EIT Digital

Fabio Pianesi

Head of External Collaboration

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The Picture

Digital is Hot …. Europe is lagging behind

Need for a stronger Digital Europe

Pan-European Ecosystem

• >200 Partners

• 9 Nodes + Silicon Valley Hub

• 14 European locations

• Serving the whole of Europe through ARISE

EIT Digital - Connecting Digital Ecosystem

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Pan-European Ecosystem

Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurial Education

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Pillars and Activities

Innovation & Entrepreneurship

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Reaching out - ARISE Europe Program

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Innovation Centers• SWG (Estonia and Latvia)• ? (Poland)• Civitta Slovakia• JIC (Czech Rep.)• ABC Accelerator (Slovenia) • Founda.tion (Greece)• BGI (Portugal)

Universities• ISCTE-IUL (Lisbon)• Uni. Of Ljubljana• Tallinn Technical

University

Ecosystem #Collaborating Organizations 9

#EIT Digital Hubs 1

#RIS Countries Covered#Ventures Created

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Summer School #Summer Schools in RIS Countries 2

#Summer School Students from RIS Countries 32

Master School #MSc Students from RIS Countries 39

Accelerator #Signed Scaleups 8

Connecting to EIT Digital

• Corporates: Innovation Activities, Access to startups/scaleups, access to talents (Master and Doctoral School), skill (re-)building (Professional School)

• Universities: Innovation Activities, participation in our Schools

• Innovation actors: scale- up scouting and engagement; corporate engagement; support to Access to Market

• Scale-ups: access international markets and financing opportunities through EIT Digital Accelerator

• Entrepreneurs: EIT Digital Venture Program

EIT Digital Venture Program

• 13 start-ups created in 2018

• Up to 15,000 € in funding

• 2-day Bootcamp

• 6-week Acceleration Phase

• 5% equity

Apply Now

http://www.eitdigital.eu/venture-program

Targets

• Teams of individuals with deep-tech innovative business ideas, PoC or prototype

in any of Digital Industry, Digital Infrastructure, Digital Wellbeing, Digital

Finance, Digital Cities

• At least 2 members per team

• Teams must be multidisciplinary with technology & management skills

• Teams must have not yet established their company as a legal entity

How does it work?

• Region based

• 2 stages:

• Every accepted team gets the “Growth Package”: 5,000 € + acceleration phase delivered by local partners• 2 day offline bootcamp

• 6 week virtual mentoring sessions

• 1 final pitch day

• Teams from stage 1 that have completed the MVP successfully and have incorporated their venture by September 1, 2018 can apply for the “Final Prize” and compete for additional 10,000 €

Regional Editions and Local Partners

Region Countries Local Partner

Region 1Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North

Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, SloveniaABC Accelerator

Region 2 Albania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Romania Found.ation

Region 3Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania,

Poland, SlovakiaStartup Wise Guys

Region 4 Malta, Portugal BGI

CONTACTS

Fabio Pianesi Fabio.Pianesi@eitdigital.eu

Thomas Kösters Thomas.Koesters@eitdigital.eu

Jasmina Popovska Jasmina.Popovska@eitdigital.eu