Research teams participating in S3E START test their business skills during the Value Proposition Pitch
On May 30, from 15:00 CET to 18:30 CET, the research teams participating in the S3E START programme had to present their deep tech projects value proposition in front of a panel composed of the HiSeedTech team - Cláudia Barbosa, Cristina Simões, Nuno Falcão e Cunha and Pedro Vilarinho. The event took place online with an audience of 50 people and was open to participating teams and the technology transfer officers, mentors, and S3E partners (AUSTRALO, EPLO, and IDI).
The session was held midway through the programme implementation and was intended to: (i) serve as a proxy for the Open Day that will take place on July 20; (ii) provide feedback to the teams and test the robustness of the work done to date; (iii) improve their business skills and familiarise them with the types of questions that might arise during real presentations to investors or other stakeholders.
Each research team had 5 minutes to present their value proposition, which included: defining the problem they are solving and the need behind it, defining the technology, the solution they have and identifying the market, the competition and the team behind it.
The pitches were made in the following order:
- BioMEMs: Júlio Rocha, Aveiro University (PT), , Portugal
- BUCKS: Kun V Tian, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
- Cancer Therapeutics: Kanwal Asif, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy
- CAVI: Jurij Gostisa, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
- CE4Land: Ivana Pajčin, Faculty of Technology Novi Sad, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
- DVS: Rossela Zaffino, ICREA/ICMAB-CSIC, Spain
- EditUp: Davide Ederle, Fondazione Hub Innovazione Trentino (HIT), Italy
- HTS-INKS: Mar Tristany, Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Spain
- MARCIA: Clotilde Costa, Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- MET LAB: Diogo Silva, ITQB NOVA - Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Portugal
- Nano-ink: Elif Begum Elcioglu, Eskisehir Technical University, Turkey
- Sumatrix Biotech: Semra Unal Yildirim, Sumatrix Biotech, Turkey
- Breast 4.0: Tiago Marques, Champalimaud Clinical, Portugal
The teams are doing great progress and they still have the following seven weeks to focus on improving their value proposition and presentation to have the business model ready for the S3E START Open Day!
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S3E at WARM, the Worldwide Accelerators Rally at Matosinhos
WARM, the Worldwide Accelerators Rally at Matosinhos is an event that brings together innovation acceleration programs, incubators and TTOs with investors, companies, and startups.
This year edition was organized by RESOLVE-Health. RESOLVE-Health is a technology-based acceleration program designed to provide support and management tools to early-stage projects and start-ups in the health sector, focused on transforming innovative research into profitable ventures. The aim is to foster knowledge transfer, ultimately leading to licensing patents or launching start-ups. This is done by teams of researchers and entrepreneurs involved in this area. RESOLVE-Health is an initiative from I3S - Institute for Innovation and Research in Health in Porto.
WARM goal was to foster a collaborative movement in the health innovation ecosystem and took place on May 25, at Terminal de Cruzeiros do Porto de Leixões, in Matosinhos.
Our team member HiSeedTech had the opportunity to participate and present the S3E program with the focus on S3E Start and share some testimonials of researchers that have already been impacted by our methodology during the panel "Testimonials from Teams Supported by Acceleration Programs!". Claudia Barbosa, S3E Project Coordinator received valuable feedback from the audience and especially from researchers who have seen a change in their lives and the way they look at science, which was truly inspiring. Claudia invited the more than 100 participants to join the S3E community and to be alert for the upcoming Open Call after summer, which will bring new opportunities for researchers and startups from Southern Europe to bring their deep tech ideas into the market.
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Press Release: S3E celebrates the Charge Open Day to present the deep tech solutions of the selected growth startups
S3E celebrates the Charge Open Day to present the deep tech solutions of the selected growth startups
The EU-funded project South3E will celebrate the S3E Charge Open Day on Thursday, 6th July 2023, at 13.00 CET, giving the chance to the participating South European startups to pitch their business ideas.
The consortium of S3E – Southern European Entrepreneurship Engine is pleased to officially announce the celebration of the S3E Charge Open Day. During the last weeks, the S3E project has deployed the S3E Charge Acceleration Program: a 14-week tailor-made mentoring and networking program for the 12 selected startups to develop an investment-ready business plan and support them in their access to non-dilutable and dilutable funding.
Read the official Press Release
On this virtual pitching day, we will facilitate the networking with industry leaders and investors, we will have inspirational speeches and the startups will have the chance to pitch and scale their business opportunities.
When
The event will take place virtually on Thursday, 6th July 2023, at 13.00 CET
How to participate?
The S3E project kindly invites Investors, Business Angels, Business Support Organisations, Innovation Agencies, Accelerators and Innovation Hubs to register to the event following this link.
Programme
- 13:00 Opening session by Daniel Gassman, Head of sector at the European Commission
- 13:10 Welcome to S3E Deep Tech Revolution: Introduction to Innovation and Sustainability by EPLO Institute for Sustainable Development
- 13:20 Projects presentation I: 7 minutes pitch + 3 minutes of Q&A
- 14:00 Inspirational Speech by Ms. Milena Stoycheva, CEO JA Bulgaria, Interim Action Programme Director INNOVATION, EIT Culture and Creativity*
- 14:10 Projects presentation II : 7 minutes pitch + 3 minutes of Q&A
- 14:50 Building a Team Culture in Deeptech Companies by Ms.Aga Bajer, Founder & CEO at CultureBrained®*
- 15:00 Projects presentation III: 7 minutes pitch + 3 minutes of Q&A
- 15:40 Closing Session by Mr. Spyros Kouvelis, Director EPLO Institute for Sustainable Development
*Speakers pending confirmation.
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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 🚀 🔥
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S3E CHARGE acceleration program kicks-off to support growth startups
S3E team kicked off the CHARGE Acceleration program with an onboarding session with the growth startups selected through the Open Call #1.
The growth startups introduced themselves and their deep tech innovations. They all had the chance to meet each other creating a perfect atmosphere for collaboration, networking and opportunities to grow. During the following 14 weeks, S3E team and the assigned Mentors will be supporting the selected participants defining their business plans and go to market strategies.
About S3E CHARGE acceleration program
S3E Charge offers a 14-week tailor-made mentoring and networking program to develop an investment-ready business plan and support the access to non-dilutable and dilutable funding.
The mentoring process will guide the growth start-up teams in the development of a business plan for a product, service or process that makes them investment ready and takes their validated business case to an investor attractive level. So, they will acquire skills in technology commercialisation, science-based entrepreneurship, business development and intellectual property protection using their own business offerings through tailor-made mentorship.
When the selected startups finish the program, they will have developed a business plan for a product, service or process and acquired skills and be investment ready to:
- link their product/service/process product with market needs,
- better communicate their offerings to potential clients and investors,
- become market ready to pitch, persuade and readapt their business offerings to different audiences, depending on market needs
- connect to ‘Innovation Leaders’ and ‘Strong Innovators’ Ecosystems
- better understand to protect IP
- prepare an investment ready business plan
- get access to funds and funding
The outcome of the S3E Charge will better position them to apply for public or private funding and programs, because it will help them link their business offerings to market needs and become market ready to pitch and attract investments whilst having validated and honed your business plan and your value proposition.
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S3E CHARGE: meet the selected growth startups
S3E CHARGE Open Call results are out!
Between November 7, 2022 and February 10, 2023, growth startups from South European countries submitted their deep tech innovations to the S3E Open Call #1 to participate in our S3E CHARGE Program.
S3E CHARGE is a program that we have designed for growth start-ups with deep tech products, services, or process concepts, grounded in a scientific discovery or meaningful engineering innovation and at a growth development stage, that are already in the market. The program will facilitate selected growth startups to be better aligned with Horizon Europe’s goals, namely by better positioning them to apply for public or private funding and programs, assisting them in linking their business offerings to market needs and becoming market ready to pitch and attract investments whilst having validated and honed their business plan and value proposition.
During the open call period, we received a total of 33 applications and after running and independent evaluation process (counting on external experts) we are very excited to share the selected growth startups that will take part in the first edition of our S3E CHARGE program.
12 GROWTH STARTUPS INVOLVED
| Project name | Team member | Country | Science field | SDG |
| RespiBit | Christodoulos Spagakas | Greece | Medical and health sciences | Good Health and Well-Being (SDG 3) |
| Distinkt | Luca Venza | Spain | Engineering and technology | Industry Innovation and Infrastructure (SDG 9) |
| Grawindy Renewable Energy INC. | Atilla Öztürk | Turkey | Engineering and technology | Industry Innovation and Infrastructure (SDG 9) |
| Bluana Foods | Florin IRIMESCU | Romania | Other | Good Health and Well-Being (SDG 3) |
| Inteligg Private Company (P.C.) | Christos Ioakeimidis | Greece | Engineering and technology | Sustainable Cities and Communities (SDG 11) |
| Digital Bites | Theodoros Sofianos | Greece | Engineering and technology | Industry Innovation and Infrastructure (SDG 9) |
| Psychomeasure | EDUARDO SAMPAIO | Portugal | Medical and health sciences | Good Health and Well-Being (SDG 3) |
| ThetaBiomarkers | Olga Begou | Greece | Medical and health sciences | Good Health and Well-Being (SDG 3) |
| Water2Wk | Juan Suárez | Spain | Medical and health sciences | Sustainable Cities and Communities (SDG 11) |
| Freshwater | Naeria Navarro | Spain | Engineering and technology | Sustainable Cities and Communities (SDG 11) |
| IIO
Arcan |
Pasquale Bombino
Ilaria Pigazzini |
Italy
Italy |
Engineering and technology
Engineering and technology |
WHAT NEXT?
S3E CHARGE offers selected growth startups a 14-week tailor-made mentoring and networking program that aims to provide skills to growth startups to enable them to:
- link the product/service/process product with market needs,
- better communicate their offerings to potential clients and investors,
- become market ready to pitch, persuade and readapt the business offerings to different audiences, depending on market needs
- connect to ‘Innovation Leaders’ and ‘Strong Innovators’ Ecosystems
- better understand to protect IP
- prepare an investment ready business plan
- get access to funds and funding
We congratulate the selected participants and we are looking forward to supporting their deep tech projects!
Deliverable 4.1. Implementation & Deployment of the S3E framework
Deliverable 4.1. Implementation & Deployment of the S3E framework
Submission date: 20 March 2023
The purpose of this deliverable is to present the S3E framework that includes all processes, tools and activities that were designed and are being implemented as part of our Engine programme. In essence, the document is a reference guide with explanations and references to all other documents that have been prepared as part of our project.
Its aim is to serve as a guide in the implementation of our Engine programme.
This Deliverable concludes the results of T4.1 (Connect) and continues with T4.3 (Boost). It will offer to test and pilot the use of the basic features for S3E users to deploy the offered services.
Looking forward to exploring synergies and creating a long-lasting collaboration.
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S3E Open Call #1 Reverse for solvers: startups and SMEs with deep tech solutions
We are looking for deep tech startups and SMEs to respond to the 15 identified challenges
The EU-funded project South3E launches a new Open Call to identify deep tech based solutions to 15 selected market challenges, in the frame of the S3E REVERSE Program.
📃 Press Release S3E Open Call #1 Reverse for solvers 📃
The consortium of S3E – Southern European Entrepreneurship Engine has officially launched the S3E Reverse for Solvers Open Call #1 targeting scaling start-ups and SMEs with deep tech solutions. Through S3E REVERSE, the project creates an Innovation and Technology Brokerage Program aiming at connecting corporates and public organisations (Challenge Organisations) with scale-ups, start-ups and SMEs (Solvers) that can address the identified challenges through their products, services, and solutions, based on deep tech and aligned to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The Open Call for Solvers will be available from 14 March (12.00 pm CET) until 15 May (17.00 pm CET).
The Solvers - SMEs and more mature start-ups - are invited to join the program, submitting their solutions, ideas and products that solve one or more of the 15 identified challenges. These challenges were unveiled by 19 Challenge Organisations since last November 2022 at the first stage of the S3E REVERSE program and reviewed by S3E partners in collaboration with external experts. All of them have the highest degree of potential, impact, innovation, and feasibility and should be addressed through deep tech solutions. Check the selected challenges here.
Who can apply?
Scaling Start-ups and SMEs with deep tech projects and solutions from all Southern Europe, meeting the following criteria:
- Is established in any country of the Southern European science-based innovation ecosystem is eligible for the Horizon Europe program including associated countries.
- Is capable of addressing a challenge that has been submitted as part of the conducted open call for Challenges and which is related to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
- Can justify the development and / or deployment of a Deep Tech solution.
How to apply?
Interested start-ups and SMEs tackling the challenges can apply before 15 May 2023 via F6S and find further information about the application guidelines here. The S3E REVERSE Open Call for Solvers will operate on a ‘first come – first Served’ for the solvers: when a match is identified, the challenge provider organisation and the solver can start working together immediately.
What are the benefits?
- Innovation Readiness Assessment: a Self-assessment of the solver that will help thecompany identify weak points or problems in their growth. Our Technology brokers can then suggest specific actions that can help the solver improve their operations.
- Mentoring (from selected business & innovation experts) based on an assessment of the company that will help the scale-up identify any weak points of problems in their growth scale.
- Coaching (from sustainability experts) will support the company in identifying business cases and potential applications based on their portfolio that could provide solutions to
address sustainability challenges related to the UN SDG of the call. - Training in public procurement, including Pre-Commercial Procurement and Public Procurement for Innovative solutions (PPIs) that will help scale-ups access bigger projects and clients.
- Masterclasses with established experts in their field in topics such as ESG compliance, leadership, onboarding new personnel, customer acquisition, company culture).
- Networking with industry leaders and showcase opportunities at the S3E Open day.
- Technology Brokerage: our technology brokers will help the SMEs and startups prepare their technical offer and match them with the challenge organisations in need.
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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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Six fruitful meetings promoting the S3E Open Call in our Portuguese Roadshow
The consortium of S3E – The Engine for South European Deep Tech has completed the third Roadshow in Portugal as part of the promotion activities of its First Open Call .
We have shared the opportunities that the S3E project bring with more than 125 researchers and Technology Transfer Officers (TTOs)
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 a few days more for interested applicants to prepare their applications.
To promote this opportunity all around, HiSeedTech has met 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.
Follow the Portuguese tour with this photographic summary!
12 January: i3S – Research and innovation in the Health Sciences
24 January – ICVS – Life and Health Sciences Research Institute
25 January: UPTEC
31 January: Aveiro University
1 February: INESC MN Tec Labs, Innovation Center
2 February: Tec Labs, Innovation Center
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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