Call for Expression of Interest: Epicentre - EmPowering Industrial eCosystems to boost clustEr facilitated greeN and digiTal tRansition in Europe

Deadline: 01/20/2023

Epicentre - EmPowering Industrial eCosystems to boost clustEr facilitated greeN and digiTal tRansition in Europe (Project n.101074486) aims at creating new cross-sectoral value chains by establishing a SMEs – Clusters – Corporate ecosystem in the Digital, Fintech, Health, and Food sectors. The project will support corporates to identify their innovation market opportunities and pain points from an organizational perspective and to create specific challenges to address these needs.

Associació Clúster Digital de Catalunya (CLDI), Distretto Tecnologico Campania Bioscience Scarl (CBIOS) and Lietuvos Maisto Eksportuotoju Asociacija (LITMEA) have launched this project in the framework of the Single Market Programme (SMP).

The corporates will be involved in a preliminary assessment of the Key Performance Areas (KPAs) in order to define a unique value proposal. The analysis will focus on identifying the innovations that companies are currently working on, the innovations needed in the future and their expected impact on the performance of the EU industry and establishment of new value chains.

JOIN US!

Epicentre Consortium’s partners are looking for corporates interested in participating in an open innovation programme, that will enable you to increase our innovation capacity working with the most promising European start-ups and SMEs on solving your future technological challenges.

This call for Expression of Interest will be launched on the 14 November 2022 and will be open until 20 January 2023 (17:00 CET).

Epicentre offers selected corporates:

• The opportunity to build new innovation capability.
• A customized service to better define your needs and paint points to facilitate the matchmaking.
• A tailor made, vetting service to scout suitable startups providing solutions able to address the pre-defined corporate’ criticalities.
• Deployment of prototypes in real environments through financial support to SMEs and STARTUPs.
• Explore potential partnership agreements.

Criteria

• The project specifically is addressed to corporates and large companies, with 250 or more persons employed. 
• Corporates must operate in one of the following sectors: Digital, Fintech, Health, Food
• Having a legal office in at least one European country is a requirement for a corporate

How can you participate?

Apply here

• Fill the Expression of interest form.
• In a few days,  we will send you a survey that will enable us to better understand your business areas and needs.
• We will invite you to a short interview to better define your needs.
• Finally you will be selected for the programme.

Do not hesitate to contact us for any support or clarification you need!

Contact

Roberta Lauro r.lauro [at] campaniabioscience.it

Daniela Russo danielarusso [at] campaniabioscience.it

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