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European Commission's Startup Europe Initiative
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www.startupeurope.eu
Entrepreneurship in Europe: Opportunities in Cyprus
Official Launch in Brussels, 22 May 2014 with the attendance of President Barroso
and Vice President Kroes
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Two new initiatives announced at World Economic Forum
www.startupeuropepartnership.eu www.europeandigitalforum.eu
The SEP aims at offering an integrated pan-European platform to help the best startupsemerge from these local ecosystems and scale-up.
It connects top European startups to largecorporates.
This means: procurement (corporates buyproducts and services from startups), strategicinvestments and eventually acquisition/acqui-hires.
The EDF is a first-of-its kind think tank dedicated toempowering tech entrepreneurs and growingEurope’s digital economy. It gives a voice in publicpolicy to the continent’s most enterprising andinnovative entrepreneurs.
The European Digital Forum aspires to becomeEurope’s leading think tank and policy network ondigital economy and digital entrepreneurshipissues.
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Dynamic visual mapping
This map will provide unrivalled insight into some of the key web
entrepreneurial/ startup hubs across Europe, the businesses
that are located in them and the networks and relationships
between them.
www.startupdata.eu
Accelerators in Europe
Accelerator Assembly is an industry-led network that connects accelerators,entrepreneurs and policy makers, in order to strengthen the support offered toweb startups across Europe.
Outcomes of the first Accelerator Assembly Conference held in Madrid in March 2014:
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Accelerator Assembly
www.acceleratorassembly.eu
for the first time, the EIF hasextended its reach to well-structured accelerators.
26 accelerators&
34 startup facilitators
16 investment &
private companies
18 countries
Fostering the boost of the ecosystem and promoting a European investment culture in the webCreating future Global leaders
www.webinvestorsforum.eu
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Web Investors Forum
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Crowdfunding network for web entrepreneurs
The Startup Europe Crowdfunding Network strengthens thelinks and networking between existing Europeancrowdfunding platforms, as well as fostering the creation ofnew, web focused platforms.
www.crowdfundingnetwork.eu
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Network of universities in EU interested in developing MOOCs for web talent
The network connects MOOC providers in order tofoster the talent of ICT and web entrepreneurs, andcreate new jobs that benefit both the EU economyand society as a whole.
Key findings of a recent study:
knew what a MOOC is
claimed to have taken
one
web designweb skill
highest in demand among
students
One difficulty of the current IT labour market is acquiring
employees with domain-specific skills : iOS, Android, HTML5
Tech All Stars competition
The third edition of the competition for early stage startups (< 3 years old & <$1m in external funding)
through which we take the best 12 young startups to the most
prestigious startup events in Europe, starting with June 2014.
www.techallstars.eu
Winner announced at the Founders Forum in
London
Previous winners and achievements
2012 2013 2014
• Has raised over €1m funding after winning TAS 12.
• Has raised one of Europe's largest ever seed investment rounds of $3m after winning TAS 13.
• Has grown from 4 to 22 employees. • Dec '13 was named one of Forbes Magazine's
Hottest Global Startups.• April '14, Trustev took top prize at SXSW.
• Offers a cloud-based software designed to minimise returns and increase profits for online and multichannel retailers.
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Europioneers competition
The event is the most importantceremony for any tech startup fromEurope.
It features 4 awards:• European Tech Entrepreneur of the year• Young European Entrepreneur of the year• Female web entrepreneur of the year• High Growth web entrepreneur of the year
www.europioneers.eu
Previous winners
2013
John ReynoldsAlexander Ljung
&Eric Wahlforss
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Media campaign
DG Connect is organizing a 6 months media campaign covering 6 Member States (Spain, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Cyprus and Slovakia) with high unemployment rate
to raise more awareness about the startup culture.
Goals:• Attracting young unemployed people to ICT/web careers:• Promoting entrepreneurship• Delivering the EC commitment to help create jobs• Leveraging DG CONNECT actions on digital skills and jobs
ICT 13 – 2014: Web entrepreneurship
• €10M funding will be allocated to projects to accelerate web
entrepreneurship in Europe
• The challenge is to create an environment in Europe that encourages
more web entrepreneurs to start a business in Europe and grow
internationally.
• Deadline for applying: 23/04/2014 at 17:00pm (CET)
• We are already in the process of allocating €10M for activities that strengthen theenvironment for web entrepreneurship in Europe and that exploit synergies acrossstakeholder communities.
• The challenge is to create an environment in Europe that encourages more webentrepreneurs to start a business in Europe and grow internationally.
• For other funding opportunities, check the ongoing calls of almost €850M availablefor ecosystems builders as well as funding opportunities to startups & SMEs:http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/better-access-capital-lower-barriers-success
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Funding opportunities
Other opportunities for startups available at www.startupeurope.eu
• 80 million euros for SMEs and Startups
• 1,300 businesses to be accelerated by
2016.
• Program starts in September
http://ec.europa.eu/easme/sme_en.htm http://www.fi-ppp.eu/how-to-participate/
Thank [email protected] | @studios
www.startupeurope.eu | @startupeuwww.facebook.com/groups/startupeurope
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