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Today’s urban systems need to adapt to a growing population in order to sustain and provide a healthy, smart and green environment. Smart technologies, solutions and innovations are needed. The EU-funded URBAN TECH project will support the acceleration of competitive success of European SMEs through market launch of new or significantly improved products and services with higher value in Health Tech, Smart City and Greentech industry sectors. The project will also bring together different stakeholders of the industry value chain to support SMEs in scaling their solutions.

Kaunas Science and Technology Park invites you to apply and develop solutions together in these fields:

  • Health Technologies
  • Smart City
  • Green Technologies

What are the benefits?

  • Selected SMEs that offer the best solutions to the challenge will be accelerated and funded;
  • Get access to more than €50,000 in financial support;
  • There will be an opportunity to cooperate with URBAN TECH partners and SMEs from all over Europe;
  • Receive invitations to URBAN TECH hackathons, demo days and various events to expand your network and portfolio of practical skills;
  • The selected companies will be promoted through various URBAN TECH channels.

How to participate?

  1. Describe your challenge, need or problem in the challenge description form. 
  2. Submit the form by e-mail: [email protected].

More information HERE. 

About

EUHubs4Data is an Innovation Action project co-funded by the European Union to set up a European federation of Data Driven Innovation Hubs, aimed at establishing as the reference on innovation and experimentation on Big Data, and which will ensure access to SMEs in their respective regional ecosystems to a global catalogue of data sources and federated data driven services.

What are the benefits?

  • €60k funding per experiment
  • Access to advanced assets on Big Data
  • Technical & business coaching and follow-up support by DIHs
  • Visibility and promotion
  • Exploitation plan
  • Digital & Business skills

Maximum funding amount

€60,000

Guidelines for Applicants can be found HERE. 

More information and application HERE.

About


REACH is an incubator funded by the European Commission that will support selected data-fuelled start-ups & SMEs through a 11-month incubation programme facilitating the development of trusted and secure innovative solutions based on industrial and personal data. Our innovation focused ecosystem, services and tools facilitate cross-sector and multi-stakeholder experimentation and data innovation.

What are the benefits?

  • Equity free funding of up to €120k
  • Access to large corporations and their industrial data sets
  • Access to digital and business skills
  • Reach toolbox for secure and trusted data value chains
  • Big data computing infrastructure
  • Access to private investment
  • Visibility

Eligibility

The accepted applicants for REACH open calls are start-ups in the form of SMEs, that fit with the proposed participation tracks:

Individual SME experiment: Data Driven SMEs or Startups solving challenges and experiments.

Collaborative SME experiment: Several data driven SMEs will conduct different experiments under a common DVC theme or Data Provider’s challenge. This way of collaboration will be fostered by REACH partners, for example, identifying synergies among applicants along the incubation and facilitating their collaboration. The consortium will aim 20% of the experiments progressing on this collaborative scheme to contribute towards the DVC concept.

  • The use of big data tools is needed.
  • Uniqueness of the proposal.

Maximum funding amount

€120,000

More information and application HERE.

About

Boosting Widening Digital Innovation Hubs (BOWI) is a project funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union.  BOWI aims to support Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs), SMEs, and Midcaps by facilitating the access and uptake of Smart Anything Everywhere (SAE) and ICT for Manufacturing SMEs (I4MS) technologies in underrepresented regions.

BOWI Open Call 3 will distribute up to €2.16 M among 36 SMEs and Mid-caps from the 9 regions described below, to develop their experiments. Additionally, up to €300,000 (€15,000 per experiment) will be made available in the form of a voucher among 20 experiments from particular regions.

What are the benefits? 

  • Technical support from local widening hub
  • Business mentoring from local widening hub
  • Guidelines and support from Mature Hub: from the BOWI partners Mature Hub; from BOWI validated Mature Hubs via vouchers
  • Access to specific facilities and infrastructure
  • Media exposure

To do what? 

SMEs and Midcaps can be focused both on a product or a manufacturing process. The experiments should address the application of at least one of the following technology areas:

  • Low energy computing powering CPS
  • Cyber-physical and embedded systems
  • Internet of things
  • Flexible and Wearable Electronics
  • Organic and Large Area Electronics
  • Advanced or High-performance computing
  • Robotics for manufacturing
  • Additive manufacturing technologies
  • Modelling and simulation
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • CPS for manufacturing
  • Cloud computing
  • Digital twins, data sharing, autonomous factories

Maximum funding amount

€60,000

More information and application HERE

You are advised to contact your local widening hub for further information and support. The hub for Lithuania is Sunrise Valley Digital Innovation Hub.

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I-NERGY is an EU funded H2020 innovation project around Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Next Generation Energy aiming at reshaping the energy sector value chain towards better business and operational performance, increased environmental sustainability and the creation of a stronger social fabric propagating high social value among citizens.

Calling for

Single (individual) SMEs, including startups, registered no later than 8th November 2021 as a company in The Member States of the European Union and its Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT) or Associated Countries to H2020.

What you will get

Receive Up to 50K Eur in two deliverables! up to 10K Eur in deliverable 1, for the individual mentoring plan and proof of concept, and up to 40k Eur for the prototype development. 

More information and application HERE. 

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The New European Bauhaus Climate Acceleration Programme aims at supporting the most promising New European Bauhaus (NEB) related ventures bringing together simultaneously in their operations or solutions the three dimensions of sustainability (including circularity), quality of experience (including aesthetics) and inclusion (including accessibility and affordability).

Calling for

Early-stage startups developing scalable solutions with high potential to make an impact on climate issues  through the specific NEB challenges indicates and bringing in their products/solutions the three dimensions of NEB: sustainability (including circularity), quality of experience (including aesthetics) and inclusion (including accessibility and affordability).

What you will get

Four companies will each receive a €25,000 prize to accelerate their growth and a tailored package of supporting services valued at €25,000. Total grant per startup is €50,000.

More information and application. 

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EIT Digital Accelerator’s mission is to support fast-growing European digital deep tech ventures to become prominent global players. Its team of venture capital & business experts specialises in deep tech and leverages a pan-European network of investors and top corporations to help your company raise Series A & Series B founding, expand your market share and acquire international customers.

The programme is targeted at scaleups that are leveraging the power of digital transformation to create innovative solutions and products across industries, cities and communities integrating circularity, inclusion and aesthetics in order to foster green, safe and sustainable future.

Calling for

Fast-growing European ‘deep tech’ startups in growth stage (scaleups) with a differentiating product offering that leverages sophisticated, hard-to-reproduce digital technologies. Ideally you are looking to raise Series A or B funding in the near future and/or expand your market presence in Europe.

What you will get

The best 4 companies will receive a full year of tailored international growth support by the EIT Digital Accelerator worth €50,000 to scale up their business.

Raise your next Series A or Series B funding round from European investors in a faster and smarter way with the support of the Access to Finance team

More information and application. 

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EIT Food Accelerator Network (FAN) is for agrifood startups making a big impact on any part of the agriculture or food supply chain, thus committed to building a healthier, more trusted and sustainable food system for local and global communities.

Calling for

Agri-food startups that are set to make a big impact on any part of the agriculture or food supply chain thus committed to building a healthier, more trusted and sustainable food system.

What you will get

The best 4 companies will receive 6 months of tailored international acceleration support by the EIT Food FAN worth €50,000 to accelerate their growth and impact.

More information and application. 

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EIT Manufacturing - Green & Socially Sustainable Manufacturing: Startup Acceleration Call For startups enabling green and socially sustainable manufacturing, fostering long term, life cycle and integrated thinking in the industrial ecosystem.

Calling for

Innovative startups actively looking to grow and enhance their business development efforts or raise venture funding now or in the near future.

What you will get

Four companies will be selected to receive a €15,000 cash prize to accelerate their growth in addition to a tailored package of access to market and access to finance services, valued at €35,000 and provided by EIT Manufacturing’s Business Creation team.

More information and application. 

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EIT Urban Mobility Accelerator – taking your mobility startup to the next level, whilst boosting sustainable alternatives for hardscapes as urban spaces, enhancing public realm and accessibility to improve citizens wellbeing, and/or ensuring universal mobility for everyone as a key enabler for social inclusion.

Financed activities

  • Individualized business coaching and training
  • Mentoring by industry experts and experienced founders
  • Validation of your market and technology with access to a network of living labs
  • Finding your product-market fit
  • Scaling your business, driving growth and internationalisation
  • Investor pitch coaching and potential contacts with investors and VC funds
  • Promotion of your startup at the Business Creation portfolio webpage, and through our other communication channels within EIT Urban Mobility
  • Access to EIT Urban Mobility investment initiatives and funding instruments

Calling for

Startups from EU plus EIT participating countries (incl. RIS countries) with a properly validated, clear, scalable and innovative business idea that solves a mobility-related customer problem. Eligibility criteria can be found here. 

What you will get

  • Up to 50.000 EUR of funding in exchange for a similar contribution in equity, or equivalent, to our Financial Sustainability.
  • Acceleration services to grow their businesses fostering sustainable living and to improve quality of life for the world after the pandemic

More information and application.