INNOVATION CALLS
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A new call for Twinnings from Procure4Health is now open
Open until 5 December 2023
Twinnings are a community tool (peer to peer) that enables the exchange of knowledge on a specific topic, bringing together experienced stakeholders to share their experience and knowledge with less experienced ones.
The Procure4Health call is aimed at public and private organisations that provide social or healthcare assistance, not solution providers. They must operate in a Member State of the European Union or in a country associated with the Horizon programme.
Twinnings will fund activities aimed at transferring knowledge and experience relating to the use of a product or service, a process or methodology, a strategy or a procurement business model.
• Knowledge transfer meetings
• Meetings with local stakeholders
• Organisational preparation for the procurement of innovation
• Field visits
• Feasibility studies
• Dissemination events
• Travel required for the Twinning
Those interested can register online on the Procure4Health website before 5 December at 5 p.m. In addition, an informative webinar will take place on 5 October at 11 a.m.
ITEMAS opens its support programme for innovative projects in the healthcare sector
Permanently open
The platform for promoting and innovating the industrial capabilities of the National Health System (ITEMAS) is launching a programme to fund services aimed at innovative projects which, arising in healthcare centres of the National Health System (SNS), have the potential to improve Spanish healthcare.
Through this programme, opportunities to provide them with value-added services are identified to help promote the transfer of high-impact technology to the National Health System and the production sector.
Projects that meet the following requirements may apply for the Platform's services:
They must have been developed within the framework of R&D&i activities carried out by one or more Nodes or Affiliated Centres.
- They must have a result that can be protected by an intellectual or industrial property right or by business secrecy.
- Rights to that result must be wholly or partially owned by one or more Nodes or Affiliated Centres.
- The result must be capable of commercial exploitation and must meet a need.
Projects that form part of the ITEMAS portfolio have an acceleration, valorisation, transfer and commercialisation services plan provided by the ITEMAS platform. These services may be carried out internally or externally.
The areas covered by the Acceleration Services Portfolio offered by the Platform to selected projects are as follows:
Project evaluation: includes the evaluation of new projects, the development of project valorisation plans, Feasibility Analysis and Due Diligence.
- Business development: includes defining the product commercialisation strategy, identifying potential customers and distributors, establishing the first contact and conducting cost-effectiveness studies.
- Creation of the spin-off: guidance and support in the creation of the spin-off and, if necessary, acting as Interim CEO.
- Fundraising: establishment of the fundraising strategy, public fundraising and support in Innovative Public Procurement (IPP) processes, private fundraising and advice on project presentations.
- Support for the project before and after commercialisation: monitoring of the contractual frameworks for licences and support in public-sector market access activities.
The projects submitted will not only be able to benefit from this portfolio of services, but some of them will also have the opportunity to receive support from the Genesis Tech-Transfer Boost investment vehicle. To submit projects, please contact innovacion(ELIMINAR)@iisgm.com.
Lanzadera Call
Open all year round The business accelerator of Juan Roig, owner of Mercadona, selects new teams of entrepreneurs to transform their projects into business ventures. Projects may be from any sector and at any stage of development. Lanzadera offers two programmes:
- Garage: aimed at entrepreneurs with projects at an early stage. They are offered up to €32,000 in funding, the opportunity to work on a first version of the product, validate the idea and implement the business model.
- Lanzadera: aimed at projects that have been operating for more than 6 months. They are offered funding adjusted to the needs of the project, advice and personalised mentoring.
CDTI, EIF and BeAble Capital launch a thirty-two-million-euro fund to promote technology transfer
The Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness –through the Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI)–, the European Investment Fund (EIF) and the management company Beable Capital have launched BeAble Innvierte KETS Fund FCR, a fund of 32 million euros to promote the transfer of technology to Spanish companies through seed capital investments and financing in their early stages of development. CDTI will inject 15 million euros through the INNVIERTE programme, while EIF and other national private investors will contribute a further 17 million euros, bringing the fund's total to 32 million euros. The INNVIERTE programme aims to promote investment in technology and innovative companies to help them grow. To this end, it selects initiatives specialised in technological fields where a shortage of private investment has been identified. More information
Fundación Botín immersed in the launch of the 2nd phase of "Mind the gap"
Fundación Botín's Mind the Gap programme promotes the development and commercialisation of biotechnological products or services based on the discoveries of some of Spain's best scientific laboratories Mind the Gap was created with the aim of filling this structural gap ("gap") in the Spanish science and technology system, through a model designed to stimulate the technology transfer process and improve the social and economic return on investment in science. More information
PRECIPITA
PRECIPITA is the public Spanish science crowdfunding platform managed by FECYT. It was created following an analysis of the current national landscape and the finding that there was no solid platform focused on research and scientific dissemination projects which, in addition to serving as a tool for seeking funding, would promote dissemination and bring scientific knowledge closer to society and open research centres up to society. It was created with the aim of providing the scientific community with a tool to encourage and support researchers in making their projects known, so that society can discover, understand, feel, value, experience and actively participate in science. The platform showcases scientific projects from any discipline to citizens: health, the environment, mathematics, social sciences, etc. These projects seek renewed impetus and acceleration thanks to the small contributions of many people. It is exclusively for public research and development institutions or entities dependent on them. It is another way for scientists and science communicators to engage with citizens and convey the value of their work in order to gain support. The platform is already public for the purpose of carrying out the final tests in a real environment, but the official launch will take place at the beginning of October. More information
Crowd UC3M
The Vice-Rectorate for Research and Transfer of UC3M presents the pilot collective microfinancing programme "crowdfounding", CROWD_UC3M. CROWD_UC3M is aimed at promoting research, knowledge transfer and innovation projects in the various areas of activity of UC3M, promoted by members of its university community. Projects will be selected through a call and disseminated for funding via the Goteo platform, a social network for collective funding and distributed collaboration. The call has a universal vocation, meaning that it is open to the various groups that make up the university community. Research, transfer and innovation projects of interest both to UC3M and to society will be selected, regardless of their content, for example the design of new products or processes, cooperation and equality, internationalisation, new teaching tools, etc. Projects must also have a clear dimension of promoting open knowledge. Thus, a substantial part of the knowledge generated by the project must be made available for use by the general public. More information
kickStarter
Kickstarter is now available to Spanish innovators, designers, filmmakers, cooks and creators of all kinds! Creators in Spain can start developing their projects and publishing them to share with the world from 2 June. Do you have a creative idea that you have always wanted to turn into reality? Learn more about Kickstarter here.