The platform “Cultural Industries Summit Valencia” promoted by the Association for the promotion of Cultural Projects in close collaboration with Intermedia Fresh Thinking, ad supported by the Spanish Minister of Education, Culture and Sport and Spanish Cultural Action, has joined the StartUp Europe Awards Alliance, under the framework of the StartUp Europe Awards.

This is an initiative promoted by the European Commission and implemented by the Foundation Finnova in close collaboration with the StartUp Europe. The goal of this Alliance is the creation of a forum for the interchange of best practices and the networking.

Following this massive goal, StartUp Europe Awards also aims at rewarding the hard work of the startups ruled by European, and based in Asia, Europe, Latin America, Israel and United Arab Emirates in five levels (local, province, regional, national and European) in eight categories (Green, Cities, Creative Industries, Energy, Social Innovation, ICTs, Tourism and Water).

Cultural Industries Summit is a platform created to support the entrepreneurs with projects related to cultural industries, foster the innovative initiatives both culturally and socially, in the sector of collaborative and creative economy. It includes training and accelerating program that will lead to an event in which companies, institutions and professionals dealing with cultural industries, both at national and international level, will participate. In this event, they will select a winner, a second prize and a third finalist selected by the audience. The winner will be candidate for the national final of the StartUp Europe Awards in the category of Creative, thanks to the adhesion agreement of Cultural Industries Summit to the StartUp Europe Awards Alliance.

Cultural Industries Summit thus joins the Zinc Shower, Ateneo Club de Innovación and Business and the Bank of Ireland StartUps Awards who are already members of the StartUp Europe Awards Alliance, which aims at being a forum for the interchange of best practices and networking among startups all around Europe.

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Cultural Industries Summit Valencia, nuevo miembro de la Startup Europe Awards Alliance 2016

La plataforma “Cultural Industries Summit Valencia” promovida por la Asociación Promotora de Proyectos Culturales en colaboración con Intermedia Fresh Thinking,  apoyada por el Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte y Acción Cultural Española, se ha sumado como nuevo miembro a la Startup Europe Awards Alliance 2016, en el marco de StartUp Europe Awards.

Iniciativa promovida por la Comisión Europea e implementada por la Fundación Finnova en colaboración con StartUp Europe. El objetivo de esta Alianza es incrementar la Tasa de Actividad Emprendedora en la Unión Europea, una tasa que actualmente llega al 8%, según Eurostat.

Siguiendo este máximo objetivo, StartUp Europe Awards también pretende reconocer el duro trabajo llevado a cabo por las startups dirigidas por europeos y establecidas en alguna región de Asia, Europa, Latino América, Israel y Emiratos Árabes Unidos, y Estados Unidos, en cinco niveles (local, provincial, regional, nacional y europeo), en ocho categorías (Medio Ambiente, Ciudades, Industrias Creativas, Energía, Social, Turismo, Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación y Agua).

Cultural Industries Summit es una plataforma creada para apoyar a emprendedores con proyectos relacionados con las industrias culturales, fomentar el espíritu emprendedor y las iniciativas innovadoras tanto cultural como socialmente, en el ámbito de la economía colaborativa y creativa. Incluye un programa de formación y aceleración que culminará en un encuentro en el que participarán empresas, instituciones y profesionales relacionados con las industrias culturales tanto nacionales como internacionales. En este encuentro se elegirá al proyecto ganador, un segundo y un tercer premio, que será elegido por el público. El proyecto ganador de Cultural Industries Summit pasará directamente a la final nacional de los Startups Europe Awards en la categoría Creative, gracias a la adhesión de Cultural Industries Summit a la StartUp Europe Awards Alliance.

Cultural Industries Summit se suma a Zinc Shower, al Ateneo Club de Innovación y Empresa y al Banco de Irlanda quienes ya forman parte de esta alianza, nacida para reconocer el esfuerzo hecho por los organizadores de premios de StartUps en toda Europa y crear sinergias entre esos organizadores para que así puedan incrementar el impacto de los premios que ya existen.

The representative from the leader organiser of StartUp Europe Awards 2016 (SEUA16), Juan Manuel Revuelta in representation of the Foundation Finnova, presented yesterday this European initiative within the framework of the StartUp Europe Summit. This action, which has been initiated under the umbrella of StartUp Europe, and which counts on the support of the European Commission, aims at gathering all the startups awards organisers in the StartUp Europe Awards Alliance, which aims at being a forum for the interchange of best practices and networking for entrepreneurs.  StartUp Europe Awards has also a second goal: to reward the startups based in Europe, Latin America, USA, Asia and Israel and United Arab Emirates, working in cities, creative industries, energy, green, ICTs, social innovation, tourism and water, at five levels (local, provincial, regional, national and European).

This initiative has caught the attention of Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, Carlos Moedas, who has visited the stand of StartUp Europe to learn more about the SEUA16.

On the left Juan Manuel Revuelta, General Director for Finnova, and on the right, Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, Carlos Moedas.

The potential of this action has impressed the President of the Committee of the Regions, Markku Markkula, who paid us a visit in the stand of the StartUp Europe, where Revuelta was presenting the SEUA16.

President of the Committee of the Regions, Marrku Markkula, visits the stand of the StartUp Europe where the General Director of Finnova, Juan Manuel Revuelta, presented him the StartUp Europe Awards

During his visit to the StartUp Europe Awards information point in the StartUp Europe Summit, Markkula recognised being impressed with this initiative that tries to foster and contribute to the entrepreneurship in the European Union. He also recognised the potential of the SEUA in his twitter account by highlighting the strong potential of the SEUA16.

Tweet by Markku Markkula official twitter account referring to the StartUp Europe Awards 2016

Revuelta also took the opportunity to present the project Nobel Grid in the stand of StartUp Europe, which will provide advanced tools and ICT services to all actors in the Smart Grid and retail electricity market in order to ensure benefits from cheaper prices, more secure and stable grids and clean electricity.  All this happened in the StartUp Europe Summit, an annual Summit in which start-ups from all over Europe, policymakers, investors and companies from the sector of industry participate. It is therefore an event for networking in which the entrepreneurs have also the possibility of attending the StartUp Council of Policy Makers, which dealt on how to increase the interaction between policymakers and entrepreneurs.

After a hard competition –we received several music proposals to be the introduction of the StartUp Europe Awards- Brainiac Beats won this music contest that aimed at finding the best music for the StartUp Europe Awards videos.

Brainiac Beats, also known as El Cerebro in the Spanish music market, is an established music producer, DJ and sound engineer from Almeria (Andalusia-Spain). He has worked with some of the best hip hop artists, not only from his homeland Spain but also from the United States, where he travels to frequently while establishing his brand internationally. He has won several international competitions (beat battles) in the USA and online, and has also landed his music in films, advertisements, etc.

As a DJ he has toured the biggest music festivals in Spain, sharing the stage with countless legendary artists. As a sound engineer, he’s used to work under time-pressure, achieving a pristine, high quality sound, up to commercial standards.

With such a high quality, his music has already been used for our first two videos produced for the StartUp Europe Awards. Here the link to the video in which we announced that Bank of Ireland StartUp Europe Awards was the first British organiser of start-ups awards in becoming member of the StartUp Europe Awards Alliance: https://youtu.be/sIgEW1rcb20

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Zinc shower, the first Spanish startup awards organiser to become member of the StartUp Europe Awards Alliance.

Madrid, May 20th 2016. The work carried out by the startup ‘Human Surge’, aiming at improving the quality of the humanitarian aid and civil protection, has been rewarded by the StartUp Europe Accelerator Awards during the meeting show of the Collaborative transformation, Zinc Shower.

For the General Director of Finnova, Juan Manuel Revuelta, who gave the prize, ‘Human Surge’ “offers a technological solution directly related to the reaction capacity that humanitarian aid mechanisms face when responding to worldwide disasters; undoubtedly, this is an initiative that may have a huge social impact apart from being aligned to social challenges that the EU has identified as priorities”.

Thanks to this award, a team member from ‘Human Surge’ will receive an acceleration process for their start-up in the co-working space owned by Finnova in Brussels. Amongst other benefits, this acceleration programme offers internationalisation of their project, specialised networking in the sector of social innovation, other sources of the EU and access to EU funding, such as the SME instrument of H2020, through mentorization and practical tools.

Furthermore, this award comes along with a nomination for the StartUp Europe Awards 2016, an initiative promoted by the European Commission and implemented by Finnova under the umbrella of the StartUp Europe. Interest in this initiative has also arise in several General Directions, amongst which DG GROWTH and DG CONNECT, related to the entrepreneurship and new technologies and communication networks, respectively, outstand. Several members from the European Parliament and members of the Committee of the Regions have also expressed their interest.

StartUp Europe Awards main goal is rewarding the most innovative European start-ups in 8 categories: Green, social innovation, ICTs, energy, tourism, cities, creative industries and water, and in five levels (local, province, regional, national, and European). Likewise, StartUp Europe Awards aims at rewarding the effort made by the startup awards organisers and entrepreneurs all across Europe, thus providing them with visibility and European scope, and contributing to the internationalisation of SMEs and collaboration.

Within the Zinc Shower event, Finnova has also rewarded other two projects, offering them nominations to the StartUp Europe Awards 2016. Those selected are: Smolph, in the category of Creative Industries (nominated for the Creative StartUp Europe Awards) and Ecoche, in the category of Green (nominated for the Green StartUp Europe Award).

How to apply to StartUp Europe Awards: startups@startupeuropeawards.eu

Zinc Shower, first Spanish startup awards organisers to become member of the StartUp Europe Awards Alliance.

Zinc Shower has become today the first Spanish member of the StartUp Europe Awards Alliance, which already counts on other members as the StartUp Awards Ireland.

The inclusion of Zinc Shower in the SEA Alliance as member of the StartUp Europe Awards Alliance means an increasing of visibility and potential at European and international level, giving them the opportunity of creating synergies with other organisations that focus their work on the support to the entrepreneurship.

How to join the StartUp Europe Awards Alliance: alliance@startupeuropeawards.eu

Finnova and the case of NOBEL GRID in Zinc Shower.

The Foundation Finnova has played an essential role in Zinc Shower. The Head of Regenerative Business Innovation for Finnova, Sharam Yalda, and the communication officer of StartUp Europe Accelerator, Catalina Valencia, took part in the event highlighting the opportunities for entrepreneurship in the European Union. Thus, the participants got to know the financing tools and the sources from the European Union to support innovative projects, as well as open calls, Fast Track to Innovation, LIFE programme and SME instrument. Likewise, H2020 NOBEL GRID, which is funded with 13,8 million euros, and which goal is to provide advanced tools and ICTs services  to all the actors in the electricity market to guarantee the best prices, more security and stability, was introduced as a model for the transformative innovation.

Nobel Grid as tractor project for entrepreneurship, offers an open platform on which the SMEs and startups can develop innovative applications within the new digital energetic efficiency, renewable energy and net management.

La startup “Human Surge” reconocida en ZINC SHOWER con el premio StartUP Europe Accelerator y una nominación a los “Social StartUp Europe Awards 2016”. Zinc Shower, primer miembro español de la StartUp Europe Awards Alliance.

Madrid, 20 de mayo 2016. El reconocimiento a la labor de la startup ‘Human Surge’, cuyo objetivo es mejorar la calidad de la ayuda humanitaria y la protección civil, ha tenido lugar durante el evento de clausura del meeting show de la Transformación colaborativa, Zinc Shower. Para el director general de la Fundación Finnova, Juan Manuel Revuelta, quien hizo entrega del premio, “‘Human Surge’ ofrece una solución tecnológica en línea al reto de la capacidad de reacción a la que se enfrentan los mecanismos de ayuda humanitaria en respuesta a desastres a nivel mundial; y sin duda, se trata de una iniciativa que puede tener un gran impacto social además de estar alineada con retos sociales que ha identificado Europa como prioritarios”.

Gracias al premio StartUp Europe Accelerator, un miembro del equipo de “Human Surge” podrá recibir aceleración para su startup en el espacio de coworking del que dispone Finnova en Bruselas. Entre otros beneficios, este programa ofrece acompañamiento en la internacionalización de su iniciativa, networking especializado en el ámbito de innovación social, otros recursos de la Unión Europea y acceso a financiación UE, como el programa Instrumento Pyme de H2020, a través de mentorización y herramientas prácticas.

Además, este reconocimiento viene acompañado de una nominación a los StartUp Europe Awards 2016 (SEA2016), iniciativa promovida por la Comisión Europea y organizada por Finnova, para destacar la labor de las startups europeas más innovadoras en 8 categorías: medioambiente, innovación social, tecnologías de la información y comunicación, energía, turismo, ciudades, industrias creativas y agua, y en cinco niveles geográficos (local, provincial, regional, nacional y europeo). Asimismo StartUp Europe Awards pretende reconocer el esfuerzo de los organizadores de certámenes para startups y emprendedores en toda Europa, concediéndoles visibilidad y una dimensión europea, y contribuyendo  así a la internacionalización de las pymes y a su colaboración.

El potencial de esta iniciativa que cuenta desde el principio con el apoyo del programa StartUp Europe de la Comisión Europea, ha llegado a despertar el interés de varias direcciones generales entre las que destacan Growth y CONNECT, dedicadas al emprendimiento y a las nuevas tecnologías de la comunicación respectivamente, así como de múltiples miembros del Parlamento Europeo y miembros del Comité de las Regiones.

En esta ocasión, Finnova también reconoció a otros dos proyectos presentados en Zinc Shower a los que ofreció nominaciones a los StartUp Europe Awards 2016: Smolph, en la categoría Industrias creativas (nominado al Creative StartUp Europe Award) y  Ecoche en la categoría Medio Ambiente (nominado al Green StartUp Europe Award).

Zinc Shower, primer miembro español de la StartUp Europe Awards Alliance

Zinc Shower se ha convertido hoy en el primer miembro español de la StartUp Europe Awards Alliance, que ya cuenta con otros miembros como el concurso de StartUp Awards Ireland; gracias a su labor continuada de apoyo a los emprendedores, a través de un evento de referencia que otorga valor a iniciativas emergentes creativas y de otros ámbitos.

El reconocimiento de Zinc Shower como miembro de la StartUp Europe Awards Alliance supone el incremento de su visibilidad y potencial a nivel europeo e internacional, dándole la oportunidad de estrechar lazos con otras organizaciones que centran su trabajo en el apoyo al emprendimiento.

Finnova y el caso de NOBEL GRID en Zinc Shower

Por otra parte, la fundación Finnova ha tenido una destacada participación en Zinc Shower a través de dos charlas ofrecidas por el Jefe de Modelos de Negocios Regenerativos de Finnova, Sharam Yalda y la responsable de Comunicación de StartUp Europe Accelerator, Catalina Valencia. En las charlas se presentaron las herramientas financieras y los recursos de los que dispone la Unión Europea para apoyar a los proyectos innovadores, así como las convocatorias vigentes, Fast Track to Innovation, programa LIFE e Instrumento PYME. Asimismo, fue presentado como ejemplo de innovación transformadora el proyecto H2020 NOBEL GRID,  el cual está dotado con 13,8 millones de euros, y su objetivo es proporcionar herramientas avanzadas y servicios de TIC a todos los actores en el mercado de electricidad para garantizar mejores precios, más seguridad y estabilidad.

Nobel Grid, como proyecto tractor del emprendimiento, ofrece una plataforma abierta sobre la que las PYMES y startups pueden desarrollar aplicaciones innovadoras dentro de la nueva eficiencia energética digital, energía renovable y gestión de redes.

The Youth Program promoted and funded by the Directorate General of Immigration of the General Secretariat for Immigration and Emigration from Spain is designed to promote social and professional integration of young Spaniards living abroad under 35 years through specific actions that allow them to continue their education through training programs or internships, professional expertise and entrepreneurship, with the aim of incorporating them into the labor market of the country of residence, and also advanced programs for foreign language, or, where appropriate, the use of his experience to return to Spain.

El Programa Jóvenes, promovido y subvencionado desde la Dirección General de Migraciones de la Secretaría General de Inmigración y Emigración de España, está destinado a favorecer la integración social y laboral de los jóvenes españoles residentes en el exterior menores de 35 años mediante actuaciones específicas que les permitan continuar con su formación a través de programas de formación o prácticas en empresas, de especialización profesional y de emprendimiento, con el objetivo de su incorporación en el mercado laboral del país de residencia, así como programas de perfeccionamiento de lengua extranjera, o en su caso, el aprovechamiento de su experiencia para el retorno a España.

Finnova coordina dos iniciativas que cuentan con el apoyo del Programa Jóvenes: StartUp Europe Accelerator y EU Training Platform 

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(ENGLISH VERSION) Finnova and Adapt Chiles have signed a collaboration agreement to promote, disseminate, enable and advise associated municipalities and cities in the topics related to Climate Change, thus promoting intercollaboration in this area.

Within the framework of the Circular Economy Mission in Chile, the General Director of Finnova, Juan Manuel Revuelta highlighted the Belgian Foundation’s committment with the fight against the climate change by implementing the best available technologies in the sector of environment.

Likewise, Finnova specialised in European technologies and patents based in Bio-economy, which allows a real alternative to dumps, and also the energetic valorization of the solid urban wastes. Thanks to which we can save more than 80% compared to traditional systems.

It is worthsaying that among others achievements, Finnova has gained funding for an European Project on ennergetic efficiency (Nobel Grid).

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(SPANISH VERSION) Finnova y Adapt Chile han firmado un convenio de colaboración con el fin de promover, difundir, capacitar y asesorar a los municipios y ciudades asociadas en los temas referentes al Cambio Climático promoviendo la colaboración en este tema a nivel local.

En el marco de la Misión de Economía Circular de la Comisión Europea en Chile, el director de Finnova, Juan Manuel Revuelta ha resaltado el compromiso de la fundación belga con la lucha contra el cambio climático a través de sus esfuerzos por implantar las mejores tecnologías disponibles en el área de Medio Ambiente.

En esa misma línea, Finnova se especializa también en tecnologías y patentes europeas basadas en la Bio-economía, que permite una alternativa real al vertedero (relleno sanitario), y que a su vez permite la valorización energética del residuo sólido urbano así como su depuración con un 80% de ahorro con respecto a otros sistemas tradicionales.

Entre los logros de la fundación en el área de medio ambiente, especialmente en el sector de la energía, se encuentra el proyecto Nobel Grid, cuya actividad se centra en la eficiencia energética).

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  Juan Manuel Revuelta, Director of Finnova, and Cristóbal Reveco presidente de Adapt Chile after signing the collaboration agreement.

Juan Manuel Revuelta, director de Finnova, y Cristóbal Reveco, presidente de Adapt-Chile en la firma del Convenio.

Representatives for the European Commission in Chile (Daniel Calleja, Director General of DG Environment), backing up the agreement signed by Finnova and Adapat Chile. 

Representates de la Comisión Europea en Chile (Daniel Calleja, Director General de DG Environment), respaldando el convenio de colaboración firmado entre Finnova y Adapt Chile.

Ver el video: https://youtu.be/Yg3DotzxbB8

StartUp Europe Awards is an initiative promoted by the European Commission and implemented by Finnova in collaboration with Startup Europe. It aims at recognising, on the one hand, the work carried out by the startups based in Europe and, on the other hand, creating a StartUp Europe Awards Alliance

After a hard evaluation process by a jury composed by Carlos Corao, Director of Communication Package, Rafael Díaz, Director of ESNE, Eva Egido, Audiovisual Communication Officer and Jezabel Martínez Fábregas, Head of Communications at Finnova, StartUp Europe Awards 2016 has already a logo.

Fifteen students from ESNE replied to the contest we called earlier in April jointly with the Design School ESNE based in Madrid (Spain). The high quality of every single work made the decision really hard, but finally, the Jury decided that the following logo, designed by Álvaro Ramos would be the logo for the StartUp Europe Awards.

StartUp Europe Awards is an initiative promoted by the European Commission and implemented by Finnova in collaboration with Startup Europe. It aims at recognising, on the one hand, the work carried out by the startups based in Europe and, on the other hand, creating a StartUp Europe Awards Alliance.

Learn more at: www.awards.finnovaregio.com