november, 2017
28nov15:0018:00EU support for Startups and ScaleupsEU Top 50 Workshop15:00 - 18:00
Time
(Tuesday) 15:00 - 18:00
Location
CoR, JDE51
Event Details
There is a €3 billion equity-free cash pot waiting for you to be grabbed on your way to become the next tech star in Europe and you didn’t know about
Event Details
There is a €3 billion equity-free cash pot waiting for you to be grabbed on your way to become the next tech star in Europe and you didn’t know about it? Well, unless you prefer your competitor to take it prove us your outstanding growth potential, your impact on the market and we start to be interested in you! The European funding program “SME Instrument” invests between € 50,000 and € 2.5 million in highly innovative small businesses (from EU and associated countries[1]), topped with free coaching and life-long business acceleration support to bring your innovation faster to the market.
Interested to learn more? Come and discuss directly with the “SME Instrument” team for insider tips on your application and the program and get valuable peer2peer advice by startups that successfully convinced Europe to invest in them! What are you waiting for?
Organizer
Knowledge4Innovation Forum
Host
Angelika Mlinar, MEP
Clare Moody, MEP
Speakers
Kurt Vandenberghe,
Director, Policy Development and Coordination Directorate, DG RTD
Agnieszka Stasiakowska,
Senior Business Analyst at EASME, SME Instrument team
Katja Reppel,
Deputy Head of Unit for Smart and Sustainable Growth, DG REGIO
Martin Kern,
Interim Director, EIT
Diego Pavia,
CEO, EIT InnoEnergy
Patrice Lefeu,
Executive Director, Ernst&Young
Isidro Laso Ballesteros,
Head of Sector Startup and Scaleup, DG CNECT
Bill Manos,
Business Development Consultant; Professor EPITA Graduate School