Info Webinar: get to know everything about our S3E Open Call #1 for deep tech SOLVERS
Are you a Startup or SME with a deep tech solution from a South European country?
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📅26 April
⌚13.00 CET
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S3E Reserve is designed to help scaling start-ups and more mature SMEs, gain market traction through a pan-European brokerage program, that will connect them with corporates and public organisations with certain challenges and problems, which they can work together to solve.
The program started inviting larger companies, corporations, and public organisations (Challenge Organisations) to submit a challenge through our Open Call Mechanism. Our experts and independent technology brokers (selected through an open Expression of Interest) have reviewed the submitted challenges and have selected 15 with the highest degree of potential, impact and innovation and feasibility.
The challenges are published here.
The Open Call for Solvers is now open inviting start-ups, scale-ups and SMEs to respond to these challenges through deep tech solutions.
S3E invites you to join the Info Session about S3E REVERSE for SOLVERS that will take place virtually on 26 of APRIL 2023 at 13:00 CET
Content for the session:
- S3E Introduction
- S3E REVERSE
- OPEN CALL for SOLVERS: What is it? Who can apply? How it works? Application process.
- Meet the CHALLENGES
- Q&A
Looking forward to meeting you!
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You can also join our MISSION!
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S3E at the Danube Lighthouse Conference of the EU Ocean Mission!
Last week, our team members Christina Deligianni and Spyros Kouvelis from the Institute for Sustainable Development at EPLO travelled to Bucharest, Romania, to attend the Danube Lighthouse Conference of the EU Ocean Mission.
The Danube lighthouse, which is part of the EU Mission ''Restore our Ocean and Waters by 2030'' 🌊
With a 2030 target, this EU Mission aims to protect and restore the health of our ocean and waters through research and innovation, citizen engagement and blue investments. The Mission’s new approach will address the ocean and waters as one and play a key role in achieving climate neutrality and restoring nature.
Cross-cutting enabling actions will support this objective, in particular broad public mobilisation and engagement and a digital ocean and water knowledge system, known as Digital Twin OceanEN.
The Mission supports regional engagement and cooperation through area-based “lighthouses” in major sea/river basins: Atlantic-Arctic, Mediterranean Sea, Baltic-North Sea, and Danube-Black Sea. Mission lighthouses are sites to pilot, demonstrate, develop and deploy the Mission activities across EU seas and river basins
During the short trip, Christina and Spyros had the chance to visit the Polytechnic School of Bucharest and participate at the launch of the EcoDalli Project. We are grateful for having had excellent meetings with ICLEI, Danube and Black Sea Stakeholders, Romanian National Institute of Marine Geology, Uni of Zagreb, amongst others, and spread the word about the South European Deep Tech Revolution 🚀 🔥
You can also join our MISSION!
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S3E at the Empowering Female Entrepreneurship Summit 2023
"Empowering Female Entrepreneurship" is a two-day summit that brings together inspiring speakers from all Europe, female entrepreneurs, EU officials, investors and key stakeholders in business.
The summit was held on the 8-9 of March in Brussels, coinciding with International Women’s Day. Co-organised by the European Female Founders with the support of the European Commission, who initiated the network, the event brought together more than 60 participants. On behalf of the S3E team, our Community Manager, Carmen Serna, attended the event and had the opportunity to meet inspiring female founders.
Two days of inspiration
The speech of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel and the EU Gender Equality Champions Awards opened the summit. Gabriel handed the prizes to the winners of this pioneering initiative that celebrates the outstanding results achieved in implementing gender equality plans by academic and research organisations.
During the first day, participants listened to panels and exchanged knowledge and experiences on critical topics such as how to foster female entrepreneurship, build strong ecosystems and diverse communities and tackle the gender gap regarding access to funding.
Some takeaways from the session remind us that entrepreneurship is crucial to Europe’s economic growth. Yet women entrepreneurs continue to face different gendered challenges, from lack of funding to expectations that they will perform unpaid care duties at home. In this sense, by promoting women’s entrepreneurship, European societies could accelerate economic growth and women’s participation in the marketplace.
In the second day, participants witnessed powerful testimonies about the entrepreneurship journey. With a mix of Keynote Speeches and interactive and stimulating workshops, they learned practical information about where and how to get funding, mental resilience for entrepreneurs and diversity and inclusion.
The "Empowering Female Entrepreneurship" summit has created a rich forum for discussion, experience sharing, and alignment to understand better why female entrepreneurship in Europe is still lagging. It has also brought inspirational and educational content to empower female entrepreneurs. In this first edition, outstanding speakers have shared pinpoint female founders' struggles and discussed the measures needed. Fundamental topics, such as funding, networking, building ecosystems, education, mental resilience, diversity and inclusion have been addressed over the two days.
Impact and Mission of European Female Founders
Female-led companies represent only 5% of all VC backed startups, with this percentage going downnto 2% if the team is all-women. For this reason, Commissioner Gabriel is asking European women to raise their voices. In May 2022, European Female Founders was created on her initiative. This network brings together European women entrepreneurs to propose concrete actions to enable equal opportunities for all founders. The network aims to inspire, encourage and act to support female entrepreneurship for an inclusive and diverse Europe.
S3E's contribution to achieving gender equality
At S3E, we are committed to supporting women’s economic empowerment and entrepreneurship as part of our innovation programs. S3E focuses on the acceleration of deep tech projects, startups, and SMEs that, by providing solutions towards a more sustainable society and economy, can impact social development and economic growth in these countries and contribute to the timely achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in line with the EU Green Deal, the EU Digital Agenda and the Recovery Plan for Europe. Because of this mission, we are at the frontline of making female researchers and innovators thrive.
Learn how we are supporting women entrepreneurship through our three innovative programs (START, CHARGE and REVERSE) and check our current opportunities to join the SOUTHERN DEEP TECH REVOLUTION.
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S3E meets EU Commissioner Mariya Gabriel, responsible for Horizon Europe
On 26th January, 2023, the S3E project participated at the workshop ''How Horizon Europe European innovation ecosystems projects support new European Innovation Agenda'' in Brussels.
This first workshop organised by the European Commission and host by Ms. Mariya Gabriel, the Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth was an opportunity to present the first wave of projects funded under the European Innovation Ecosystems Work Programme in support of the New European Innovation Agenda (NEIA).
‘’It’s the first time since 2010 that we have a document that articulates a comprehensive strategy for innovation in Europe. And this is crucial to our ambition, which is to unlock the innovation potential in Europe.’’
Mariya Gabriel
The New European Innovation Agenda is a comprehensive strategy put forth by the European Union to promote innovation and competitiveness. It was adopted in July 2022 and aims to accelerate the digital transformation of the EU economy and society. One of the key components of the NEIA is the EU’s focus on deep tech and their potential to drive innovation.
We met more than 40 projects which directly contribute to three flagships of the New European Innovation Agenda: scaling up deep-tech innovative companies; enabling innovation through public procurement and strengthening innovation ecosystems across the EU by addressing the innovation divide. The projects are included in the new European Innovation Ecosystems (EIE) Data Hub, an interactive database showing all projects funded under the EIE programme.
‘’We count a lot in you, you are the green and digital transition, you are the circular economy, you are the health digitalisation, you are this new wave of deep tech innovation that would like to see Europe as leader, as powerhouse.''
Mariya Gabriel
S3E – The Engine for South European Deep Tech is one of the selected projects and during our presentation, Cláudia Barbosa shared the perfectly alignment of the S3E project with the goals of this NEIA, positioning Southern Europe at the forefront of the new wave of deep tech innovation and start-ups. S3E’s mission is to support moderate and emerging innovators to develop new technologies to address the most pressing societal challenges and improve the market connectedness & efficiency of research teams, startups & SMEs working on Deep Tech.
‘’Its only by working together that we can create this more open, more dynamic, more competitive Europe.''
Mariya Gabriel
Watch S3E 1 MINUTE PITCH
https://youtu.be/oC3W18EmOYM
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How S3E supports the new European Innovation Agenda
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Learn how we are going to accomplish our mission through our three innovative programs (START, CHARGE and REVERSE) and get ready to APPLY to the Open Call #1 to join the SOUTHERN DEEP TECH REVOLUTION.
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Presentation of S3E REVERSE to I4byDesign, a competence center for Industry 4.0
Yesterday we organised a virtual information session to the 22 member companies of I4byDesign.
The presentation was done by our colleague Odysseas Spyroglou, R&I Projects Lead at International Development Ireland and it was delivered in Greek.
The I4byDesign Competence Center, with a focus on Industry 4.0 technologies, provides strategic and operational support to Greek manufacturing companies, with the aim of the digital and technological transformation of their industrial processes. Through a wide range of knowledge, methodologies, digital tools and services, it reshapes their organizational, business and strategic models, while maintaining their competitiveness at a high level.
I4byDesign, in the form of a Collaborative Innovation Formation, is framed by 1 research organization and 22 Greek companies in the field of Industry 4.0 and Logistics 4.0, being a connecting link between research and business.
If you are interested in watching the session, click below:
Learn how we are going to accomplish our mission through our three innovative programs (START, CHARGE and REVERSE) and get ready to APPLY to the Open Call #1 to join the SOUTHERN DEEP TECH REVOLUTION.
Do not miss our official communications.
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How S3E supports the new European Innovation Agenda
The New European Innovation Agenda (NEIA) is a comprehensive strategy put forth by the European Union (EU) to promote innovation and competitiveness. It was adopted in July 2022 and aims to accelerate the digital transformation of the EU economy and society.
One of the key components of the NEIA is the EU’s focus on deep tech and their potential to drive innovation. Another important aspect of the NEIA is the EU’s commitment to fostering entrepreneurship and small businesses. The agenda includes initiatives to support the creation and growth of new companies, particularly in the areas of clean energy, digital technologies, and health care.
In addition, the NEIA aims to increase the collaboration between the private sector, research institutions, and governments to foster innovation. This includes the creation of new partnerships and the development of new funding opportunities to support joint research and development projects. One of these projects is S3E – The Engine for South European Deep Tech.
The S3E project aligns perfectly with the goals of the New European Innovation Agenda, positioning Southern Europe at the forefront of the new wave of deep tech innovation and start-ups. S3E’s mission is to support moderate and emerging innovators to develop new technologies to address the most pressing societal challenges and improve the market connectedness & efficiency of research teams, startups & SMEs working on Deep Tech.
Europe wants to be the place where the best talent work hand in hand with the best companies and where deep tech innovation thrives and creates breakthrough innovative solutions across the continent. S3E is one of the projects working towards this purpose and that is why we have invited by the European Commission to participate in the workshop ``How Horizon Europe European innovation ecosystems projects support new European Innovation Agenda´´ next Thursday 26th January, 2023.
Event and Web-streaming link:
How S3E supports the new European Innovation Agenda
New European Innovation Agenda |
S3E – The Engine for South European Deep Tech |
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Improve access to finance for European start-ups and scale-ups, for example, by mobilising untapped sources of private capital and simplifying listing rules |
S3E has created three types of progams to accelerate Deep Tech projects and solutions coming from research teams, start-ups and SMEs that can impact social development and economic growth for a more sustainable future. |
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Improve the conditions to allow innovators to experiment with new ideas through regulatory sandboxes |
As part of these three innovation programs (START, CHARGE and REVERSE), S3E upskills researchers to fast-track science to the market, S3E supports growth stage startups in business development, S3E brokers access to investment and S3E facilitates Open Innovation with industry. |
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Help create “regional innovation valleys” that will strengthen and better connect innovation players through Europe, including in regions lagging behind |
S3E is focused on a group of countries (Southern Europe) that are lagging behind in terms of innovation-led social and economic growth and that, because of their geographic location, share some common socio-economic traits that may contribute to facilitate the deployment of this growth engine. |
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Attract and retain talent in Europe, for example by training 1 million deep tech talents, increasing support for women innovators and innovating with start-up employees’ stock options |
Through several open calls, S3E will support 150+ Deep Tech ventures to develop disruptive solutions built around unique, protected or hard-to-reproduce breakthroughs, and embodies products, processes or services capable of fulfilling currently unmet (or ill-met) market needs. S3E will unlock the untapped innovation potential of Southern European Deep Tech, targeting scientific and technical excellence in the fields of agricultural, life and physical sciences, engineering and technology. |
| Improve the policy framework through clearer terminology, indicators and data sets, as well as policy support to Member States |
South3E alignment with EU priorities and strategies strengths our commitment to improve the market connectedness & efficiency of research teams, startups & SMEs working on Deep Tech through the acceleration of Deep Tech projects coming from research teams, and deep tech solutions coming from start-ups and SMEs that can impact social development and economic growth for a more sustainable future. |
S3E participates at the 'Startups for Sustainability' event
On January 19, 2023, S3E participated at the event organised by Envolve Greece and Generation AG called 'Startups for Sustainability'. The event took place in Athens, Greece.
The audience was composed of students interested in entrepreneurship willing to learn about sustainable development goals and how they can be a competitive advantage for them when creating new businesses.
Christina Deligianni, as we can see in the picture below, presented the S3E project as an opportunity for entrepreneurs to develop new business ideas based on deep tech and meeting the UN SDGs.
Thank you Christina, and EPLO team, to spreading the word and inviting the Greek ecosystem to join the S3E mission.
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S3E visits the Portuguese innovation ecosystem for its Open Call #1 last Roadshow
The consortium of S3E – The Engine for South European Deep Tech is pleased to announce the celebration of the third Roadshow in Portugal as part of the promotion activities of its First Open Call.
We are very happy to visit Portugal since it’s the country where S3E was born. S3E project is inspired by the HiSeedTech program aiming to fulfill a gap in the entrepreneurship ecosystem, supporting the translation of cutting-edge technology and scientific discoveries into new business opportunities.
HiSeedTech has been working during last 10 years being an enabler of investments in technology-based ventures and licensing opportunities by providing the business community, venture capital investors and potential licensors a deal flow of duly-scrutinized projects.
HiSeedTech joined IDI, EPLO and AUTRALO to create South3E, an engine of growth to improve the connectedness and efficiency of the entrepreneurship ecosystems in Southern European countries. The EU funded project South3E will accelerate Deep Tech projects and solutions coming from research teams, start-ups and SMEs that can impact social development and economic growth for a more sustainable future.
Through the Open Call #1, S3E will select and support the development of disruptive solutions built around unique, protected or hard-to-reproduce breakthroughs, and embodies products, processes or services capable of fulfilling currently unmet (or ill-met) market needs. This new engine will unlock the untapped innovation potential of Southern European Deep Tech, targeting scientific and technical excellence in the fields of agricultural, life and physical sciences, engineering and technology.
The S3E Open call closes the 10 February 2023 (17h CEST), so there’s still time for interested applicants to prepare their applications.
To promote this opportunity all around, HiSeedTech will be meeting different members of the Portuguese Research and Innovation ecosystem to present the project and the S3E programs and services that are available through the open call process.
These are the scheduled meetings as part of the Portuguese Roadshow:
- 12/01/2023- 14:30 - i3S- Research and innovation in the Health Sciences
- 24/01/2023- 14:30 - ICVS - Life and Health Sciences Research Institute
- 25/01/2023- 14:30 - UPTEC
- 31/01/2023- 14:30 - Aveiro University
- 01/02/2023- 14:30 - Tec Labs, Innovation Center
- 02/02/2023- 14:30 - INESC MN
Check out this teaser video
https://youtu.be/_WhfmjQSMMw
Join our Roadshow tour following our social media channels (Twitter, Linkedin and Youtube)
and get ready to APPLY to the Open Call #1 to join the SOUTHERN DEEP TECH REVOLUTION.
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Open Call #1 is on the move: S3E travels to Milan for the Italian Roadshow
The consortium of S3E – The Engine for South European Deep Tech is pleased to announce the celebration of the Second Roadshow in Italy as part of the promotion activities of its First Open Call. As part of the development of an engine of growth that will improve the connectedness and efficiency of the entrepreneurship ecosystems in Southern European countries, the EU funded project South3E will accelerate Deep Tech projects and solutions coming from research teams, start-ups and SMEs that can impact social development and economic growth for a more sustainable future.
Through the Open Call #1, S3E will select and support the development of disruptive solutions built around unique, protected or hard-to-reproduce breakthroughs, and embodies products, processes or services capable of fulfilling currently unmet (or ill-met) market needs. This new engine will unlock the untapped innovation potential of Southern European Deep Tech, targeting scientific and technical excellence in the fields of agricultural, life and physical sciences, engineering and technology.
The S3E Open call closes the 10 February 2023 (17h CEST), so there’s still time for interested applicants to prepare their applications.
During 17-18 January, project partners will be meeting different members of the Milan Research and Innovation ecosystem to present the project and the S3E programs and services that are available through the open call process.
On January 17th
9.30 – 10.00: START Information Session (virtual). Register here
10.30 – 15.00: S3E internal project meeting
16.00 – 17.00: S3E meets BAIN & Company (to be confirmed)
On January 18th, S3E team will meet:
10.00 – 11.00: B4i - Bocconi for innovation
12.30 – 13.30: PoliHub
15.00 – 16.00: Presentation at the Politecnico di Milano
We hope this to have a cascading effect, and the S3E project and open call opportunity reaches other members of the Italian Research and Innovation ecosystem.
Check out this teaser video
https://youtu.be/4ME6SIAAE44
Join our Roadshow tour following our social media channels (Twitter, Linkedin and Youtube)
and get ready to APPLY to the Open Call #1 to join the SOUTHERN DEEP TECH REVOLUTION.
Do not miss our official communications.
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S3E is presented at the Athens Stock Exchange – A Driver for the Greek Economy Growth Conference
S3E team member, Nikos Therapos, project manager at the Institute for Sustainable Development by EPLO, presented the S3E project at the 20th Investment & Stock Conference organized by the Association of Investors and Internet (SED), on December 17 & 18, entitled "Athens Stock Exchange – A Driver for the Greek Economy Growth".
Nikos' presentation took place on December 18, 2022 in the first Panel on "Professional orientation of Greek University students". Below you can find some pictures.
The audience were Greek University students. https://sed.gr/
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