presidente de EDSO, João Torres, y el presidente de ENTSO-E, Peder Andreasen.
La Fundación Finnova, como socio de NOBEL GRID, presentó las principales innovaciones y soluciones energéticas inteligentes del proyecto en el centro de exhibiciones de la conferencia, donde se expusieron más de 20 proyectos europeos de I + Den materia de energías limpias.
“La energía inteligente da a las personas más control sobre la forma en que los ciudadanos y el sector privado utilizan la energía, por lo que NOBEL GRID trabaja para dar soluciones energéticas inteligentes que proporcionan una mejor calidad de vida, fomentando la participación activa de los consumidores finales y fomentando la competitividad europea en el sector”, explicó Lola Alacreu coordinadora de NOBEL GRID.
Durante los paneles de la conferencia se debatió sobre el paquete “Energía limpia para todos los europeos” de la Comisión Europea, que contiene varias propuestas legislativas y tiene tres objetivos principales: priorizar la eficiencia energética, lograr un liderazgo mundial en energías renovables y ofrecer un trato justo a los consumidores.
En este sentido, los Operadores de Sistemas de Distribución y los Operadores de Sistemas de Transmisión coincidieron en la importancia de “poner a los consumidores en el centro del nuevo sistema energético” como señaló Peder Andreasen, presidente de la ENTSO.
“Los Operadores de Sistemas de Distribución y los Operadores de Sistemas de Transmisión pueden alcanzar juntos el reto de la transición energética y convertirse en líderes dentro de la Unión Europea”, añadió Christian Buchel, vicepresidente de EDSO para Smart Grids.
Los panelistas debatieron también sobre la reglamentación, la gestión activa del sistema, el papel de los centros de datos y las normas europeas relacionadas con la ciberseguridad y la privacidad, así como las tecnologías que pueden permitir un sistema energético inteligente y sostenible.
NOBEL GRID es un proyecto liderado por la empresa industrial y tecnológica ETRA, con el objetivo de ofrecer herramientas para lograr redes eléctricas más seguras, más estables, más sostenibles y económicas. El proyecto está financiado por el Programa de Investigación e Innovación de la Comisión Europea, Horizon2020, con 13,8 millones de euros.

• Kasitoko recibe el Sello de Excelencia de la Comisión Europea, tras su presentación en la convocatoria Instrumento Pyme del programa Horizonte 2020 del 3 de mayo de 2017.
• La startup vasca forma parte del programa StartUp Europe Accelerator de la Fundación Finnova, única aceleradora especializada en las oportunidades de internacionalización y financiación de la UE.

El primer marketplace para la compra centralizada de acciones en redes sociales con influencers, Kasitoko, acaba de ser reconocido por la Comisión Europea con el Sello de Excelencia en su última convocatoria Instrumento Pyme Fase I. El innovador desarrollo de Kasitoko permite a los anunciantes acceder al inventario de todas las redes desde un único lugar, pudiendo elegir al influencer adecuado para cada campaña independientemente de la red a la que pertenezcan.

El Sello de Excelencia de la Comisión Europea se otorga a las pymes que obtienen una alta puntuación en la evaluación de su propuesta presentada a la convocatoria Instrumento PYME. Este sello les permitirá optar a otras fuentes de financiación públicas de las que pymes del programa StartUp Europe Accelerator de Finnova han obtenido en anteriores convocatorias alrededor de 200.000 euros a fondo perdido, para realizar estudios de viabilidad y expansión internacional.

La Comisión otorga junto al Sello de Excelencia un certificado que puede ayudar a mejorar la visibilidad e incrementar la reputación de las pymes y constituye sin duda un atractivo para los inversores privados.

“El marketing de influencers es ahora escalable y mediante un proceso automatizado, desde una única plataforma, es posible distribuir contenido entre miles de creadores de contenido del mundo eliminando los procesos manuales y los intermediarios que impedían su crecimiento”, afirma Gorka Muñecas, CEO de Kasitoko. Para lograr este objetivo, la startup cuenta con un equipo con 15 años de experiencia en el mundo de la publicidad y el marketing online, repartido entre Bilbao y Nueva York.

Financiación para proyectos innovadores 

 StartUp Europe Accelerator de Finnova es la única aceleradora especializada en las oportunidades que ofrece la UE, “trabajando de manera conjunta en la elaboración de memorias para optar a financiación europea  como la que ofrece el programa Horizonte 2020 y ayudando a los emprendedores a internacionalizar sus negocios a través de proyectos europeos,” asegura el director de StartUp Europe Accelerator, Juanma Revuelta.

A través del programa StartUp Europe Accelerator de Finnova, que ha recibido el apoyo del Ministerio de Empleo durante 3 años, más de 150 emprendedores han obtenido mentorización y asesoría para acceder a fondos UE y otros recursos para internacionalizar sus proyectos.

La Fundación Finnova es partner en la obtención y ejecución de 14.3 millones de euros de fondos europeos, provenientes del proyecto H2020 Nobel Grid (13.9 millones) y las herramientas Instrumento Pyme de la Comisión Europea y otras fuentes de financiación nacionales (400 mil euros).

Resultados de la última convocatoria de Instrumento Pyme

La UE invertirá 6,4 millones de euros en 129 empresas de 25 países que han sido seleccionadas para financiación en la última ronda del Instrumento PYME Horizonte 2020. La financiación se proporciona en la Fase 1 del instrumento, lo que significa que cada proyecto recibirá 50.000 euros para financiar un estudio de viabilidad de productos o servicios innovadores que puedan hacer una disrupción en el mercado. La mayoría de los proyectos financiados se centran en el ámbito de las TIC (30), seguido por el transporte (24) y los sistemas energéticos eficientes (15).

En esta convocatoria, España se encuentra en el segundo lugar en beneficiarios aceptados con financiación, con 19 empresas, muy cerca de Italia que encabeza el ranquin con 23 beneficiarios. Desde el lanzamiento del programa el 1 de enero de 2014, 2.331 PYME han sido seleccionadas en la Fase 1 del Instrumento PYME de la Comisión Europea.

La próxima fecha de corte para la Fase 1 es el 6 de septiembre de 2017.

El presupuesto total de Instrumento Pyme del programa Horizonte 2020 para el período 2016-2017 aumentó un 44% respecto al periodo anterior, y se sitúa así en los 740 millones de euros, de los que previsiblemente se beneficiarán algo más de 2000 pequeñas y medianas empresas altamente innovadoras. Algunas de las líneas de financiación más importantes son TICs y transporte inteligente, con 126 y 118.8 millones de euros para el periodo bianual, respectivamente.

Contacto prensa Finnova

Catalina Valencia

Tel: 6368891777

eustartup@finnova.eu

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  · Kasitoko has received the seal of Excellence of the European Commission, after they presented their project in the call of SME Instrument of the Horizon 2020 programme last 3rd May 2017.

  · The Basque startup has participated in the programme StartUp Europe Accelerator from Finnova Foundation, the only accelerator specialized in the opportunities of internationalization and EU funding.

The first market-place for the centralised purchase of shares in Social Networks with influencers, Kasitoko, has just been recognised by the European Commission with the Seal of Excellence in the last call of SME Instrument Phase I. The innovative development of Kasitoko allows advertisers to access a stock of all the social networks from a single place, it also offers the possibility to choose the appropriate influences for each campaign regardless the network they are working in.

The Seal of Excellence of the European Commission is given to SME’s that have a high score in the evaluation of the proposal presented in the call of SME Instrument. This seal will allow them to go for other means of public funding. The SME’s from the programme StartUp Europe Accelerator from Finnova have obtained in former calls a non-refundable amount of 200,000 euros in order to carry out studies of feasibility and international expansion.

The Commission gives along with the Seal of Excellence a certificate that can help to improve the visibility and to increase the impact of the SME’s, which really means an incentive for the private investors.

“The influencers marketing is currently scalable and it works as an automatic process, from a single platform it is possible to distribute the content among thousands of content creators in the world, removing all the manual process and the intermediaries that made very difficult the growth”, states Gorka Muñecas, CEO of Kasitoko. In order to achieve this goal, this startup has a small with more than 15 years of experience in the world of marketing and online marketing, both in Bilbao and New York.

Funding for innovative projects

Finnova’s StartUp Europe Accelerator is the only accelerator specialised in the opportunities that the UE offers “working jointly in the creation of memories to apply for the European funding, like Horizon 2020 programme, and helping entrepreneurs to make their business to reach international markets through European projects”, says the director of StartUp Europe Accelerator, Juanma Revuelta.

By means of Finnova’s StartUp Europe Accelerator programme, supported for three years by the Spanish Office of Employment, more than 150 entrepreneurs have obtained mentoring and advice to access EU funding and other means to make their projects international.

Finnova Foundation is partner in obtaining and implementing 14,3 millions of euros coming from European Funds, from the H2020 project  Nobel Grid, 13,9 million, and the tool of SME Instrument of the European Commission and other resources of national funding (400 thousand euros).

Result from the last SME Instrument call

The EU will invest 6.4 million euros in 129 enterprises from 25 country that have been selected to be funded in the last round of SME Instrument Horizon 2020. The funding will be given in the phase-1 of the Instrument, which mean each project will receive 50,000 euro to fund a viability study of innovative products and services that could have a highly positive impact in the market. Most of the funded projects are focused on the ICT sphere, 30, followed by transport, 24, and efficient energetic systems, 15.

In this call, Spain is in the second place of accepted beneficiaries with funding, with 19 enterprises, very close to Italy, at the top of the rank, with 23 beneficiaries. Since the launching of the programme 1^st January 2014, 2,331 SME have been selected in the phase-1 of SME Instrument of the European Commission.

Next cut-off date for the phase-1 is 6th September 2017

The total Budget for SME Instrument of the Horizon 2020 programme for the period 2016-2017 increased a 44% compared to the previous one. Currently it offers 740 million euros, which more than 2,000 medium and small enterprises with highly-innovative ideas will probably benefit from. Some of the most important funding lines are ICT and Smart Transport, with 126 and 118,8 million euros for the biannual period respectively.

Press contact in Finnova

Catalina Valencia

Tel: 6368891777

eustartup@finnova.eu

NOBEL GRID project participated at the Policy Conference of the EU Sustainable Energy Week 2017 (EUSEW) in Brussels from 20-22 June, organised by the European Commission, the Europe’s largest event dedicated to sustainable energy policy focused on themes in the European Commission’s Clean Energy for All Europeans package of proposals.

“EUSEW helps to spread innovation, foster cooperation, cementing Europe’s role as a leader in global clean energy transition”, stated Miguel Arias Cañete, Climate Action and Energy Commissioner of the European Commission.

NOBEL GRID project participated the 21st in the Networking Village and the 22nd in the Speakers’ Corner of the Policy Conference, where its smart energy solutions were presented by Finnova Foundation, partner of the consortium and leader of communications.

“NOBEL GRID is currently developing an App for energy consumers in order to engage them to actively participate in the energy market, while allowing renewable energy integration. In this line, “Clean Energy for all Europeans” has been the motto of 2017 edition of the European Sustainable Energy Week. As such, Nobel Grid participated in both the Networking Village and the Speaker’s Corner, so as to communicate the expected features and functionalities that will be provided by the EMA App, as well as to contact relevant stakeholders interested in the outcomes of the project, as well as, to disseminated it and to contact directly with EU representatives”, explained Ana Nava, project manager of Finnova Foundation (partner of NOBEL GRID).

Besides NOBEL GRID, has attended to different panel session related with its goals such “Digitalization in Energy”, “Smart specialization in energy”, “Leading the energy transitions: local energy communities and companies”, “BRIDGE initiative: accelerating grids and storage deployment by removing barriers to innovation”, among others.

Concerning BRIDGE initiative, NOBEL GRID is one of the member who fosters continuous knowledge sharing amongst projects thus allowing them to deliver conclusions and recommendations about the future exploitation of the project results, with a single voice, through four different Working Groups representing the main areas of interest: Customer Engagement, Business Models, Regulations, Data Management and a Coordination Meeting.

Over 60 conference sessions of the EUSEW Policy Conference 2017 explored the latest thinking on sustainable energy policy, led by representatives of the European Commission, industry organisations, local authorities and NGOs. Dozens of activities complement these in the conference’s Networking Village, where participants can discover innovative policies and projects for clean, secure, sustainable energy and build alliances for future cooperation.

Nobel Grid participó a “Energía limpia para todos los europeos” en Bruselas

El proyecto NOBEL GRID participó en las Conferencias de la Semana de Energía Sostenible de la UE 2017 (EUSEW) en Bruselas del 20 al 22 de Junio, organizadas por la Comisión Europea. Es el evento más grande de Europa dedicado a las políticas de energía sostenible y se centró en los temas del paquete de propuestas Energía Limpia para Todos Los Europeos.

“La EUSEW ayuda a difundir innovación, promover cooperación, consolidar el papel de Europa como líder en la transición mundial de energía limpia”, declaró Miguel Arias Cañete, Comisario de Acción Climática y Energía a la Comisión Europea.

El 21 de Junio el proyecto NOBEL GRID participó en el Networking village (zona de presentación de los proyectos con éxito y de establecimiento de redes de contactos) y el 22 al Speaker’s Corner (zona donde los participantes pueden presentar sus proyectos durante un tiempo limitado), donde las soluciones de energía inteligente que ofrece fueron presentadas por la Fundación Finnova, socio del consorcio y responsable de comunicación.

“NOBEL GRID esta desarrollando una aplicación móvil para los consumidores de energía para llamarlos a participar activamente en el mercado de energía, mientras permite la integración de energía sostenible. En esta línea, “Energía Limpia para todos los Europeos” ha sido el lema de la edición 2017 de la Semana Europea de Energía Sostenible. Y así, NOBEL GRID participó tanto al Networking Village como al Speaker´s Corner, para comunicar las previstas características y funcionalidades que serán ofrecidas en la aplicación EMA, además de contactar los pertinentes actores interesados en los resultados del proyecto y de difundirlo y establecer contacto con los representantes de la UE”, explicó Ana Nava, gestor de proyectos de Finnova (socio de Nobel Grid).

Además, NOBEL GRID asistió a diferentes mesas redondas relacionadas a sus objetivos, como “Digitalización en Energía”, “Especialización inteligente en energía”, “Liderar la transición energética: comunidades y empresas locales de energía, “Iniciativa BRIDGE: acelerar la implementación de redes y almacenamiento quitando las barreras a la innovación” entre otros.

Respeto a la iniciativa BRIDGE, NOBEL GRID es uno de los miembros que promueve el intercambio continuo de conocimiento entre los proyectos, los permitiendo así de emitir conclusiones y recomendaciones acerca de la utilización futura de los resultados del proyecto, con una voz única, a través de cuatros grupos de trabajo diferentes, representando las principales áreas de interés: Compromiso del cliente, Modelos de Negocios, Regulación, Gestión de datos y una reunión de coordinación.

Más de 60 sesiones de conferencias de la EUSEW 2017 han explorado las últimas reflexiones en tema de política de energía sostenible, liderado por representantes de la Comisión Europea, organizaciones industriales, autoridades locales y ONG. Decenas de actividades han complementado eso en la conferencia del Networking Village, donde los participantes pueden descubrir políticas innovadoras y proyectos para energía limpia, segura y sostenible y crear alianzas para colaboraciones futuras.

Energy StartUp Europe Awards is looking for Country Managers, MEPs Ambassadors and Media Partners for 2017 edition

Brussels, 19^th June, 2017. The Finnova Foundation, in the framework of the EU Sustainable Energy Week 2017 organised by the European Commission, launches the call for Energy Country Managers, Energy Ambassadors (Members of the European Parliament) and Energy Media Partners for Energy StartUp Europe Awards 2017.

Energy StartUp Europe Awards 2017 is looking for country managers, who can organise the energy award at national level in order to recognize the best Energy startup in their respective countries. The call is also open to Energy Media Partners, who could provide visibility and follow the progress of the participants, and for Energy Ambassadors, Members of the European Parliament who could provide institutional support and invite a group of Energy startups to visit EU institutions.

StartUp Europe Awards (SEUA) is an initiative of the European Commission and Finnova Foundation, supported by the President of the European Parliament, the President of the Committee of the Regions, the Vice-President of the Economic and Social Committee and several members from the European Parliament. SEUA is supported by the StartUp Europe Accelerator of the Finnova Foundation.

StartUp Europe Awards presents a prize methodology for startups at local, regional and national level that fosters 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 inspire and provided visibility to all the local startups so that, by using this network, they can scale their services and products at a global level”, stated Juanma Revuelta, the Director of Finnova’s Startup Europe Accelerator.

Energy StartUp Europe Awards aims to reward the best initiatives working in projects related to the development of sustainable and efficient energy models, based on renewable energies, as well as the development and technology transfer in the area of renewable energies along with the best governance projects and citizenship participation in the development of renewable energies.

The winner for Energy category of the StartUp Europe Award 2016 European Final is Tespack, a Finish startup (based in Valencia, Spain) specialized in mobile energy, in the generation of energy on-the-go. By combining top-notch technology, solar and connectivity, they have created different Smart Wear for different activities. They have developed a new, innovative ultra-fast charging technology (3 times faster than Qualcomm) so it is possible to charge their new power bank full in 12 minutes only (to be launched in 2017).

The others finalists of the Startup Europe Awards 2016 in the Energy Category by countries were: SWIRL (Luxembourg), Jitiv (Poland), Tinja (Croatia), Smart Load Solutions (Estonia), UrbanVolt (Ireland) and Veranu (Italy).

StartUp Europe Awards recognizes the effort of the European startups in five levels (local, county, regional, national and European) in 18 categories for 2017: Creative, Energy, Fintech, Green, e-Health, IoT, Smart Cities, Social, Tourism, Water, Agritech, Legal, Space, Cibersecurity, Climate, Fashion, Edtech and Gastronomy.

SEUA17 offers 4 special recognitions this year: Best Public Administration for startups Award, for recognizing the effort of the public administrations in supporting entrepreneurship and innovation; Best Media Partner, to highlight the Media Partner most committed with the promotion of the initiative and the startups participating in the contest; Best LATAM StartUp and Best Female Entrepreneur.

European Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) is a month-long series of activities to build a secure energy future for Europe. It brings together public authorities, private companies, NGOs and consumers to promote initiatives to save energy and move towards renewables for clean, secure and efficient power. Launched in 2006 by the European Commission, the EUSEW is organised by the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) in close cooperation with Directorate-General for Energy.

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Energy StartUp Europe Awards busca responsables nacionales, miembros del parlamento europeo como embajadores y media partners para la edición de 2017

Bruselas, 19 de junio de 2017. La Fundación Finnova, en el marco de la Semana Europea de la Energía Sostenible 2017 organizada por la Comisión Europea, lanza la convocatoria para responsables nacionales en el ámbito de la energía, embajadores miembros del parlamento europeo y media partners especializados en este sector para los StartUp Europe Awards 2017.

Los Energy StartUp Europe Awards buscan responsables nacionales que organicen o estén interesados en organizar un concurso nacional para reconocer a la mejor startup de su respectivo país en la categoría de Energía. La convocatoria está abierta a medios de comunicación especializados en energía, que puedan dar visibilidad y seguir el progreso de las startups. Además, la convocatoria invita a Embajadores del sector energía, dirigido a Miembros del Parlamento Europeo que puedan dar apoyo institucional a los emprendedores y de acuerdo a su programación y presupuesto ofrecer la posibilidad de invitar a un grupo de startups del sector de la energía a visitar las instituciones europeas.

StartUp Europe Awards (SEUA) es una iniciativa de la Comisión Europea y la Fundación Finnova,  apoyada por el presidente del Parlamento Europeo, el presidente del Comité de las Regiones, el vicepresidente del Comité Económico y Social y miembros del Parlamento Europeo. SEUA es patrocinada por StartUp Europe Accelerator de la Fundacion Finnova.

StartUp Europe Awards  presenta una metodología de premios para startups  a nivel local, provincial, regional y nacional, impulsando la innovación abierta y la colaboración entre los diferentes actores de los ecosistemas europeos, a través del partenariado público – privado para apoyar a los emprendedores. “Además, crea una red de contactos que permite inspirar y visibilizar  a las startups locales para que a través de esta red puedan escalar sus servicios y productos a nivel global”, asegura el director de StartUp Europe Accelerator de Finnova, Juanma Revuelta.

Energy StartUp Europe Awards busca reconocer las mejores iniciativas que estén trabajando en el desarrollo de modelos de energía sostenibles y eficientes, basados en energías renovables, además en la transferencia de tecnología en esta área, y los mejores proyectos de gobernanza y participación ciudadana en el desarrollo de energías renovables.

El ganador de la final europea de 2016 de StartUp Europe Awards es Tespack, startup finlandesa, que opera desde Valencia, especializada en energía móvil y la generación de energía “on-the-go”. Combinando tecnologías de primera y conectividad, han creado diferentes prendas inteligentes para diversas actividades. Han desarrollado una nueva ultra rápida tecnología de carga (3 veces más rápida que Qualcomm) que permite cargar completamente su nueva batería en 12 minutos (su lanzamiento está previsto para este año).

Los otros finalistas de Startup Europe Awards 2016 la categoría Energía por país han sido: SWIRL (Luxemburgo), Jitiv (Polonia), Tinja (Croacia), Smart Load Solutions (Estonia), UrbanVolt (Irlanda) y Veranu (Italia).

StartUp Europe Awards reconoce el esfuerzo de las startups europeas en cinco niveles (local, provincial, regional, nacional y europeo) en 18 categorías para 2017: Industrias Creativas, Energia, Fintech, Medio Ambiente, e-Health, IoT, Smart Cities, Innovación Social, Turismo, Agua, Agritech, Legal, Espacio, Ciberseguridad, Clima, Moda, Edtech y Gastronomía.

SEUA17 ofrece 4 premios especiales este año: Mejor Administración Pública para startups, que reconoce  el esfuerzo de las administraciones públicas que apoyan el emprendimiento y la innovación; Mejor Media Partner, que elige al medio de comunicación más comprometido con la promoción de la iniciativa y las startups participantes; Mejor startup de LATAM y Mejor Mujer Emprendedora.

La Semana Europea de la Energía Sostenible (EUSEW) es una serie de actividades de un mes para construir un futuro energético seguro para Europa. Reúne a autoridades públicas, empresas privadas, ONG y consumidores para promover iniciativas para ahorrar energía y avanzar hacia las energías renovables limpias, seguras y eficientes. Lanzada en 2006 por la Comisión Europea, EUSEW está organizada por la Agencia Ejecutiva para las Pequeñas y Medianas Empresas (EASME) en estrecha colaboración con la Dirección General de Energía.

Redes sociales de StartUp Europe Awards 

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Contacto de prensa:

Catalina Valencia

(+34) 636889177

eustartup@finnova.eu

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.

• 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.

OTHER SPECIAL CATEGORIES:

Best Media Partner Award:

Emprende TVE

SPAIN

www.rtve.es/emprende

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

 Best Public Administration for startups Award:

• 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

BEST MUSIC AWARDS

Brainiac Beats

SOCIAL NETWORKS STARTUP EUROPE AWARDS 2016

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StartUpEuropeAwards2016/

Twitter handle: @StartUpEUwards

Hashtag: #SEUA16Final

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.

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.