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A sementeira aérea com drones poderia ajudar a reflorestar as áreas queimadas

O projeto ERASSE sobre restauração de ecossistemas através da sementeira aérea e sementes melhoradas ganha o acelerador FIREPOCTEP 2022 (Fire Start-up Europe Awards – SEUA). O projeto baseia-se na utilização de sementes florestais melhoradas com vários tratamentos, tais como peletização ou priming, para restaurar áreas queimadas, uma metodologia que pode reduzir significativamente os custos de um projeto de restauração. A nova tecnologia florestal permitirá a organizações e empresas realizar um reflorestamento eficiente, de alto valor e baixo custo e construir uma comunidade à sua volta para formar uma nova economia de restauração ecológica.

Huelva, 21 de Julho de 2022.- Restaurar ecossistemas destruídos pelo fogo através da sementeira aérea directa com drones em locais óptimos. Esta é a proposta do projeto ERASSE, apresentado por SafOs e Dronecoria, que ganhou o Accelerathon FIREPOCTEP 2022 (Fire Start-up Europe Awards – SEUA), um concurso que visa promover e impulsionar desafios inovadores e aplicá-los ao mundo real da prevenção, extinção e recuperação após os incêndios florestais. O projeto receberá um bilhete de aceleração para materializar a sua idéia num projeto financiado por fundos europeus como o Life, Horizon Europe, NextGeneration ou FEDER. O Director Geral do Ambiente Natural, Biodiversidade e Áreas Protegidas do Governo Regional da Andaluzia, Giuseppe Aloisio, foi encarregado de anunciar o vencedor desta Accelerathon Firepoctep num evento organizado pela Fundação Finnova em colaboração com o Conselho Provincial de Huelva e o Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária, Pescas e Desenvolvimento Sustentável do Governo Regional da Andaluzia, e realizado na Sala Plenária do Conselho Provincial de Huelva. O evento reuniu peritos do sector que falaram da colaboração transfronteiriça para a prevenção e extinção de incêndios florestais ao longo de La Raya, da ajuda europeia para a prevenção e extinção de incêndios em Portugal, do Programa LIFE e seus subprogramas, da protecção e conservação dos Espaços Naturais Protegidos, e do financiamento europeu.

Utilização de sementes florestais melhoradas

O projeto vencedor baseia-se na utilização de sementes florestais melhoradas com vários tratamentos, tais como peletização ou priming, para restaurar áreas queimadas, uma metodologia que pode reduzir consideravelmente os custos de um projeto de restauração. “Actualmente, existem muito poucas empresas no mundo capazes de desenvolver tecnologias de sementeira aérea com drones para reflorestamento. Além disso, as suas soluções tecnológicas e resultados de testes de reflorestação não têm sido amplamente divulgados e tornados visíveis. A nossa intenção é fazer exactamente o contrário, trabalhando de acordo com os paradigmas de Open Hardware e Open Source, para permitir que mais organizações obtenham e reutilizem este conhecimento”, explica Lot Amorós, engenheiro de TI, investigador e empresário no campo dos Veículos Aéreos. Há 8 anos que investiga as possibilidades de reflorestação em grande escala com drones e sementes peletizadas.
A indústria agrícola aumentou consideravelmente os seus conhecimentos sobre a utilização da tecnologia das sementes e é possível transferir estes conhecimentos para a silvicultura. Estas tecnologias podem alcançar resultados estáveis na germinação e no estabelecimento de plântulas. “A investigação sobre técnicas de preparação, revestimento e simbiótica de fungos pode alcançar métodos aplicáveis em grande escala, adaptáveis a outros ecossistemas e com taxas de germinação e sobrevivência mais elevadas do que a plantação convencional”, diz ele.

Expansibilidade
Este modelo de conhecimento aberto em torno de tecnologias de melhoramento e dispersão de sementes permite a escalabilidade do projeto, e facilita a outras organizações o início de projetos de reflorestamento em larga escala. Assim, ao facilitar a criação de uma economia baseada na restauração de ecossistemas, geralmente em ambientes rurais, o projeto permite a criação de emprego de qualidade em áreas economicamente degradadas. A recolha de sementes para restauração em grande escala requer milhões de sementes, que, quer sejam recolhidas ou cultivadas, são de mão-de-obra intensiva. O projeto aborda diretamente as ameaças à biodiversidade restaurando ecossistemas inteiros, espécies e áreas devastadas que de outra forma levariam centenas de anos a recuperar, facilitando o estabelecimento de espécies ameaçadas de flora e fauna no contexto das alterações climáticas. A utilização de soluções baseadas na natureza, tais como árvores para sequestro de carbono, tem um enorme potencial para reduzir emergências ambientais e criar projetos de sequestro de carbono em grande escala. “A região da Península Ibérica enfrenta um processo de desertificação e crise hídrica, com uma grave componente de erosão e perda de solo. A plantação de espécies arbustivas ajuda enormemente a reter a água e a evitar a perda de solo. Ser capaz de gerar cobertura vegetal em grande escala em locais estratégicos é um grande escudo contra as alterações climáticas”, explica o promotor do projeto vencedor.

Accelerathon Firepoctep
A FIREPOCTEP Accelerathon (Fire StartUp Europe Awards – SEUA) visa promover e fomentar desafios
inovadores centrados na prevenção, supressão e recuperação de incêndios florestais. Procura enfrentar desafios importantes para os empresários das zonas rurais, não só relacionados com os incêndios florestais, mas também com a recuperação dos habitats e da economia rural. Empresários, start-ups, centros de inovação, PMEs e universidades foram convidados a participar, contribuindo com a sua ideia ou oferecendo uma solução inovadora. Em Junho, após uma avaliação exaustiva, um grupo de empresários foi seleccionado e depois dividido em seis equipas diferentes, acompanhadas por peritos na matéria. Durante a tutoria, teve também lugar uma série de eventos de networking online onde os empresários tiveram a oportunidade de conhecer os diferentes campos de interesse dos seus pares e de obter uma abordagem mais pessoal dos mentores. No evento de ontem, 6 propostas inovadoras diferentes ( uma por equipa) foram apresentadas e votadas por um júri de peritos, composto por membros do consórcio do projeto Interreg FIREPOCTEP, co-financiado pelo Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional (FEDER), no âmbito do programa INTERREG POCTEP (2014 – 2020).

Sobre FIREPOCTEP
Promovido pelo Programa Interreg de Cooperação Transfronteiriça entre Espanha e Portugal, o FIREPOCTEP (Reforço dos sistemas de prevenção e extinção de incêndios florestais transfronteiriços e melhoria dos recursos para a geração de emprego rural pós-Covid-19) dispõe de um orçamento de 5,6 milhões de euros financiados a 75% por fundos FEDER com 21 parceiros de ambos os países em vigor de 2019 a 2022 para reforçar os sistemas de prevenção e extinção de incêndios florestais em todos os territórios da fronteira hispano-portuguesa.


Sobre Finnova
A Finnova é uma fundação hispano-belga sem fins lucrativos com sede em Bruxelas (Bélgica) com presença em Espanha na Comunidade Valenciana, País Basco, Andaluzia, Comunidade de Madrid, Extremadura e Ilhas Canárias. A missão da Finnova é ajudar na criação de iniciativas inovadoras através de financiamento e apoio adequados. A Finnova facilita a comunicação e informação entre diferentes entidades públicas e privadas com o objetivo de apoiar e promover os fluxos de financiamento da UE nas áreas temáticas do ambiente, água, saúde, obras públicas, energia, turismo, TIC e empreendedorismo.
A experiência da Finnova na liderança de actividades de comunicação e disseminação de projetos europeus é combinada com um forte historial comprovado em start-ups e programas de apoio a empresas, tais como aceleradores, incubadoras e seleção e premiação de eventos cerimoniais. Em 2021 a Finnova recebeu da Comissão Europeia o Prémio Europeu de Promoção Empresarial (EEPA) na categoria 4 de Apoio à internacionalização das empresas. No seu compromisso com a inovação, a Finnova tem vindo a organizar os Prémios Startup Europe desde 2016, uma iniciativa da DG Connect da Comissão Europeia, para reconhecer os melhores startups europeus no campo social.

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FIREPOCTEP procura soluções inovadoras para a prevenção e supressão de incêndios florestais

O projeto Interreg FIREPOCTEP irá realizar o Accelerathon FIREPOCTEP na quarta-feira 20 de Julho de 2022 às 09h:45 (CET). O objetivo deste evento é promover e impulsionar os desafios inovadores e aplica-los ao mundo real da prevenção, extinção e recuperação após os incêndios florestais.

Empresários, start-ups, centros de inovação, PMEs e universidades podem participar, contribuindo com a sua ideia e oferecendo uma solução inovadora. O concurso terá lugar em Julho e durante o mesmo os participantes serão acompanhados e orientados por peritos que oferecerão os seus conhecimentos em diferentes áreas através de um programa de mentoria e formação ,tudo no contexto do trabalho em rede. Na quarta-feira 20 de Julho de 2022, a proposta vencedora será seleccionada, após ter avaliado todas as iniciativas, e o resultado será tornado público no mesmo dia.

Links de inscrição:

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acortar.link/entradas-accelerathon-firepoctep-onsite

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acortar.link/entradas-accelerathon-firepoctep-online

Procurando enfrentar desafios importantes para os empresários das zonas rurais, não só relacionados com a prevenção e extinção de incêndios florestais, mas também com a recuperação dos habitats e da economia rural. Os empresários trabalharão em equipas, orientados por um perito na matéria para apresentar 6 propostas inovadoras diferentes (uma por equipa). Um júri de peritos, formado por membros do consórcio do projecto Interreg FIREPOCTEP, seleccionará um que receberá um bilhete de aceleração para materializar a sua ideia num projecto financiado por fundos europeus.

O evento é organizado pela Fundação Finnova, em colaboração com o Conselho Provincial de Huelva e o Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária, Pescas e Desenvolvimento Sustentável do Governo Regional da Andaluzia. Todos são beneficiários do projecto POCTEP FIREPOCTEP, co-financiado pelo Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional (FEDER), no âmbito do programa Interreg Espanha-Portugal POCTEP (2014 – 2020).

Além disso, o Accelerathon FIREPOCTEP procura ajudar a obter oportunidades de financiamento europeu, tais como o programa LIFE e diferentes formas de financiamento de projetos que incorporem soluções inovadoras que contribuam para a luta contra as alterações climáticas em diferentes áreas.

A FIREPOCTEP não só trabalha para o controlo eficaz dos incêndios florestais, mas também combate as suas consequências e previne a sua ocorrência a partir da base, através de formação e de uma abordagem orientada para a sua mitigação, com ênfase no ambiente rural.  Através de um conjunto de 21 beneficiários que compõem o consórcio do projecto, tanto portugueses como espanhóis, o projecto empenha-se em melhorar os esforços de prevenção e supressão de incêndios florestais na região transfronteiriça entre Espanha e Portugal.

Sobre Startup Europe Accelerathon

Esta metodologia da Fundação Finnova visa encontrar soluções e financiamento, através de um sistema em online de inovação aberta aplicada que reúne o ecosistema de inovação dos sectores ambientais. Estabelece uma metodologia de concurso online com formação, mentores, júri e um Bilhete de Aceleração Europeu com o objetivo de apresentar o projeto ao programa de financiamento europeu como o Life, programa até 5 milhões de euros.

O Desafio segue os SDGs da ONU e apoia projectos-piloto ambientais que estão ligados à luta contra a COVID-19, a legionella ou outros.

Sobre Startup Europe Awards

Startup Europe Awards (SEUA) é uma iniciativa da DG CONNECT da Comissão Europeia, implementada pela Fundação Finnova, e apoiada institucionalmente pelo Parlamento Europeu, Comité das Regiões e Comité Económico e Social desde 2016.

Com a participação no Accelerathon Startup Europe Accelerathon, os projetos estão ligados aos Prémios Startup Europe, alcançando uma maior divulgação e reconhecimento europeu e participando como semifinalistas espanhóis nos prémios europeus.

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

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/

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Fourth session of LATAM-UE Generation: “Entrepreneurship and Water: a Driver of Economic Recovery and Social Development of Regions and Municipalities”

The goal of LATAM-UE Generation is to promote business cooperation among EU and Latam countries

This fourth session is supported by Red Business Market and Congreso Iberoamericano de Empresas Familiares y Pymes

It will be held on July 13 on World Population Day and World Oceans Day

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

Brussels, 22.06.2021 – On July 13, 2021, on the occasion of World Population Day and World Oceans Day, Finnova Foundation and Startup Europe Awards will hold 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 Familiaries y Pymes.

Next LATAM-EU Generation seeks to exchange knowledge, to discuss available financial instruments for both continents and to launch common projects among different countries from Latin America and Europe aiming to create new business alliances. Each of the LATAM-EU sessions focuses on a World Day as part of its commitment to the UN SDGs.

The event on July 13 will be chaired by Juanma Revuelta, founder of Tourism Startup Europe Awards and CEO at Finnova, which has had more than 30 LIFE projects approved. According to Revuelta, “there are some €150,000M that can be redefined up until late 2023 and can be used up until 2030”.

The LIFE programme, established by the European Commission, will open for applications on late June until October 2021. It will have a financial envelope of €5,300M for projects addressing environmental issues.

The fourth session of Next LATAM-EU Generation, “Entrepreneurship and Water: a Driver of Economic Recovery and Social Development of Regions and Municipalities”, will feature Rafael Heredero, Policy Advisor at EurEau secretariat in Brussels; Javier Vázquez Hueso, CEO at EMALGESA and deputy mayor at Ayuntamiento de Algeciras; Luis Lehmann, international expert on circular economy; Juan Carlos Gázquez, Director at Cajamar Innova – Incubadora de Empresas de Alta Tecnología en Agua en Fundación  Cajamar, and Adrián Nadal, CEO at Bioferric Ink, among many other participants.

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 businesses, more than 60 domestic and international speakers and nearly 9,000 attendees (companies). This event showed that transatlantic collaboration is needed in order to face shared challenges in both continents, such as digitalization, sustainability and circularity after Covid-19.

Josu Gómez Barrutia, CEO at Red Business Market, claims that “there is no doubt whatsoever these events, which serve as a meeting point for developing strategic connections in entrepreneurship and business development and cooperation between the EU and Latin America are crucial in such a time of deep changes, challenges and transformations in economies, societies and geopolitics.

Haven’t registered yet? You can do it for free 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 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 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 organizing the Startup Europe Awards, a joint initiative by Finnova and the European Commission to reward the best European start-ups.

For more info, click on https://web.finnovaregio.org/

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 innovative mechanism aimed at identifying disruptive startups promoting private-public partnership. 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 info, click on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-vd9gSy19s

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FYCMA and Finnova launch the webinar “Greencities 4 Fighting Against Climate Change” to address the green transformation of cities by improving municipal public services

The online event will take place on Thursday 13th May from 16h00 to 17h30 (CEST).

The event will promote the generation of business, opportunities and alliances for a greener approach to the cities of the future.

This webinar is the prelude to the Greencities Forum, which will be held in Malaga on 29th and 30th September 2021.

Brussels, 05.05.2021 – On Thursday 13th May 2021, the Trade Fair and Convention Centre of Malaga (FYCMA), with the support of Finnova Foundation, organises in the framework of the European Green Week 2021 #EUGreenWeek the webinar “Greencities 4 Fighting Against Climate Change” on the occasion of the International Day of Light, thus aligning itself with one of the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), specifically with SDG 11: sustainable cities and communities.

The main objectives of this meeting are to present the latest developments in the development of smart, sustainable and efficient territories, to provide a space to generate business, to establish alliances promoting innovative ecosystems for the promotion of new industries and to boost disruptive changes in areas such as circular economy electronic administration , tourism and smart transport, among other measures to prevent or treat the consequences of environmental pollution in cities.

Migration from rural areas to urban centres in recent decades has led to 55% of the world’s population being located in cities, a trend that is expected to increase to 68% by 2050. This percentage, combined with global population growth, could add some 2.5 billion people to urban areas in just 30 years.

The high concentration of population in cities has led to a greater impact of climate change in cities, which are responsible for 70% of global CO2 emissions (around 25 gigatonnes). Cities are therefore the main threat to the climate, but they can also be an important part of the solution to the problem through their citizens and city councils, who have to take the lead in urban climate change mitigation and adaptation actions.

With these challenges on the table, this webinar will count with the participation of different experts, among them Julio Andrade, Director of the National Centre for the Training of Leading Authorities – CIFAL Malaga UNITAR; Katerina Fortun, Political Analyst – Adaptation to Climate Change at the European Commission; Regina Monsalve, President of the College of Agricultural Technical Engineers and Graduates of Valencia and Castellón – COITAVC; and Eugenio Martí, CEO of Graphene Solutions.

This webinar aims to claim a management model based on green local development supported by sustainable and inclusive aspects and will exchange views on the redesign of the municipalities of the future from the improvement of local public services, therefore, the areas of discussion will range from governance to citizen participation through energy, mobility, building and technological solutions to implement these changes.

“Greencities 4 Fighting Against Climate Change” serves as an online precedent for the urban intelligence and sustainability forum Greencities, an event that will take place at the Trade Fair and Convention Centre of Malaga on 29th and 30th September 2021 with all the necessary anti-COVID security measures.

Haven’t you registered yet? You can do it here.

About Finnova Foundation

European Foundation for the financing of innovation. It is a European foundation based in Brussels whose objectives are to promote public-private cooperation through innovation to address social challenges such as employment, training, entrepreneurship, the United Nations SDGs, the circular economy, etc. Finnova organises the Startup Europe Awards, an initiative of the European Commission and the Finnova Foundation, to recognise the best European startups in the social field.

For more information: www.finnova.eu

About FYCMA

FYCMA (Trade Fair and Convention Centre of Malaga) has established itself as one of the most active trade fair organisers in Southern Europe, specialising in the conceptualisation and development of professional events linked to the field of innovation, digital transformation and knowledge generation. These forums, highly specialised and with an international vocation, share the common goal of attracting talent and investment, while seeking convergence between the capabilities of the Spanish productive and research fabric and providing physical and virtual spaces for generating business, launching disruptive projects, new opportunities and establishing alliances. The venue contributes with them to the positioning of Malaga and Andalusia among the key prescribers of advanced sectors, as well as strengthening the Spain brand in an increasingly digital and connected world.

For more information: www.fycma.com

About Greencities y S-MOVING

Greencities, Intelligence and Urban Sustainability and S-MOVING, Movilidad Inteligente y Sostenible, Intelligent and Sustainable Mobility, will hold their next editions on 29th and 30th September in person at FYCMA (Trade Fair and Congress Centre of Malaga) converging in a single business and knowledge space, and also providing a comprehensive view of the challenges of the territories and their management through a global concept of sustainability. Thus, positioned as the main national platform on tools, solutions and ideas for the development of smart, sustainable and connected territories, they will address in depth topics such as technology and connectivity as tools against depopulation -smart rural-, the opportunities of smart tourist destinations, collective transport as the axis for sustainable mobility, 5G and connected and autonomous mobility, or the potential of green hydrogen, among others.

For more information: www.greencitiesmalaga.com y www.smovingforum.com

About Startup Europe Awards

It is a methodology of the European Commission’s DG CONNECT, implemented by the Finnova Foundation since 2016. The SEUAs are an open innovation tool for identifying disruptive startups that promotes public-private collaboration and raises awareness of the importance of self-entrepreneurship as a driver of employment. In addition to generating alliances that help to meet the SDGs of the United Nations and the actions of the European Green Deal, thus contributing to the circular economy, the fight against climate change and sustainable tourism.

For more information: www.startupeuropeawards.eu/seua/

About Startup Europe Accelerathon

Startup Europe Accelerathon aims to identify innovative ideas that can be funded by the European Union, such as the LIFE programme, Green Deal, Horizon 2020 or NextGenerationEU. Startup Europe Accelerathon follows the indications of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, contributing from each challenge to the proposed SDGs; in the framework of the Startup Europe Awards methodology of the European Commission’s DG CONNECT, which was born from the DG Research and Development in 2020 with the pan-European campaign Hackthevirus. It has been successfully carried out with governments such as that of the Valencian Community with the challenge of industrial polluting waters or the Andalusian Regional Government with the challenge of the fight against climate change, forest management and innovation in the prevention, fight against fires and regeneration of burnt areas.

For more information: www.accelerathon.eu

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Third webinar of the LATAM-EU Generation series: Challenges of circular economy in LATAM-EU cooperation as a production and consumption model for sustainability

The aim of this series is to promote business cooperation between Latin-American and European Union countries

 The Red Business Market and the Ibero-American Congress on Family Business and SMEs collaborate in this event

 A meeting will be organised in Medellin (Colombia) at the end of 2021 to celebrate the LATAM Startup Europe Awards

 The workshop will be held on 11th of May on the occasion of Global Recycling Day

Brussels, 03.05.2021 – Next Tuesday, May 11th 2021, on the occasion of Global Recycling Day, Finnova Foundation and Startup Europe Awards are launching the third event of the Next LATAM-EU Generation series: Challenges of the circular economy in LATAM-EU cooperation as a model of production and consumption for sustainability, with the collaboration of Red Business Market and the Ibero-American Congress on Family Business and SMEs.

The main objectives are the transfer of knowledge, to raise awareness of the funding mechanisms available between the two continents and the development of common projects between different countries in Latin America and Europe in order to create business alliances on both sides of the Atlantic, focusing each even on the celebration of a world day in line with the United Nations SDG.

The third event of the Next LATAM-EU Generation cycle, entitled “Challenges of the circular economy in LATAM-EU cooperation as a model of production and consumption for sustainability”, will be held on 11 May from 16h30 to 18h00 (CEST). It will be attended by Guillermo González, head of the Circular Economy Office of the Chilean Ministry of Environment, Silvio Ruiz manager of the Colombian Association of Recyclers – GAIAREC, Álvaro Hernández, president of the Board of Directors of Inboplast, Sharam Yalda, partner of CirCoAX and founder of HumanNation Giuseppe Libertati, global leader, author, energy disruptor and smart data investor and Alonso Salguero, CEO of GTA Ingeniería y Madioambiente, among many other speakers. Haven’t you registered yet? Do it for free here.

During the first event, which was celebrated last 8th of March coinciding with International Women’s Day, the vision of women in LATAM-EU business cooperation was discussed, within the framework of innovation and entrepreneurship. The workshop was divided into three blocks: institutional, in which several women members of international institutions participated; entrepreneurship, which was attended by 8 influential women entrepreneurs; and European projects, which focused on the importance of funding mechanisms when it comes to entrepreneurship.

The first workshop was entitled ‘Women’s vision in LATAM-EU family business cooperation, in the framework of innovation and entrepreneurship’. Some of the women who participated were Patricial Lombart, European Union ambassador to the Republic of Colombia, Liskel Álvarez, Delegate Councillor for External Action of the Cabildo of Tenerife, Adriana Vargas, Head of the Trade Section of the Colombian Mission to the European Union, Ruth de los Reyes Cánovas, CEO of Microbiotech SL, a company accelerated by the CEI Túria, and Martha Lagunes, Head of Strategic Planning at Startup Europe Awards Mexico, among many others. If you missed the first webinar, you can watch it here.

La segunda jornada, que tuvo lugar el pasado 6 de abril, titulada “Retos y oportunidades para el turismo a través de la cooperación LATAM-UE en el contexto de la crisis sanitaria COVID-19” y que se celebró con motivo del Día Mundial de la Salud, versó sobre los retos a los que se enfrenta actualmente el sector turístico y sobre cómo poder frente a éstos partiendo de la siguiente premisa “el turismo es un sector tractor de generación de empleo”, tal y como declaraba Juanma Revuelta, CEO de la Fundación Finnova.

It was divided into three blocks: the first, entitled “Challenges and opportunities for tourism, the second, “Health and tourism in the context of COVID-19“, and the third and last before de round of questions, “New developments and opportunities”. This event was attended by speakers such as Manuel Vegas, President of the Association of Hotel Managers (AEDH); Antonio López de Ávila, Co-founder and CEO of Tourism Data Driven Solutions (TDDS); Irene Sánchez, Business Creation Manager at the health area of EIT Health Spain; José García Padernilla, Manager at Ditecpesa (Ferrovial) and leader of the CD CLEAN COVID-19 New desinfection formulation and Víctor Badorrey, Director of Institutional Relations at SEGITTUR.

Couldn’t you attend the event? You can watch it here.

Next LATAM-EU Generation was born after the success of the Ibero-American Congress on Family Businesses and SMEs, organised by Red Business Market, which took place last January. With the participation of 558 companies, more than 60 national and international speakers and almost 9000 companies attending, the congress reflected the need for transatlantic collaboration to face common challenges in the two continents, such as digitalisation, sustainability and circularity after COVID-19.

Josu Gómez Barrutia, CEO of Red Business Market, states that “certainly, in a time of profound changes, challenges and transformations in the socio-economic and geopolitical sphere, the commitment to meeting spaces, alliances and strategic connections in the fields of entrepreneurship, business development and cooperation between the European Union and Latin America are fundamental”.

The Next LATAM-EU Generation series is divided into nine online events that will take place on the second Monday of each month referring to an international day celebrated during the same month. In these training spaces, different support tools, challenges and opportunities will be presented to promote entrepreneurship and innovation through business and public-private collaboration, with an emphasis on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals – Agenda 2030, prioritising one or the other depending on the region.

As culmination, at the end of this year, if the health situation allows it, an in-person meeting will be held in Medellin (Colombia) where the final of the LATAM Startup Europe Awards will be held. Startup Europe Awards (SEUA) is a methodology of European Commission DG-CONNECT implemented by Finnova Foundation since 2016, whose main mission is to help StartUps and ScaleUps to be more efficient, intelligent and successful, to promote innovation and the exchange of experiences and to influence the Scaleups process, all from a sustainable approach.

About Finnova Foundation

The European foundation for innovation funding. It is a European foundation based in Brussels whose objectives are to promote public-private cooperation through innovation to address social challenges such as employment, training, entrepreneurship, the United Nations SDGs, the circular economy, etc. Finnova organises the Startup EuropeAwards, an initiative of the European Commission and the Finnova Foundation, to recognise the best European startups in the social field. www.finnova.eu

About Startup Europe Awards

It is a methodology of the European Commission DG CONNECT, implemented by the Finnova Foundation since 2016. The SEUAs are an open innovation tool for identifying disruptive startups that promotes public-private collaboration and raises awareness of the importance of self-entrepreneurship as a driver of employment. In addition to generating alliances that help to meet the SDGs of the United Nations and the actions of the European Green Deal, thus contributing to the circular economy, the fight against climate change and sustainable tourism. https://startupeuropeawards.eu/seua/

About Red Business Market 

Business Market is a connection forum between investors, companies, entrepreneurs and startups in Ciudad Real whose objectives are the generation of a business network, financing and support for the development of economic and business projects in the territory. All this, hand in hand with the possibility of being able to have a direct relationship with venture capital funds, business angels, family investment assets and corporate or financial funds addressed to innovative, disruptive and value-added initiatives that need an economic boost to its development.

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Awards ceremony: Europe Accelerathon Euroregion Alentejo-Algarve-Andalucía for Covid-19 challenges and climate change

An open innovation programme to promote innovative technologies in the Alentejo-Algarve-Andalusia Euroregion.

The final webinar, organized by Finnova, will take place next Thursday, May 6, 2021.

A presentation webinar was in support of the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union, as indicated in its priorities:  “It is time to act: for a fair, ecological and digital recovery”.

Initiative co-financed by the Ministry of the Presidency, Public and Interior Administration of the Junta de Andalucía.

Seville, 28.04.2021 – The “Accelerathon Spain-Portugal: innovation and cooperation against Covid-19 and climate change” seeks to address the challenges facing the Alentejo-Algarve-Andalucía Euroregion (Euroregion AAA) on issues related to Covid-19 and climate change. Next Thursday, 06 May 2021 at 17:00 Brussels time, the final ceremony of this open innovation programme (www.accelerathon.eu) will be held to boost innovation in the Alentejo-Algarve-Andalusia Euroregion in the fight against Coronavirus and climate change. This initiative is co-financed by the Ministry of the Presidency, Public and Interior Administration of the Junta de Andalucía.

During the event, in webinar format, the name of the three finalists of the Accelerathon Spain-Portugal will be announced. The jury has evaluated a total of 15 initiatives presented, of which the 5 with the highest score will be disseminated through the Finnova communication channels and the Firefighting Open Innovation Lab – CILIFO. The jury will choose the best proposal, which will receive advice and be mentored for a possible presentation of their project to a European call. The remaining four initiatives will benefit from the financial aid information service provided by Finnova, the finalists will participate in the final webinar in which they will make a pitch of 5 minutes.

  • The first finalist proposal will be mentored and advised by Finnova for the search for European financial opportunities of interest.
  • Proposals remaining in second and third positions will receive partial mentoring, benefiting from a financial aid information service provided by Finnova.
  • The top five proposals will be always disseminated – respecting the protection of business secrecy – to help its dissemination and increase the chances that entities interested in investing in them will know them.

The final webinar envisages the participation of the entities that collaborate with Finnova in this initiative (University of Evora, IrRADIARE and the Intermunicipal Community of the Algarve-AMAL) for the realization and implementation of the tasks included in the celebration of the “Accelerathon Spain-Portugal: innovation and cooperation against Covid-19 and climate change”.

Webinar registrations at: https://form.jotform.com/finnova/Final-Accelerathon-EuroAAA

About Startup Europe Accelerathon (www.accelerathon.eu)

Startup Europe Accelerathon aims to identify innovative ideas capable of obtaining funding from the European Union, such as the LIFE, Green Deal, Horizon 2020 or NextGenerationEU programme. Startup Europe Accelerathon follows the directions of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals contributing from each challenge to the proposed STO objectives; en the framework of the European Commission’s DG CONNECT Startup Europe Awards methodology that has been born since DG Research and Development in 2020 with the pan-European  Hackthevirus campaign. Se has successfully carried out with governments such as that of the Valencian Community with the challenge of industrial polluting  waters or Junta de Andalucía with the challenge of combating climate change, forest management and innovation in the prevention, firefighting and regeneration of burned spaces.

About Startup Europe Network

Startup Europe is an initiative of the European Commission, DG CONNECT, to connect  and  promote high-tech startups, scaleups, investors, accelerators, corporate networks, universities and media.

Learn more about Startup Europe: Startup Europe | Shaping Europe’s digital future (europa.eu)

About Startup Europe Awards (HIS) (www.startupeuropeawards.eu)

It is a methodology of dg CONNECT of the European Commission, implemented by the Finnova Foundation since 2016. SEUA is an open innovation tool to identify disruptive startups, promote public-private collaboration and raise awareness of the importance of self-priming as an employment-generating engine. In addition to building partnerships to help meet the United Nations SDS and the actions of the European Green Pact, thus contributing to the circular economy, the fight against climate change and sustainable tourism. The winners get support to turn their projects into large projects financially supported by the EU (between 500,000 euros and 17.5 million euros), international legal support and lobbying, strategic mentoring, international networking, investor access and support for internationalisation worldwide.

About CILIFO – Collaborating Project (www.cilifo.eu)

The Project The Iberian Centre for Forest Fire Research and Combat (CILIFO) is funded by the Interreg V-A Spain – Portugal – POCTEP Cross-Border Cooperation Programme (2014-2020),has a total budget of 24.6 million euros and is the Most Funded Interreg project in the history of the forest fire programme. It  focuses on the fight against forest fires and their consequences for the adaptation and mitigation of climate change; in a framework of cross-border cooperation for risk prevention and improvement of the management of the natural resources of Spain and Portugal in the area of the Alentejo – Algarve-Andalusia Euroregion. The project  follows the indications of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its effects.

About Firefighting Open Innovation Lab – CILIFO (www.innovation.cilifo.eu)

The CILIFO Project through its Firefighting Open Innovation Lab – CILIFO  (accelerator – incubator managed by Finnova) supports the initiatives of entrepreneurs and companies in the field of prevention and fight against forest fires. There are currently 18 companies affiliated to the accelerator and are being mentored and guided to initiatives in the search for European funding.

Finnova opens (www.finnova.eu)

European Foundation for the financing of innovation headquartered in Brussels and with offices in Andalusia, the Basque Country, the Valencian Community, Madrid, the Canary Islands, and with its own delegations of local law in Romania, Panama and Chile and whose objectives are to promote public-private cooperation through innovation to address social challenges such as employment, training, entrepreneurship, the United Nations SDS , the circular economy, health, digitization, water and renewable energies. One of his priorities is the training of young talent in European affairs management in Brussels.

Contact

Beatriz Martínez Muñoz, European project and communication officer at the Finnova Foundation.

E-mail: beatriz.martinez@finnova.eu

Phone: +34 605 52 10 84

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Celebrated the second webinar of the LATAM-EU Generation series on the occasion of World Health Day: Challenges and opportunities for tourism in the current context of COVID-19 health crisis

The main objective of the series is to promote business cooperation between European Union countries and Latin America

 It was discussed about Next Generation EU funds, with a total of 1.8 trillion euros earmarked to rebuild a post-COVID-19 Europe

At the end of this year, a meeting will be held in Colombia to celebrate the LATAM Startup Europe Awards

Brussels, 07.04.2021 – Tuesday 6th April, on the occasion of World Health Day, Finnova Foundation and Startup Europe Awards in collaboration with Red Business Market and the Ibero-American Congress on Family Businesses and SMEs, launched the second webinar of the Next LATAM-EU Generation series: Challenges and opportunities for tourism in the current context of COVID-19 health crisis, whose main objectives are to transfer knowledge, raise awareness of the financing mechanisms available between the two continents and build projects between different countries in Latin America and Europe in order to create business partnerships on both sides of the Atlantic.

The second event, held from 16h30 to 18h00 (CET) on Tuesday 6th April and broadcasted from the El Plantío Golf Resort (Alicante), was divided into three blocks moderated by Juanma Revuelta, CEO of the Finnova Foundation, who insisted throughout the webinar that “tourism is a driving force for job creation“.

The first block, entitled “Challenges and opportunities for tourism“, was attended by Manuel Vegas, President of the Association of Hotel Managers (AEDH), Antonio López de Ávila, Co-founder and CEO of Tourism Data Driven Solutions (TDDS), José García Padernilla, Manager at Ditecpesa (Ferrovial) and leader of the CD CLEAN COVID-19 New desinfection formulation and Víctor Badorrey, Director of Institutional Relations at SEGITTUR.

Vegas, who was the first to take part, stated that “due to the delay in the pace of vaccination and the COVID-19 measures taken during this Easter, the results of the tourism sector have been rather limited, so it would be necessary to speak of a reconquest of the tourism ecosystem: both customers and teams”. López de Ávila, for his part, spoke of “intelligent tourism and the need to rethink the mass tourism model, which is so badly conceived in Spain, and to focus it on real sustainability in which new technologies play a much more important role“, he also recalled the fundamental role of European funds.

García Padernilla referred to his project CD CLEAN URBAN MOBILITY COVID-19 new desinfection formulation and spoke of this “new surface disinfection technology for places where ventilation is more difficult, such as airports or metro stations”.

Finally, Víctor Badorrey reviewed the main axes on which tourism is based: “governance, innovation, technology, sustainability and accessibility” and affirmed that “the destinations that have undergone a DTI diagnostic process have been more prepared to react to an unforeseen situation such as the pandemic”. In addition, the Director of Institutional Relations of SEGITTUR presented the manual of good practices for smart destinations in Spain and Latin America.

In this first block, the audience was also reminded of the new call for the LIFE Programme and talked about the Erasmus Mundus programme and the Next Generation EU funds, the largest economic and social recovery plan to date, with a total of 1.8 trillion euros, aimed at rebuilding the post-COVID-19 Europe: “a greener, digital and more resilient Europe“. Juanma Revuelta, the moderator, encouraged the use of these financial instruments and stated that “governments need to modernise their public policies and be aware of the amount of resources at their disposal”.

The second block, “Health and tourism in the context of COVID-19“, was opened by Irene Sanchez, Business Creation Manager at the health area of EIT Health Spain, who reported on a new call that the EIT and the European Commission are launching jointly for industry and the cultural and creative sector, which could easily be linked to tourism. Irene Sánchez recalled that “EIT Health supports entrepreneurship, education and innovation projects” and spoke of the already well-known “digital certificate” to “prove the immune status of the population when travelling, which would help, above all, the tourism sector by avoiding quarantines and without having to restrict mobility in the Schengen area“.

Marta Gómez, Programme Manager at the Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI), Health Sector – Horizon 2020 / Horizon Europe, spoke about “the need to boost tourism, innovation, competitiveness and job creation in Europe as well as to strengthen the scientific and technological bases of the EU and the European Research Area (ERA)“. She also highlighted the need to “respond to citizens’ priorities” and talked about how Horizon Europe can support projects from both Europe and LATAM countries.

The Finnova Foundation took the opportunity to remind that the European Commission has recently presented a proposal for a Green Digital Passport as a tool to reactivate tourism. Therefore, on 20th April, the Finnova Foundation will organise a webinar to talk about this vaccination passport.

The third and last block before the round of questions, “New developments and opportunities“, was opened by Ainhoa Raso, Vice-President of Innovation, New Developments and Project of Hi Card, who presented this project “whose objective is none other than to be able to travel safely and in any language by having all our medical information digitised at hand: on our mobile phone”. Raso stated that “health and tourism nowadays have to be more united than ever and, for this, digitalisation is essential“.

The last speaker, Paola Gutiérrez, young Next Talent Generation, insisted on the importance of “the tourism sector and the health sector joining forces and creating synergies in favour of mobility and the creation of opportunities for young people” and spoke about Next Talent and all the job and training opportunities it offers.

Finally, a questionnaire was carried out, from which most of the webinar participants agreed that tourism is the sector most affected by COVID-19, followed by the health sector.

Couldn’t make it to the event? You can watch it here.

What is Next LATAM-EU Generation?

Next LATAM-EU Generation was born after the success of the Ibero-American Congress on Family Businesses and SMEs, organised by Red Business Market, which took place last January. With the participation of 558 companies, more than 60 national and international speakers and almost 9000 companies attending, the Congress reflected the need for transatlantic collaboration to face common challenges in the two continents, such as digitalisation or sustainability after COVID-19.

The Next LATAM-EU Generation days are divided into nine online events that will take place on the second Monday of each month referring to an international day celebrated during the same month. In these training spaces, different support tools, challenges and opportunities will be presented to promote entrepreneurship and innovation through business and public-private collaboration, with an emphasis on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals – Agenda 2030, prioritising one or the other depending on the region.

As culmination, at the end of this year, if the health situation allows it, an in-person meeting will be held in Medellin (Colombia) where the final of the LATAM Startup Europe Awards will be held. Startup Europe Awards (SEUA) is a methodology of European Commission DG-CONNECT implemented by Finnova Foundation since 2016, whose main mission is to help StartUps and ScaleUps to be more efficient, intelligent and successful, to promote innovation and the exchange of experiences and to influence the ScaleUps process, all from a sustainable approach.

About Finnova Foundation

The European foundation for innovation funding. It is a European foundation based in Brussels whose objectives are to promote public-private cooperation through innovation to address social challenges such as employment, training, entrepreneurship, the United Nations SDGs, the circular economy, etc. Finnova organises the Startup EuropeAwards, an initiative of the European Commission and the Finnova Foundation, to recognise the best European startups in the social field. www.finnova.eu

About Startup Europe Awards

It is a methodology of the European Commission DG CONNECT, implemented by the Finnova Foundation since 2016. The SEUAs are an open innovation tool for identifying disruptive startups that promotes public-private collaboration and raises awareness of the importance of self-entrepreneurship as a driver of employment. In addition to generating alliances that help to meet the SDGs of the United Nations and the actions of the European Green Deal, thus contributing to the circular economy, the fight against climate change and sustainable tourism. https://startupeuropeawards.eu/seua/

About Red Business Market 

Business Market is a connection forum between investors, companies, entrepreneurs and startups in Ciudad Real whose objectives are the generation of a business network, financing and support for the development of economic and business projects in the territory. All this, hand in hand with the possibility of being able to have a direct relationship with venture capital funds, business angels, family investment assets and corporate or financial funds addressed to innovative, disruptive and value-added initiatives that need an economic boost to its development. www.businessmarket.es

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The second day of the Womanation Congress was attended by more than 50 leading women, including the presence of the European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society Mariya Gabriel

The second day of the Womanation Congress, entitled “Women’s Congress for the whole Society”, opened with the intervention of the European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, Mariya Gabriel, who emphasised “the need to support women’s initiative in entrepreneurship and innovation and the need to promote digital skills and STEM education in girls and women”.

The Womanation Congress organised by the Mesa de Ingeniería Valenciana (MIV) is co-organised by Technovation Girls and the Finnova Foundation. This meeting was also supported by the Startup Europe Awards (SEUA), the Iberian Blockchain Institute and the Business Market network, among others.

Thanks to the impulse of Regina Monsalve, president of COITVC, Angélica Gómez, Dean of COGITI Valencia, Maria José CEO of Talent Growth Management and many other women, the event has been a success.

Brussels, 12 February 2021 – The Womanation Congress, the first all-female digital congress, ended up with more than 350 registered participants on the 12th and with a reach of more than 2000 girls on the 11th. In total, there were more than 70 presentations on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) topics. Sandra Gómez, Deputy Mayor of Valencia City Council, emphasised the need to “make women visible in STEM areas and to transmit, from a very early age, technology and science in order to fight against the gender gap and the digital divide”.

The virtual event counted with the participation of different influential women, including Commissioner Mariya Gabriel, MEP Susana Solís, member of the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in the Digital Age, Isabel Benjumea, Vice-Chair of the Committee on Regional Policy in the European Parliament and Natalia Martínez Páramo, Deputy Head of Unit of DG Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, who spoke about the COSME programme, the WEgate and the EEN network.

Susana Solís stressed the importance of education to increase the visibility of women in STEM fields and pointed out that “we need more female references in textbooks”. She also insisted on “the importance of improving things in the workplace, with policies that reconcile work and personal life”. For her part, Isabel Benjumea declared that “all those women who are now thinking of taking the risk and becoming entrepreneurs, what they have to feel is that in Europe it can be done, in Europe, today, it is possible“.

While the first day focused on girls and the younger population and its main objective was to revalue the role of women in scientific and technological professions through the presentation of innovative projects, recreational and educational activities and different innovative challenges were launched for girls to join them, for example, The Finnova Foundation prepared ten different challenges related to innovative fields such as cultural and sustainable tourism or circular economy. The second day was more focused on making female talent visible, for which, as Mariya Gabriel pointed out during her speech, “we have all the support and commitment from Europe“. To this end, there are multiple programmes, grants and aid, such as the PICE programme, the Robert Schuman grant or the platform for finding training placements in Europe, Next Talent Generation, among many others.

Today’s event was organised into five round tables divided into themes in which each participant was able to present their personal vision and the way in which they have taken part in this female technological, scientific and digital revolution, presenting the different projects and measures they have adopted. Yolanda de Aguilar, FYCMA’s general director, underlined the importance of collaborative systems and pointed out that “At FYCMA, we assume our strategic role in the reactivation, which is why we have re-armed ourselves digitally and technologically to continue boosting business activity and the convergence of innovation, knowledge and talent”.

Topics such as climate changecultural and digital transformation, the importance of local and global sustainability, the circular economyeducation, the impact of responsible business conduct and the importance of science and research  were discussed, and dozens of cutting-edge projects were presented. Lola Bordás, president of Fundadoras.CHALLENGES Next Digital Generation ODS-EU: Interreg Cilifo, indicated during her speech that “digitalisation for traditional sectors is a turning point to achieve scalable results”.

Pilar Ezpeleta, Director General of the Valencian Ministry of Universities, pointed out four risks that we cannot lose sight of: “the technological, digital, gender, educational, cultural and economic divide”. “If our girls and teenagers believe in themselves they will have a high level of well-being, we will have women prepared to face whatever comes their way”, said Petra María Pérez, emeritus professor in Anthropology Theory at the UV, who also believes that education is essential in the social, cultural and digital revolution we are witnessing. Anaïs P. Figueras, Director of Communication at Google Spain & Portugal, added that “we must approach technology as we approached English a few years ago”.

Juliana Herrero, chemical engineer and expert in Renewable Energy, director of Waste2Energy and Maria José Tárrega, Head of process at Global Omnium, LIFE ECOdigestion 2.0, presented their projects and emphasised the need to rethink the energy transition and “see which path we are going to take to meet the objective of climate neutrality in 2050”. Ainhoa Raso, Vice President of Innovation and New Developments in Tourism, presented the HiCard (Health Identification Card), a card with our medical data (vaccinations, allergies, treatments…) fully encrypted and secure on our mobile phone thanks to a Blockchain network. “Now, in times of Covid, we have dedicated a section where you can upload PCR results or if you are vaccinated,” said Raso.

The Womanation Congress, which is based on data such as the fact that, in Spain, only 17% of entrepreneurs are women, that 85% of women are not part of any Sillicon Valley startup or that 59% of Spanish startups do not have any women among their founding members or co-founders, encourages women to recycle themselves in these times of health crisis and to grow professionally since, “it is from courage that opportunities are best generated”, as Ezpeleta pointed out. Elena Contioso-Fleming, CLC manager at EIT Digital Spain, stated that “Spain is lagging behind other European countries in everything related to digitalisation, which is why EIT Digital provides co-funding for projects, supports scale-ups and opens the way for entrepreneurs in Spain to cross the Spanish border and reach other European countries”.

The composition of the roundtables has always followed the same pattern: a manager from a leading company, an independent expert, a talented young woman and a woman with responsibility within the public administration, moderated by a media manager, including, for example, Marta García Aller, a science and technology journalist from El Confidencial, who moderated roundtable 4.

Some of the tables have had a section called “One to One“, a series of short interviews from one influential woman to another, thanks to which we have been able to listen to personalities such as María Tato, Director of women’s football of the RFEF, in conversation with Marina Gassent, General Director of Valencia CF Femenino, who defended the role of women in the world of football, and Leticia Chen, president of the Chamber for Spanish-Chinese Cooperation, who together with Carmen Sanz, president of the Spanish-Norwegian Chamber of Commerce, spoke about the collaboration projects in R+D+i between Europe and China for 2021.

At each table, a different challenge was launched in accordance with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations 2030 Programme, from which each participant was able to develop their presentation. Mercedes Iborra, Co-founder of Visual Nacert, said: “It is not only about developing companies, but also about having a positive impact on society”, referring to the need to take care of the environment. Yolanda de Aguilar: “I strongly believe in collaborative systems. My work has always been in the world of trade fairs and congresses, such as IFEMA, where I was in charge of FITUR, and this led me to see that without public-private collaboration there is no way”.

Thanks to the institutional and business support received, the hashtag #WomanationCongress has become a trendy topic in 11 countries and in almost 50 cities around the world, which is a clear sign of the international reach of the Womanation congress, which has also featured speakers from Panama and Argentina, such as María Ramallo, Gender Coordinator at the General Directorate of Social Integration (SECISYU) in the Government of the City of Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Malú Ramos, environmental engineer at Finnova, from Panama, who, despite the time difference, did not want to miss this multitudinous event.

Ramallo stressed the importance of “generating synergy, networks, alliances and, above all, collaboratively thinking about triple impact production and business models with a focus on women and people in vulnerable situations, is one of the ways in which we can promote their autonomy. In many cases, self-entrepreneurship is precisely the engine that generates employment”, a thought shared by many of our guests, such as Yolanda de Aguilar, who pointed out during her speech that “only through collaboration we can progress, together with innovation and technology”. Natalia Mártinez Páramo ended her speech by stressing that “support for women entrepreneurs must have special features to address the obstacles faced specifically by women”.

Womanation

Womanation Congress’, a new national digital congress with a woman’s voice aimed at the whole of society, arrives on 11 February to inspire new generations and motivate current ones with “real talent”, current references and attractive projects.

For more information: www.womanation.es

Technovation Girls

Technovation Girls, promoted by Talent Growth Management in the Valencian Community, is the largest technology entrepreneurship programme/contest for girls worldwide launched by the American non-profit association Technovation. The programme challenges young people between the ages of 10 and 18 to create a mobile application (APP) that solves a social problem in their community, carry out a market study, marketing plan, business plan and present it to the jury.

For more information: www.technovation.org

About Startup Europe Awards

It is a methodology of the DG CONNECT of the European Commission, implemented by the Finnova Foundation since 2016. The SEUAs are an open innovation tool to identify disruptive startups, promoting public-private collaboration and raising awareness of the importance of self-entrepreneurship as a driver of employment. In addition to generating alliances that help to meet the SDGs of the United Nations and the actions of the European Green Pact, thus contributing to the circular economy, the fight against climate change and sustainable tourism.

For more information: www.startupeuropeawards.eu

About the Finnova Foundation

European foundation for the financing of innovation based in Brussels. Its objectives are to promote public-private cooperation through innovation to address societal challenges such as employment, training, entrepreneurship, the UN SDGs, the circular economy, etc. Finnova organises the Startup Europe Awards, in collaboration with the European Commission, to recognise the best European startups in the social field.

For more information: www.finnova.eu

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For more information: www.finnova.eu
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Training webinar – Next Generation EU for forest fire prevention and extinction

Brussels, 02.02.2021. – The Finnova Foundation, one of the fifteen beneficiary partners of the CILIFO Project, is organising a virtual event on the new recovery fund for Europe (Next Generation EU) applied to forest fire prevention and extinction projects in the Alentejo-Algarve-Andalusia Euroregion.

The webinar will be held on Wednesday, 17th February 2021 from 11:00 to 13:00 (CET). Among the speakers, there will be Members of the European Parliament and European funds experts, as well as representatives of the beneficiary partners of the Iberian Center for the Investigation and Fighting of Forest Fires (CILIFO).

The aim of the training webinar is to provide information about the Next Generation EU recovery fund that will help build a greener and more resilient Europe through the projects that will benefit from the aforementioned package.

This virtual event is intended for those interested in presenting eligible projects within the framework of the CILIFO Project (Alentejo-Algarve-Andalusia Euroregion) as well as for those who would like to know more about this new European funding instrument.

The economy of the Alentejo-Algarve-Andalusia Euroregion has been seriously affected by the social and economic crisis derived from the pandemic, so being aware of the funding made available by the EU should be a priority for anyone with an interest in starting a new project.

The webinar will be held in Portuguese as well as in Spanish. 

Please fill out the following registration form if you are interested in taking part: https://form.jotform.com/finnova/cilifo-nextgeneration-1702

 PROVISIONAL AGENDA

Next Generation EU

The COVID-19 pandemic is having a negative impact on the economy of the European Union, which is why the European Commission has decided to implement unprecedented measures. Thus, a new massive recovery fund called Next Generation EU has been created. Itis the largest fund ever promoted by the European Union. The Next Generation EU recovery package was approved at the beginning of this year and it will fundresearch andinnovation projects. It will also tackle climate change and will promote the protection of biodiversity, as well as forest fire prevention and extinction.

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